Try your hand at balancing the federal budget
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New Federal Budget Proposal
New Federal Budget Proposal
03/13/2003 12:58 PM “Class warfare
turns out to be alive,” Center director Robert Greenstein
commented. “It is a centerpiece of the Nussle budget, with deep
budget cuts that could harshly affect the poor, the vulnerable, and
many middle-class Americans, alongside lavish tax cuts for the
nation’s richest individuals. With this budget, we would be
marching down the path toward a new Gilded Age.”
“The Nussle budget serves one very useful purpose.” Greenstein
added. “It shows that these large tax cuts aren’t free, and that
at bottom, the issue is one of national priorities. This ought to
trigger a national debate. Are tax cuts averaging $90,000 a year for
millionaires so high a priority that we should cut health care
programs, increase the ranks of the uninsured, reduce the cost or
limit the availability of student loans, and increase hardship among
the disabled, poor children, and others to free up room for massive
tax cuts?”
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Why is this rain yellow? or Hey, GWBush, self-appointed one of God,
WWJD?
"Try to balance the federal budget
here."
"Try to balance the federal budget
here."
04/09/2004 09:09 PMFederal Budget Deficit Worries Greenspan
(AP)
Federal Budget Deficit Worries Greenspan
(AP)
05/06/2004 10:18 AMAP - America's soaring federal budget deficits represent a major
obstacle to the country's long-term economic stability, Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Thursday.
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pictures and videos of Hand Job content
on the internet
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Mobile phone companies and service
providers working hand-in-hand to lure
users
Mobile phone companies and service
providers working hand-in-hand to lure
users
09/05/2004 09:54 AMTechTree Sep 5 2004 2:38PM GMT
Get Ready for Some Hand-to-Hand Combat
(washingtonpost.com)
Get Ready for Some Hand-to-Hand Combat
(washingtonpost.com)
05/07/2004 10:46 AMwashingtonpost.com - Cue up the "dueling handhelds" theme: The video
game wars are starting anew, with competitors Nintendo and Sony in a
fierce fight for victory on the handheld gaming battlefield.
Game Makers' Hand-to-Hand Combat
Game Makers' Hand-to-Hand Combat
05/06/2004 05:51 AMNintendo is in danger of getting slapped silly by Sony twice in a
decade. As Sony preps a new whiz-bang handheld video-game machine,
Nintendo will answer with the upcoming DS. If the DS flops, Nintendo
is in big trouble. By Daniel Terdiman.
A Federal Judge Blocked Implementation
Of A Federal Ban On Partial-Birth
Abortions Wednesday Less Than An Hour
After President Bush Signed The Ban Into
Law -- Injunction For Neb. Doctors
Likely Has No Effect Nationwide
A Federal Judge Blocked Implementation
Of A Federal Ban On Partial-Birth
Abortions Wednesday Less Than An Hour
After President Bush Signed The Ban Into
Law -- Injunction For Neb. Doctors
Likely Has No Effect Nationwide
11/06/2003 06:30 AMfoxnews.com/story/0,2933,102266,00.html
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Sony and Nintendo go hand to hand
Sony and Nintendo go hand to hand
05/13/2004 11:11 AMManchester Online May 13 2004 2:41PM GMT
Does the left hand talk to the right
hand?
Does the left hand talk to the right
hand?
03/12/2003 03:54 AMThe NYT is reporting that AOL is providing software to customers to
block pop-ups. The sheer number of ironies in this
article is
simply delicious, and renders further comment unnecessary:
1) "AOL pioneered the often annoying but effective pop-up
format"
2) "10 percent of its users had chosen not to receive
pop-ups from AOL's own service, an option that has been harder to find
than the new blocking software." Hard to find? Almost impossible.
3) "the number of sites that will accept pop-ups is
increasing, including ever more sites owned by AOL Time Warner like
Mapquest and CNN.com."
Hand-to-hand combat over Bolton
Hand-to-hand combat over Bolton
04/11/2005 02:34 PMJohn Kerry advertises in Rhode Island in an effort to swing Lincoln
Chafee against Bush's U.N. nominee.
Balancing act
Balancing act
04/10/2004 02:15 AM
Can you balance the
budget? Balancing in the Blogosphere
Balancing in the Blogosphere
09/24/2004 05:34 PMInternet News Sep 24 2004 8:54PM GMT
Accenture's Balancing Act
Accenture's Balancing Act
07/07/2004 12:50 PMThe large consulting firm is holding steady in the face of
ever-changing demand.
Building a Balancing Scooter
Building a Balancing Scooter
01/18/2004 05:59 AMAnd you gents should consider wearing an athletic cup so you won't
impair your masculinity when you hit the front bar .. Build Your Own
Segway .. tlb.org/scooter.html .. segways work a likes .. Segway D.I.Y
.. website
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Cybersecurity is a balancing act, says
ex-FBI head
Cybersecurity is a balancing act, says
ex-FBI head
11/04/2003 08:43 AMComputer Weekly Nov 4 2003 7:36AM ET
Self-Checkout Security a Balancing Act
Self-Checkout Security a Balancing Act
08/06/2004 04:51 PMLike all fraud-prevention efforts, the security components of a
self-service setup have to be balanced with customer service.
