Monthly Archives: September 2008

Did you notice the financial world crumbling yesterday?

I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t. It’s very easy and common to have a disconnect from the happenings in the world anymore. So even when we may have been witnessing the biggest financial catastrophe (or the greatest financial bet) … Continue reading

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Another new super computer.

I found this today in my RSS reader: http://eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210602671 Most of the article is probably gibberish to anyone who’s reading this but there are two important points. One is the idea of separating applications from the server. The other is … Continue reading

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Which side should he pander to?

It appears John McCain really can’t decide whether he wants to pander to hardcore conservatives or moderates and liberals. He has spent the last week blasting the system that allowed the market to become deregulated to the point that we … Continue reading

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Republicans don’t want poor people to vote?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/17/uselections2008.democrats My headline isn’t as one sided as it sounds. Apparently Republicans are using the foreclosure crisis to stop people from voting. If someone has been foreclosed on they want said person’s address placed on a list at the voting … Continue reading

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The economy under Obama.

Today Obama gave a speech on the economy. The whole speech (38 minutes) is on YouTube. He basically lays out the actions he would take to straighten out the problems we’re having while simultaneously pointing out the fact that McCain … Continue reading

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Why do you care if big banks go under?

Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy today. Check it out: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200809151141DOWJONESDJONLINE000528_FORTUNE5.htm They’re a big bank with a lot of investments in real estate. They’ve gone under because of the housing crisis. Big deal, right? A bunch of rich people lost … Continue reading

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McCain’s healthcare “plan”.

I was watching the News and a McCain supporter talked about how McCain’s plan offered greater portability and the Obama supporter that was on said that was completely false. I checked it since I didn’t think it was true either … Continue reading

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Palin, an incoherent, babbling fool.

I was trying to avoid watching Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin as it would only make her that much more prominent on YouTube but this thing is absurd. Seriously. I’m thoroughly confused about where she stands on every issue … Continue reading

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LHC spin off?

That thing I was talking about the other day, the Large Hadron Collider, may have its own spin-off technology. The amount of information created and collected by this machine is up in the petrabyte level (millions of gigabytes). There was … Continue reading

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Lies are awesome.

So far this election year hasn’t been too bad on the stretch-the-truth meter. I’ve been following it closely since the beginning of the primaries and, while there have been some out of context statements, pretty much every inaccurate claim has … Continue reading

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