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[Low-Power Design Community] Low-Power Design Community » Blog Archive » Upgrading the 100-year ...: In high-profile meetings from Washington to Santa Clara in the past two months, industry executives, scientists, engineers and government officials have ratcheted up the dialogue about modernizing how energy is generated, distributed and used. The movement, helped by an expected $4.5 billion in government stimulus money, has its roots in the national concern over fossil fuel resources and heightened focus on energy efficiency.

[Louis J. Sheehan] macrophage: The use of French also makes a significant socio-linguistic point, by marking the gap between the classes: as Napoleon's army advances on Moscow, the noble elite in Petersburg start to take private Russian lessons and charge each other forfeits for every French word spoken, and it becomes dangerous for the upper classes to greet each other in the street in Moscow, as they might be mistaken by the crowd for French spies. The supreme embodiment of French and all that it suggests is, of course, Napoleon himself, who is characterized by "the absence of the best and highest human qualities-- love, poetry, tenderness, a searching philosophical doubt." Self-serving, scornful of tradition, amoral, blinkered by ambition, Napoleon represents in Tolstoy's novel a moral and spiritual challenge to the novel's heroes--and, in a typical, ahistorical Tolstoyan put-down, the invading emperor speaks a bizarre mix of French and Russian.

[Acephalous] Today Is My Birthday, Pa Rum Pum Pum - Acephalous: Academic philosophy was a small enough ecosystem that any significant hit could well have generated path-dependence effects we are still feeling today. Also, so long as you get the 'in part' in there you are probably in the clear. ...... I think the evil has spread its tendrils very deeply into our society and will need enormous work to uproot. Not least because our education system is failing to graduate a society of people who can think for themselves. flory | 04.08.06 ...

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