Finding the right home is a balancing
act
Finding the right home is a balancing
act
06/06/2004 06:45 PMChicago Sun Times,IL-13 hours ago ... Putting the name of a suburb
into an Internet search engine, such as Google, will result in links
to helpful sites such as that municipality's official location ...
Balancing the risks in holy Najaf
Balancing the risks in holy Najaf
08/20/2004 10:06 AMIraqi PM indicates he is wary of potential fallout from desecrating
Imam Ali shrine and 'martyring' rebel cleric.
Microsoft ERP: Balancing Benefits and
Lock-In
Microsoft ERP: Balancing Benefits and
Lock-In
03/24/2005 08:30 PMEnterprise Windows I.T. Mar 25 2005 12:43AM GMT
EMIEW: Two-wheeled Balancing Robot
EMIEW: Two-wheeled Balancing Robot
03/19/2005 02:54 AMEverybody is talking about Hitachi's new robot, EMIEW.
It's a two-wheeled balancer on the bottom and a vaguely humanoid robot
on the top. EMIEW is 1.3 m tall, weighs 70 kg and can scoot along at 6
km/hr while avoiding objects with vision sensors and radar. The robot
was
created by the Hitachi
Mechanical Engineering Research Lab which has produced a number of
interesting
robots over the past 40 years. And, in case you were wondering, EMIEW
is
an acronym for Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as
Workmate.
For more on EMIEW see the Pittsburgh
Post-gazette, BBC News,
Taiwan
News, and Slashdot.
Server Load Balancing with OpenBSD PF
Server Load Balancing with OpenBSD PF
04/20/2004 10:01 AMBelated Project 1.0 Release Announcement
Balancing the benefits and risks of
mobility
Balancing the benefits and risks of
mobility
12/02/2003 01:28 AMA security checklist to meet the challenges posed by handhelds and
other mobile devices.
For Iraq, Trial Is Balancing Act (Los
Angeles Times)
For Iraq, Trial Is Balancing Act (Los
Angeles Times)
07/02/2004 05:10 AMLos Angeles Times - BAGHDAD — The sheer breadth of the war
crimes case against Saddam Hussein, which involves charges dating back
30 years, would be daunting for any country.
The balancing of mission and money in
higher education
The balancing of mission and money in
higher education
06/27/2004 08:11 AMChicago Tribune Jun 27 2004 12:09PM GMT
Balancing architectural and business
values in .NET projects
Balancing architectural and business
values in .NET projects
02/21/2003 02:11 AMCNET Feb 21 2003 1:25AM ET
Balancing the Mideast Ledger in the
Wounds of a Dead Child
Balancing the Mideast Ledger in the
Wounds of a Dead Child
05/20/2004 11:42 PMHow many dead children is too many is a question often asked by
Palestinians and Israelis, but it shows no hint of being resolved.
The man who brought you the homemade
Segway returns with a self-balancing
one-wheeler
The man who brought you the homemade
Segway returns with a self-balancing
one-wheeler
06/20/2004 06:44 AMBuild your own self balancing unicycle
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The Mysteries of Windows 2000 Network
Load Balancing
The Mysteries of Windows 2000 Network
Load Balancing
05/29/2004 03:08 PMBalancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up
Political Stories
Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up
Political Stories
09/23/2004 11:21 PMOnline Journalism Review Sep 24 2004 3:58AM GMT
OJR article: Balancing Act: How News
Portals Serve Up Political Stories
OJR article: Balancing Act: How News
Portals Serve Up Political Stories
09/24/2004 09:32 AMBalancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories .. an
interesting article .. JD
Lasica
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Mesopia.com introducing new cost
effective and cutting-edge load
balancing web hosting solutions for
small to medium size businesses.
Mesopia.com introducing new cost
effective and cutting-edge load
balancing web hosting solutions for
small to medium size businesses.
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CANADA'S
DEMOCRATIC BALANCING ACT
CANADA'S
DEMOCRATIC BALANCING ACT
05/19/2004 10:15 AM
Recently I lamented the US
Supreme Court's legitimization of the heinous process of
gerrymandering
-- the rigging of the boundary-setting of political constituencies in
each state by the party in power so that even unpopular incumbents are
guaranteed re-election and so that most voters are effectively
disenfranchised -- and I suggested any country whose judiciary could
find such a travesty was constitutional was effectively no longer a
democracy.
Democracy Watch is a
10-year-old non-partisan, non-profit Canadian organization whose
mission is "to empower Canadians in their roles as voters, citizens,
taxpayers, consumers and shareholders, and help reform Canadian
government and business institutions to bring them into line with the
realities of a modern, working democracy." Its Directors have worked
closely with Ralph Nader. It played a significant role in the
introduction and passage in Canada (this January) of one of the most
progressive campaign
finance reform laws
in the world, effectively ending the ability of corporations, unions
and special interest groups to fund and hence 'buy' political parties,
campaigns or candidates.
