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This is an op-ed Warrenn Buffett wrote today for the New York Times. He talked about something few are discussing: how is the US going to pay for the debt and if it is OK to have this amount of it.
This fiscal year, the deficit will rise to about 13 percent of G.D.P., more than twice the non-wartime record. In dollars, that equates to a staggering $1.8 trillion. Fiscally, we are in uncharted territory.
Assume, in a relatively benign scenario, that all of this is directed by the recipients — China leads the list — to purchases of United States debt. Never mind that this all-Treasuries allocation is no sure thing: some countries may decide that purchasing American stocks, real estate or entire companies makes more sense than soaking up dollar-denominated bonds.
He also gets right on when he says gov’t uses inflation to tax people:
Legislators will correctly perceive that either raising taxes or cutting expenditures will threaten their re-election. To avoid this fate, they can opt for high rates of inflation, which never require a recorded vote and cannot be attributed to a specific action that any elected official takes.
What do you guys think about government intervention on the economy and Obama/Bush policies on it?
- MySpace buys iLike.
- iPhones exploding in Europe. Could it be the EU version?
- Liskula Cohen gets to the bottom of the skankanator.
- MSFT partners complaining about attack on Word.
- Linux support to get to $1 billion.
- Fake DNA evidence can be done.
- Apple 9-9-9 announcement sounds like it is Beatles-related.
- EU dropping 18 million Euros for LTE advanced.
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A female runner accused of being a man tonight took gold in the 800m World Athletics Championship. South African Caster Semenya, 18, had to take a gender test after doubts were raised about her sex.
Today officials at the world athletics body, the IAAF, revealed that it ordered her to take a gender test three weeks ago.
What is the difficulty in knowing what gender you are? I know they won’t do it but the “old way” of checking could work.
Look at her coach’s opinion:
Michael Seme [her coach] told South Africa’s News24 website: ‘We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man. It’s a natural reaction and it’s only human to be curious.
Hey thanks a lot for the compliments, coach.
Conservatives have strenuously denied that there is any anti-Semitism on display by anti-health reform protesters at town hall meetings nationwide — despite all the evidence to the contrary. Last week, Las Vegas radio station KDWN AM720 sponsored a “contentious” town hall, emceed by conservative morning show host Heidi Harris. At the event, local news stations were interviewing an Israeli man who was praising the “fantastic” “national health care” in Israel. During his remarks, a woman yelled out, “Heil Hitler!”
Thanks Mister Justin.
Stan Romanek is said to have had the most scientifically documented human/extraterrestrial encounters case in the world.
Romanek’s encounters date back to December 27, 2000. He has had over 100 individual experiences.
Romanek has, in the past, produced photographs of marks on his body, purportedly inflicted by aliens during abduction. He has also released photographs of burn marks in his yard and of a UFO leaving Earth.
He has also produced strange equations and predictions, the authenticity of which have caused considerable controversy.
In 2003, while living in Nebraska, Romanek set up a video camera to catch, what he suspected, was a peeping tom. The resulting video allegedly shows the head of an extraterrestrial looking through the house window.
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There are Christian camps, Jewish camps and now there’s a camp for those who question religion. Local atheists and other non-believers are organizing the first camp of its kind for kids in Texas.
Five year old Joseph Parsons is enjoying some time alone at Cathy’s Critters Farm in Collin County. But in less than two weeks, his mother hopes Joseph will be surrounded by kids just like him.
“It’s an opportunity for kids who otherwise get ostracized at school,” said Amie Parsons.
Amie is organizing Camp Quest Texas. It’s camp for children and their parents who are atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers and other non-religious followers.
“It’s just a camp, for kids, who want to have a camp experience without having the religious dogma placed upon them,” she said.
The one-day event will be held August 30, at Cathy Critters in Princeton. And while it will offer many of the same activities that most camps provide, there will also be a strong focus on science.
Talking Points Memo – August 17, 2009:
On today’s “Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan” on MSNBC, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that even if the
committee’s final version of a health insurance reform bill gives him everything he says he wants, he will vote against it.
When NBC’s Chuck Todd, in a follow-up question on the show, asked the Iowa Republican if he’d vote against what Grassley might consider to be a “good deal” — i.e., gets everything he asks for from Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D) — Grassley replied, “It isn’t a good deal if I can’t sell my product to more Republicans.”
