Subject: Learning From Real Life
Re: "Assessment: Michael Bloomberg"
From: Roy Fouinon
Date: Sun Jun 24  6:34 a.m. PT

It always strikes me as weird when these political candidates (or the media) start talking about running a political office like a business. … What does being run by a CEO mean? Massive job cuts? Getting out of office in a much better financial position than when they came in? Stories of affairs with interns (secretaries)? Playing with statistics (numbers) and then spinning the results? Not letting the public know everything … ? Being friends with the competitor on a personal level? The CEO-politician is already here!

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Subject: Gonna Like This Even More

Re: "Culturebox: You're Gonna Like This"

From: Michael Murray

Date: Wed Jun 20  5:19 a.m. PT

[Amazon.com] should take all available data and feed a neural network. That way they could make predictions but there would be no way of telling what the causal factors really were. It would be like fortune telling and just as entertaining. Feed it enough data and you could ask it things like "Will my marital status change?"

Or you could just say you have a neural network and pay a couple interns to mess with people.

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Subject: Be Prepared for Anything

Re: "Chatterbox: What Do Boy Scouts (and the Wall Street Journal) Want?"

From: Marylb

Date: Thu Jun 21 6:22 p.m. PT

I guess as a private organization they just want the same thing Clinton demanded: "Don't ask, don't tell." The past administration found that concept acceptable for grown men at the federal level in today's service, so is it so shocking that the scouts ask the same? Or is that bad because it is the scouts and not Clinton? It is very difficult to keep up with the discrepancy of selective indignation for one group and acceptance of another for the same exact thing. … The argument for gay equality is a no-brainer. The issue you bring up, though, is the twist society places on acceptable vs. unacceptable, but has more to do with conflicting concepts than being gay.

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