The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Betrayal, this is.
18 Fun Interesting Facts You Never Knew About The Internet
James Bruce
MakeUseOf.com, 10 December 2010
EXTRACT
Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
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Posted: October 14, 2010 06:40 PM
Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and Make Comments.
EDIT of 10 Dec 10 to add missing links and correct typos, this version only.
A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades down to also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence.
Continue reading “Reference: Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace”
Lewis Mumford on the city (3.39)
Lewis Mumford – A Social Visionary (8:27)
From Lewis Mumford's “The Conduct of Life” (5:17)
The Myth of the Machine (3:43)
If you want to drive yourself crazy, read the live twitter comments of an audience after you give a talk, even if it's just to ten people.
You didn't say what they said you said.
You didn't mean what they said you meant.
Or read the comments on just about any blog post or video online. People who saw what you just saw or read what you just read completely misunderstood it. (Or else you did.)
We think direct written and verbal communication is clear and accurate and efficient. It is none of those. If the data rate of an HDMI cable is 340MHz, I'm guessing that the data rate of a speech is far, far lower. Yes, there's a huge amount of information communicated via your affect, your style and your confidence, but no, I don't think humans are so good at getting all the details.
Plan on being misunderstood. Repeat yourself. When in doubt, repeat yourself.
Phi Beta Iota: Add to that cross-cultural, cross-language, and cross-faith blinders, and you end up with face to face that is at best 20% of what you intended to communicate, and out of context to boot. This would be an excellent change in focus for both the US Foreign Service Academy and all the schools pupporting to teach international relations.
Venezuela-Iran: Die Welt is the original source for the following item, which is too important to overlook.
“Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on unidentified western sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, on 25 November. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on 19 October 2010.
Continue reading “NIGHTWATCH Extract: Iran/NKorea Rockets for Venezuela”
Iraq: For the record. The Iraqi Defense Ministry disabled al Qaida's “biggest electronic website,” a spokesman for the ministry said on 9 December. The Iraqi army discovered the location of Al-Furqan website and seized its devices and equipment, the spokesman said. He said Arabs operated the website, which Iraq considers al Qaida's ministry of information for the world.
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