In short, Grassley says he’s willing to walk away from legislation in which he gets everything he wants. Over to you, Max Baucus…
Why won’t our politicians lead nowadays? Is it really that hard to explain to your constituents why unpopular legislation should be passed? It seems that everyone’s afraid to stick their necks out on anything.
- Google Chrome to sync bookmarks in the cloud.
- Free Win 7 still available but for only two more days!
- Playstation 3 price drops $100.
- 130 million credit card thief was a government informer!
- Life on the comet.
- Apple not bringing out tablet this year.
- Apple still best in customer satisfaction.
- Microsoft hit with two more patent suits.
- Facebook sued over privacy.
- White House is a spammer.
- Time magazine asks you how will you go online when you are dead. Huh?
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Sony on Tuesday finally took the wraps off the much-rumored PS3 Slim and gave it the more affordable $299 price tag consumers have been clamoring for.
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai performed the unveiling at a press conference in Cologne, Germany, preceding the opening of the Gamescom Expo. He took the stage and announced the PS3 was “getting a new model” and that, indeed, it was called the PS3 Slim.
The PS3 Slim is powered by a new 45nm version of the Cell processor, which runs at the same speed as the 60nm processor in the “old” PS3 but is smaller and more energy efficient. According to company reps, power consumption for the Slim has also been cut to two-thirds, “helping to reduce fan noise,” which is important.
Security expert Robert Siciliano does an interview with Fox News where he just makes up stuff about cookies being able to track all your online behavior. By the way, he calls himself an “identity theft expert”. Best quotes:
“These types of cookies, they actually track the computer user’s behaviours, what they like, what they dislike, what they buy, websites they visit. These types of cookies can record usernames and passwords […].”
“Cookies’ closest cousin is spyware. Cookies aren’t spyware, but they are very close.”
Cookies don’t do any of that. They can just store a small piece of text in your browser that identifies you when you are on that website. It serves for remembering passwords and stuff like that, and it certaintly can’t spy on you.
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SAN FRANCISCO — August 18, 2009 – Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, released the first-ever Meraki Wireless Census today, and the results reveal bold increases in the number of wireless-capable devices in use in North America, and even larger increases in the number of Apple devices and handhelds being used. The census compared activity seen by a single set of randomly selected Meraki wireless access points in North America in 2008 and 2009 in order to understand macro-level traffic and end-user device trends.
I have seven handheld devices that can access the Internet in my house… two smart phones, 2 Nintendo DS and one DSi, Sony PSP and an iPod Touch.
Baffled religious leaders in India have been swamped by a bizarre new transvestite cult for men to live as a Hindu love god.
Thousands of devotees are now dressing up as Radha – the goddess lover of Krishna – like retired railwayman V K Saxena, 72.
“I can’t put it into words properly but I feel more holy dressed as a woman,” said Saxena of New Delhi. “The Lord told me he wanted me as his bride.”
But the cult has astonished traditional religious leaders.
Senior priest Mohammad Ahangar said: “There are many ways to be closer to the Lord without trying to be his girlfriend.”
Yesterday news broke that the White House has sent millions of unsolicited email messages in the last couple of days.
After insisting no one was receiving unsolicited e-mails from the White House, officials reversed their story Monday night and blamed outside political groups for the unwanted messages from the tech-savvy operation.
Look at what the WH online director said:
“It has come to our attention that some people may have been subscribed to our e-mail lists without their knowledge — likely as a result of efforts by outside groups of all political stripes — and we regret any inconvenience caused by receiving an unexpected message,” Phillips wrote.
“We’re certainly not interested in anyone receiving e-mails from the White House who don’t want them. That’s one reason why we have never — and will never — add names from a commercial or political list to the White House list,” he wrote.
Unfortunately, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 “does not require e-mailers to get permission before they send marketing messages”. On the other hand, it requires that the emails give recipients an opt-out method. If anyone here received the spam emails, tell us in the comments if they had a link to opt-out..
I realize that spam is not a huge problem, but the recent White House spam-fest just seems, in their own words, “fishy”. If the current bill Health Care was good, they wouldn’t need to convince the public or the so-called blue dog democrats of anything.
Shame on you, Obama. We all hoped for lower taxes, no giving money to banks, more freedom and liberty, less wars. That’s certainly not what’s happening.
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