Sunday, October 13, 2013

its great to be at the top

PK touches the big nerve ending..or does he ?

" back of the envelope says that GDP would be at least 2 percent higher

 and thus
   corporate profits at least 6 percent higher

                                                if  fiscal  austerity weren’t taking place."



"the modern GOP is bad for business"

but


", it’s arguably good for wealthy business leaders"

". After all, it keeps their taxes low"

" their take-home pay is probably higher
 than it would be under better economic management."

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

can you dig it ? i can dig it !

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self assembling structures built out of their own "work force"

like a cheer leader pyramid M-Blocks, developed at MIT, can flip, jump and self-assemble with no external moving parts, a major breakthrough in modular robotics. (<a class="tpstyle" href="http://youtu.be/6aZbJS6LZbs" target="_blank">MIT</a>)Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
"A prototype of a new modular robot, with its innards exposed and its flywheel — which gives it the ability to move independently — pulled out.    small, cube-shaped robots that can flip, jump, stack and assemble themselves into larger shapes with no exterior moving parts."


"The robots, called M-Blocks, use an internal flywheel mechanism to move and stick together using magnets.
The scientists envision miniature "swarmbot" versions of the M-Blocks that self-assemble like the "liquid steel" cyborgs in the "Terminator" films"

but these are structures made of workers like ant bridges

“We want hundreds of cubes, scattered randomly across the floor, to be able to identify each other, coalesce, and autonomously transform into a chair, or a ladder, or a desk, on demand,”

FED ASSET BUILD UP

Federal Reserve assets