Day: February 13, 2014

Curiositys, Matrix, Media&Culture, TechnologyLeave a comment

Does The Internet Help Reward Hard Work, Or Just Being Good At Social Networks?

Fernando Kaskais

A new MIT study looks at how the size and shape of our social networks determine income inequality. Last summer, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and several other tech luminaries announced the creation of Internet.org, an initiative that aims to deliver the Internet to billions of people in the developing world. It would increase access to opportunity, its founders argued–and, implicitly, a fairer future. But the simple link between social connectivity and justice could be a flawed one, according to a recent analysis from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Where Internet access is often touted as a human right, the structure … Continue reading Does The Internet Help Reward Hard Work, Or Just Being Good At Social Networks?

Curiositys, Living, Matrix, Media&Culture, TechnologyLeave a comment

Spy tech goes cheap: Track your car, kid, or enemy for $10 a month

Fernando Kaskais

The Texas-based TraqCloud says that its GPS tracker can be put into “BreadCrumbs” mode. Red dots indicate speeding. New Kickstarter-funded startup seeks to lower cost of GPS tracking. by Cyrus Farivar A small company in Texas has produced the TraqCloud, a new, significantly cheaper way to track anyone or anything using GPS. TraqCloud, in its promotional materials, is marketed for luggage or kid tracking, but using such a tracker against a suspected cheating love interest, a sneaky business partner, or local law enforcement is now simple and inexpensive. The electronics combine a GPS tracker with a GSM-based radio for real-time … Continue reading Spy tech goes cheap: Track your car, kid, or enemy for $10 a month

Bizarre, Curiositys, Freak U.S.A, Living, Media&Culture, RacismLeave a comment

21 Things You Can’t Do While Black

Fernando Kaskais

In the United States, sometimes your skin color is evidence enough against you. —By Lauren Williams Florida’s second sensational, race-tinged murder trial in less than a year is underway. Michael Dunn, a white, 47-year-old software developer, shot and killed Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old African American, as the teen sat in an SUV with three friends. Charged with first-degree murder, Dunn is pleading self-defense under Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law. He contends that he argued with the teens (over what a witness says he called their “thug music”) and fired on them after he claims he saw Davis brandish a … Continue reading 21 Things You Can’t Do While Black

Curiositys, Health, Living, Technology1 Comment

Magic Pillow Nudges You Awake When You Snore

Fernando Kaskais

By Doug Aamoth I say “you” in the headline, but you and I both know that we’re talking about your spouse here. You don’t have a snoring problem just like I don’t have a snoring problem. My wife claims I snore when I drink at least three beers (or a bowl of bourbon) before I hit the pillow, but I’ve never heard myself snore, so I can only assume it’s not true. For those of you who do snore, this $150 pillow has a built-in microphone that can hear you snoring, at which point a built-in air bladder inflates to … Continue reading Magic Pillow Nudges You Awake When You Snore

Curiositys, Living, Media&Culture, MoneyLeave a comment

America’s Gargantuan Share of Global Wealth, in One Map

Fernando Kaskais

How the wealth of 50 US states measures up to 50 nations How does the U.S. economy measure up to the rest of the world? You could find out by poring over a table of GDP figures, or you could get a snap perspective from this map, which renames every U.S. state according to a country with a matching GDP. One million Rhode Islanders have as much wealth as 15 million Guatemalans. Texas has an economy the size of Australia’s. And New York has met its match, Mexico. The map from economist Mark J. Perry at the American Enterprise Institute … Continue reading America’s Gargantuan Share of Global Wealth, in One Map

Curiositys, Eco, Health, Living1 Comment

Banho de xixi nos chuveirinhos das praias da Zona Sul

Fernando Kaskais

Leandra Lima .Pesquisa mostra que água das duchas é contaminada pelos próprios banhistas .Falta fiscalização pelo poder público RIO — Uma pesquisa realizada pela PUC-Rio indica que a água dos chuveirinhos instalados nas praias da Zona Sul está contaminada por urina. Realizada pelo Departamento de Química do Centro Técnico Científico da universidade (CTC/PUC-Rio) ao longo de um ano, o estudo analisou a água coletada em 26 chuveiros — 16 em Copacabana e Leme e os outros dez no Leblon e em Ipanema. Nos laboratórios da universidade, foram analisados, entre outros aspectos, a quantidade de fosfato, nitrato e amônia das amostras. … Continue reading Banho de xixi nos chuveirinhos das praias da Zona Sul

Big Brother, Bizarre, Curiositys, Freak U.S.A, Living, Manipulation, Matrix, Rights2 Comments

15 Ridiculous Ways to get on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist

Fernando Kaskais

(Richard Moyer) In hopes of catching more terrorists, the FBI released twenty five instructional pamphlets intended for everyone from hobby store owners to karate instructors. The idea being that these businesses will turn in their customers to the FBI as suspected terrorists. Every single one of these examples were taken directly from FBI lists distributed to places of business in how they can help fight the war on terror. Do one of these, and you might end up at FEMA camp. 1. Beauty shops have been instructed to look out for people getting picked up outside, rather than driving themselves. … Continue reading 15 Ridiculous Ways to get on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist

Bizarre, Curiositys, Fascism, Freak U.S.A, History, Politics, Science, TechnologyLeave a comment

U.S. hired Nazis to test LSD and CIA interrogation techniques, book says

Fernando Kaskais

By John Byrne It’s long been known that Nazi scientists helped the U.S. in its quest to secure its military might and space program at the height of the Cold War. Wernher von Braun, for example, a Nazi rocket scientist, led a team that helped the U.S. develop the vehicle employed for the first nuclear missile test, and aided efforts to launch first Western satellite in 1958. Hundreds of Nazi scientists were given citizenship between 1945 and 1955. But what’s been unknown — until today — is the extent to which former Nazis were employed to test LSD and other … Continue reading U.S. hired Nazis to test LSD and CIA interrogation techniques, book says

Bizarre, Conspiracy, Corruption, Mafia, Manipulation, Money, ZionismLeave a comment

Europe considers wholesale savings confiscation, enforced redistribution

Fernando Kaskais

At first we thought Reuters had been punk’d in its article titled “EU executive sees personal savings used to plug long-term financing gap” which disclosed the latest leaked proposal by the European Commission, but after several hours without a retraction, we realized that the story is sadly true. Sadly, because everything that we warned about in “There May Be Only Painful Ways Out Of The Crisis” back in September of 2011, and everything that the depositors and citizens of Cyprus had to live through, seems on the verge of going continental. In a nutshell, and in Reuters’ own words, “the … Continue reading Europe considers wholesale savings confiscation, enforced redistribution

Bizarre, Living, Mafia, MoneyLeave a comment

Hong Kong’s ‘caged dogs’: Poverty-stricken people forced to live like animals in one of the world’s wealthiest and most densely populated cities

Fernando Kaskais

By Dan Bloom .More than 50,000 people are thought to live in 6ft by 3ft iron and timber shanties, many of which are run illegally .British-born photographer Brian Cassey visited a hot, dank community of cage-dwellers perched on a rooftop .Inhabitants pay HK$1,500 (£117) a year – compared to HK$16,000 (£1,240) a month for a small one-bed apartment Crammed into wire mesh boxes the size of coffins, these are the penniless people forced to live like animals in one of the world’s richest cities. Hong Kong’s forgotten ‘caged dogs’ pay about HK$1,500 a year (£117) to live in a city … Continue reading Hong Kong’s ‘caged dogs’: Poverty-stricken people forced to live like animals in one of the world’s wealthiest and most densely populated cities