It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!
One of the websites in question: "On Wednesday night, June 25, Blogger received reports that my blog was a spam blog. Blogger then blocked my ability to create new posts until they completed their review. The blocking of my blog, coincided with the blocking of at least 6 other blogs, all part of the Just Say No Deal Coalition."
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista. Once computers loaded with XP have been cleared (Snip) consumers who can't live without the old operating system on their new machine will have to buy Vista Ultimate or Vista Business and then legally "downgrade" to XP.
Lawrence Roberts is just another guy with the title:" Inventor of the Internet" in news articles. According to Wikipedia, he's the father of networking through data packets. And he's turned his attention to everyone's favorite data packet topic: Peer-to-Peer filesharing. He's established a company called Anagran, and says their devices can sort out which file transfers on the tubes are P2P, and -- you guessed it -- can throttle them in favor of other, more "high-priority" traffic.
Graffiti-style malt liquor ads are drawing fire from parents and anti-blight advocates in a city known for its colorful murals. The ads for Colt 45 malt liquor show comic book-style characters clutching bottles and cans of booze. ''Works every time,'' reads the slogan...A spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter said he would look into the matter. One of the Colt 45 ads is painted on a building next to a bicycle shop in the working-class neighborhood of Fishtown, a gentrifying area that still has many struggling families.
"If you want to live the never ending dream and experience the real love, life and the romance you have always felt was a fairytale then this is the vibrant outstanding woman of your dreams! To sweep this European Loving Lady off her feet send in your application right now."
Uh...no. Any woman that hot who has a problem finding a man has got to have 'issues.' I'll pass. -Riley
I’ve contemplated Barack Obama’s plan to reform Social Security for long enough. I have only one question: why does Barack Obama hate me just because I’m young?
Obama’s plan to address the coming Social Security funding gap does not call for reducing benefits or changing the retirement age. Rather, he proposes to eliminate the cap on taxable social security wages for people earning more than $250,000. Obama would also eliminate income taxes for any retiree making less than $50,000 per year.
For the next four months we’re going to be inundated with Republicans calling this a “soak the rich” plan. Democrats will accuse Republicans of defending “CEOs cashing out while workers lose their pensions.” But what you won’t hear is anything about how the baby boomer generation is about to march off into retirement ill-prepared and unwilling to make any sacrifices. The selfishness which has defined a generation will follow them to their graves.
Have you ever thought rush hour on the 405 Freeway might be more bearable if you could check your e-mail, shop for a book on Amazon, place some bids on EBay and maybe even, if nobody is looking, download a little porn? Then perhaps you should be driving a Chrysler.
Surfing the web? Checking out porn on the highway? I have a great idea- how about driving the car?
Are you aware that without speculators, most food and physical products would cost a whole lot more? Many members of Congress have been looking for the villain who is causing gasoline prices to soar (they seem to be mirror-less). A large number, mostly, but not exclusively, Democrats, have decided that speculators, or at least "greedy speculators," are the villains.
In an unprecedented move, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has committed to providing support services for its soon to be retired Windows XP through 2014 -- a full 13 years after the operating system was originally released.
In a letter sent to customers this week, Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte said the software maker will provide security patches "and other critical updates" for Windows XP until April, 2014.
A new state law zeroes in on out-of-state online retailers who pay a small sales commission to New York-based Web sites hosting online ads. Under AB 9807, a mere Internet ad banner placed on a New York-based site triggers tax collection obligations under the new law.
Needless to say, this new sales tax law has glaring constitutional problems. States are barred from placing undue burdens on interstate commerce.
The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday.
Testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Michael Masters of Masters Capital Management said that the price of oil would quickly drop closer to its marginal cost of around $65 to $75 a barrel, about half the current $135.
For good reason, the wireless phone industry is ranked as one of the worst in the U.S. for customer satisfaction. Technical support calls can take hours with endless transfers from one customer rep to another. Then there's the endless pile of service activation and cancellation fees.
The leading Gulf firm in the United Arab Emirates whose plans to operate six U.S. ports was last year rebuffed by Congress, has been certified as a partner in a U.S. port security program.
Stevens believes the German defense industry needs to receive more business in order to fund investments in things even as mundane as computers or software since their technological equipment is at least one generation behind the global standards.
"Many of the companies that we work with in Germany are in danger," the Lockheed CEO explained.
Schwarzenegger said Wednesday he opposes lifting a ban on new oil drilling in coastal waters, breaking with President Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
He called California's coastline "an international treasure" that must be protected by a federal oil-drilling moratorium that has been in place for 27 years.
