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Treasury to TARP Inspector General: Drop Dead(beyondbailouts.org)
1 points by miked 17y ago|1 comments
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by miked 17y ago
Let us put aside for a moment the rah-rah, "Go Team USA" focus of the NBC coverage that often bugs viewers who would like a more global view of the Olympics. That was the first sentence, and they lost me right there. The first night I wat
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by miked 17y ago
Buffet was never a director at Goldman. Thanks for the catch. See my edit above for more. Berkshire did not loan the $5 billion and receive the options until well after the financial mess... This is effectively wrong, since the TARP fun
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by miked 17y ago
From http://seekingalpha.com/article/97158-goldman-sachs-buffett-... : "In the news yesterday, Goldman Sachs (GS) announced that Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Buffett's investing vehicle, will purchase $5B worth of perpetual preferred share
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by miked 17y ago
"Pfft. Crazy talk. The Earth has always been exactly as it is now." One of the main claims of climate skeptics like myself is that the earth has always been changing , and that temperature changes seen recently are largely a result of th
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by miked 17y ago
What the public doesn't know is that more people die annual from the radioactivity released from nuclear plants Did you mean coal plants?
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Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned(theregister.co.uk)
21 points by miked 17y ago|22 comments
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by miked 17y ago
The goings on in America, where nobody is thankful for having been "saved" and where the economy is suffering the result of a misguided, short-term decision may push the French and German government to say "the Greeks don't deserve a bailo
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Microsoft's chief research officer wants web licenses to end bloggers' anonymity(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
54 points by miked 17y ago|53 comments
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by miked 17y ago
Both the communications minister and the PM are, despite being in the Labor Party, actually quite religious and conservative. Translation: "no True Social Democrat would ever be in favor of censorship." This is a classic example of the "n
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by miked 17y ago
Evidence?
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by miked 17y ago
Um, maybe this guy. Interesting in part because it comes from one of his big admirers. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2010/02/01/ed-schu...
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by miked 17y ago
Hitchens' central claim thesis is that North Korea is really right-wing since it's racist and militaristic. In making that claim, his problem is that N.K. is a communist dictatorship, and he can't find any way to spin that as right-wing. Th
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UK Government: Climate change scientists broke the law hiding data(timesonline.co.uk)
52 points by miked 17y ago|71 comments
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by miked 17y ago
My Chinese-American wife does medical interpreting in the SF Bay Area. She recently was at the mental ward of a local hospital interpreting for a Chinese man who busted his chops to get here and now works as a janitor at an Oakland hospital
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Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum(politics.slashdot.org)
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by miked 17y ago
>> per-capita income in the US is still only about $21,500. You're way off. It's $46,900. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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Claims of Himalayan glacier meltdown based entirely on a single short phone call(timesonline.co.uk)
40 points by miked 17y ago|51 comments
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by miked 17y ago
and very arguably contributed to the Great Depression that happened the year after his term ended. The Great Depression was triggered by the US Fed (created in 1913), which massively increased the money supply, and the passage of the disa
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by miked 17y ago
...actually going to war is NEVER good." I wonder if African-American slaves would agree. Or West Europeans, especially those in concentration camps. Or South Koreans.
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by miked 17y ago
Please pass the SPF 14,000 sunblock.
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D.C. to AT&T: All Your Unused Minutes Are Belong to Us(reason.com)
31 points by miked 17y ago|26 comments
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by miked 17y ago
Firstly, the mantra that smaller is better is not valid anymore at this scale, because of a number of reasons; most prominently of which is that the electrodes which supply the charge carriers are now (as in the picture in the article) muc
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by miked 17y ago
I was a TA at a medium-sized US university 25 years ago. I had a lot of (20 or so) Malaysian students in a class of mine and it was very simple: if they were Chinese Malaysian they worked their butts off. If they were ethnic Malay they were
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by miked 17y ago
I'd like to take a little poll, if I might. The basis: 1) There was a plan in Copenhagen to give $100 billion to poor nations to "help them cope with climate change". 2) Since 1998 the temperature of the earth has fallen about 0.4 F. 3) The
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by miked 17y ago
Arabic is a hell of language to learn. Even as an Egyptian born in a semi-Arabic speaking house...I'm finding Arabic really difficult to learn. You're not alone. The US Defense Language Institute teaches many languages, mostly to native
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by miked 17y ago
There is no clear evidence that omega 3 fats differ in effectiveness according to fish or plant sources, dietary or supplemental sources, dose or presence of placebo. There are effectively no plant sources, except for algae. 25,000 years
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San Francisco: The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.(sfweekly.com)
105 points by miked 17y ago|115 comments
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More foreign-born professionals leaving the U.S.(online.wsj.com)
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Cyber-security czar a waste of time?(threatpost.com)
1 points by miked 17y ago|0 comments

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