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StarCraft II Expansions, Diablo III Coming in "Next Few Years"
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-14
• StarCraft II Expansions, Diablo III Coming in "Next Few Years"
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The last tuna?
in Sox First, on November 14, 2009
...d, it would flood the US market, driving down the prices paid to fishermen. But Barry Estabrook's Politics of the Plate site suggests we need a desperate solution. He puts the blame squarely on ICC...
Seen that? - How Much Is Your Blog Worth?
in BlogWealth, on November 10, 2009
...over a dozen blogs so far covering a wide variety of topics including beauty, education, gardening, politics, humor, travel, home schooling and more. Check them out and let me know what you think. Inf...
Seen that? - Hubbert Peak v. Actual Peak
in IfEnergy, on November 7, 2009
...es who have political ties at the highest levels but the current supply crunch may be less based on politics and more based on the fact that oil supply is limited and demand is ever growing especially...
Unemployment and the failed stimulus
in Sox First, on November 7, 2009
...of concerns about the economy and government spending, Obama will have to tread very quickly. The politics could bring everything undone....
Die ONLY Tape-Party
in Feschsamma, on 05.11.09
...es Videos stammt von der erst seit sechs Monaten bestehenden dänischen Band „ The Politics - Rubberhead Banditz “, die hier ihren Song „Dignity“ zum Besten geben.
Solltet ihr übrigens selbst...
TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America
in The CIO Weblog, on November 2, 2009
Monica Harrington at TechFlash posts on "Innovation: Nine hurdles facing America as a center of tech" discussing our country's challenges in maintaining an education system, and therefore workforce, capable of maintaining the lead in global technical innovation.
This isn't really an article for...
Seen that? - Wireless Gadgets at CES
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 31, 2009
..., who publishes the Frontman Project, a site featuring articles on a wide array of topics including politics and foreign affairs:"Cyber bullying" is a term that many young people will recogn...
Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
The US government is moving on financial firms that are "too big to fail" and where the government has no choice but to "rescue" them when they get into trouble. Its plan is to make it easier for the government to seize control. The Financial Stability Improvement Act needs to be consi...
Is the US ready for IFRS?
in Sox First, on October 20, 2009
...ent," she said at the time. And yes, that made good copy for the media. It turns out that was pure politics. According to the SEC Strategic Plan for 2010-2015 , the regulator now supports "a single ...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
After helping to create the financial collapse by giving dodgy securities triple-A ratings, moves are afoot to bring ratings agencies into line with legislation designed to make them collectively liable for inaccuracies. Just how that would work and what sort of liability remains to be seen...
White House declares war on Fox News
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
So the White House has finally launched into Fox News, guns blazing. As the Christian Science Monitor says, it's quite remarkable given the calm almost aloof way that Obama has handled anti-health care campaigners and over-the-top Congressmen who may or may not have an issue about Black pr...
Four ways to create jobs in the recession
in Sox First, on October 6, 2009
... are very powerful political reasons why these four measures should get through Congress. "The politics of these four steps aren't difficult. It would be hard to get a new stimulus package th...
California - America's first failed state?
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
...t was once held up as the epitome of the boundless opportunities of America has collapsed. From its politics to its economy to its environment and way of life, California is like a patient on life sup...
Seen that? - Poker Billionaires
in Internet Poker, on October 2, 2009
... Poker Billionaires at Internet Poker Forbes Magazine recently posted its latest list of the world's richest people. Among the 746 billionaires ...
Pay cuts or jobs losses for half of America's workforce
in Sox First, on September 19, 2009
Yesterday, I did a blog entry questioning Bernanke's claim that the recession was over and suggesting that most Americans wouldn't believe him. If you need further evidence, check out this alarming ABC News-Washington Post poll showing that 41% of US households have had their pay o...
Enterprise 2.0 finds success (and failure!)
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2009
...ptance from executives only after the fact. Driven primarily by business needs rather than internal politics or power-mongering, the projects are simply an outgrowth of workers looking for better ways...
