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 [...]
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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 I [...]
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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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Mobile phones have become a cornerstone in how our society communicates, in how the world communicates. When once there were dark spots of communication across our country in areas where phone lines couldn’t reach we can now connect to one another. Lives have been saved by them and have been made easier by them. Mobile [...]
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The other day I was emailed about a situation brewing in Washington, several members of Congress are trying to push through a bill that will make the administration end of farming so difficult that only the largest of distributors could afford to run such operations. This is, of course, all being done in the name [...]
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Today the New York Times reported that AIG, a company that has received two bailouts in less than six months, is planning on rewarding it’s incompitent executives over $168 million in bonuses. How can we continue to let them take advantage of the American people? The lawyers for AIG say that they are contractually obligated [...]
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