Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright copsDeclaring war on your customers!Great PR move by big content! Apparently big content is feeling too much love from its customers! (These guys are hopeless!)Woot!Finally someone will be cracking down on all of those GPL violations as they cross the border,...
This is so unbelievable, so repugnant to basic principles of privacy and prohibitions against illegal search and seizure that I can only let the news speak for itself. But to put it in context, here is Wikipedia's entry on Canada's version of the Fourth Amendment: ...
John Edwards, NAFTA and protectionismTunnel vision...because I work for Microsoft, everything I do MUST be done to justify their existence.It couldn't be that I have argued consistently for the past 10 years in favor of free markets.Read Your US History! Oh Multi-National Corporate EmployeeFirst, thanks for taking on the elephant...
Though I was about as likely to vote for Daffy Duck as vote for John Edwards, his recent comments regarding the need for restrictions on foreign trade just sealed the deal. John Edwards and economic common sense simply cannot be mentioned in the same sentence.But, this blog wasn't written to...
Study calls for middle solution to offshoringStarted with NAFTAWhen Bill Clinton signed NAFTA in, it all started. Millions of jobs lost by the Democrats and they are to blame. The fall of Rome happened because they did not make any thing for themselves, they imported, offshored all their goods. When...
Week ahead: MyDoom end is nigh for SCOinitial claims? whatever..."Initial Claims is the weekly total of new claims filed for unemployment compensation. The total is expected to drop to 340,000 for the week ended Feb. 7, from 356,000 the previous week"-initial unemployment claim stats is a week indicator of the...
EU approves German grants to AMDdefine "roughly the same time?"" hopes to move to 90 nanometers this year, at roughly the same time as other chip leaders."isn't intel already on 90 nm?German grantI am shocked, they have pc's in Germany?i really dont get thisGermany is paying that much to get...
Study: IT spending to improve in 2004good news: India will grow faster than expectedwhile the rest of us here run out of unemployment benefits.Yeah, plane trips to India are EXPENSIVE!...Applying for a job in India, it pays $10,000 a yearBut, I can live in a tunnel with rats, and...
Congressional leaders promise action on tech issuesYou can tell it's an election yearWhen you something like this: "...it's up to content creators to come up with business models that accommodate modern technology and attitudes."They gave the recording industry what they wanted and RIAA made them all look bad. So...
Cognizant to build IT shops in Indiawhy don't theyjust move there, if they do not like america, move...oh who cares about IT jobs anyway....but...this will spread to anything else that can be offshored: 75% of diagnostic medicine, biotech R&D, entertainment, etc. only thing left will be executives and...
EU wants MSFT to put other browsers in WindowsThis is war against MSIt is more and more clear, that EU commision is waging undeclared war against US companies, MS and Intel specifically. I think US government should retaliate demanding that for example BMW car must offer customer a choice of...
Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?Given that the bleeding of local jobs has helped lead TO this recession,and if people are sincere about ending this recession, then we need to look at the larger scheme and not diddle around with huff'n'puff pieces like this. I mean, doing...
Learning from WalmartTelxonIt's interesting that this technology still gets mentioned by name. We worked with Telxon units at a small IT software development company I worked at in the mid to late-1990s, developing client/server solutions for Fortune 500 companies. What we worked with was handheld computing form factors. We ran...
Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administrationObama = Socialism...Good luck with that, he is going to tax the living daylights out of the middle class to 'spread' the wealth to people who do not work.Just wait, when summer hits and electricity is mega expensive we will see how...
GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT JobNot just CAFEI think it's more than CAFE, it's also the myriad of safety/crash regulations and other government requirements that the auto makers have to meet that makes it harder. How do you think the WWII jeep would do in a side impact test?...
Can Google not do evil?So happy"We are so, so happy with Google Chrome," mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth. "That most of our income is from Google has no bearing on this statement." - http://notnews.today.com/?p=57RE: Can Google not do evil?Your vision of Microsoft being the dark side and...
Magna Charta: Welcome Back, Ross PerotIf you dont care for perot, his charts, or want another source... how aboutthe comptroller general?A movie released last goes over the same type of stuff. We have a massive defecit, one that will eat our country whole if its not dealt with....
Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions downElephant repellent[i]Extraordinary rendition, anyone?[/i]See? It works!raymarc001The far sweeping powers that GW grabbed after 911 MUST come to an end! The ability of a president to write executive orders will destroy the USA if this isn't stopped. Every executive order GW has created must be repealed....
Are feds involved in bid to undo state open govt law?Big Brother???Yikes, more proof that there isn't a conspiracy - it's a full-fledged plan of attack. NWO, NAFTA, NAU - Dark times for liberty indeed.Wouldn't surprise meThe advocates of open government have always been at odds with those emphasizing...
EU probes U.S. online gambling crackdown...Looks like the days of pushing people around are coming to a close. With our economy on the brink of collapse, world opinion at an all time low of our government and a nation of apathetic morons addicted to "reality tv". Yup! our time in...
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