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- Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them
- We urbanites are sitting in the bleachers for what portends to be a helluva gladiatorial battle. Corn. Cows. And it's all being fought over energy and centers, as all fine money matters in "cleantech," around the EPA. Here's what's up: Texas is a...
- Tags: Biofuel, Texas, Corn, Iowa, Generation Biofuel Folk, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Iowa Electronic Markets pick Clinton, Romney
- Iowa Electronic Markets pick Clinton, RomneyHow could there Possibly be any sign of Ron Paul?When he isn't included in market? Ron Paul isn't listed on either the intrade or the IEM boards. A "field" listing isn't the same thing, as it doesn't differentiate between Paul and Hunter (for...
- Tags: Iowa, Iowa Electronic, Iowa Electronic Markets, Romney
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- Pigs Might Fly in Iowa
- According to the Hawk Eye, Iowa has the distinction of joining Nevada and Wisconsin on our list of recent state government project failures. In this case, A.T. Kearney was hired for $3.4 million and saved the state $2.9 million. From the article:"When [the project] started, the payment to A.T. Kearney...
- Tags: Project management
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Google announces new data center in Iowa
- Google announces new data center in IowaWhat a machine. How many Google data centers are completed every year???Their ability to scale out cheaper and faster than their competitors is a HUGE advantage. And, give that between 1,000 and 2,000 new businesses are signing up for Google Docs every DAY, they...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Google Inc., data center, Iowa
- Discussion threads 2007-07-07
- An iPod tax? Iowa Republicans can't believe their ears
- An iPod tax? Iowa Republicans can't believe their earsUh, what?Who thought up of this?
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Digital music, Digital media, iPod tax, Iowa, tax, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- An iPod tax? Iowa Republicans can't believe their ears
- If the powerful trade group the Recording Industry Association of America has trouble tracking down thousands of people who illegally download audio files from the Internet, no one told the Iowa state legislature. The Quad City Times reports that the Iowa Senate recently approved an "iPod tax," which would...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- ID wants new crimes to punish indecent webcam exposure to kids
- An age-old crime goes high tech. It didnt take long for people who have a predilection to expose themselves to figure out that Web cameras could be used for exchanging sexual images or to do live sexual touching or masturbation in view of a digital camera. Iowan lawmakers worry...
- Tags: Law enforcement, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Iowa politicians dip toes in YouTube waters
- The political battlefield is slowly shifting its sights from television to YouTube, reports the Omaha World Herald. Iowa legislators posted videos of State Sen. Jack Kibbie, president of the Iowa Senate, as he introduced a resolution opposing the troop surge in Iraq. That may be pretty exciting stuff for...
- Tags: Iowa, U.S. Senate, YouTube Inc., video
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Reminder from AT&T: Your AT&T/Cingular-provisioned cell phone is not for conference calls
- Reminder from AT&T: Your AT&T/Cingular-provisioned cell phone is not for conference callsYou're not getting the point here...What has happened is quite simply this:The 712 exchange was caught in a loophole that was used before in the 809 area code (can't recall the country right now). Either way it works...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, loophole, Reminder, AT&T Corp., Iowa, Ars Technica, phone, Cingular Wireless
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- John Edwards on DVD: Greatest hit in Iowa?
- Edition number 30 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Are Amazon, Netflix, Columbia House shipping thousands of DVDs to Iowans? Perhaps. The DVD retailers and renters, however, are facing competition this week, not-for-profit DVD competition, from the John Edwards...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, HEALTHCARE, DVD, John Edwards, Iowa, Digital Markets, health care, health
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Iowa takes strong stance against net hunts
- Iowa takes strong stance against net huntsInternet HuntingHey, the US government should start a program like that for terrorists. Yeah, get them in the old viewfinder or scope and send them to Allah whom I truly doubt they will meet.Government already doing thatBest known example is when they were...
- Tags: Iowa
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- Iowa takes strong stance against net hunts
- If there is one thing that Iowan lawmakers on both sides of the aisle can agree on its a ban on Internet hunting. The ability to shoot animals such a turkeys and deer remotely by clicking a computer mouse is so unsportsmanlike that it has inspired a bill to...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Microsoft settles Iowa class action suit
- Microsoft settles Iowa class action suitNot surprisedThis trial was producing way too much bad publicity for MS for them to allow it to continue.HTF??[b]Businesses and individuals residing in Iowa who have proof that they purchased certain Microsoft operating systems, or Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel or Office, between May...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Corporate law, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Iowa, software, operating system, class action
- Discussion threads 2007-02-14
- In Iowa, camera tickets deemed illegal
- In Iowa, camera tickets deemed illegalCa. Drivers need lawyers like these!Ca. drivers are being routinely deprived of due process in18 of 40 police depts. who allow the citing officer touse the Notice of Correction to change one violation toanother.This practice has remained unchallenged in Ca.Courts as a class action suit....
- Tags: camera ticket, due process, Iowa, camera
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Iowa cops want more funding for technology
- Iowas public safety commissioner told the state legislature that his thirst for technology tools to fight crime is virtually unlimited, reports the Des Moines Register. "My commitment to technology is as large as you want to fund," Public Safety Commissioner Eugene Meyer told the Iowa House Public Safety Committee....
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Iowa
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- In Iowa, camera tickets deemed illegal
- In Iowa, the city of Davenport may wind up refunding traffic fines to some 14,000 drivers who were issued civil rather than criminal citations when cameras captured them speeding or running red lights, The Quad-City Times reports. District Court Judge Gary McKenric ruled that the citys policy that violations...
- Tags: camera, Iowa, Law enforcement, Courts, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- As winter looms, Iowa uses snowplow simulator to increase safety
- How would you like to drive one of those monster snowplows in a driving blizzard, on a four-lane highway with no idea if a car will careen wildly in front of you or whether a ditched car is already covered in snowfall? If you live in a heavy weather state...
- Tags: Iowa
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Iowa proposes ID theft 'passport'
- Iowa proposes ID theft 'passport'Nice Idea. May Work . . . .until they figure out how to make counterfeit certificates! :)Why do I picture some big thing like an old diploma saying something like:This certified that John Doe is who he says he is, he's not a thief,...
- Tags: identity theft, Iowa
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Faith in Net's force rises, falls with Dean
- Faith in Net's force rises, falls with DeanThe internet......had NOTHING to do with Dean's fall from grace. The reason rests solely with Dean himself. You can't scream, snarl, and growl, rabblerousing your supporters with high school football-like cheerleading stupidity and then finishing it off with a most unprofessional "Yeehah!" and...
- Tags: Iowa, Dean, Internet
- Discussion threads 2004-01-29
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