Sat 21 Jun 2008
I didn’t expect to see Microsoft DRM in Firefox, yet it is there. Why? What do I gain or loose if I disable or remove it?
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Tue 17 Jun 2008
AMD unveiled Radeon 4000 GPU on July 16, 2008. Radeon 4000 can execute a trillion floating point operations per second, same as a teraflop computer (think, IBM Deep Blue supercomputer in 1997). Radeon 4000 chip will be available to desktop and notebook computers as Radeon HD for about $200.
Wed 14 Nov 2007
“It starts, in part, from our failure to recognize that money is not wealth. Wealth is something that has real value in meeting our needs and fulfilling our wants. Modern money is only a number on a piece of paper or an electronic trace in a computer that by social convention gives its holder a claimon real wealth. In our confusion we concentrate on the money to the neglect of those things that actually sustain a good life.”
Sat 10 Nov 2007
When gold is accepted as the medium of exchange by most or all nations, an unhampered free international gold standard serves to foster a world-wide division of labor and the broadest international trade. Even though the units of exchange (the dollar, the pound, the franc, etc.) differ from country to country, when all are defined in terms of gold the economies of the different countries act as one — so long as there are no restraints on trade or on the movement of capital. Credit, interest rates, and prices tend to follow similar patterns in all countries. For example, if banks in one country extend credit too liberally, interest rates in that country will tend to fall, inducing depositors to shift their gold to higher-interest paying banks in other countries. This will immediately cause a shortage of bank reserves in the “easy money” country, inducing tighter credit standards and a return to competitively higher interest rates again.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
by Alan Greenspan
1967
* The above are only extracts from Gold and Economic Freedom.
Sun 16 Sep 2007
I received this in my email today. These crooks have gone to great lengths in creating a website that looks just like Bank of America and I am not quite sure how many innocent consumers have been trapped already. For your reading pleasure, see below:
Sun 29 Jul 2007
Presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.
Posted by manishn under ThoughtsNo Comments
“I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.” - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Romney took special exception to a question about global warming, posed by a snowman in one of the video questions. “I don’t know that it makes sense to have people running for president answering questions posed from snowmen.” - Washington Post.
It probably makes perfect sense to take vote and campaign contribution from a snowman, right?
Mon 9 Jul 2007
The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall is the world’s longest human-made structure, stretching over approximately 6,400 km from Shanhai Pass in the east to Lop Nur in the west of China, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. It is also the largest human-made structure ever built in terms of surface area and mass.
The statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro
Christ the Redeemer is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The statue stands 32 meters tall, weighs 700 tons and is located at the peak of the 700-meter Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park, overlooking the city.
The Incan ruins of Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu, a pre-Columbian city created by the Inca, is located above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km northwest of Cusco. Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international attention by archaeologist Hiram Bingham in 1911, who made the first scientific confirmation of the site and wrote a best-selling work about it.
The ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico
Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization, located in the northern center of the Yucatan Peninsula, present-day Mexico.
The pink ruins of Petra in Jordan
Petra is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains that form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812.
The Coliseum in Rome
The Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheater, is a giant amphitheater in the center of the city of Rome, Italy. Originally capable of seating around 50,000 spectators, it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. The amphitheater, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire, was completed in 80 A.D. under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian’s reign.
The Taj Mahal mausoleum
The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned it as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Construction began in 1632 and was completed in approximately 1648.
Tue 3 Jul 2007
I guess, if you buy “a picture is worth thousand words”, these are 4 thousand words for your reading pleasure. Is this a bug? If it is, it should be rather straightforward to fix. Why don’t you fix it, Mr. Developer? 
