Frish's Non-Shopping Network

Iran - to bomb or not to bomb (My Jewish Journal Editorial debut)

2012-01-27T16:28:00.001-08:00

MY LETTER TO THE EDITOR PUBLISHED IN THE JEWISH JOURNAL. COOL BEANS...

In reply to a point/counterpoint from two policy wonks debating the merits of military or diplomatic means when working with Iran.

"When did elective war (or act of war) become an acceptable means to an end?

Can anyone explain a moral basis for a "preemptive attack" on Iranian assets, especially when no one really knows that they are building bombs?"

Frish

How not to do social network engineering..."4 people you might know on Google+"

2012-01-13T19:16:00.001-08:00

Oh, how wonderful are email blasts.

Go out and touch your customer...this is what passes as relationship building in the age of mass mobile marketing.

Cost to google? $zero.

Loss of trust in Google as a whole? almost complete

Value to google: Much Less Than $Zero

Why "force" the network connections? Just bring us an infrastructure that's compelling and we're yours.

Let's see, might I know any?

Yes

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Google+ team <noreply-475ba29f@plus.google.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM
Subject: 4 people you might know on Google+

Hi Frish!

Here's some people you might know on Google+.

Suggestions for you

	nick ostrowski		PJ Scorch		Frish Frishberg Supreme Graphics, Inc
	Takumi shante Akata

It seems WAAAAY too much like the couch in the frat house in Animal House, four guys who will NEVER get into that frat...

Like doing the limbo, how low can you go?

2012-01-13T16:28:00.001-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/science/smaller-magnetic-materials-push-boundaries-of-nanotechnology.html

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FRISH

On 2012

2012-01-10T23:20:00.001-08:00

I'm having a better than average start to a year, on every possible level.

If you hadn't heard, I'll share my 30 years (base 19) of observation that informs me:

The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment you can.

Happiest possible remainder of 2012 and beyond - to all!

Peace, FRISH

What religion ought one follow?

2012-01-04T21:48:00.001-08:00

http://www.holytaco.com/flowchart-determine-what-religion-you-should-follow/

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FRISH

Poster Child for NRA (and her mom too!)

2012-01-04T19:28:00.001-08:00

...snip...

McKinley, who had been widowed less than a week before, placed a couch in front of one door and went to the bedroom and put a bottle in her baby's mouth before calling 911...

...snip...

Martin, 24, was found between the door and a couch with a knife clutched in his gloved left hand, police said.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/04/justice/oklahoma-intruder-shooting/

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FRISH

User Interface: Braille enhanced with emotions

2012-01-04T18:00:00.001-08:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100427111447.htm

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FRISH

Deep Stuff

2012-01-04T17:57:00.001-08:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220204454.htm

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FRISH

"Taking back America" *per Rick Santorum

2012-01-03T21:31:00.001-08:00

Dear Editors:

"Taking back America" - Santorum says it.

Doesn't sound very inclusive.

He talks about dismantling every significant safety regulation and eliminating corporate taxes.

Why isn't he talking about "Sharing the goodness of America with those who are not yet benefiting enough?"

My fervent hope is that God, to whom Rick claims he owes so much, sets him straight and soon.
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FRISH

Yes, "INJECTION WELLS" caused earthquakes in Ohio...here's some of the oil industry apologists

2012-01-02T19:57:00.000-08:00

"He said 177 deep injection wells have operated without incident in Ohio for decades and the Youngstown well was closed within 24 hours of a study detailing how close a Christmas Eve quake was to the well.

The industry-supported Ohio Oil and Gas Association said the rash of quakes was "a rare and isolated event that should not cast doubt about the effectiveness" of injection wells.

Such wells "have been used safely and reliably as a disposal method for wastewater from oil and gas operations in the U.S. since the 1930s," the association's executive vice president, Thomas E. Stewart, said in a statement Monday.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/expert-wastewater-ohio-triggered-quakes-15275844#.TwJylTUgd2A

The real and near term issue is FRACKING, which is so obviously destructive without our being able to counteract the damage.

Why would anyone be nervous?

Just more of the unassigned costs of petroleum.--

FRISH

To 2012, may reason and truth guide our way

2012-01-01T20:23:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year 2012 - in the spirit of having more fun in 2012...

YAHOO Science set of headlines 1/1/2012 at 8pm or so PST...

NASA marks 2012 with twin probes in moon orbit

(They are the ones with PROBES...maybe the ETs get it from NASA!)

Apocalypse Not Now: 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA

(Thanks to the mystic Mayan Power Cloak!) http://soul2soultreasures.com/mayan_cloak/

Mysterious lights spotted on Christmas Eve explained

(Someone can't keep a secret!)

Hunt for meteor clues in 200-million-year-old murder mystery

(Talk about a cold case...!)

New Year Brings New Attacks on Evolution in Schools

("Join The Fight to Reclaim America!" - Bachmann Campaign Slogan)

China reveals its space plans up to 2016

(That's when they run out!)

Top 10 Health & Happiness Lessons of 2011

(Yeah, right. That's sooo last year!)

