Thursday, November 20, 2008
Finally, finally, finally! Net Neutrality has been a huge topic in the last couple of years. The big companies want to either CHARGE websites who’s visitors use their bandwidth, or slow down those users connections. This flies in the face of 30+ years of practice, and could severely hurt the Internet in the United States. [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
If you’re like me and don’t know exactly how we got into this mess, Kiplinger.com has a good step by step article on how it all went down. While I’ve not looked at prices of houses and home sales numbers lately specifically, my gut feeling is that a lot of houses are still on the [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
This is by far the most sensible way I’ve heard of fixing the US banking crisis ever. Maybe the FBI Probes might help?
Probably not. Most likely we’ll be paying for this out of our Social Security
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Due to budget over runs by the company tasked to do the 2010 Census, Bush is proposing to hold back $70 million of the $170 million in relief funds promised to the salmon fishing industry in Oregon and California.
Oregon especially could really use that money. Instead, we’re going to give it to some company that [...]
So President Bush authorized the NSA to spy on Americans. This was done without a warrant and the Telecom companies even went along with it. Luckily a few Senators are actually being smart and attempting to fix this, even though they’re only trying to pull out the retroactive immunities instead of squashing the entire bill [...]