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Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Public healthcare could spur Silicon Valley innovation and create jobs

California is Bankrupt ... ??????Barry Sorento is bankrupting the USS of A$7,000,000,000,000 TRILLION in debt andit is more than a TRILLION more makingit $8,000,000,000,000 and unemployment is the highest in 25 years!INSANITY!The dollar is ranked 48th in the world nowOboma is a genius at destroying the economy!

Tags: health care, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

I'm in a nanny state state of mind

Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...

Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Canada announces mandatory corporate tax reporting via Internet

The problem is...We have idiots at all level in the gouvernement... therefore there's a high probability that this will be insecure and/or prone to faults and errors...I usually just go to a tax personSounds good, although I usually just go to a tax person and save myself the trouble of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Internet, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

SIM survey: 52% of CIOs reported diminished IT budgets in 2009, but only 28% for 2010

Tax & trade and more taxesWait till the Bush tax cuts go out, you will see unemployment go higher thanthe bogus 10% it is really 16%...Since the past month 500,000+ jobs werelost and I am sure with Cap & Tradewe will be enjoying more unemployment!CHANGEYes, change the greatest country on...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, information technology, tax, SIM card, survey, IT budget

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

More e-readers - more misconceptions

my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, E-books, open mind, NPR, Car Talk, education, e-reader, tax, misconception, British Broadcasting Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Behind the GOP revolt on health care

ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The FTC's guidelines raise ruckus, but are (mostly) unenforceable

I'm Fer It.If bloggers want to be thought of as journalists, they will have to adopt the ethics of journalism, which call for a separation of editorial and advertising and disclosure when an opinion or fact is written about someone or something that pays the journalist and/or is owned by...

Tags: Blogging, Taxes, Free trade, blogger, tax, FTC

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

When web services go bad: Ticketmaster's outrageous tax on culture - it harms society

This is exactly why monopolies are bad.,,,If there was an alternative source of tickets for the same event, these ripoffs would cease.The government should ban "exclusive deals" like this. The only beneficiary is Ticketmaster.WOW, I had no idea it was that badYour point by point is pretty damning.wtf....where's the...

Tags: tax, Web, Web service, Ticketmaster Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

Soak the rich? Ban the Beamer?

This is a tech site.ntTo be more specific:this is a computer tech site.But you knew that.lolgood idea. Well, he *has* to fill his weekly quota anyway.And, tech will be a big part of making cars more fuel efficient and less polluting.Blog post or beginning paragraph?Hey Harry make a one sentence...

Tags: car

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

U.S. still thumbing its nose at global warming agreements

I live in Japanand according to one discussion panel TV program here, the cost to the average household of Mr. Hatoyama's wonderful buttering-up of the alarmist regime will be around US$3,950 per household - seriously; for a theory being treated as fact I can see the real danger for my...

Tags: Taxes, global warming, tax

Discussion threads 2009-09-20

Reconsidering Obama's ed speech? Sort of

but Obama's going to pay all my bills!RE: Reconsidering Obama's ed speech? Sort ofDo you remember being a student? The is par for the course. It is about being pro-American, pro-'democractic' system, and respecting the office of the president."How does the President inspire you? What resonated with you from Obama?s...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, Obama, job, tax

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Windows 7 Starter edition introduces genuine "Microsoft tax"

Their copyright, their license, their rulesIf you want it you have to play by their rules. Always has been that way with Windows, and it always will be that way. If you don't like it, you can always play with someone else who is more willing to share."How much you...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating systems, tax, Microsoft Windows, Tiered pricing, Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, Microsoft Windows 7, netbook, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Microsoft still pushing a standards tax

You make an assumption that is not true"If a standard includes ?IP restrictions? of any sort, especially royalties no matter how reasonable or necessary you consider them you?re imposing a tax on all users for your invention."Excuse me? Take for example Flash. Do they not license On2's proprietary "IP restricted"...

Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp., tax

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-08-05