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A step, away from the brink

Assad will have to go. Sooner, rather than later. A Global coalition may even have to play some role in his removal. But today, Barack Obama showed some uncommon strength, that for years have been bereft in occupants of the oval office, and continues to be wanting in many so called world leaders. He stepped the US away from the brink, even if for another 10 days.

Will America go to War with Russia over Syria?

Vladmir Putin enjoys the aura of faux-machismo where pictures of his taming tigers, bear hunting with bare torso and robbing a US sport team owner of his ring-hood brings. Vladmir like very much, the image of Vladmir The Great of St. Petersburg. Barack Obama is routinely derided as a whimp at home and a terrorist supporter abroad. These too characters make for a great romantic epic, but are they also made for a horrific global calamity?

A Global Dream

Several British journals spent their precious little editorial spaces this week reviewing the "work" that still needs to be done to achieve Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream, first espoused five decades ago, in the raging days of the civil rights movement in America. It was interesting to note how much none of the opinionators on the other side of the pond failed to see that the Dream was beyond an American Dream, it was a Global Dream.

The illogics of Syrian Chemical Weapon claims

John Kerry is heard sounding like the US is going to start a full campaign in Syria soon. Apparently someone is trying so hard to make Obama look much worse than George Bush. After 9/11, Mr. Bush was convinced that Iraq was the nexus of the War on Terror, and so he sheepishly marched the US into perfidious war that benefitted only the enemies and rivals of the United States. In the decade of the Iraq war, China grew stronger economically and militarily, while the US grew much weaker morally.

Lybia, Syria, Egypt - Hypocrisy of the West

The Russians and Chinese must be grinning at the political harakiri of the west, as the grisly sight of dead Egyptians begin to elicit comparison with Syria. After all, the al-Sisi led mauling of Brotherhood opposition is no different than the Assad led mauling of the various al-Qeda stripes in Syria. While western call for calm in Egypt has remained muted, the quest for a post Assad Damascus must be causing some heart burn in western capitals.

Lenovo pulls out of US market

It seems like Lenovo has pulled out of the US market, while showcasing Duke University on its website. Or how is one to read this notice from the Lenovo website? Note the country is United States ...

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Apple spec seems out of spec

Note the spec for 15" Macbook Pro and 15" Macbook Pro with Retina Display. The

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Where is Microsoft's IPad???

The IPad, when it was first released was a genius design. It was light, ergonomic, stylistic, easy to use and released with a series of "game-changing" applications, including the iBook. It was a devices, that like all Apple products since the original IPod, told a story - remember the IPod was paired with the iTunes at launch. The Microsoft Surface is none of these things the IPad was, and it is yet to tell a story.

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installing mysql on freebsd circa 2013

mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local output: Installing MySQL system tables...2013-03-21 20:58:56 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details). 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: CPU does not support crc32 instructions 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: a new database to be created! 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 12 MB 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [N...

Who is Seth Klarman?

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Republican big government - armed guards at school, patriot act

It is obvious to all that Republicans do not like big government. They just want it to be big enough to frighten children, turn the nation into a police state, and have the government spy on us. Republicans hate immigration, they just like the one that  allow their ilks to have cheap labor, the ones that require biometric id for all immigrants. Republicans do not like health care for all, but they do not mind the truly (abandoned at the early stages) to get their primary care service in the emergency room.

Failure of leadership - The Republican Party

Imagine a recalcitrant 8 year old child who refuses to go to school. Both his parents work, outside the home. But the child would have nothing to do with waking up early and going to school. The parents offered several options; mum will take you, dad will take you, mum and dad will take you, you will ride to school with the neighbor, you will go with the school bus. The child does not like any of these choices, because the child doesn't want to go to school. Well, the parent took the kid to school, and the kid made a great funk at school - And here is the kicker, everyone blamed the parents for lack of leadership!