The New Justice: Sotomayor
in Latina Viva, on August 9, 2009
A number of news sources ( NY Times , Agence France Press , CNN , the WaPo , Reuters , Bloomberg ) this week covered the Senate confirmation and swearing in of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. (I thought about mentioning the Associate Press coverage, but after readin...
Islamic banking booms
in Sox First, on August 4, 2009
... growth sectors in the financial world hammered by the economic crisis. How that will affect global politics, with American forces bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, remains to be seen.
...
Xbox Live Preview Dropping Game Install Sizes
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-04
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Top 10 Tips for Using Twitter in Your Business
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on August 2, 2009
...becomes one of the fastest places to find popular news. You can find a discussion on anything from politics to new technology to pop culture. Stay ahead of your competition by tracking the news. Put i...
Exxon Mobil lobbies on climate change
in Sox First, on August 2, 2009
...city. All up, oil and gas companies spent $82.2 million on lobbying. As the Centre for Responsive Politics points out in its blog , only the pharmaceutical and health care product companies and ins...
Soprano state corruption
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
...ow widespread and ingrained public corruption has become. Ingrid Reed of the Eagleton Institute for politics, who recently wrote a study on ethics in local government in the state, notes sadly 'Co...
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 克劳德 1:1 First tsurug
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-23
• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 克劳德 1:1 First tsurug
• StarCraft II 鼠标垫
• UAE Blackberry update was spyware
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Open World Forum 2009 in Paris
in Das Open Source Weblog, on 17.07.09
...sonen wichtiger Open-Source-Projekte, wie Apache, Eclipse oder linux zusammen.
FLOSS Politics Summit
Auf dieser Konferenz werden die erzielten Fortschritte und Chancen für Open Source Software ...
Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing the Obama administration's plans to regulate the exotic and opaque derivatives market, something that's long overdue. Let's face it, the US Government wasn't even aware of how serious a problem it's been. Associated Press rep...
Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
I happily voted for Barack Obama last year. I was thrilled to see George Bush and his cronies swept away.
But I had no illusions: I knew that fixing the country's problems, especially its struggling economy, would require a long, hard slog. I knew, too, that things weren't magically g...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
Hard to go past Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone where he accuses it of engineering every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Taibbi doesn't pull any punches either. He calls it the "Wall Street bubble mafia". He writes: "If America is circling the drain...
Sotomayor and the Supreme Counrt
in Latina Viva, on June 30, 2009
...tion , ABC News
Most Americans Want Sotomayor on Court , in the WaPo
And then there's the politics:
Senior Republican Seeks More Material on Sotomayor , in The Caucus
Brownback Third ...
The True Story of True Ventures
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-30
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Facebook 筹拍自传电影
in YuleGuan, on 2009-06-29
...ionaires) 一书改编，编剧是 Aaron Sorkin。创作人员包括 Scott Rudin、Michael De Luca、Dana Brunetti 和演员 Kevin Spacey。这部电影名字暂定为《社会化网络》，但也可能改为《偶然的亿万富翁》。
一名娱乐界消息人士称，早期的演员遴选工作已经启动，扮演 Facebook 创始人 Mark Zuckerberg 的演员人选包括 Mi...
Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 28, 2009
... tied up in the courts for the years ahead. One thing for sure: litigation is going to reshape the politics of climate change. A report from insurer Swiss Re warns that climate change litigation is...
A new wave of mortgage foreclosures on the way?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 19, 2009
I'd like to think that we've seen the worst of the foreclosure crisis. I'd like to think that we'll be seeing fewer homes fall into foreclosure, and fewer homeowners missing their mortgage payments.
I'd like to think all that. Unfortunately, I can't.
What I really think is ...
固体彩虹 - 白社会 Beta
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-25
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Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
The problem with bringing in stricter laws to fix the banking system is that it turns good behavior into a matter of compliance. As economist John Kay writes, that stricter rules can never replace integrity and that they only result in people finding ways to circumvent them. "Regulation b...
Madoff's secretary tells all. What's next?
in Sox First, on May 11, 2009
Gee, she sure can talk. Hard to go past the revelations last week in Vanity Fair from Eleanor Squillari, Bernard Madoff's secretary of more than 20 years who claimed the man was an egotistical sexist who got his rocks off in massage parlors. "Madoff was flirtatious and had a habit o...
