Results for “One Laptop per Child Association”

…ry, the potential for complete destruction. It was possible to find sober-minded theorists pondering problems like this one: “Let us assume that for 10 billion dollars one could build a device whose function is to destroy the earth,” Herman Kahn wrote in the 1960s, with a spirit...

…um wouldn't be in the top 25 highest prices" of houses for sale in this area, Porter says. "Palm Beach real estate has gone from nothing going on to nothing left to sell." Porter is giving me a tour of the so-called Billionaire's Row, a stretch of South Ocean Boulevard on the isl...

So far, no one I've talked to seems remotely interested in hiring what they see as a "prostitute." They seem to want to be having sex with someone they find very attractive who is also someone they feel like they can respect, whose intelligence they respect. For example, someone...

…he two dynamical objects being compared are topologically equivalent. The test of this equivalence requires the mapping one set onto the other with, at most, smooth distortions of either or both surfaces. In the context of catastrophe-related bifurcation theory, if a 5 converts...

…st Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of the teachers and injurin...

…ons, including three times on the billionaire’s private jet, and enjoyed intimate dinners with both him and Maxwell. On one occasion, she said that Epstein flew the former President, Hollywood actor and staunch Democrat Kevin Spacey and another actor friend of Mr Clinton’s, Chris...

than one partner. (I've been researching polyamory since my teens, but only in recent years did I decide to actively pursue it.) + Swinging: Usually emphasizes couples with their own close bond, who have relatively casual sex with other partners. (Another difference between swin...

/ BARAK / 66 Bet technician. I assumed that, one way or another, the Americans could listen in, but was fairly confident we were beyond the electronic earshot of the Palestinians. I kept myself fully informed of, but at a distance from, the specific work of our five negotiating...

July 1, now less than 36 hours away. Having moved the passengers off the plane to one of the terminal buildings, they were threatening to start killing them unless we freed a list of 53 Palestinians and PLO supporters, forty of them held in Israel and the rest in a number of Euro...

… Goertzel’s writings on philosophy of mind, an effort has been made to pursue this theme more thoroughly than has been done before, and to articulate in detail how various aspects of human mind and mind in general can be well-understood by explicitly adopting a patternist perspec...

…or instance, if it can manage to own the crucial topological infrastructures: banks, databases, communications systems. One nation might be able to pwn another in this bloodless fashion. Networks, you recall we said, will break nations in the future. This is just how such smashin...

EP: What’s your take on Trump and Russia? PK: I read one article where an uniden- tified Russian official used the phrase “useful idiot”. That’s really what it is. It’s like J. Edgar Hoover; he stayed around for decades [via] blackmail. I think it’s the same thing, You don’t h...

out my understanding of the compensation for a transaction of the magnitude to the penny of the one just completed. though the number was great it was clear. When it appeared that the details could now be worked out I was the first to say , it is too much money, however. From da...

…2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303 Much of Epstein’s work 1s related to cleaning up, tightening budgets, and efficiencies. One person who worked for Wexner and who saw a contract drawn up between the two men says Epstein is involved in “everything, not just a little here, a little t...

…inistration do to hasten technological innovation besides hosting datapaloozas? The fact sheet points to two proposals: one that requires money, and one that doesn't. A “First in the World” fund of $260 million, presumably requiring congressional approval, would “test and evaluat...