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Scanning Gmail for ads

jeudi 7 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Google Promised Not to Scan Gmail for Targeted Ads—But for How Long?

Volunteer

jeudi 7 septembre 2017 à 02:00

I am looking for people to experiment to find good ways to attach fruits to a Grav-mass tree.

Spread of pine-killing beetles

mercredi 6 septembre 2017 à 02:00

The beetles that killed millions of pine trees in northern California are spreading across the US as temperatures rise. Now they are in Connecticut and New York State.

270,000 square miles are likely to be affected by 2080. By then, I think humans will be beset by so many problems that they will hardly have time to pay attention to this.

Subsidized flood insurance

mercredi 6 septembre 2017 à 02:00

One US government program that should be eliminated: subsidized flood insurance for houses that are going to be flooded over and over.

There is no use standing against the tide. The help that the government should offer the owners of those houses is to buy them and demolish them.

Paying a business to "create jobs"

mercredi 6 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Wisconsin will pay Foxconn to "create jobs" — half a million dollars per job. Or maybe a million per job.

Ten percent of that money, or maybe much less, will be paid to Americans as salary.

When the state pays a for-profit business to "create jobs", the state is being cheated. The saddest thing is that plutocratist politicians want the state to be cheated.