The 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China is Making China Visas Hard to Get
in Global Mobility Report, on May 10, 2009
...oyee). Three, and probably most important, is that the Chinese government will nearly always place politics and stability over economics. ...
An End to Tax Havens?
in Bizinformer, on May 5, 2009
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A vast number of news sources have been covering President Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes and shut down corporate tax havens. Some examples of the coverage include:
The NY Times , Agence France Press , The Washington Post , Financial Times , Mother Jones Bloomberg...
HP拟1亿美元新建科罗拉多州数据中心
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-30
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Is Twitter Politically Conservative?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 29, 2009
© Joe Crimmings Photography
Well, it's hard to believe. But I managed to go over a month without talking about Twitter. It's been 32 days now since we discussed some aspecty of the fabulous microblog. So we're past due...
I was surprised to some across a post recently that sugg...
Thailand May as Well Be Closed...
in Hidden Travel Gems, on April 20, 2009
...bly plan on the Philippines or Malaysia instead.
I could take a few minutes and try to unravel the politics. But, well, mai pen rai . The truth is simple. Thailand had protests and political unrest ...
Climate change flood warning
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
Dire warnings from Energy Secretary Steven Chu that some islands in the Caribbean will disappear and that Louisiana and even northern California could be overrun with rising water as a result of global warming. Conservative commentators and so-called experts will no doubt attack Chu for being...
The Panic of 2008-09
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
The financial crisis is more than just a global recession. It's a Panic, according to Kevin Warsh , a member of the Board of Governors of the federal reserve system . In a speech to the Council of Institutional Investors, Warsh compares the conditions to the Panics of 1837, 1857, 1873...
Foreign Tourists Allowed Back Into Tibet
in Hidden Travel Gems, on April 2, 2009
...t exactly how many tourists will be let back in is unclear at the moment.
It you can get past the politics of Tibetan tourism, Tibet offers some of the most fascinating history and culture on earth....
G20 protest meltdown
in Sox First, on March 28, 2009
London is bracing itself for the G20 protests with warnings from one of the organizers that there could be "real bankers hanging from lamp posts". Regardless of the hyperbole, it's another sign of how polarized the world has become in the wake of the financial meltdown with anti-ca...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
Is this a warning of things to come? An alarming story out of the Los Angeles Times about looting in a supermarket in Israel that went bankrupt. According to the piece, ex-employees took their revenge first helping themselves to crates of groceries. Then came the creditors who walked in and m...
DocMazy: The Future of Document Search
in Wangtam, on 2009-03-20
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The politics of AIG
in Sox First, on March 16, 2009
The political fallout from the AIG bailout will be massive. With $165 million in US taxpayers' money going to pay executive bonuses, the Obama administration is bailing itself for a backlash. It looks impotent and ineffective as Bernanke tells 60 Minutes he slammed the phone down a few tim...
Forbes 公布 2009 年全球富豪排行榜
in Wangtam, on 2009-03-13
《Forbes》本周推出2009年全球富豪排行榜，微软联合创始人、董事长 Bill Gates 重新夺回全球首富的头衔，不过其资产较去年同期减少了 180 亿美元。
《Forbes》的排行榜显示 ，受全球经济衰退的影响，今年上榜富豪的平均净资产为 30 亿美元，较上年减少了 23%。今年，共有 793 人上榜，远低于去年的 1125 人。美国依旧是全球富豪的聚集地，45% 的上榜富豪来自于美国，占据了全球富豪总资产的 44%。在过去的一年当中，共有 656 位富豪的资产缩水，但也有 44 名富豪的资产出现了增长。
受股价大跌的影响，去年的全球首富、股神 Warren Buffett...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
So Bernard Madoff is now in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" that he had "deeply hurt many, many people, including the members of my family, my closest friend...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
... is the number of climate change deniers on the increase. The answer is pretty obvious. Look at the politics. The Gallup survey shows that a growing number of Republicans think global warming has been...
Millionaires and fake prosperity
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
... the real deal. Not to be outdone, Forbes has a similar piece telling us there are now 332 fewer billionaires. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have dropped a few billion each. Let's get this in ...