Show Less Science

(Seems we've been doing that for a long time!)

Time is not a renewable resource hope I didn't waste yours.

XO and much love to all!

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FRISH

Unintended Consequences: Demand for "Organic" Food causes environment degradation

2012-01-01T03:26:00.001-08:00

Organic Food - It's what's for dinner...Oh, can't get a fresh tomato this week? It's criminal I tell ya!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/science/earth/questions-about-organic-produce-and-sustainability.html

It only makes sense, there are so many of us buy local can't happen (year round).

We'd have to eat what was in season, near us.

Or things that were canned, frozen, dried or otherwise prepared to last through non-harvest seasons...

Like Grandma used to do (or Great Grandma perhaps...).

Consumers aren't really in charge of much...or knowledgeable, or concerned...

FRISH

As seen on a Personals site: "I am unique in my onw way"

2011-12-27T20:11:00.000-08:00

Could she be unique in any way but her own?

Did she know that spelling OWN - ONW only has 3,000,000 hits on the web.

So, how unique is she?

It's a mad mad mad mad world..."Location Scouting" to the max!

2011-12-27T17:17:00.001-08:00

Obsessions on the internet are manifested in various and sundry ways.

This photo montage is probably the most complete documentation of movie location ever attempted.

https://picasaweb.google.com/111293404383775855107/IAMMMMWLocations#5559083475455550226

It's a mad world indeed...

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FRISH

Mary, in this age, you have choices...

2011-12-15T07:59:00.001-08:00

Open letter to Mary:

Before giving birth to the first Metrosexual, think about how much impact (over a couple millennium) your child will have..

Mostly being used as an excuse to "save savages" (thereby destroying indigenous people and culture) and commit atrocities (like institutionalized child

molestation, wars of convenience, and loads more...) I'm happy to see the concern on your face, do the right thing...save us from the savior PLEASE!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/billboard-depicts-virgin-mary-holding-pregnancy-test-150612060.html

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FRISH

one liner tech story

2011-11-22T07:42:00.001-08:00

"Meg Whitman, who took over as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s chief executive officer two months ago, used her first earnings conference call to tell investors they need to lower their expectations." (Business Week, 11/22/11)

FRISH

Nano Particles additives and your liver...

2011-11-19T07:21:00.001-08:00

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111117141157.htm

I mean the story is so rife with material...but the best line:

"...they show dose-dependent toxic effects on the liver. Our next step is to determine the mechanism of the toxicity."

How about determining that the chemical additive not be used at all, instead of trying to accommodate it?

And peoplel think we're smart enough to avoid the looming disaster...

FRISH

letter to editors of Time regarding their "report" on overpopulation.

2011-11-13T21:02:00.001-08:00

Okay, I get it, you bring us to the edge of our seats, with the certaintude that a huge extinction of other species is going on, our population growth is unsustainable, we're polluting and destroying our "habitat" (It's OUR PLANET...) Yet, somehow, we'll be able to feed everyone too...if politics *(pesky stuff politics) gets out of the way...and some future genius' show us the way out of our predicament.

Life is an interconnected set of chemistry and physics.

Extinctions of species is a problem, since ecologies are made up of groups of species.

Extinction creates chaos in those systems.

Take a peek at Humboldt Squids and Sharks...no more sharks, and loads of squid...eating things we'd like to eat, like salmon, the population of which is plummeting.

Do you really think we can have all these people on the planet, and still live in total harmony with the environment, so we don't continue to destroy our own nest?

I'm not suggesting, BY ANY MEANS, that anyone who is already alive should have anything but a long and enjoyable life.

I can make the case, however, that IT IS IMMORAL FOR ANYONE ON THE PLANET TO HAVE CHILDREN, ANYWHERE, ANYWHEN.

We've ALREADY caused enough destruction to preclude our continued existence, past 100 years from now, or less. Few of us have reached this conclusion, that flies in the face of every societal norm, since the total purpose of a society is it's continued existence, and we're suggesting extinction, in a totally non-coercive way, by voluntarily not having offspring.

Check this out, if you've read this far.

www.vhemt.org

We're vehement (and serious too!)

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FRISH

Statement of the UN Sec General

2011-11-13T18:00:00.001-08:00

If this has already been posted, sorry about that,

Time Magazine is a pretty mainstream organ for overpopulation coverage...

and such and intriguing report...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said:

"Yesterday I spoke to students, pupils of a public high school [in Manhattan]. I was very much moved.

Everybody brought small and big placards reading: "7 Billion, I'm a Part of 7 Billion."

It was quite moving; I saw very strong signs of hope."

To which one might say: "Huh?"

Oh, sorry, if the Sec Genr'l isn't the ULTIMATE DIPLOMAT he's in the wrong job...

This is one part of the Time magazine online special section on overpopulation...

find the selection bar and visit other fascinating insights into the population of humanity on Planet Earth.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097720_2097779,00.html

Here's the main article, all about how populations of humans and other animals may not be a comfortable fit.

Seems the animals are losing!

