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3:48 am EST, Jan 22, 2003 |
Okay, this is cool. A big map laying out ownership of the six giant media companies in the world. Gee, no wonder these guys all say the same thing... Looks like Alfred E Neuman put it together too. Media Ownership 2001 |
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| Topic: Economics |
3:44 am EST, Jan 22, 2003 |
Dubious source, and their numbers don't add up, but I think they're generally indicating the right order of magnitude change in wealth over my 32 year lifetime... ] in the late 1970s, the top one percent held 13 percent of
] the wealth; in 1995 it held 38 percent. ] In 1960 CEOs received 40 times the average worker's
] salary. In 1992 they received 157 times. Wealth Distribution |
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3:37 am EST, Jan 22, 2003 |
] The richest 10% of the population - about 10 million
] households - owned 84% of the stock and 90% of the bonds
] held by individuals (including that held indirectly
] through mutual funds). The democratization of ownership
] supposedly brought about by mutual funds has a long way
] to go. Great little graph wost the way down showing change in the the comparative wealth of American society. Distributing the booty |
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| Topic: Economics |
3:32 am EST, Jan 22, 2003 |
Interesting little piece on wealth distribution: Specifically, the number of people with some value of wealth w is proportional to 1/wE. Pareto claimed that E is generally has a value of between 2 and 3. The bigger this value, the greater the extent to which extreme wealth is suppressed - and the more socialist the economy. Burda's group define liberal economies as those in which E is less than 2, and social economies as those in which E is greater than 2. Wealth spawns corruption |
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Vector Tobacco: Nicotine Free Smokes |
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| Topic: Biotechnology |
3:00 pm EST, Jan 21, 2003 |
] Vector Tobacco has the rights to a proprietary process that
] virtually eliminates nicotine from tobacco. weird. Vector Tobacco: Nicotine Free Smokes |
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|US working on lightning weapon |
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| Topic: Military Technology |
2:54 pm EST, Jan 21, 2003 |
The technology behind HPM is based on that used in household microwave ovens. But whereas a typical microwave generates less than 1,500 watts of power, the Air Force researchers are working with equipment that can generate millions of watts of power. Time to grab your rubber underwear... |US working on lightning weapon |
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| Topic: Games |
2:44 pm EST, Jan 21, 2003 |
Something new and fun to add to my already overloaded lust for RC toys. Make sure you check out the Quicktime videos. http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer3.php Now this is what you needed to capture the scope of the war protest... Apple Whirlygig |
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RIAA vs Verizon : Court orders Verizon Must Reveal Internet Song-Swapper |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
2:21 pm EST, Jan 21, 2003 |
The recording industry asked Verizon last summer to reveal the name of a customer believed to have downloaded more than 600 songs in one day, but Verizon refused, saying that such a move would violate customer privacy and force Internet service providers to serve as the music industry's online policeman. But U.S. Judge John Bates ordered Verizon to turn over the customer's name. RIAA vs Verizon : Court orders Verizon Must Reveal Internet Song-Swapper |
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