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Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in Senate

Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in SenateWah, wah, wahThat's all I read out of your "verbiage."You only look at one side of the equationWhat about the thousands of companies that run server farms? Their energy bills are going to skyrocket.You discuss the benefits to the green companies...

Tags: Benefits, green company, Waxman-Markey, Repubs, DOA, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2009-06-28

Ashcroft ready to clean up the Internet

Ashcroft ready to clean up the InternetDisturbedEven as a staunch conservative, I am disturbed by this morality trend in the Republican party. I have always been a believer in the first amendment right of free speech and expression. I believe that other people have the right to view...

Tags: Repubs, Internet, American Taliban, Ashcroft, spender

Discussion threads 2004-03-08

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Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)

Let the whining by the Neo-Cons begin. nt:-(RE: Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)bingoKeep your damn politics out of itCan't we just discuss technology issues without injecting our political views? There are valid arguments on both sides; let's focus...

Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, net neutrality rule, broadband investment, broadband, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

We don't know what we don't know

We don't know what we don't knowShock! I thought the debate was over...You mean we really don't know everything? You mean we have no idea why more and more reliable scientific studies show that we are currently in a global cooling trend? You mean we don't know why there has...

Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good enough to pay for? Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, HD-DVD, Jason Perlow, SOA, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in Senate

There was not a kind word to heard be from the Republican Party today about the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill. Obama calls the bill "bold and necessary." The Republicans called it names. Waxman-Markey would change many aspects of federal law on energy, air pollution and global warming. Amazingly...

Tags: Green Technology, U.S. Senate, Obama, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-28

One forward step for Waxman-Markey bill, the easiest step

The Waxman-Markey bill now faces the U.S. Senate where a simple majority is rarely enough to pass anything more important than a resolution commemorating some sports team's victory. Today the House voted to approve the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by only 219 to 212. ...

Tags: U.S. Senate, Team Management, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Worse and worse

Worse and worseNot Unusual. And No Problem.Oh wait. Someone has a political agenda out here.Tip of the Iceberg, to coin a phraseIts much worse than anyone thinks. I spent 3 months researching an article on all the latest science and each one of 8 new (2-3 years) developments indicates it...

Tags: Kozmcrae

Discussion threads 2009-05-31

Craigslist CEO: South Carolina AG's antics 'simply beyond the pale'

Craigslist CEO: South Carolina AG's antics 'simply beyond the pale'Harry McMaster is a trojan horseHe is manipulated from behind the scenes by a few liberal pupeteers to make all conservatives look like nuts and out of touch with America.AG's power is the loss of our freedoms.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11155-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=64679&messageID=1204064I suspect another motivation behind...

Tags: Harry McMaster, South Carolina AG, Craigslist, antic

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Talk about rotten infrastructure...

It is widely acknowledged that the most energy-efficient way to move a lot of people from point A to point B is by rail. Same goes for freight. Yet over the past half century the U.S. has made an art of dissing rail transit beyond a few major metro areas....

Tags: Train, Houston, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Senators cry

Senators cry wow that senator is so funny how much do you think that 2 years retention on data is gonna cost ..... tape back up and everything wow intelligence at a pure state wow RE: Senators cry I call total BULLSHYTE! It's...

Tags: child pornography

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

$3b approved for rural broadband

$3b approved for rural broadbandPhone service?Isn't USF for phone service, not broadband? not sureWAIT??????Isn't the Universal Service Fund supposed to help pay this?The USF has 4 programs including 1 for High Cost, that consumers in all regions of the nation have access to telecommunications services at rates that are affordable...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USF, broadband, rural broadband

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

Conflict of interest in FTC's DoubleClick hearing?

Privacy groups are trying to get FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, a Republican, to recuse herself from consideration of the Google-DoubleClick deal. It seems that DoubleClick has tapped the DC law firm of Jones Day to represent it before the FCC and Majoras' husband is an equity investor in Jones...

Tags: Jones Day, Transaction, DoubleClick Inc., FTC, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-13

Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote Democratic

Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote DemocraticWhat in the world makes ........ you think it would be any different with a Democratic Whitehouse. You Bush haters are so blinded by that hatred you can't see the truth when it is right in front of your face. The...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Bush Administration, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarce

Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarceDont trust paper ballots eitherWhat proof do you have that your paper ballot gets counted? Before Al Gore's election challenge we never counted dangling chads or anything else the counting machines rejected.Not that it matters much as ALL the candidates the...

Tags: ballot, felon, Diebold Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

Republicans' YouTube debate date in limbo

Republicans' YouTube debate date in limboGood!Then make them MISS an important event... It would be their loss, not CNN's.Oh! besides, no one is watching these GOP clowns except for Ron Paul... the rest are neo-conservative and the only one watching them is the neo-conservative base...Digital Democracy and Traitors; universal...

Tags: Web 2.0, Government, Vertical industries, Universal Access, democracy, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

Poll: Rush Limbaugh is giving away 10 iPhones, each with two-year calling plans

Poll: Rush Limbaugh is giving away 10 iPhones, each with two-year calling plansBush makes it easy for Dems to win!The whole Scooter Libby affair will make it easy for Dems to win the white house this year. Bush's previous actions cost his party the Congress and his recent actions...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Scooter Libby, Rush Limbaugh

Discussion threads 2007-07-04

Microsoft, Clinton group form green partnership

Microsoft, Clinton group form green partnershipthat's a blunder!I know that Hillary needs campain money, but working with the one you once prosecuted does not make any sense!In order to have our vote a presidential hopefull will have to endorse Linux and shun windoze!reality and perceptionPerception is open source gives away...

Tags: Business structures, Processors, Microsoft Corp., Clinton Group, small-business people, partnership

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

Congress off to slow start with tech

Congress off to slow start with techSpam versus IraqWhich needs attention sooner? There are a lot of Republican messes to clean up before you can get to the tech stuff.This says it all:[i] When newly empowered Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launch into their much-touted 100-hours agenda...

Tags: U.S. Congress, veto

Discussion threads 2007-01-09

"Oh, great," some techs say: "Pelosi's crowd wants to tax and regulate me to death!!"

"Oh, great," some techs say: "Pelosi's crowd wants to tax and regulate me to death!!"voting irregularity!Hmmm! I just voted, and the total vote count was 2... but the tally reads 50% for "i'm happy", 50% for "i'm concerned", and %50 for "no change"...150%? weird! I guess voting irregularity can happen...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Federal government, Government, tax, FCC, Pelosi, Big Government

Discussion threads 2006-11-10