Give a Tucker Enough Space and it Will Overwhelm You
in Classical Drives, on March 11, 2009
...s to the auto industry might have been dramatic, with great benefit to consumers. What a shame that politics, poor planning, and false charges by a media muckraker conspired to destroy the Tucker befo...
Bush-era Bans on Stem Cell Research, Lifted By President Obama
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 9, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 4344837
The bush-era bans on stem cell research has been lifted by President Barack Obama this Monday - thereby allowing federal financing of medical research using stem cells from discarded human embryos.
According to President Obama:
"This orde...
奥巴马先生，请回到地球
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-28
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Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
...ncompetence and quantitative negligence." And finally, there is the inability of all sides in politics to come up with a policy on energy and oil. All this at a time when the future of the US en...
House And Senate Agree On The Economic Stimulus Package
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 11, 2009
The economic stimulus package has been honed down by some $100 billion which was enough for Senate Republicans to cause them to support President Obama's wish list.
The nearly $800 billion tax cut and stimulus package has a little something for everyone and it is hoped that these funds will res...
The meltdown and fascism: minister warns
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
...#39;s and Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, that the downturn is likely to see a return to the Far Right politics of the 1930s and the rise of Fascism. ""I think that this is a financial crisis m...
Stimulus Hype: A Populist Plan? (Part II)
in Bizinformer, on February 9, 2009
...ight not get the whole $10,000. Giving the same rebate to everyone is not populism. It's just politics.
Oh, and while Spielberg may not quite know what populism is, his conclusion seems to be tha...
Federal CTO position eviscerated
in The CIO Weblog, on February 7, 2009
... Science and Technology Policy, an even more obscure department than OMB.
I won't get into the politics of the decision, which may make a certain sort of sense in light of other pressing matters ...
Google GDrive online storage & backup service leaked
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-01
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Harsh Economic Times Forcing Estranged Couples To Stay Together
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 23, 2009
...It's not just politics that makes Strange Bedfellows these days, the current economic downturn is having the same effect, but for different reasons.
Because of lost jobs, decreased income and...
9 Ways Twitter Can Help in the Real World
in Wangtam, on 2009-01-22
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US economy, Pearl Harbor and Barack Obama
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, Warren Buffett has come out saying that the US is in the grip of an "economic Pearl Harbor", not as bad as World War Two or the Great Depression, but still pretty severe. In an interview with NBC Tom Brokaw, Buffett says Obama is the leade...
Bush Commutes Sentences Of Border Patrol Agents
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 19, 2009
Outgoing President Bush has invoked executive privilege and commuted the jail sentences of two Border Patrol Agents convicted of shooting an unarmed illegal immigrant in 2006.
The officers, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, were sentenced to terms of 10 years and despite widespread public outrage...
Barack Obama Says He'll End "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 13, 2009
Barack Obama ran on a promise of "change" and it appears that he'll make good on that promise, in a big way, shortly after he takes office.
Not one to duck a big challenge, President-Elect Barack Obama has outright promised that he will abolish the "Don't Ask Don't Te...
New Visa Rules Impact Golfers
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 12, 2009
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Over the past couple of years, authorities in the United States have increased their scrutiny of people entering the country - whether they're visitors or returning American residents or citizens.
This scrutiny has taken various forms. Remember those famous "no...
Will Tony Blair Become Europe's First President?
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 9, 2009
In less than 2 weeks the United States gets a new President, Barack Obama, who is already making headlines in Europe amidst talk of the possibility of there soon being a President of Europe.
There's no doubt that Europe has been headed towards more of a "United States of Europe" or &q...
Former eBay CEO Cannot Control Own Name On Internet
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 9, 2009
...ame on the Internet.
When Tom Hall, a Santa Monica resident, learned that Whitman was entering politics he promptly bought and registered at least 5 website names that he felt Whitman would want ...
Blagojevich and Spitzer: a moral tale about power
in Sox First, on January 8, 2009
...re you don't see how your actions will get you in trouble. Of course, this applies not only to politics but to business as well. That's why high flyers, from Jeff Skilling to Conrad Black...