Why the Real Victim of Overpopulation Will Be the Environment

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FRISH

Even in Time magazine...it's not the warming, it's the people!

2011-11-13T08:29:00.001-08:00

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097720_2097782_2097814,00.html

FRISH

Republican Candidates tortuous torture theory

2011-11-13T07:33:00.001-08:00

Republican presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann both say they would reinstate waterboarding during interrogations of suspected terrorists, while rivals Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman both say they see the procedure as torture.

Considering that all legal precedent in the US says waterboarding is torture (see definition of torture), it's fascination how the rule of law is interpreted...

Definition of WaterBoarding

Best yet, torture doesn't work during interrogations.

This isn't guesswork by some bleeding heart liberal, it is documented by those who actually endured torture...

any answer you want to hear will eventually be discovered,

The victim finds ways to appease the abuse by making stuff up.K halid Sheikh Mohammed on Torture...and his response to it.

They waterboarded KSM 183 times in a month, and he either never got asked about couriers guarding OBL, or he avoided answering the question honestly. Had KSM revealed that detail, Bush might have gotten OBL 8 years ago.

And just as importantly, the whole time KSM was shielding Abu Ahmed's true identity while being waterboarded, KSM was also lying to the CIA about where OBL was. When asked what things he lied about under torture at his 2007 CSRT hearing, KSM specifically said he first said he didn't know of OBL's whereabouts, and then confirmed false locations for him, in response to the torture.

President [of the Tribunal]: What I'm trying to get at is any statement that you made was it because of this treatment, to use your word, you claim torture. Do you make any statements because of that?
[snip]
KSM: I make up stories just location UBL. Where is he? I don't know. Then he torture me. Then I said yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaida which I don't him. I say no. They torture me.

So at the time when KSM was guarding crucial information about Abu Ahmed and with it OBL's location, he was making shit up to get the torture to stop.

They characterize this forced drowning as acceptable.

They risk the lives and safety of US soldiers taken prisoner, without any benefit.

The litmus test of beliefs about torture

(not to mention the no Tax Pledge - anyone who refuses to consider fiscal options ought not be able to be in political office at any level!),

differentiates legitimate candidates from the rest.

FRISH

Question to volunteers

2011-11-06T12:28:00.001-08:00

Life up until now played no favorites. Operating across POPULATIONS over time, evolution allows life to establish and utilize energy niches.

CURRENT bio-technology allows for any string of dna components (AGTC) to be created via a dna generator essentially.

We're only beginning to see what all genes can do.

So, we're in a bit of a race against time, perhaps.

Can Bio engineering, a nascent science, (didn't want to say "embryonic" aren't you glad?!)

be enough for us to establish a human-centric ecology?

Are we smart enough to continuously generate biological tools to ameliorate our deprecation...

(Can we create artificial biology to suit our needs, since we can then create any life we desire...that which cleans up after us, grow our houses with food on the shelves, etc...)

Are we smart enough to do ANYTHING in a sustainable fashion? Maybe we won't have to...

I only know we've not been trying...

FRISH

Oh the fragility of our global supply chain...so many weak links

2011-11-06T08:08:00.001-08:00

How the effects of "global warming" (aka, Human Caused Climate Chaos) affect you.

From Fry's website...

Notice to Customers:

Due to the flooding in Thailand and the foreseen shortages on hard drives,

Fry's Electronics is limiting hard drive sales to a quantity of one per customer at this time.

"Three months of intense rainfall have fueled Thailand's worst flooding in half a century,

swamping much of the country since July and leaving 506 people dead, according to the government."

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2011/11/06/death_toll_from_thailand_floods_rises_past_500

I'm think I'll go "Occupy Fry's" until they'll sell me a second disk drive...

FRISH

Pets and environmental impacts

2011-11-05T09:07:00.001-07:00

"Companion Animals" aka pets are a welcome addition to millions of households world wide.

Googled "environmental impacts of pets" and found this article

http://www.myspace.com/seeloveverywhere/blog/516600469

which is pretty thorough, in terms of identifying the areas impacted by pet ownership.

(Food, shampoo, toys for pets, pet poop, etc. etc. etc.)

And a book "Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living"

Which, if one can wade through it, is a serious attempt to quantify impacts of pets.

I get along great with pets and kids and have ABSOLUTELY NO DESIRE for any...

Pets are the outcome of domestication of animals altogether,

our brilliant neolithic predecessors finding animal "husbandry" a useful addition to the tribe.

*(evidence for dog domestication is certain at 7000bc, and may be as much as 30,000 years ago!)

These days it seems natural to enjoy the company of other species, even while suspending our disbelief,

since the pleasing behaviors we find in pets are behaviors we've bred into them.

FRISH

The best pics ever...

2011-11-05T01:26:00.001-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/earth-from-space-1320348799-slideshow/nasa-handout-photo-shows-earths-airglow-seen-oblique-photo-181358986.html

These are all cool...my interest probably stems from many early mornings watching Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo liftoffs with my father...

Shot number 7 is like, beyond the outer limits...

Gotta love the internet...

("There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.")

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FRISH