Rather funny.. :) All of this is accurate. The "isn't kind of like boxing with your computer" line is perfect. He is, um, just a bit too stressed out though....

Crash Different

] SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
] Greenspan said on Saturday that policymakers have been
] proven correct in their decision not to try to prick a
] 1990s stock-market bubble that subsequently broke on its
] own.
] "There appears to be enough evidence, at least
] tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing
] the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself
] has been successful," Greenspan told the annual meeting
] of the American Economic Association in San Diego, Calif.

Greenspan Defends Fed Stock Bubble Policy

I've had my motherboard replaced twice due to this issue. I bought AppleCare, so they have to replace it. I am amazed to hear that they are not handling this under the standard warranty. Thats fucked. This problem is most certainly real and Apple is seriously underestimating the Internet if they think they can ignore it. If you are looking at a new Apple I would highly suggest you factor the full cost of Applecare with screen coverage into the price when you consider the costs.

Apple iBook Logic Board (motherboard) problems: Flickering screen? You're not the only one.

On May 4th, the Gumball 3000 will rally in Europe.
The event follows a 3000 mile route that begins in romantic Paris
(France), and travels south via Biarritz (France) and the Pyrenees
mountain range to Madrid (Spain) (see David Beckham), en route
to Marbella’s Golden Mile (Spain) before crossing the Mediterranean
Sea into Africa to Marrakech (Morocco). After partying with the
King of Morocco and negotiating the Sahara Desert the route then
returns to Europe heading to Barcelona (Spain) to catch the Formula
One Grand Prix before finishing with a major party in Cannes
back in the South of France. For those of you wishing to party
for another week the famous Cannes film festival begins the following day.

What is in store for the 2004 Gumball 3000

] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Although the Dow has closed above
] 10,000 11 times so far this month, it's likely to be
] years before the oldest and most widely watched U.S.
] market measure stays over the mark without falling back.
]
] "If there is a possible correlation, we can expect
] essentially a trading-range bound progression that could
] indeed last up to 20 years, or toward the years 2015-20,"
] said Alan Shaw, a technical analyst at Smith Barney, in a
] recent study.

Get ready for a boring economy.

Dow 10,000 May Be Ceiling for Years, Patterns Show

] Friends say the roots of his success lie in his lateral
] thinking - finding the true appeal of an object, often
] ignoring the traditional approach to design. Inspiration
] comes from almost anywhere. The original candy-coloured
] iMac had its roots in gumdrops. The popular transparent
] Apple mouse came from thinking about how drops of water
] sit on a flat surface. An angle-poise desk lamp helped
] inspire the new iMac. The see-through outer casing of
] recent iBooks came from the look that food has when
] wrapped in clingfilm. The iPod is like a cigarette pack
] for those addicted to music instead of tobacco.

Jonathan Ive is a bad ass.

Who is Jonathan Ive and what kind of car does he drive

Track SARs on OSX!

SARS 1.0b4 - VersionTracker

] Whether we protect intellectual property as an
] inalienable right or as a privilege vouchsafed by the
] sovereign, such protection inevitably entails making some
] choices that have crucial implications for the balance we
] strike between the interests of those who innovate and
] those who would benefit from innovation.

This is a worrysome and cryptic comment.

1. He raises the specter of Intellectual Property as an inalienable right. With respect to the Constitution that is an extremely radical position. It has gained ground in recent years because of careful marketing efforts by the media industries. His comment is too vauge to know what he really wants, only that he thinks IP should be strengthened.

2. The separation of "those who innovate" and "those who would benefit from innovation" into two separate and exclusive groups is crusty industrial age thinking.

3. Finance people often do not understand the economic importance of activity which occurs outside of the market. I didn't figure Greenspan to be one of those people. Your strong protections for innovators aren't going to do you much good if you can't innovate because all of your citizens are stupid. If you create a world where culture only exists for entertainment purposes and comment, criticisms, and derivative works are all impossible to produce your culture will stagnate and your people will become dull.

4. If you have to rebuild the entire operating system from scratch in order to make a small improvement to a particular feature, you aren't going to do it. IP maximalism hurts innovation.

Greenspan: Secure intellectual property

] In terms of the power he now claims, without significant
] challenge, George W. Bush is now the closest thing in a
] long time to dictator of the world. He claims to see the
] future as clearly as the past. Let's hope he's right.

Its amazing to see something like this from someone like Kinsley. Even the right is moving left in response to this... That last sentence bothers me. "Let's hope he's right" is a wimpy finish. Fuck that.

A. He is obviously "wrong" in a moral sense. Thats the whole point. He is being an imperialistic bastard on purpose in hopes of scaring various people into getting rid of our enemies.

B. Even if it works, its going to cost a fortune.

C. It had better fucking work, but there is no way that anyone can know for sure. This is a grim business we engage in and there really is no room for error.

D. Protesting this, if you oppose it, is only useful to the extent that it convinces people that they should vote against these people in the next election.

E. If there is an interest by the liberals in countering this strategy they must provide a clear counter strategy which enables us to deal with Al'Q. So far I haven't seen it. Daschle? Hello??

We are now too powerful to simply avoid voting out of apathy. Your votes don't just impact us. They impact everyone in the world. People must vote, and they must vote with an international perspective. To continue to apathetically not participate in the electoral process in this country, as most of us do, is no longer acceptable. Our votes are the only thing that can ultimately prevent an empire of good intentions from becoming, years from now, exactly the sort of ruthless international dictatorship that such power usually produces.

Sovereign authority - By Michael Kinsley - Slate.com

] The FCC commissioners, voting 3-2 with Chairman Michael
] Powell dissenting, agreed to let the states maintain a
] strong role in regulating the Bells.
]
] Under current rules, the Bells have to let rivals use
] their local networks at sharp discounts. They also have
] to let rivals "share" their local phone lines to deliver
] high-speed Internet service.
]
] The FCC did rule that line-sharing rules will be phased
] out over three years, with the Bells allowed to raise
] prices "incrementally" each year on the portion of copper
] wire used to deliver high-speed Internet. But the agency
] stopped short of the more drastic changes the Bells
] wanted.

FCC largely keeps phone rules intact