February 2012
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Red State Socialism →
Democrats and Republican states.
Who contributes more? Who receives more?
“A Coalition government would merge the three government-owned electricity...”
– Merging electricity giants could save $400m
Barry does a backflip with a little bit of sense announcing a single distributor entity with subsidiaries - not unlike the approach under the ALP Premier Bob Carr.
“VeriSign said its executives “do not believe these attacks breached the...”
– VeriSign was repeatedly hacked: report
We don’t believe, heh, yeah, “believe”. Lawyers ensured that they didn’t actually guarantee but appeared to.
VeriSign was repeatedly hacked: report →
Absolute transparency is a core requirement in security, despite what people may think.
Without being transparent and honest, especially when egos, boards of directors and corporate entities/cash are involved, we get information asymmetry on the risk of global commerce.
Yay for verisign. Perhaps a couple of billion dollar fine plus something heavier (incarceration time?) for the execs for...
parislemon: Size Matters →
parislemon:
Apple’s iPhone business alone is larger than all of Microsoft’s businesses combined
“According to the Gulf Times, Qatar has the third highest density of millionaires...”
– Qatar pays record $250m for Cezanne
“To put that into perspective, the cost of budgetary assistance to Australian...”
– Industry’s secret shield of taxpayer dollars
“Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were...”
– Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
That’s around 2% of the US population. Damn that’s a massive industry - with those taxpayers dollars heading into it…
“my tax bill, which I’ve happily donated to the Australian people for a...”
– Lateline - 02/02/2012: Clive Palmer talks to Lateline
Clive Palmer views taxation as donations… Pity that his income could not be derived without the taxation system being in place and the subsequent services and infrastructure it has provided over the past 200+ years.
January 2012
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“plans to change the shopping experience, shun heavy discounting and sell...”
– Business & Technology | AP Interview: JC Penney CEO talks about the chain | Seattle Times Newspaper
The focus on price needs to change. Consumers want it to change. We just don’t have CEOs with leadership in Australia to provide that vision.
“It’s not about legacy, I’d like to see it get done. That is my...”
– Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’
A fantastic view on getting stuff done.
“SPIN king Shane Warne is being sued over this month’s road-rage incident...”
– Warne cycled off to court after road-rage incident | News.com.au
or is he? Listen to this:
http://media.mytalk.com.au/2ue/images/today_audioPlayer.swf?src=http://media.mytalk.com.au/3AW/AUDIO/310112_cyclist.mp3
“A significant part of the present state government’s electoral success was its...”
– O’Farrell’s next stop should be zoning near stations
Coles opens a fresh front in discount war →
We bitch about the price of our food but never about the producers getting fucked to achieve this.
We bitch about foreign companies buying up our land, but never about the farmers selling their nation out.
We bitch about foreign companies buying out or financing resource companies, but never bitch about the prospectors in the mining sector (see most of the WA or QLD’s most wealthy) selling...
Engineering Management: Why are software...
Let's take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends in Newport Beach. I'll whip out my map and draw our route down the coast
- Michael Wolfe, CEO, Pipewise, Inc.
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Recipe : Banana Bread
This recipe is courtesy of Nadine and uses olive oil in place of butter. Damn tasty!
Ingredients
5/3 cups plain flour
3/2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup caster sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup olive oil
3 mashed bananas
Optional: handfull of dates, sliced or whole (but pips removed)
Steps
Preheat over to 160-180C.
Sift flour and baking...
“When the world changes…
It’s painful, expensive, time-consuming,...”
– Seth’s Blog: When the world changes…
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What if we count the iPad as a Computer… →
Deutsche Bank gets owned on their research.
Do you trust them?
“every dollar’s worth of foreign claims on America is matched by 89 cents’ worth...”
– Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com
“…families have to pay back their debt. Governments don’t — all they need to do...”
– Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com
“The fact that the homosexual cry is, ‘We can’t help it, as we were...”
– Courting controversy: British tennis starlet Robson causes a stir with rainbow hair elastic
Court. Educated only in her own beliefs…
Coast awash with bargains, just buy the beach →
“snapping up” half-million dollar holiday homes. Man, it really is tough *tough* times for some…
“To most of us, June 2009 seems quite a while ago. But not, apparently, to the...”
– Fair work for some, but small business is not so easy
Gerard is attempting to rewrite history in his own worldview once again. “Fair Work Australia” was a creation of the Rudd Labor Government, with a mandate to do so on the back of the Howard Liberal-National Government’s...
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“The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking...”
– Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
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“Labor attorneys told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper the new law makes it...”
– Email after hours? It’s overtime by law for some
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“Obama signs defense bill, pledges to maintain legal rights of U.S. citizens”
– Obama signs defense bill, pledges to maintain legal rights of terror suspects - The Washington Post
Spot the difference between the title element contents, the URL and the title on the page.
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“At this point, some readers may ask whether it isn’t equally wrong to say that...”
– Bain, Barack and Jobs - NYTimes.com
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“Mr Albanese’s government has spent, or committed, $4.1 billion on the...”
– Leaders at odds over bill to finish highway
That would be John Winston Howard’s Government of which Tony Abbott was a senior member of cabinet.
Question is - did Mr Abbott ever push for more funds to the area? Or is he just playing politics.
Also, with the claim at $6billion to complete...
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