"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Stay with me on this one, it gets weird. Sergey Aleynikov an ex-computer programmer for Goldman Sachs has been arrested for stealing their proprietary trading software. The software makes huge trades in milliseconds “to manipulate markets in an unfair way.”…
So says Curzon at Coming Anarchy. Based on his trip to Urimqi in 2003, it was obvious Han Chinese had deliberately been given the good jobs and power. So he is hardly surprised by the violence. The Chinese government, whether…
The Google operating system will be open source, lightweight, initially targeting netbooks, and available the second half of 2010. Sounds like someone is going Microsoft hunting. This is huge news.
A huge car carrier ship now generates 10% of its energy while docking from solar power, in a test by Toyota and a shipping company that hopefully will become commonplace in the future. Solar power means less pollution while docking…
The Oil Drum explains, in one of their trademark long, detailed, highly informative posts, how high altitude wind power may produce a superior Energy Returned On Energy Invested ratio (EROEI) compared to other renewable energy sources and quite possibly even…