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Can Yahoo Be Rescued? - Room for Debate
No foundering Internet giant has ever recovered. Will Yahoo go the way of AOL and MySpace?http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/as-yahoo-bleeds-purple-a-push-for-a-deal/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/carol_bartz/index.html?inline=nyt-perCarol A. Bartz was the business mind at Autodesk.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/autodesk_inc/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=autodesk&st=cseShe made the same discovery Steve Jobs did.A virtual device is its interface.She made that discovery late.Microsoft owned the operating system and IBM had opened the hardware market.Her software designers built in C on DOS for the PC.So did Google. So did Yahoo. So did AOL. So did Bing. So did others.When Yahoo bought her the copyright protected revenue she created at Autodesk could not be built at Yahoo. Google owns the search space.The Yahoo board wants to cash out.Dumb money will buy the company.The company will not grow until it learns to do a better job than Google.They are in the same business. -
Yiannis P.
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Who’s the Dog Hero of the Raid on Bin Laden?
“Who’s the Dog Hero of the Raid on Bin Laden? - http://nyti.ms/jAzLjF”http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/04/war_dogPhoto essay.More:(http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/12/war_dog_ii)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_animalshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_animals#Dogshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_dogshttp://www.gsdca.org/Probably this one:http://www.malinoisclub.com/abmc/
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China's Health Costs Outstrip G.D.P. Growth - Room for Debate
The seemingly universal health coverage in China actually disguises the still extremely low level of benefit that most people receive.Being the low cost source for manufactured goods in the world market will do that. GDP goes way up. Wages stay low. New ways to be poisoned keep turning up. Doctors are underpaid. Money will get attention. -
SLL
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Who’s the Dog Hero of the Raid on Bin Laden?
“Who’s the Dog Hero of the Raid on Bin Laden? - http://nyti.ms/jAzLjF”http://www.malinoisclub.com/abmc/
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Yahoo Can Learn From Apple - Room for Debate
It is not too late for a faltering Yahoo to reverse its decline, provided that it is led by a committed leader (preferably a founder).Yahoo must make it's users comfortable, more comfortable than Google can. -
We're Paying for Convenience - Room for Debate
Devices like iPods create a commitment to acquire content, so the devices are used.Yes. -
The Lost Secret of Running
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/running-christopher-mcdougall.html
The shot is on governor's Island. As the caption says.
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The Lost Secret of Running
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/running-christopher-mcdougall.html
About time the got it written.
There is not much more there. He has some supporting evidence and some running stories.
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Can Yahoo Be Rescued? - Room for Debate
No foundering Internet giant has ever recovered. Will Yahoo go the way of AOL and MySpace?Yahoo is competing with Google and doing it badly.The advertisers will suffer much for attention.Attention is the one thing I will not spare them. -
Schigolch
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Al Jazeera Finds New Paths In U.S.
New ways to watch Al Jazeera English in the United States keep popping up — but not on cable or satellite systems.Faux news would complain bitterly.There is a Christian broadcaster who shares the frequency with my favorite WNYC AM. When WNYC moved to that frequency about twenty years ago they also moved to a twenty four hour schedule.They were on a dawn to dusk schedule. The Christians began to complain that they were interfered with and forced a power cut after dark. The station became inaudible at forty miles. Things have become a bit more rational in the last few years. I expect AL Jazeera has a similar problem.It is very hard to find truth on the air.Mostly I have to figure it out.No one wants to speak against their cause.
