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Bacon Jam? Sounds delicious

The Nucleus of the Digital Age - In pursuit of hydrogen bombs, a math genius and a brilliant tinkerer in Princeton developed the modern computer

David Stockman economy Q&A: Economic disaster in the works:

Here's the heart of the matter. The Fed is a patsy. It is a pathetic dependent of the big Wall Street banks, traders and hedge funds. Everything (it does) is designed to keep this rickety structure from unwinding. If you had a (former Fed Chairman) Paul Volcker running the Fed today — utterly fearless and independent and willing to scare the hell out of the market any day of the week — you wouldn't have half, you wouldn't have 95%, of the speculative positions today.

How One Bureaucrat Almost Succeeded in Banning Car Radios

Will’s Wrong

Andrew Breitbart: A Torch in the Darkness

A torch in the media darkness

Obama, Con Artist

Media knows it, doesn't care

Imprimus: Blasphemy and Free Speech

Leftist greed: Obama to fundraise this month in Houston, Chicago, Georgia, Vermont and Maine

The Central Banks' Assault On Savers

Per-Capita, the U.S. is a Century Ahead of China

Would a Military Strike Against Iran Be Legal?

Conn Carroll: California slipping toward bankruptcy, again

SANDERS: Time to foreclose on the World Bank

A North Korean Corleone

Media using contraception as a wedge issue for the Dems

Covert message: Repubs are against sex

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Media using contraception as a wedge issue

As Iowahawk said on Twitter yesterday "I'll pay for your contraception if you'll pay for my ammo". Sounds like a win win to me.

#1 Tom Francis on 2012-03-05 08:46 (Reply)

That's the wrong argument. It's about government control, not contraception.

#1.1 BD on 2012-03-05 08:48 (Reply)

Good point - didn't think of it that way.

#1.1.1 Tom Francis on 2012-03-05 09:44 (Reply)

Great blog you have here.. It's difficult to find high-quality writing like yours nowadays. I truly appreciate people like you! Take care!!

#1.1.1.1 Freddy (Link) on 2012-03-29 14:46 (Reply)

I agree, BD, that it is the wrong argument but the left would never subsidize anyone's ammo (even the armed forces') so their hypocrisy would be exposed.

#1.1.2 mudbug on 2012-03-05 22:32 (Reply)

Thanks for the tip on the bacon jam. I'll make that one as soon as I can get some decent bacon. It's nonexistent here on the island.

#2 Mike (Link) on 2012-03-05 09:02 (Reply)

Attacking Iran with the law on our side--doesn't sound like The Won's M.O. Certainly isn't Iran's.

#3 Sam L. on 2012-03-05 11:24 (Reply)

The history of the digital computer started with Attanosoff and Berry -- a FULL SEVEN YEARS before the brilliant Neuman dipped his pen in the puzzle.

Theirs is the first digital adder -- that's in the Smithsonian.

Success breeds a million fathers...

So Atanosoff's gem is claimed by just about everyone.

This issue was resolved in US Federal Court in the early 70s.

It was the most expensive civil litigation EVER.

And with no expense spared: Atanosoff was revealed as the true inventor -- with everyone and his brother getting their 'start' using elements of his design.

His ABC was a working model in 1940. (!) It had essentially all of the features we now see in a CPU.

Atanosoff was as smart as any - -and the inventor of the century -- no doubt.

#4 blert on 2012-03-05 16:18 (Reply)

Not to argue the point, but the ABC "computer" was nothing more than the original electronic calculator despite what "litigation proved".

If you really want to get into the "who's first" debate, you have to consider Konrad Zuse who built the very first Turing complete computer in 1941. Unfortunately, nobody heard about it until about 1946 when IBM bought the concept and patented the device.

#4.1 Tom Francis on 2012-03-05 17:23 (Reply)

You mean the one of the patents that was blown up?

The ABC was the world's first SUPER COMPUTER and it was tasked with THE classic super computer task: weather prediction.

The fact that the ABC doesn't look / scale compared to later devices is entirely irrelevant to patent law. ( c.f. Bell )

Atanosoff was even behind dynamic memory and refresh cycles.

Court documents established that the ENIAC was designed time and again by correspondence with Atanosoff!

Every time a road block was encountered another missive was sent to Atanosoff.

Those letters became a matter of record at the trial.

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The Bell patent was litigated beyond belief. It held up.

The computer patents blew up. Too much prior art -- ALL leading back to Atanosoff and his terrible habit of never destroying correspondence.

VERY embarrassing.

#4.1.1 blert on 2012-03-05 22:12 (Reply)

if the USN had made a spoiling attack on the INJ assembling at Hittokapu Bay in November 1941 -- plausibly justifiable as an act of self-defense -- the issue of what should be done about Iranian nukes would be a lot clearer.

#5 wirraway on 2012-03-05 16:48 (Reply)

contraception as a wedge issue --i'm sure it poles well with the focus groups, so long as they don't hear of this:

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/138374/

#6 buddy larsen on 2012-03-06 01:48 (Reply)

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