Bob Morris @ Mar 13th 2008 22:13 - Category: Credit crisis ;
Police in riot gear forced “a mass of women nursing babies, pushing strollers” to leave after applications ran out. Some got in line nine hours before the doors opened.
Such demand for housing vouchers is almost certainly a result of the cratering real estate market and soaring foreclosure rate in Florida.
Bob Morris @ Mar 13th 2008 18:14 - Category: Unfiled Tags: immigration, outsourcing;
US high-tech companies are being forced to outsource more jobs overseas because of outdated restrictions on immigration, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told Congress Wednesday.
Gates, echoing a longstanding complaint from the technology sector, told a congressional panel that the US immigration system “makes attracting and retaining high-skilled immigrants exceptionally challenging for US firms.”
Like it or not, the world is increasingly flat, and if the US erects barriers to immigration and trade, then it will simply go elsewhere.
Bob Morris @ Mar 13th 2008 14:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
That’s what Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, says about this new technology.
From the YouTube description. it’s “a neckband that intercepts nerve signals allows you to talk on the phone without emitting a sound.” Yes, you read that right.
People with ALS can now communicate using it. So far it has a small vocabulary, but will be expanding soon. Hey, now you can talk on your cell phone in public without speaking.
Andreessen adds, “I have a feeling that someday, this may be up there with ‘Come here, Watson, I need you.’”
More from New Scientist. It’s developed by The Audeo.
Bob Morris @ Mar 13th 2008 10:37 - Category: Anti-war Tags: IVAW, Winter Soldier;
The Winter Soldier testimony by Iraq Veterans Against the War starts today at 7pm EDT in D.C.
KPFA and WarComesHome will have streaming audio. Streaming video will be provided by IVAW using QuickTime. On-demand video will be via Flash. It will also be on satellite Free Speech TV on Mar 14-15 9am-9pm
Thursday, March 13 Streaming video only
7:00PM-9:00PM Winter Soldier and the legacy of GI Resistance
Friday, March 14 Satellite TV, internet video, internet audio, radio
9:00AM – 10:45AM Rules of Engagement: Part One
11:00AM – 12:30PM The Crisis in Veterans’ Heathcare
2:00PM - 3:30PM Corporate Pillaging and Military Contractors
4:00PM - 6:00PM Rules of Engagement: Part Two
7:00PM - 8:30PM Aims of the Global War on Terror: the Political, Legal, and Economic Context of Iraq and Afghanistan
Saturday, March 15 Satellite TV, internet video, internet audio, radio
9:00AM – 10:30AM Divide To Conquer: Gender and Sexuality in the Military
11:00AM - 1:00PM Racism and War: the Dehumanization of the Enemy: Part One
2:00PM - 3:30PM Racism and War: the Dehumanization of the Enemy: Part Two
4:00PM - 6PM Civilian Testimony: The Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan
7:00PM - 8:30PM The Cost of the War at Home
Sunday, March 16 Internet video, internet audio, radio
10:00AM - 1:00PM The Breakdown of the Military
2:00PM - 3:15PM The Future of GI Resistance
This looks like it has been superbly organized and should get serious mainstream media exposure.
Bob Morris @ Mar 13th 2008 07:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
This is a golden oldie to be sure, but in case you missed it… (PS The Fire Department told the guy to NEVER do it again).
Bob Morris @ Mar 13th 2008 03:30 - Category: Socialism ;
So it’s more than coming out. You can’t do it alone and certainly not in private.
And after all these years I am still a practising Leninist. Outwardly I look the same, but when I’m on a roll I’m at it hammer and sickle.
It’s true that we tend to be shunned in polite society. I admit that. There are some that pretend we aren’t there, that we somehow don’t exist just so that their sleep won’t be disturbed. Ours, unfortunately, is the politics that is not supposed to speak its name.
Well… at least he’s not, y’know, one of those crazed anarchists….
Bob Morris @ Mar 13th 2008 00:15 - Category: Energy conservation ;
OLEDs are even more energy efficient than regular LEDs. And now GE, after four years, has invented a way to print them newspaper style, quickly and inexpensively too.
This could be a paradigm shift, a whole new way of doing light. It often takes a huge corporation with immense deep pockets to do the R&D necessary to develop products like this. GE is also an industry leader in wind turbines.
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