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China's Health Costs Outstrip G.D.P. Growth - Room for Debate
The seemingly universal health coverage in China actually disguises the still extremely low level of benefit that most people receive.And this is wrong?Good doctoring is really hard because the people who want to tell you how also want to sell you how.Omniscience is for gods. I know of none.Health care is a market as is education. Supply is limited. Demand is high. High prices limit demand and please suppliers. -
Richard Luettgen
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Germany vs. Europe
Everything comes around again. You show distress at a Germany hesitant to contribute to shared prosperity; forced, kicking and screaming, into salvaging a currency regime that they were by far the strongest in muscling others to accept, even with its absurd embedded assumptions of a Euro-sameness sufficient to sustain a common market and currency, with no common language, common culture or even commonly held political tenets. But I'm a lot more concerned about resurgent German nationalism: last time it reared its head a funny little WWI corporal led them to a scorching of the world. Forget Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain (the PIGS); if I were France I'd start thinking how the Maginot Line might be made to work finally in the Twenty-First Century.Just not the case.This seventeen month old editorial missed the point then and is not improved by passing months.Let me parse the assumptions. Most of them have been dealt with over the last few years.Everything comes around again. ( No, it only rhymes.) You show distress at a Germany hesitant to contribute to shared prosperity(There have been no requests for handouts.); forced, kicking and screaming, into salvaging a currency regime ( There has been no rescue as yet. )that they were by far the strongest in muscling others to accept( There was no force. ), even with its absurd embedded assumptions of a Euro-sameness sufficient to sustain a common market and currency, with no common language, common culture or even commonly held political tenets( There is just a treaty of currency union and balanced budgeting that allowed short term debt. ). But I'm a lot more concerned about resurgent German nationalism: last time it reared its head a funny little WWI corporal led them to a scorching of the world. Forget Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain (the PIGS); if I were France I'd start thinking how the Maginot Line might be made to work finally in the Twenty-First Century. ( The Prussians are not arming. This is a solvency crisis. )This is just a troll.
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We're Paying for Convenience - Room for Debate
Devices like iPods create a commitment to acquire content, so the devices are used.They do insist on branded content. Use a different device.The public libraries are wonderful. -
Mike
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Does IMF Stand for Impressive Macroeconomic Flexibility?
So the IMF is holding a meeting on rethinking macroeconomic policy (I was invited but couldn’t make the timing work.) And the Fund’s chief economist has already made it clear that he’s open to some serious revision of the prevailing paradigm.Greek politics are Byzantine. They are Greek to me.It looks as though the Parliament has decided to continue to borrow and impose more austerity.There will be more street fighting soon.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/world/europe/greek-vote-european-debt.html?hp"But the vote did not resolve the continuing political drama in Greece, including what will be the composition of the next government. Amid growing social unrest in a country whose economy has been decimated by the debt crisis and austerity measures, a new government will have the difficult task of getting formal approval of the debt deal and carrying out the structural changes to which Greece has already pledged itself, including dismissing government workers."
That is about what we know.
http://www.zerohedge.com/CME Goes To Collateral DefCon 1: Makes Maintenance Margin Equal To Initial For... Everything!?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/04/2011 - 21:20 Greece Lehman MF Global The most important news announcement of the day was not anything to came out of Cannes (as nothing did), nor from Greece (the merry go round farce there continues unabated). No, it was a brief paragraph distributed by the CME long after everyone had gone home, and was already on their 3rd drink. It is critical, because not only is this announcement a direct consequence of what happened with MF Global several days ago, but because also it confirms one of our biggest concerns: systemic liquidity is non-existanet. We confirmed interbank liquidity in Europe was at an all time low earlier today, and can only assume the same is true for US banks. But what is very disturbing is that this is just as true at the exchange level, where it appears the aftermath of the MF collapse is just now being felt. What exactly was the announcement. Unless we are completely reading it incorrectly, it is nothing short of a margin call for tens if not hundreds of billions worth of product. Because as of close of business on November 4, today, the CME just made the maintenance margin, traditionally about 26% lower than the initial margin for specs, equal. For everything. Which means that by close of business Monday, millions of options and futures holders will be forced to deposit billions in additional capital to the CME just so they are not found to be margin deficient, and thus receive a margin call. Naturally, since it is very unlikely that this incremental amount of liquidity can be easily procured in one business day, we anticipate the issuance of hundreds of thousands of margin calls Monday, followed by forced liquidations of margin accounts across America... and the world. Just like when Lehman blew up, it took 5 days for Money Markets to break. Is this unprecedented elimination in the distinction between initial and maintenance margin the post-MF equivalent of the first domino to fall this time around?
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Jay Diamond
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Al Jazeera Finds New Paths In U.S.
New ways to watch Al Jazeera English in the United States keep popping up — but not on cable or satellite systems.This different view is no more true than any other.http://english.aljazeera.net/http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/11/201111385551748556.htmlhttp://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011113113115708162.html
They really are kind of rabid.
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Al Jazeera Finds New Paths In U.S.
New ways to watch Al Jazeera English in the United States keep popping up — but not on cable or satellite systems.Go and read. More entertaining than Faux.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/11/201111419113116724.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/11/201111191022862285.html
Iran does not lead.
http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/occupy-oakland
This does not look good. I hope yours are well clear.
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