| Metric | Cray 1 | Raspberry Pi 5 |
| Cost | $7 million | $70 |
| Weight | 10,500 lbs | a few oz |
| Power Consumption | 115,000 W | 5 W |
| Speed | 1 x | 4.5 x |
| Introduced | 1978 | 2024 |
— Roy Longbottom
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Jobs Dissonance
General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha , WI to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year, but paid no taxes. GE employs more people overseas than it does in the United States.
President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation.
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Hillary Warned Us
President Obama – “present”
It’s Not Just ‘Ayes’ and ‘Nays’: Obama’s Votes in Illinois Echo
Published: December 20, 2007
Quoted:
The record has become an issue on the presidential campaign trail, as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, has seized on the present votes he cast on a series of anti-abortion bills to portray Mr. Obama as a “talker” rather than a “doer.”
Although a present vote is not unusual in Illinois, Mr. Obama’s use of it is being raised as he tries to distinguish himself as a leader who will take on the tough issues, even if it means telling people the “hard truths” they do not want to hear.
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Warriors of Honor
There are several noteworthy Civil War films. As I watch Warriors of Honor, I realize that my family was little affected by the Civil War. For my family and my wife’s the Civil War was largely a settled matter by the time our ancestors appeared on the American scene. Of course the War was an unspeakable horror and affects us all to this day. The rules have been established and the story told by the victor. Schoolkids in the South read history books written by Northerners. The version of history I learned was definitely written by Northerners. If the South had won, government would not be as large a factor in people’s lives as it has become. The people of the South were largely independent in attitude in contrast to those of the North that were interdependent. Those attitudes are echoed in the words of Ronald Reagan in his remarks at a White House Luncheon for Black Clergymen Friday, March 26, 1982: “Wouldn’ t it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for one another, rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats?”
There are those that claim that a war to free the slaves was unnecessary and that over time slavery would disappear unforced. As reprehensible as was slavery, they claim that there would be certain advantages for our country if the South had won. Are we ruled by a Northern Bureaucracy and by people with faith in government unrooted in reality?
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Mount Vernon Statement
The following is a portion of the Mount Vernon Statement of February 17, 2010.
A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda.
- It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.
- It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.
- It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
- It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end.
- It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith
We need a Real Adult in the White House
Peggy Noonan writes today in the Wall Street Journal about the SOTU – Obama’s State Of the Union speech:
As the TV cameras panned the chamber, I saw a friendly acquaintance of the president, a Republican who bears him no animus. Why, I asked him later, did the president not move decisively to the political center? Because he is more “intellectually honest” than that, he said. “I don’t think he can do a Bill Clinton pivot, because he’s not a pragmatist, he’s an ideologue. He’s a community organizer. He mixes the discrimination he felt as a young man with the hardship so many feel in this country, and he wants to change it and the way to change that is government programs and not opportunity.”
The great issue, this friendly critic added, is debt. The public knows this; Congress and the White House do not. “To me the Republicans are as rotten as the Democrats” in terms of spending. “Almost.”
“I hope we have big changes in 2010,” the friend said. Only significant loss will force the president to focus on spending. “To heal our country we need to get the arrogance out of the White House and the elitists out of the Congress. We need tough love. We need a real adult in the White House because we don’t have adults in the Congress.”
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The Ant and the Grasshopper
This came in an email. The source is anonymous.
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood..
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.