When Iowa flooded, your future dinner got soaked. Console yourself with a snack of schadenfreude. Experts say the soggy state could produce less than two-thirds the usual corn harvest. Wet weather kept some 4 million cornfield acres, out of 86 million total, unplanted. Now, floods have killed many already-sprouted stalks.
One was an oilman from Texas, the other a high-paid energy executive. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, for seven years George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have been unable to persuade Congress and the public that domestic oil drilling is an answer to America’s energy needs. With the clock running down on his presidency, Mr. Bush made one last push
Not only was it brief - lasting little more than ten minutes - but it was rapidly obvious to Sarah that Bushra was not the person for the junior stylist position she was trying to fill at her hairdressing salon.
Sarah's reasoning? Quite simply that Bushra, a Muslim who wears a headscarf for (religious) reasons, had made it clear she would not be removing the garment even while at work.
First it was Maxine Waters threatening to "take over" the oil industry...now another Democrat, Maurice Hinchey, NY, steps forward declaring his desire to see the government take over the nation's refineries. Hugo Chavez must be proud...
President Bush, reversing a longstanding position, will call on Congress on Wednesday to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, according to White House officials who say Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur.
Dodd (D-Conn.), along with Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), spent much of Tuesday afternoon answering questions from a swarm of reporters pressing them on why they received lower rates on their mortgages and whether they think they received special treatment because they are Senate committee chairmen.
Dave Roberts basically parlayed one famous stolen base for the Red Sox in the 2004 American League Championship Series (helping spur the club's memorable comeback against the Yankees) into lucrative free agent money. He's averaged a so-so .275 BA and 75 runs per season for the Padres and Giants ever since, breaking the 115 game mark (of a possible 162) just once.
Stan Sheyn, a white student who attends community college in this working-class Detroit suburb, supports Barack Obama for president. But he has no time for what he calls "double standards and propagation of victim mentality."
"The fact that a black man can run for the position of the President of the United States of America only corroborates that there is enough opportunity and equality for great things like that to happen," he says. "And that there is no need to create special advantages for any demographic group."
A&W™ restaurants is treating Americans to a sweet deal on Monday, June 16 – a free root beer float and no purchase is necessary.
With gas prices at all time highs, 30 percent higher than a year ago, and grocery food prices increasing by double digits, A&W thought it was high time to provide Americans some sweet relief.
"We want to give people a great start to their summer and a little economic relief by treating America to one of their favorite sweets, the A&W Root Beer Float," said Ben Butler, President, A&W Restaurants. The free A&W Root Beer Float treat will be available at the national restaurant's nearly 700 stores.
Why does anyone still think that the US economy is in recession?
A week ago, this belief acquired a host of new adherents when Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank President, more or less promised to raise eurozone interest rates on July 3, while US statisticians reported a jump in the unemployment rate from 5 to 5.5 per cent. Financial markets duly bid up the euro and dumped the dollar. This currency move triggered the biggest one-day leap in oil prices on record. This price surge, in turn, confirmed that recent movements in the oil price, which have had a 97percent daily correlation with the dollar-euro exchange rate, have been driven almost entirely by financial players and have had very little to do with energy supply and demand.
With a strong cast, plot and action, The Incredible Hulk is another resounding Marvel Studios success. There is not much to mine here—a scientist is poisoned in an experiment and he's triggered by anger to become a raging green hunk of muscle—but what's there to be made is simple and well done.
The iconic Chrysler and Flatiron skycrapers may soon join New York's GM Building as landmarks sold in part to Arab or European investors as the weak dollar spurs property grabs in the Big Apple, reports said Friday.
The 50-story General Motors Building, constructed in 1968 and which includes the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, has already been sold -- for a record-breaking 2.8 billion dollars -- to US real estate firm Boston Properties, backed by investors from Dubai, Kuwait and Qatar
Exxon Mobil is selling its gas stations because there's no money in it. Meanwhile, two GOP congressmen do what John McCain should do — change their position on drilling in ANWR. Despite the pain at the pump for consumers, the retail side of the gasoline business isn't that profitable, if at all. Gas station owners have known this all along.
This escalating rhetoric against speculators is starting to worry people with years of knowledge about how commodity markets work. Because without speculators, they note, these markets simply do not work at all.
Speculators, people willing to risk their capital in search of high profits, are so central to healthy commodity markets, they say, that the broad-brush restrictions now being considered could inadvertently damage a market that is already under pressure from rising global demand for food and fuel.
Researchers at Duke University are hoping to develop methods to reversibly turn off harmful or unwanted genes in bacteria. If they succeed, gene silencing could be used to treat persistent infections by turning off antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria and in environmental and industrial applications, including water filtration. The technique could also make it possible to engineer bacteria to more efficiently make biofuels and other industrial products.
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