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For those who can’t wait until 2012 for Steve Jobs’ authorized biography, another will be here this August–with illustrations to boot.
Publisher Bluewater Productions announced this morning that “Steve Jobs: The co-founder of Apple” will hit store shelves in two months. The comic book biography promises to give readers “unique insight” into Apple CEO’s “legendary drive to the top and his continuing fight to stay there.”
Har!
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is distancing itself from statements made by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher that led to a government spokesman saying the congressman and his delegation are not welcome in the country…
Dana Rohrabacher, the chairman of the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…told reporters during a news conference at the embassy in Baghdad that he suggested Iraq repay some of the cost of the war.
“Once Iraq becomes a very rich and prosperous country … we would hope that some consideration be given to repaying the United States some of the mega-dollars that we have spent here in the last eight years,” said Rohrabacher, according to the Agence France-Presse news agency…
Traveling with Rohrabacher were Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri; Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, a Republican member of Rohrabacher’s subcommittee; Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina; Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas; and Democratic Rep. Jim Costa of California.
Telephone calls to the district and Washington offices of all five congressmen were either not answered or not immediately returned.
Will this be part of the Republican platform in 2012?
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Here’s another example of a ‘well duh’ article that has many, many examples of how lies and deception are used to trick the gullible American public into thinking that we are fighting for noble causes.
Everyone knows that “truth is the first casualty of war”. And one of the most highly decorated American soldiers of all time said that “war is a racket”.
FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power”. Indeed, the former Secretary of Homeland Security – Tom Ridge – admits that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection.
A former National Security Adviser told the Senate that the war on terror is “a mythical historical narrative”. In terms of a possible “why”, remember that psychologists and sociologists have demonstrated that fear of terrorism makes people stupid and easy to manipulate and control.
Makes one wonder about this article and this one.
Some may have thought we would never discover the Titanic, but this is an even more ambitious search. Treasure-hunter Bill Warren, of California, is reportedly launching an underwater search to find the body of former Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. U.S. forces say they buried the former Al Qaeda leader at sea last month from the USS Carl Vinson warship in the North Arabian Sea.
But that is the only detail of the location that has been released. The veteran explorer launched the hunt as he does not believe President Obama gave enough proof of the terrorist’s death. He told TMZ he is using hi-tech equipment and several boats in the search, which he says will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. ‘We do this because we are patriotic Americans and feel that President Obama failed to provide the proof,’ he told TMZ. The excursion team hope to locate and recover Bin Laden’s body before taking pictures and recordings of him and doing a DNA test on the ship.
U.S. officials welcomed visitors last month to view the USS Carl Vinson, which became famous as the dead Al Qaeda leader’s last resting place.
That all-important “one more thing” from Apple’s software presentation is part of the iCloud Web application and storage suite. It was a coup of sorts — and Apple’s win over competitors could be attributed to Jobs’ experience at Pixar Animation Studios, which he co-founded.
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In that interview eight years ago, Jobs described the vast divide between technology and entertainment executives, and he talked about how he bridged it.“One of the things I learned at Pixar is the technology industries and the content industries do not understand each other,” he said. “In Silicon Valley and at most technology companies, I swear that most people still think the creative process is a bunch of guys in their early 30s, sitting on a couch, drinking beer and thinking of jokes. No, they really do. That’s how television is made, they think; that’s how movies are made.”
Likewise, record executives can’t relate to technical people, Jobs said.
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Because technology companies treat record labels like clearing houses for content, Silicon Valley bigwigs have trouble getting through the door, Jobs suggested. So it was perhaps Jobs’ expertise from Pixar, during his exodus period from Apple, that has given him the edge to secure risky deals with entertainment giants first.
He, he, Good luck with the search toots.
And this is how hoarding begins.
A new set of government tests showed that LightSquared’s proposed mobile broadband network disrupted the signal strength to all GPS devices in the test area, dealing another setback to the company’s startup plans..
