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Google+ Gets a Leg Up on Facebook
Google+, Google’s social network, has defeated the privacy problem that has plagued Facebook and expanded video chatting to as many as 10 people.It is better. The problem I see with it is personal privacy. If the desk top is shared there is no way to be private from ones machine-mates.Our present system does solve that problem at a cost in personalization. -
The Start-Up of You
This is not your parents’ job market. Workers need to be able to invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day.I object to this natural extension of "the ownership society".I am my own person and you are your own person.We will cooperate. -
McConnell Warns of Risk to Party, and Country, of Default
Across Washington, officials were weighed down with a sense that they were hurtling toward a crisis, and the pressure was particularly intense on Republican leaders.Moral hazard is real. A new discovery for some. -
The Opposing Party
Confused about the position of Congressional Republicans on the economy? Good. You should be.No, I am not confused.The Republicans are in favour of management. They have not considered the natures of management. There is people management, motivation, sales, bargaining and contracts. There is business management, credit, cash flow, taxation, accounting, return on investment and finance. There is production management, water, energy, timing, facility design, transportation and packaging. All are management. Most have conflicting needs. The party of management is rife with internal conflicts. All these concerns are to benefit the managing party.The managed have no effective say.Strategic default by government is a really bad idea.Good thing it has a Republican label."Full Faith and Credit" will turn out to be really nasty.The Republicans in the House will be dead meat.A real investment opportunity in treasury bonds.I put a call in to my broker. -
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ - Review
Childhood ends with tears and howls and swirls of smoke, the shock of mortality and bittersweet smiles in the grave, deeply satisfying final movie in the “Harry Potter” series.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_HallowsI know the book passed through my hands. I will have to check the library because I don't recognize the plot summaries. -
G.O.P.'s No-Tax Stance Is Outside Political Mainstream
The back-and-forth of the debt limit negotiations can be perplexing. But the facts driving the debate are quite straightforward. Any deal, or any workaround to a deal, will need to be approved by a majority of the House of Representatives. The Rep...The Tea Party and the G.O.P. don't care. They are keeping their word this time. -
Rupert Murdoch Drops British Sky Broadcasting Bid
A family drama played out during the decision by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to withdraw a bid for British Sky Broadcasting.He still owns a third of the company. More than enough for control. -
Girl Power Wins at Google's First Science Fair
If Google’s first science fair is any indication, the top scientists of the future will be women. Google has announced the fair’s winners, and they are all young women.“As a girl, to see that my gender actually is going to come into this field that’s been so dominated by men is exciting to me, and to be a part of that is even more exciting,” Ms. Bose said in an interview.
Why are girls taught this now? The graduate students in marine science were at least half women. I did not count. Many thought they could not ask for help. There must be abuse in the system. I have not seen it. I have seen affirmative action. I have seen many guys looking for girls where there are only a few and they were not to be distracted. -
Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon
The abandonment of the United States’ most prominent plan to capture carbon dioxide from an existing coal-burning power plant hurts efforts to rein in emissions tied to global warming.“We are placing the project on hold until economic and policy conditions create a viable path forward,” said Michael G. Morris.It costs more to bury the carbon dioxide than the company can recover by not emitting it. It will not be done. Clean coal is a dirty joke. -
U.S. Military Uses Biometrics to Identify People
The American military and local authorities are recording identifying information of Iraqis and Afghans.Why bother? Are they going to sort the dead? Suicide bombers self identify quite firmly. Informers don't live long.This reads as though we are going to stay.If that is the case the military has escaped civilian control. That would be a disaster because the military does not understand democracy and does not use it. The prevention of democracy will then very soon become a first order of business.
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Pills Prevent H.I.V. Infection in 2 New Studies
Trials conducted in Africa were the first to show protection in heterosexuals whose partners had H.I.V.I am ambivalent.Death directly and indirectly from the disease just moved from accidental to genocide. -
Spotify Music-Streaming Service Comes to U.S.
Rather than selling individual tracks to be downloaded, Spotify, from Europe, sells subscriptions to vast catalogs of music.Not a winner. I will continue to shop the used bins and bootleg copies from the library. CDs wear very slowly. I do not abuse Youtube. -
Thousands Mourn Boy Killed in Brooklyn
With shock clutching Borough Park, mourners poured into the funeral of a boy who was abducted and killed.The Orthodox do love their heirs.I wish they would learn to share the world. -
Amazon Takes Sales Tax War to California
Amazon has an ambitious and far-reaching new agenda: it wants to rewrite tax policy for the Internet era. Maybe they can get the graduated income tax passed. -
Phys Ed: The Science of Toning Shoes
New scientific experiments can be inspired by a simple question, and in the case of John Mercer, that question was, “So, John, do toning shoes work?”No.This is a negative report. The shoes are fashion accessories without physical benefit. -
The Republican Case for Compromise
The G.O.P. must embrace a budget deal and avoid a default on America’s debt.They will not admit that.Taxes would rise and the government would be empowered.No deal on borrowing and taxing will empower the executive even more. -
Brian Mackey
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Losing Our Way
“Losing Our Way - http://nyti.ms/gLHmIm”We are not lost to us. We are right here.A reasonable future is inaccessible from where we are.Some of us know how to get there. We cannot do it by ourselves.The pain will have to be greater before people can understand over their past faith.I have no interest in pain.Revolution is pain. So is feudalism.Chattel slavery is pain without reward.
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Boy’s Killing Causes Parents to Ponder Worst Nightmare
A Brooklyn death is a reminder that each day, parents try to push away the thought of something bad happening.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masque_of_the_Red_DeathA Poe short story more people should read. -
How a Small Business Can Survive an Immigration Audit
Workers without proper documentation must be terminated, no matter how devastating it might be for a small business.The simple fact of the matter is that Skilled work at low wages is available only to legally working people. In any other labour market than the one we have these businesses would close or raise their prices beyond what their customers will pay. These operations would have to follow their competition off shore or operate as hobbies or close.This process makes the sweatshop unlawful.Audit the tomato business and the chicken farms. -
In Retreat, Murdoch Drops TV Takeover
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced that it was withdrawing a $12 billion bid hours after members of Britain’s Parliament urged him to do so in a rancorous session.
Rupert Murdoch's empire enters liquidation.I really want to see that headline.
This is just a scapegoat. I want him and his ilk destroyed.
Their influence is pernicious.
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