Day: April 26, 2012

The Second Most Dangerous Game

How many readers are aware that there is an actual sport in which people see how deep they can dive in the ocean just by holding their breath? 

The record dive is by Austrian Herbert Nitsch who made it to 700 feet helped by a watersled. 
It is consider the second most dangerous sport behind BASE jumping with about 60 fatalities per year from participants.
There have been competitions since 1996,
Hat tip Outside magazine.

Apple’s Insidious Plan

The latest Forbes has a fascinating article on what Apple plans to do with the $64 billion it has sitting overseas. Writer Connie Guglielmo notes that bringing it here would cause it be taxed at 35 percent and hence would be a rather stupid thing for it to do.

So, the plan is for Apple to use the money to build offshore factories hence putting itself in complete control over its supply chain and preventing this equipment from being used to build products for HP and Dell.
Now, if competent, wise people led our nation then Apple would not feel compelled to spend all that money overseas.
The mysterious thing is why to American billionaires and Californians like those at Apple support the Democrat Party.

They’re Not On The Level

Former Philadelphia cop and one-time English teacher Jim Vanore gives a lesson on how American English is being misused for political ends.

He begins:

I want to originate a new word. I think I still have the right to do that in this country. Try though they do, the forces of dictatorship have not yet completely suspended my right of free speech.
When I taught junior high English, I wanted the students to understand the difference betweendenotation versus connotation, because dictators are clever in the way they initiate a bloodless coup: They can simply insist that a word’s connotation becomes its denotation.


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