Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Odds & Ends

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Tax-dodging corporations don't deserve a lot of respect. The link is an article on less well-known things about corporations.

Update: Here's more on corporate taxes and how they avoid paying!


Sunday morning I watched Fareed Zakaria's program (The Take) and he said studies of 'big data' (in Virginia I think) showed violent crimes (presumably involving guns) increased regularly two weeks after gun shows (sales). There's more evidence the gun violence legislation needs to cover background checks at gun shows!


Fiber Optic Bandwidth may DOUBLE !! Woo hoo!


Corporations may use tax lawyers and interest groups may lobby behind closed doors, but illusionists use science to deceive! I especially found it interesting how they suggest that when the mind faces several things at once it is easily overcome. That's something chess players can definitely use.

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