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Open source lending tinged with racism

Open source lending tinged with racismProfit opportunityIf some non-financial factor is restricting the ability of some people to obtain the loans, then anyone who ignores that factor will be able to charge a higher rate than would otherwise be obtained.If someone's financial profile would justify a 5% rate (just to...

Tags: Financial services, open source, borrower, racism, auction

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Open source lending tinged with racism

If open source lending is to work out the problem of racism must be fixed. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Loan, Racism, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Beaming online services toward blacks

Beaming online services toward blacksRacism and SegregationThe only reason there is still racism in the USA is because the Black and 'other' minorities won't shut up about it.Let me ask....Can I start a 'White' Entertainment Channel or will I be accused of being racist?RE: Beaming online services toward blacksWhen black...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Racism

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Sony pulls controversial Dutch PSP ad

Sony pulls controversial Dutch PSP adTypicalNobody raised a stink at the previous billboard in the same Sony campaign that showed the same black woman with her foot on the throat of the same white woman.The racism exists, but not where they tell you it does. These complaining black activists are...

Tags: racism, Sony Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-07-12

CA ousts Kumar as chief executive

CA ousts Kumar as chief executiveRacism ??The board found a scapegoat. They never wanted an Indian running the company anyway.Not a racism!Why the heck looking for reason in "no-reason" area? Anyone feels too Indian and tries to accuse of wrong motives?The real motives of stepping down in this situations are:1....

Tags: Corporate governance, Computer Associates International Inc., racism, ISV

Discussion threads 2004-04-21

Additional Resources

The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near you

X-ray screening is badHow about we just have everyone strip naked and pass all our cloths and carry-ons through the scanner instead? There's no such thing as privacy in the Nazi-run American airports anyway.RE: Human x-ray machines: Coming soon to an airport near youI'm just going to ask for...

Tags: Infirmary, Human x-ray machine, X-ray

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute

Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...

Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Facebook, Wrong Again!

As it being widely reported, a Facebook poll has caught the ire of the Secret Service for asking whether President Obama should be killed. The Service is investigating the poll and asked the poll be taken down. "The USSS [Secret Service] sent us an e-mail late this...

Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Facebook, Barack Obama, Service, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

a whole string of international meetings aimed at coming to some kind of globally acceptable agreement on global warming. Consider this a warm-up for the sci fi imagined event of the killer asteroid headed our way. Can humans really co-operate on the mega-scale? We haven't so far....

Tags: Agreement, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pittsburgh, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Crop circles: What's Google trying to tell us?

Biofuel competition?My hope is that is it not something as simple as Orwell's books being made available on Google Books. My thought is crops, space craft, space age technology, future technology...biofuel. Perhaps some sort of biofuel grant competition or similar?! It must be big if they are using...

Tags: Google Inc., Chrome OS, biofuel, operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Should open source hate Apple?

Apple Doesn't Have Control?Apple created an entirely closed marketplace for music through iTunes and the iPod that no other product has successfully done! The point that one device was more than 60-70% of the market kills innovation, let alone that it was laced with DRM for years and still is...

Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Microsoft and their Photoshop diversity policy

Wow!Looking forward to hearing the PR claw back for this one. This is just in-excusable, regardless of local politics. It's not even well done!World's shortest neckCould have lifted the head a bit higher.Also, not necessarily any sinister motive. When budgets are enormous, you pay for focus groups to determine...

Tags: Public relations, Marketing research, iGeneration, Photoshop diversity policy, Microsoft Corp., diversity policy, Adobe PhotoShop

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without contentEVDO Internet connectivity??EV-DO really?With that only it's a pretty restricted market...there are not many countries were it will work...Better GSM+EDGE+HSPA&HSPA+ /WCDMA (2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G etc. support).CDMA has no longer term future on this planet... RE: The Apple...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Cellular phones, Apple Tablet, tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Twitter Trust #Fails

There's a big difference between a 'Trust Fall' and a 'Trust #Fail' to use the increasingly tiresome valleygirl slang #word Twitter users assign to stuff that doesn't meet their high standards. A 'Trust Fall' is a trust-building exercise often conducted in turns in...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Metal Sludge, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Is our love for Palm clouding our Pre judgement?

Is our love for Palm clouding our Pre judgement?A Year Or So Behind?I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say that Palm is a "year or so behind iPhone and several months behind Android." If you are referring to the product launches and broad availability of developer...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, Pre, Palm Inc., judgement

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Crazysoft Personality Psychology Pro for Nokia S60 5th Edition 1.0 (Mobile)

Personality Psychology Pro 1.0 for Nokia S60 5th Edition phones'Personality Psychology Pro' is a huge pack of personality tests and games presentedin a pleasant / funny way. By these Psychology tests & games you can realize much more about yourselfand about your companion. You can analyze your personalityand find out...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Personality Test, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-06-04

Michelle Obama in Her Own Words 1.05 (Mobile)

The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention, kudos and criticism about her words, actions, even...

Tags: Mobile, Rogak, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Homeland Security, Human Resources, Career, Government

Software downloads 2009-05-15

Shame on you, Facebook!

Shame on you, Facebook!The Double Standards of the Western WorldIf Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten prints caricatures of holy prophet Muhammad, it is "FREEDOM OF SPEECH". If facebook allows holocaust denial, it is SHAMEFUL. How CIVILIZED is the world with such double standards we live in!Free speech for me but not for...

Tags: Facebook!, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Shame on you, Facebook!

How far ought organizations go towards censoring what’s published on their social networks? Here at ZDNet we have pretty stern view on racist language in our comments section and certainly in our articles. That’s not just smart business. It’s just common sense. Yet as Michael...

Tags: Denial, Facebook, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-11