] Last week, a member of Congress asked Federal Reserve Chairman
] Alan Greenspan to assess investors’ views about the
] administration’s long-term fiscal plan. His answer: “That there
] isn’t one.”
] "Republican regime could swiftly launch us back into an
] era of seemingly permanent structural deficits, just when
] the baby boomers are set to retire. "

From deficit hawk to GOP hack - Greenspan & the Republican regime

] "Next month, when video-game titan Electronic Arts
] launches The Sims Online, it will become something more
] than a game. Using the Internet, The Sims Online will
] enable millions of individual Sims to live, work and hang
] out together in a shared virtual world very much like our
] own. Result: a daring collective social experiment that
] could tell us some interesting things about who we are as
] a country. We're about to witness the birth of Simulation
] Nation."

TIME.com: Sim Nation

] "Mortal Kombat, one of the first video games to
] popularize the use of blood and guts to entice its
] audience, is back with a new version that is bloodier
] than ever.
]
] Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance has fighters whose wounds
] bleed long after injuries are inflicted and blood is a
] constant companion. This makes for a very messy
] battleground at the end of the fight, but allows for
] interesting effects, such as combatants leaving bloody
] footprints on the ground.
]
] The game also presents a plethora of ways of finishing an
] opponent: beheadings, ripping skeletons out of bodies or
] soul stealing."

New Mortal Kombat bloodier than ever

] "Researchers at Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Media Presence
] Lab are developing a "virtual brain," a PC-based database
] that holds a record of an individual's complete life
] experience. Called MyLifeBits, the project aims to make
] this database of human memories searchable in the manner
] of a conventional search engine."

Microsoft Creating Virtual Brain

] "Apple is having a one-day online auction of new and
] reconditioned computers, notebooks, and peripherals,
] according to a notice at DoveBid, which handles "business
] auctions and valuations worldwide."
]
] Bidding begins at 9:00 am (Pacific) on Tuesday, December
] 3, and will end at 4:00 pm. Items for auction will be
] available online on or after November 27 for "online
] preview and inspection only." Bids will, naturally, be
] placed online.
]
] To participate in the auction, you'll have to create a
] DoveBid account and agree to any event-specific terms and
] conditions. Since bids are accepted and processed by a
] computer server, "your results may differ from
] traditional auctioneer-led sales," according to Dovebid."

DoveBid: Apple to have one-day auction

Did you see this guys Switch ad??!!

Apple - Switch - Real Stories - Gianni Jacklone

] "Oracle Corp. (NasdaqNM:ORCL - News) Chairman Lawrence
] Ellison, who resigned from Apple Computer Inc.'s
] (NasdaqNM:AAPL - News) board of directors in September,
] exercised options and acquired 70,000 shares of the
] computer maker, a regulatory filing on Friday said."

Oracle's Ellison bought 70,000 Apple shares

Check out Mavericks leet pics from Phreaknic!

Index of /mavcable/phreaknic-pics/

] "Workers should have a one-year holiday on the tax they
] pay to fund Social Security in the first $10,000 of
] income, the Business Roundtable said Thursday.
] The tax holiday would give all workers up to $620.
] Employers would also get up to $620 per worker."
] We can jump start economic growth if our government
] takes action that helps put cash into the consumers'
] pockets to stimulate demand and ignite our economy,"
] said John T. Dillon, chairman of the roundtable and CEO of International Paper.

Okay, last time it was $300 dollars was suppose to spur the economy. Now looks like it is about $600 dollars that is going to spur the economy. I don't know about you, but I think my original $300 tax rebate is still sitting in the bank.

Also, it is not the consumer that is holding out on purchases. Consumer spending is still going strong in regards to durable goods such as housing and new cars. Corporations are the ones scared of spending, they are still in layoff mode. Until corps. start spending, hiring and and making real money, that is when we know the economy is on the move in the right direction.

CEOs want $300 billion stimulus package

] "THE SOCIETY survey found that only about one in seven
] %u2014 13 percent %u2014 of Americans ages 18 to 24 could
] find Iraq. The score was the same for Iran, an Iraqi
] neighbor.
] Although the majority, 58 percent, of the young
] Americans surveyed knew that the Taliban and al-Qaida
] were based in Afghanistan, only 17 percent could find
] that country on a world map. A U.S.-led force attacked
] the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan in October 2001,
] and President Bush has said he is prepared to use force
] to rid Iraq of any chemical, nuclear or biological
] weapons programs."

Do you know where you are?????

Young Americans flunk geography