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"Once In A Century" Economic Crisis Afoot [Breaking News]
HidingFromGoro.
Posted to Business on Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 10:56:31 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
So says Alan Greenspan.
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Gov't to take over Fannie & Freddie
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Posted to Business on Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 09:23:33 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac are about to be placed into a conservatorship under direct federal control.
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RIP Don LaFontaine, King of Voiceovers
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Posted to Media on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:17:18 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Don LaFontaine, the "movie trailer voiceover guy" has passed away at age 68 due to complications from a collapsed lung. He'd done work for over five thousand movies.
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Where is Radovan Karadzic?
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Posted to Politics on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:51:10 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
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Viacom wins access to all YouTube user histories.
HidingFromGoro.
Posted to SciTech on Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 08:02:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Based on a court ruling yesterday, Google must turn over all records of every YouTube video ever watched- and the user data and IP's of visitors as well. It also has to turn over copies of any videos taken down for any reason. It seems that when they "take down" a video they don't actually delete it, but rather "hide" it from view (something I didn't know). Here's a PDF of the full decision.
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Time Warner broadband: know your limits.
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Posted to Business on Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 01:56:00 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Time Warner has been talking about moving to a business model of metered broadband with monthly caps, and it starts today, 5 June 08. The choices are either $29.95/month for 768Kbps with a 5GB cap or $54.90/month for 15Mbps with a 40GB cap. Overage charges are $1 per GB on both plans.
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Joe Arpaio Appreciation Station
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Posted to Legal on Sat May 31, 2008 at 07:47:26 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you're lucky enough not to live in AZ like I do, you might not know about Joe Arpaio. He's the Maricopa County Sheriff who signed a promise to serve only one term when he was elected in 1992. He's still the Sheriff. When it comes to drug warriors, this guy doesn't mess around. He's got a self-propelled howitzer with "Sheriff Arpaio's War on Drugs" painted on it, with some tasteful lightning bolts added for effect. He'll kill your dog and burn your house down if you get in his way (while simultaneously crushing your neighbor's car with an armored personnel carrier). He's got that tent jail in the desert, where you have to wear old-timey striped uniforms with pink underwear, eat substandard food, and work on chain gangs but at least he provides rebar for you (pdf) to make it easier for to beat other inmates to half to death. If you don't want to read the pdf, the gist of it he got fined over $600,000 because the rebar had been used as weapons before, and he still chose not to secure them from the inmates. The judge said "...among other things, the Sheriff and his deputies had actual knowledge that prisoners used rebar tent stakes and tent poles as weapons and did nothing to prevent it." Furthermore, "the Sheriff admitted knowing about, and in fact intentionally designing, some conditions at Tent City that created a substantial risk of inmate violence."
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Harvest of Fear: Monsanto Corp.
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Posted to SciTech on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 07:39:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
I first heard of the Monsanto Corporation when I watched the documentary The Future of Food (Google Video link), which talked about its deplorable business practices, including RIAA-like copyright lawsuits over seeds that sometimes result in prison terms (even if pollen from your neighbor's farm spreads genetic material to your plants, you're still liable!) and powerful lobbying efforts to prevent labeling of genetically modified food- which have resulted in serious health problems for people who've inadvertently developed antibiotic resistance as a result of eating such food.
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