Democrats and Republican states.
Who contributes more? Who receives more?
“A Coalition government would merge the three government-owned electricity distributors into two - one rural and one urban - to save $400 million to help fund the proposed power rebate, the Opposition Leader, Barry O’Farrell, said yesterday.” —
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 servers that support our Domain Name System network,” which ensures people land at the right numeric internet protocol (IP) address when they type in a name such as Google.com, but it did not rule anything out.” —
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 non-disclosure of these issues could be a good thing.
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 in the world after Singapore and Switzerland.” — Qatar pays record $250m for Cezanne
“To put that into perspective, the cost of budgetary assistance to Australian industry is approaching half of the federal government annual spending on defence ($21 billion) and a third of what it spends each year on education ($30 billion). These are no small bickies.” — Industry’s secret shield of taxpayer dollars
Zen tree revisited (by Arnar Valdimarsson)
“Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags” —
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 better way of life” —
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.