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“Leaders” from Atherton, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto have vehemently opposed high-speed rail coming through their towns on its way up the San Francisco peninsula to downtown San Francisco where a major new main transportation center is being built in the center of downtown. Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and environmental groups in August 2008…

If there were a proposal to introduce slavery in the US those in favor of it would have no problem coming up with arguments that it is “good for America” and “good for the economy” almost identical to the arguments in favor of mass amnesty. Furthermore, if there were such a proposal, there would no…

If needed changes to our society do not occur through good policies, then they will occur because of bad ones. Either way they will occur.

I just used a very neat plugin which has enabled the main alaya.net page to show excerpts from all the subsites.  This is not the ultimate homebrew method of doing it but for something so simple and easy to install it is nice!

We are all familiar with the standard concept gravity as attraction between two objects which have mass. Many are probably also familiar to some degree with more out-there aspects of gravity such as frame dragging, and Ricci and Weyl curvatures which relate to tidal aspects of gravity. But I’ve just been reading about another, mysterious…

Out shopping last Sunday. People always take pictures of things like scenery, friends, family, etc. But I often like looking at photos of unglamorous things which comprise the spectrum of typical existence where I live. Some might recognize this particular store. It is known for inexensive home furnishings which generally require self-assembly. A *very* typical…

Earlier this afternoon there was an extremely loud aircraft which flew repeatedly overhead over and over and over towing a banner for an insurance company. For the sake of an advertisement, thousands of residents had to sacrifice their quiet, peaceful enjoyment of their homes on a Saturday afternoon so that an insurance company could advertise…

Police have arrested a man accused of savagely beating a woman while trying to steal her purse and then attacking another woman who came to her aid last week in downtown San Jose. Edward Leo Brown Jr., 54, of San Jose, has been booked into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of robbery, assault with…

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7

So I decided to get my DNA analysis done. I am adopted and only have limited information on my biological parents so this will be of interest to me. But during the process of registering the test kit there is a page (pictured above) where it asks for one’s gender. The choices are only male…