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- Bush making GOP irrelevant in health care debate?
- Republican Governors met yesterday here in Georgia, and while many, including Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue, had been big supporters of the S-CHIP program he calls ours Peachcare the successful veto of that made their policy prescriptions seem like small beer. Health saving accounts. Portable health records. "Free...
- Tags: Republican, Health Care, Veto, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- 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: veto, Anne, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2007-01-09
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- Compromise on the drinking age debate
- Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, drinking age, beverage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- App Store blacklist continues, next victim: I Am Rich
- It appears that Apple continues to remove and blacklist applications from the App Store without warning, notice or acknowledgment. First, NullRiver's NetShare tethering application was removed, reappeared and was removed again. Second, the extremely useful Box Office application renamed to Now Playing suddenly disappeared. The third application...
- Tags: application, apple inc., notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, jason d. o\'grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops
- You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...
- Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...
- Tags: Commodity Market, green technology, green tech investment
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- IT work is 'boring,' students
- IT work is 'boring,' studentsThey're right. It can be boring.It's nothing like where I came from doing CAD drawings and design work.There's a [i]lot[/i] more boring paperwork in this position then I imagined.Why do you think I stop here from time to time?RE: IT work is 'boring,' studentsIts all in...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Work, job
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?
- I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...
- Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Global Warming Bill Heats Senatorial Tempers
- Global Warming Bill Heats Senatorial TempersAt least it's being debatedIf nothing else, this is going to force Senators to disclose what sort of bill they would support that is what amendments are for. Of course, if the sponsors were serious about getting this done, they would have been trying...
- Tags: Global Warming Bill, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Global Warming Bill Heats Senatorial Tempers
- Clearly this first attempt at a bill having to do with limiting greenhosue gases is not going to sail through the US Senate. They're bicking and using various procedural moves already, and this is just the amendment and floor debate. Matters not, President Bush says he...
- Tags: President, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.
- The US Senate is the first national battleground for an attempt to get the federal government to take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. We already know the attempt by more than a dozen states to raise auto emission standards was stopped by the EPA earlier this year. ...
- Tags: America, Health Care, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Fring first out of the gate with iPhone VOIP client
- Fring first out of the gate with iPhone VOIP clientDoes Fring support the iPod Touch?Hey Jason,Wondering if fring supports the jailbroken iPod Touch with the mic mod.I was checking out SIP for the iPod/iPhone VOIP functionality.YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmUPRrrxoVcRE: Fring first out of the gate with iPhone VOIP clientFring first out...
- Tags: Telephony, iPhone VoIP, iPhone VOIP client, Apple iPhone, Fring, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- A HIX tax moves ahead in Vermont
- The Vermont House voted 119-19 last night to keep a tax on medical claims aimed at paying for computing systems in doctors' offices and an online network to trade the records. The fee would raise $33 million over the next 10 years and would allow all doctors...
- Tags: Fee, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, E-health, Healthcare, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Coal Wars: Navajo Nation sues the feds, Kansas to konk old King Koal?
- The Navajo Nation and a private power company in Texas are suing the E.P.A. Not because they've been turned down, they simply can't get an answer. The Navajo's utility company and Texas-based Sithe Global Power applied for a permit back in 2004. They want to build a...
- Tags: Kansas, Coal, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Money, Politics and Energy: Menage That Screws the American Consumer
- I don't think anybody is naive enough these days to think that the future of green tech or alternative energy is based on fair competition in some imaginery free marketplace. Don't we all know that economic competition in America, and elsewhere, is heavily weighted in favor of those with...
- Tags: Green Technology, Dollar, NREL, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- House nixes telecom immunity, votes to investigate abuses
- The House just passed a FISA bill without immunity for telecom companies! The White House is pissed off: The White House circulated a statement after the vote calling it a "a significant step backward in defending our country against terrorism" that was...
- Tags: White House, Immunity, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- U.S. to plug Open XML as an ISO standard
- U.S. to plug Open XML as an ISO standardOpen XML is now deadThe rest of the world is severely pissed at America right now, and coming right after Bush blocked a law that would have made Torture illegal, I'm expecting the world to take a dim view of anything America...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Durusau, Fast Track, ISO, OOXML, Open XML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- The trade-offs in mental health parity
- The U.S. House, for the first time, has passed a bill giving mental health insurance parity with physical health. (The picture is of sponsor Patrick Kennedy from a 2005 briefing for Friends of NIDA.) But a look at blogger reaction shows the trade-offs here...
- Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- New Jersey to mandate electronic health records
- New Jersey will become the first state to mandate a move toward electronic health records under a bill now before Gov. Jon Corzine. A. 4044 establishes a 19-member commission to oversee the transition from paper. The commission's job will be to promote the use of national...
- Tags: Commission, New Jersey, Electronic Health Record, Plan, Standards, Governor, E-health, Quality, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Business Operations, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Biofuel's nightmare question: food or fuel?
- A major mainstream economic writer has just weighed in on the food-or-fuel debate. That's the monster in the closet of the entire biofuel industry. Right now in America most biofuel comes from corn which is grown on some of the richest, most productive farm land on the planet....
- Tags: Food, U.S. Congress, Corn, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
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