Old Softy is starting to wise up."Despite its claim to own 42 patents used in the creation of the Linux kernel and hundreds more embedded in other free software programs, Microsoft does not plan to take a page from The SCO Group and sue users of the open source operating...
The US military is denying soldiers in Iraq access to sites like YouTube under the shaky auspice that it puts too much drag on the department's networks.This overlooks the fact that the Internet is an outgrowth of...
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Microsoft has long been feeling the pinch from web hippies designing software under GNU licenses and making it available free to all, no strings attached, but donations welcome.In its latest move, Microsoft is...
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If you haven't heard this audio clip yet, you need to. Limbaugh's blatant racism is despicable. Anyone who hears this--conservative or liberal--without feeling a sense of profound shame and outrage has no sense of...
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It's no surprise when a story like this comes to light. But it's always aggravating to be reminded how knee-jerk American culture has become when confronted with ideas outside the dubious 'norm.'I urge people to follow the link and check out the book in the story--Parenting...
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In a virtuosic display of journalism on April 25th, Bill Moyers aired a 90-minute special on PBS titled, "Buying the War," in which the Main Stream Media was gutted with an awesome, well-controlled, thoroughly...
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"After five children in Napa County (USA) became infected with E. coli after eating hamburgers at Little League baseball snack shacks, authorities have recalled approximately 100,000 pounds of frozen ground beef patties in five states. The patties were produced in April-May...
The question is this: Will the country hold together in spite of the voting flaws? Will the win be honored? If it is, will the country steer clear of increasingly corrupt votes and despotism, rectify the mistakes of the past in the future, or only fall further down the rabbit...
"An attempt to blow up the electoral headquarters with a petrol tanker, attacks by thugs, missing ballot papers and low turnout undermined Nigeria's presidential election on Saturday.An abortive truck bomb attack on electoral headquarters, rampaging thugs and stolen ballots...
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"A European Union observer team said it was very concerned by the late start of voting and missing ballot papers for legislative elections in many areas, and missing serial numbers on many of the ballot papers that did turn up."
I'm a big proponent of the microfinance movement. However, when commercial lenders start tampering with the framework I think it's bad news for the poorest of the poor.Disclaimer: I'm not a macroeconomics major. However, when commercial banks begin restricting microlenders, I...
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The inhumanity of drug laws in the United States are a disgrace. Particularly when it comes to marijuana, a substance with a toxic limit that is virtually unreachable in its inhalable form.When our most...
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This article was originally published in Blast Magazine, but I retain all rights to this work. In light of recent events at Virginia Tech, I've decided to re-publish it here due to relevancy and timeliness of the subject matter. In the coming investigation, issues and news...
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America is sick. From the obesity epidemic to a prevailing animosity towards intellectualism, our culture is hemorrhaging on mindless consumption fueled by blind faith.
When a significant enough portion of the population buys books like, "The Secret," in such quantity...
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