While all global-positioning system devices tested were affected, the severity of the loss of service varied, said Deane Bunce, co-chair of the National PNT Engineering Forum, a federal advisory group of engineers that oversaw the government tests. Mr. Bunce, speaking at a federal government advisory group hearing Thursday, said some devices lost signal strength while others were knocked out completely. For example, the government tests found that General Motors Co.’s OnStar system saw a “significant degradation of service” on most receivers tested.
The interference concerns of GPS users have become a major problem for LightSquared, a Virginia-based wireless startup.
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LightSquared is funded largely by Harbinger Capital Partners, a hedge fund led by Philip Falcone that has invested almost $3 billion in the proposed network.
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LightSquared officials acknowledge their proposed system could knock out some GPS devices. But they say adding filters to antennas and other technological solutions are possible, such as using just part of their airwaves. “We believe we can deploy in a way where we can co-exist” with GPS users, said Jeffrey Carlisle, LightSquared’s executive vice president of regulatory affairs and public policy Thursday.It’s not clear who would pay for filters or other equipment to keep GPS service free of LightSquared interference. GPS makers and users are likely to balk at having to install or buy new equipment to keep service.
Ya think? Who spends $3 billion to build something you know is faulty? Other than Congress on jobs progra… er, military procurement, of course.
Edit: In my above comment, I was referring to Congress spending money on military systems the Pentagon didn’t want just to keep their voting constituents’ jobs safe. –UD
Remember the good old days when you were taught the police were your friends? Now there are countless stories of cops who harass, taze, beat and shoot unarmed people. And politicians enact laws to punish those who dare to record cops doing it. Yes, it’s a dangerous job and there are predators, but this is all getting out of control. Here’s a case where most likely ticketing quotas, another blight, are to blame.
The police may not be ticketing for smoking in the parks, but they are still ticketing parker visitors for crimes like…eating a doughnut in a playground. Yup, this weekend the police gave two young women in Bed-Stuy summonses for eating doughnuts in a playground while unaccompanied by a minor.
Tickets for being an adult in or around a playground have been popping up fairly frequently lately—see the Inwood chess players—but instead of giving the offending citizens a warning and urging them to leave, the NYPD’s M.O. appears to be to hand out a ticket.
And remember when playgrounds were places to play and all you had to worry about was scraping your knee?
Well, this is all extremely ironic. Here’s a speech that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg gave yesterday to 8th graders graduating from the Belle Haven Community School in Menlo Park, California, the same city where Facebook’s giant new headquarters will be located.
Zuckerberg, who showed up in his standard uniform of t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, stressed to the kids that “there’s no shortcuts” to success. (Grammar shortcuts are okay, apparently.) Then he went on to say that it’s important to pick a career you really love and that “great friendships” make life “fun and meaningful.” We’re pretty sure dropping out of college and screwing over the friend you started your company with contradict two of the three principles, but, hey, at least he didn’t butcher a cow in front of them. [via TechCrunch]
Sorry, even I couldn’t listen to this crap. And I still don’t have a Facebook account.
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Health officials say flying debris from the tornado that tore through Joplin, Missouri, last month is to blame for an outbreak of a rare but serious — and in some cases deadly — fungal infection among some of the more than 900 people injured in the disaster.
Soil or plant matter on debris that penetrated the skin of some of the people who survived the twister is believed to have caused them to contract an infection called zygomycosis, said Uwe Schmidt, an infectious diseases physician at Freeman Health System in Joplin.
Schmidt said he knows of at least nine patients who have had the infection in the weeks since the disaster. Three or four of them died and he said zygomycosis was a factor, if not the actual cause…
He said he had previously only seen two cases of zygomycosis in his career…
Symptoms of pain, swelling and skin discoloration typically showed up about five to 10 days after the tornado, Kendra Williams, epidemiologist, said. But depending on a person’s age, health and wounds suffered, some cases could still surface, Schmidt said. The infection can spread rapidly and invades the blood supply, he said.
Treatment is with intravenous anti-fungal mediation and removal of damaged skin tissue, Schmidt said. Mold can be seen in some of the wounds, he said.
Cripes. These folks can’t win for losing.
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