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Most Siemens Software Jobs Moving East |
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| Topic: Tech Industry |
9:22 am EST, Feb 17, 2004 |
Siemens will move most of the 15,000 software programming jobs from its offices in the United States and Western Europe to India, China and Eastern Europe. Most Siemens Software Jobs Moving East |
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The Coming Generational Storm |
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| Topic: Economics |
9:52 pm EST, Feb 16, 2004 |
In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, walkers will outnumber strollers; there will be twice as many retirees as there are today but only 18 percent more workers. How will America handle this demographic overload? How will Social Security and Medicare function with fewer working taxpayers to support these programs? ... we'll see skyrocketing tax rates, drastically lower retirement and health benefits, high inflation, a rapidly depreciating dollar, unemployment, and political instability. But don't panic. Raise your little finger to your lips and repeat after me: "$44 Trillion Dollars" Now follow this link, and click on the "endorsements" link, and look at the credentials of the people listed there. Recognize any names? "It is the dawning of the age of aquarius, the age of aquarius... aquarius!!!" The Coming Generational Storm |
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A Samurai Fighter, Clad in Jeans, Takes On Putin |
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| Topic: Society |
12:55 pm EST, Feb 15, 2004 |
A female Samurai who dresses only in black and admires Hillary Clinton is running for president in Russia next month. A Samurai Fighter, Clad in Jeans, Takes On Putin |
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Mr. Bush's Version (of History? of the Present? of Reality?) |
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10:49 pm EST, Feb 9, 2004 |
JLM says: Freedom of the press in action. The word 'skewer' comes to mind. Looking back, this interview will be seen as a turning point. I say: This oped is sharp. Mr. Bush's Version (of History? of the Present? of Reality?) |
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Safer Option for Civil Rights |
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12:36 pm EST, Feb 2, 2004 |
] Congress is considering a good bipartisan compromise
] known as the SAFE Act (short for Safety and Freedom
] Ensured) that was introduced last fall by Sens. Richard
] Durbin (D-Ill.) and Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho). The
] measure, S1709, would add judicial oversight to rein in
] the FBI's overly free hand.
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] The bill also extends the Patriot Act's sunset
] provisions, for example requiring periodic
] reconsideration of circumstances in which agents can read
] someone's e-mail or peruse their credit card purchases.
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] In a letter last week, Ashcroft preposterously asserted
] that the SAFE Act would "make it more difficult" to stop
] terrorists "than before the Patriot Act," and said he'd
] recommend that Bush veto it. Lawmakers should ignore this
] bluster as they take modest steps to protect civil
] liberties while continuing to fight terror. Ashcroft appears to be seriously opposed to even a moderate approach to the Patriot Act. Safer Option for Civil Rights |
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One-Third of Iranian Parliament Quits in Protest |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
12:29 pm EST, Feb 2, 2004 |
More than one-third of Iran's Parliament resigned Sunday to protest a sweeping ban on candidates running in the parliamentary election later this month. The defiant move threatened to plunge Iran's political system into chaos. "We cannot continue to be present in a Parliament that is not capable of defending the rights of the people and that is unable to prevent elections in which the people cannot choose their representatives." The brother of Iran's reformist president was among those who resigned. He said, "This is the end of the reform movement." One-Third of Iranian Parliament Quits in Protest |
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Education Is No Protection |
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12:58 pm EST, Feb 1, 2004 |
"These companies understand very clearly that this is a very painful process for their employees and for American jobs in the short term. But they also recognize that if they don't do this, they will lose more jobs in the future and they won't have an ability to grow in the future." "Companies can still form in Silicon Valley and be competitive around the world. It's just that they are not going to create jobs in Silicon Valley." ... an entire generation of lowered expectations ... This author doesn't understand why we are ignoring the problem. If you look two articles back in my MemeStream to "Creative Class War" you'll get the why to go along with this article's what. Education Is No Protection |
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12:55 pm EST, Feb 1, 2004 |
The antiglobalization protesters almost shut Davos down the last two years. This year, they were nowhere. Elephants Can't Fly |
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George Soros, Bubble Book Boy |
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6:36 pm EST, Jan 25, 2004 |
On January 12, George Soros, investor and philanthropist, launched his new book, The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, with a speech and discussion at the Carnegie Endowment. Soros: "I have never been involved in party politics but I am deeply disturbed by the direction America has taken under President Bush. It is not a matter of party politics or personal animosity against President Bush. I consider it crucial that the policies of the Bush administration be rejected in the forthcoming elections. Let me explain why." "2004 is not an ordinary election; it is a referendum on the Bush doctrine. The future of the world hangs in the balance. That is the other point that I want to make; it is not enough to defeat President Bush. We must also develop and adopt a more constructive vision." You can read a transcript of the speech, or you can download an MP3 of the introduction, speech, and discussion. George Soros, Bubble Book Boy |
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Restoring a Red Rover's Spirit |
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2:21 pm EST, Jan 25, 2004 |
The computer on Spirit started crashing on Wednesday, and the problem has been traced to part of the computer memory, said Mr. Theisinger, the project manager. It will still take some time for the problem to be fully diagnosed and for the engineers to devise procedures to work around it. "I think we're probably like three weeks away from driving," Mr. Theisinger said. The troubles began Wednesday, as controllers were testing one of the instruments. Spirit's computer crashed, and over the next two days, a cycle of rebooting and crashing repeated more than 60 times. The rover also did not shut down at night. Suspecting that the problem might be with the flash memory, flight controllers radioed instructions for Spirit to start up in what Mr. Theisinger called the cripple mode, using only the RAM and not the flash memory. For the first time since Wednesday, the rover's software did not crash. This is the first clear explanation I've read of the problems with Spirit. Restoring a Red Rover's Spirit |
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