http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE58E5YG20090915?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year
Falling Down on the Job
The real scandal in the Afghanistan Embassy guards flap is not hazing, public urination, or even prostitution. It's the disaster - and the endemic spread - of contracting in warzones.
90 percent of incumbent expats left the job in the first six months after embassy security was taken over by ArmorGroup
U.S. Senate denies funds for poverty group
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58D6CW20090914
Republicans say ACORN engaged in widespread fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign when it launched a massive voter-registration drive in minority communities, which typically support Democrats and ended up voting overwhelmingly for President Barack Obama.
( Apparently the GOP considers voter registration fraud )
Rights Groups Decry U.S. Stand On Bagram Detainees
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112861671&ft=1&f=2
The Obama administration, in court briefs filed Monday, is asking judges not to give detainees at a prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan the same right to challenge their detention that Guantanamo detainees have.
Human rights groups say the Bush administration made the same argument about detainees at Guantanamo Bay years ago.
And If You Talk About The Evil That The Government Does, The Patriot Act’ll Track You To The Type Of Your Blood
http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/15/and-if-you-talk-about-the-evil-that-the-government-does-the-patriot-actll-track-you-to-the-type-of-your-blood
Sept. 11 airpower summary: F-15Es provide air support
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123167645
Late Night: Darwin Bio Too Controversial a Film for US, Say Distributors
Customize Your Web Modifies Web Pages to Your Liking - Windows only
http://lifehacker.com/5359332/customize-your-web-modifies-web-pages-to-your-liking
Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required
Opera-10: put a script in your pocket!
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/2009/09/15/opera-10-put-a-script-in-your-pocket
Jasad - enlightening sex in Islam?
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog
Why not? Test your IQ...
Israel rejects Gaza war allegations
Hamas says world should act on UN report and launch criminal proceedings against Israel.
Are Universities Doomed?
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/09/are-universities-doomed.html
This weekend's Post had an interesting take on whether colleges might soon go the way of newspapers. The basic gist is that the rise of online long-distance learning makes a lot of the traditional college system unnecessary and redundant.
While these trends are not promising for the Publius family checkbook, it's easy to see their economic logic. In one sense, you can think of colleges as expensive distribution systems. You go to the school, listen to the prof, and knowledge is distributed. It's like going to a really expensive movie rental store.
But the Internets creates a new and extremely inexpensive distribution channel for knowledge. In the same way that online and on-demand video offerings will eventually kill off rental stores, it's easy to see how these offerings could do the same to many colleges (or at least, to many college instructors).
This shift in distribution networks could truly shake things up. And in many ways, the shift could vastly improve the quality of college education at a fraction of today's costs.
To take but one example, the Internet could create the mother of all course catalogs, complete with the world's best lecturers. If a million people wanted to hear Harold Bloom on Shakespeare, or Jonathan Spence on China, they could.
Anyway, I won't repeat the whole article -- but it's definitely worth a read.
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