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Dec. 2007: Gas prices go down late 2006 to around $2.16 (nationwide average) and stay at this level. Iraq picture suddenly looks better with the majority of American soldiers gone. Terrorism gets less media coverage in Iraq without american deaths, and public memory looks back on the whole thing with rose colored spectacles, especially as a series of elections in Iraq go by without incident, of course buttressed by a relatively large presence in a more friendly Kuwait.
However, due to saavy politicking in 2005 (Iraq? what we worry?) by the majority of center-left democrats who are in contention, the presidential election looks to be close. Mccain takes it for the team again, settles for vice presidency with someone nobody even thought about it in 05. Powell loses big in Iowa and New Hampshire in rather viscious primaries.
Hillary Clinton and Lieberman scores big with mainstream America and poll numbers look to be close at the time of this fortune-telling.
San Francisco, then Las Vegas, become the two cities after Denver to legalize up to one ounce posession of marijuana.
The housing bubble in California sputters, but doesn’t crash. Instead, it remains stagnent after years of consecutive growths . Arnold in California becomes reelected when the democrats cannot muster a single viable candidate after Warren Beatty drops out after allegations of sexual assault comes to light.
Arizona becomes the first state to organize a state-funded border control after a terrorist attack at the NBA Phoenix Sun basketball game kills 10, mostly maintenance personal, but also a higher level executive. It is later revealed that the terrorists (who were part of an indonesdian islamic group not remotely connected to al queda) in the plot entered the US with the help of local smugglers operating along the border. In the US congress, talks of a nation-wide border along the Mexican-US broder contructed with barbed wire and concrete fences is dismissed as being too expensive and nothing else actually happens.
North Korea experiences a brief political struggle when Kim Il Jung becomes seriously ill, but control is taken back (along with reports of mass executions) within weeks.
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Imagine that you meet a very old man who—you eventually realize—knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of life—quantum physics, evolution, God, gravity, light, psychic phenomenon, and probability—in a way so simple, so novel, and so compelling that it all fits together and makes perfect sense. What does it feel like to suddenly understand everything? God’s Debris isn’t the final answer to the Big Questions. But it might be the most compelling vision of reality you will ever read. The thought experiment is this: Try to figure out what’s wrong with the old man’s explanation of reality. Share the book with your smart friends then discuss it later while enjoying a beverage.
Congratulations to my significant other — she just broke the 40k per year barrier in her line of work. She helps young kids with autism interact with the world, and she’s damn good at it.
[via USAToday]
The star of the technology showcase at APEC was a 54-inch-tall, two-legged robot topped with a head modeled after Albert Einstein. “Albert Hubo” has 31 motors behind its face that let it laugh, blink — and even scowl — when someone tries to tip it over. It can also speak in sign language using its five-fingered hands.
Not all the gadgets performed flawlessly.
During a demonstration of a heavy-lifting robot that can carry a person weighing up to 220 pounds, the machine appeared to want to dump its cargo — a model in a leather miniskirt and calf-high boots posing for TV cameras.
Oh Jun-ho, director of the government-funded Humanoid Robot Research Center, blamed the error on the computer used to control the robot. It was running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system, which Oh said wasn’t always very stable.
Not to be outdone, Albert Hubo chipped in with a chuckle to break the tension.
A New York Times articles lays out the differences in the US vs S. Korea positions.
It’s my instinctive gut feeling that the Korean strategy is to let North Korea acquire the technology and then to economically unify somehow, creating a new powerhouse in Asia with a nuclear advantage to rival China or Japan. Going nuclear would enable more independance from the current US alliance (which is vital for Korean national security interests obviously– at the expense of national pride, which runs high). Korea is in a somewhat similar situation as the Israelis, and it looks like they are going towards that solution.
Addition 1:
Also, another advantage is that Korea would be able to have an incredible opportunity after probably a decades of low growth and unemployment (similar to Germany after the breakup of the former USSR), simply because they aren’t the Japanese.
I don’t know whether China would be the #1 option for Korea, but with WW2 allegations playing out every other week in Asian newspapers, and Japan not doing much to help the situation, the US and Korean allliance could be tenuous at best in a few decades.
Who would be a better ally? An up and coming (with historical prestige) industrialized nation with fantastic growth potential but with an authoritarian government that seems to be getting more lenient along the lines of Singapore, or a powerful but flighty nation that many in the east consider to be on the virge of a decline, that seems to be going in the direction of more authorianism and more aggression (United States).
Let’s forget about the security aspect, and go to the economic. China’s market is what everyone is going after, and Korea has a number of advantages. 1) Physical location 2) long time historical traditions and ties 3) closer cultural and racial identities.
More thoughts later
My sister the writer wrote an article about David Lynch, director of Mulholland Dr.
Initially, I thought it wasn’t hard hitting enough, but apparently (I can’t say exactly why unless I’m sure of what my sister would say), it was.
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