Bob Morris on Oct 26, 2009, 3:08 pm The costs of the building and electricity to grow the plants greatly outweighs any benefits gained from growing them near to where they presumably would be eaten. The cost could easily be 100x more and besides, the veggies would still have to be shipped somewhere to be processed. We’re not even saying that farms [...] Bob Morris on Oct 26, 2009, 2:25 pm The pilots of the flight that overshoot their destination of Minneapolis-Saint Paul by 150 miles were apparently geeking out on their laptops and just lost all track of time. Bob Morris on Oct 26, 2009, 10:38 am Jamie at Intoxination explains how open source works and how the White House using Drupal will both save money and increase transparency. Bob Morris on Oct 26, 2009, 5:15 am Business Week. July 2006. Little if anything has changed since this was written. (Emphasis added) When drug runners and terrorists want to park illicit cash, there may be no better haven than hedge funds. Despite tough new anti-money laundering standards put out by U.S. regulators for banks, mutual fund companies, insurers, and money transmitters, [...] Bob Morris on Oct 25, 2009, 11:15 pm It’s all electric and quite speedy, capable of doing 75 mph. Zip is what this vehicle has, and in spades. The punchiness comes from the 140 ft. lbs of torque, which is more than enough for a little trike of this size. Everyone who took the car our for a test drive did pretty [...] Bob Morris on Oct 25, 2009, 5:39 pm Picower was being sued by the Madoff trustee because he should have known the returns he was getting, sometimes 950%, were obviously phony. From the comments at Clusterstock, a financial blog that tilts to the right politically, hardly a hot bed of conspiracy theories. When a man who knows where Bernie’s billions are stashed is [...] Bob Morris on Oct 25, 2009, 4:37 pm This makes Jamie at Intoxination happy. He moved Crooks and Liars to Drupal from WordPress a while back. Given the extensibility of Drupal and existing modules that can provide anything from a full social network site to a major campaign site, including email letters, I say we can expect to see a much more [...] Bob Morris on Oct 25, 2009, 12:07 pm A bankruptcy filing is expected real soon now (if it hasn’t already happened) for Capmark, a huge commercial real estate lender that was created when KKR, Goldman and others bought GM’s commercial real estate business. KKR has already written their investment down to zero. Yes, zero. A subsidiary, Capmark Bank, is also wobbling badly [...] Bob Morris on Oct 25, 2009, 10:05 am Shoshone geothermal plant Alternative Energy embodies the Tribal directive: “To Renew and Sustain.” Shoshone Energy has become a national leader in renewable energy, with an emphasis on geothermal energy, developing hundreds of megawatts in geothermal energy (one of the greenest and most permanent sources), as well as solar, wind and biomass. Geothermal Digest has [...] Bob Morris on Oct 25, 2009, 6:10 am Babylon’s burning, baby / Can’t you see? / Babylon’s burning / With anxiety Quadrum Capital Management got subpoenaed as part of the Galleon insider trading investigation – and was immediately shut down by its head, Richard Grodin. Further, there are long-lasting ties between Quantum and SAC Capital Advisors, which is headed by very big [...] | IVN articles by Bob Morris
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