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As a blogger for Florida Insurance School this news is interesting. Recently released was BP’s report on what went wrong with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. This report is just like the hearing that was in front of congress where BP’s officials are attempting to swing the fault on other companies. They do maintain a [...]
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Earlier this year was a lot of news and hubbub about the battle between Time Warner and News Corp over Fox channels. Time Warner made a big show of the cost hikes, and they made sure to openly blame News Corp for their service fee hikes. They even setup a website asking people to “Get [...]
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Recently someone I know forwarded me a piece that was supposedly by the Wall Street Journal with the subject line of “WALL STREET JOURNAL SIZES UP OBAMA”. In this article, which I will paste in a block at the end of this post, we hear an endless string of lies and propaganda used to feed on the [...]
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I recently read an article on Forbes.com where the reporter attempts to talk about Embryonic Stem Cell research (or ES) and its supposed dirty little secret. In this article the author, Michael Fumento, asks when will ES be ready for clinical applications and suggests that ES is not worth pursuing because end results that involve [...]
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Years ago, at the dawning of the internet, news outlets broke from the norm by offering the news online at no addition cost. It has been almost two decades since then and several things have changed. First, the number of sources of news online has grown exponentially. Second, the technology has changed and improved, giving [...]
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Yes, what is going on in Italy is about as frightening as that headline reads. Authorities in Italy have been attacking the internet on multiple fronts as of late with many moves that are eerily intrusive and controlling. First you may be wondering why such a drastic headline. I want everyone to know that I [...]
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Something rather horrible was just brought to my attention. It is the story about a 16 year old boy named Ashton Lundeby who was arrested in the middle of the night by a team of FBI and local law enforcement officers. Now an arrest of someone so young isn’t really news-worthy these days (shameful as [...]
Continue reading about Bush Era Patriot Act Used To Arrest And Hold A Child Without Due Process
As some of you (anyone that has read the about me section) know, I am a web developer and as such I have become involved in open source projects (the PHP that runs this website for starters). One of the most frustrating things about open source is finding a way to monetize it. So far [...]
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This has been a busy week for broadband providers. First Time Warner announces that they will be rolling out tiered internet access to markets in Texas and New York. Tiers which give extremely low consumption caps (5, 10, 20, and 40GB plans). Then AT&T has decided to completely ignore any concept of Net Neutrality on [...]
Personality Tests seem to be very popular these days. Many employers now require you to take these takes to ensure that they are hiring the type of people that they want. The usefulness and accuracy of these tests has always been in question, but what is not in question is that many people find them [...]
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