Archive for the 'Economy' Category
USDA: Rural Population Needed Not For Farming But For Cannon Fodder
September 5th, 2013Update: Quote from Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed Joel Salatin’s telling of the story below sounded somehow familiar to me. I just remembered why. I’d read the following in, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed way back in the 1990s: Terry was the quintessential product of Middle America. […]
PayPal Freezes MailPile’s Account, Access to Funds
September 5th, 2013Update: PayPal Releases Funds That move was just too ridiculous, even for PayPal. Via: MailPile: [Update: PayPal have unfrozen the account, for now at least. Thank you for your support!] — Via: Mailpile: The bad news is, PayPal have frozen our PayPal account. This means roughly $45,000 of the $135,000 we have raised so far […]
Amazon Hiring 100 IT Personnel for Positions Requiring Top Secret Security Clearances
September 5th, 2013Via: ComputerWorld: Amazon has more than 100 job openings for people who can get a top secret clearance, which includes a U.S. government administered polygraph examination. It needs software developers, operations managers and cloud support engineers, among others. Amazon’s hiring effort includes an invitation-only recruiting event for systems support engineers at its Herndon, Va., facility […]
Oregon State University: Research Create Diodes That Use Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
September 5th, 2013Via: OSU: Researchers in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University have made a significant advance in the function of metal-insulator-metal, or MIM diodes, a technology premised on the assumption that the speed of electrons moving through silicon is simply too slow. For the extraordinary speed envisioned in some future electronics applications, these innovative […]
‘School Is a Prison’
September 4th, 2013I hope that everyone who sees this post clicks through and reads the whole piece. Also, here’s the book: Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray Via: Salon: Parents send their children to school with the best of […]
Can’t Get Enough of China’s Ghost Cities
September 4th, 2013Macro scale madness. Via: io9: China’s building boom has created a ton of abandoned cities and massive ruins — most of which are brand new, and have never had people living in them. Here are the deserted Chinese cities, mostly built in the last 10 years, which could be sets for your next dystopian movie.
With Camera Sales Slowing, Canon Looks to Surveillance Sector for Growth
September 4th, 2013Via: Reuters: Nosy governments and nervous homeowners, among other drivers of the surveillance society, may soon upstage amateur photographers as the focus for big camera makers such as Canon Inc who spot growing opportunities in the security market. Canon, the industry leader, has been hit with a sudden downturn in shipments of its top-end digital […]
Fukushima: Japanese Government to Build Ice Wall in Desperate Attempt to Contain Leaks of Contaminated Water
September 3rd, 2013For a moment, let’s just assume that this will work. I doubt that it will work, but let’s pretend that will. What happens to all of the frozen slop when the grid goes down during the next disaster and the “ice wall” thaws out? Have a nice day! Via: AP: The Japanese government announced Tuesday […]
Microsoft to Acquire Nokia Handset Business
September 3rd, 2013I wonder how reckless Microsoft will get as the realization sinks in that Android and iOS are too far ahead to catch. Via: BBC: Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia’s mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; £4.6bn). Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 45% […]
Fukushima Radiation Levels 18 Times Higher than Previously Admitted
September 2nd, 2013This is definitely one for your Not The Onion file folder. Via: BBC: Radiation levels around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned. Last week the plant’s operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground. It now says readings taken near the […]