Not content to rest on its laurels, Democracy Watch is now working on
a 20-step Program For
a Modern Working Democracy:
- Proportionate representation and similar reforms to
ensure government is fully representative of voter interests.
- An accountability process to track performance
against
election promises, responsibility for government action, and
protection
for whistle-blowers.
- Complete prohibition of financial and other
involvement by
corporations, unions and special interest groups in the electoral
process at all levels, and creation of a 'level playing field' to
prevent rich and powerful individuals from unduly influencing
political
decisions.
- Meaningful mechanisms for citizen participation in
government policy development and decision-making.
- Restrictions on and full disclosure of the activities
of lobbyists.
- Development of an active, practical civics
curriculum for all citizens.
- Increased scrutiny and prevention of corporate waste,
fraud, abuse and misrepresentation.
- Increased accountability
of the judiciary to the public.
- Removal of protection under
the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for corporations.
- Citizen-controlled, full-access scrutiny of
government efficiency, spending and purchasing
decisions.
- Strengthening of ethical codes and enforcement for
government officials and the public service.
- Citizen oversight for the management and use of
public assets.
- Recognition of the inalienable public ownership
of the airwaves.
- Strengthening of citizens' ability to obtain
timely, accurate access all information on government activities.
- Public funding and organizational support for
consumer watchdog and advocacy organizations.
- Recognizing
employee ownership and increasing employee control of pension funds
and assets.
- Increasing the participation of all shareholders
in corporate decision-making.
- Increasing the rights of
non-shareholder stakeholders
(employees, community etc.) in corporations, and extending
participatory mechanisms available to, and accountability to, these
stakeholders.
- Setting minimum standards for corporations to invest
in the communities in which they do business.
- Encouraging the creation of local currency systems
(LETS) to support community economic development and community
service.
Today, I am proud to report that the Canadian Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge
to Canada's election law, and specifically a clause which severely
limits political advertising by special interest groups during
election
campaigns. The challenge was brought by the arch-right-wing National
Citizens Coalition, an organization that espouses reducing government
authority, business deregulation, reducing taxes, 'family values' and
other conservative agenda programs, some of them quite extreme. The
NCC
was planning on a huge conservative-issues promotion during the
upcoming Canadian federal election campaign. The NCC used to be led by
-- surprise! -- federal
Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper. Had the constitutional
challenge been successful, it would have made a mockery of the new
campaign finance reform laws. And the case was problematic: It's
difficult to say with great clarity what constitutes 'political
advertising' when it doesn't come from a political party or candidate,
and hard to argue why ads that are acceptable at other times unduly
influence public opinion during elections. And the very principle of
banning advertising that isn't fraudulent is troubling. But the Court
struck a delicate balance, and their argument in support of their
decision is compelling, pragmatic, and, well, utterly Canadian.
I'm not bragging, though. Canada still lags behind most European
countries in the introduction of proportional representation, and
majority governments in Canada have a frightening amount of power
(though so far, except for the Mulroney
d
ebacle,
they have had the sense not to abuse it). The Liberals have been in
power so long that they got lazy and complacent and allowed some civil
servants to rob them (and Canadian taxpayers) blind. And as I've
reported,
an unholy alliance of animal testing labs, corporate farmers and
hunting organizations have been able to strong-arm Canada's unelected
Senate three times to scuttle a modest, government-supported
strengthening of Canada's 100-year-old, shamefully inadequate animal
protection laws.
But compared to the situation in some countries I need not mention, we
don't look too bad.
Postscript: Today the
Canadian government also approved the over-the-counter sale of the 'Morning After Pill' without a prescription. In
George Bush's repressive America, of course, this is illegal. But it
is legal in America to buy
semi-automatic weapons, and you don't need a prescription for them. Is it just me, or
that seriously twisted?
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On The Other Hand
On The Other Hand
11/21/2002 01:57 AMThe new Ikea commercials are instant classics. The initial focus is on
a couple or a family in a heated argument, the two I've seen
All we need at hand, already. Go!
All we need at hand, already. Go!
04/13/2004 10:06 AM
Creative,
cheap, participatory, the most innovative city in the
world......Curitiba !! There may be no single, organic and
living font of
solutions to many of the world's most pressing problems than
Curitiba (previous
link from Wikipedia, and a bit more of a wonkish summary
he
re), a Brazilian city of 1.5 million that urban planners from
around the globe make pilgrimages to, to learn.
On a budget a
tiny fraction of those which
American cities have at their disposal, how did Curitiba
become the world's leading model for urban sustainability and quality
of life ? - with possibly
the world's most
efficient and effective public transit
system, a network of parks and greenery far beyond
Olmsted's visionary
parks, 70% trash recycling, innovative social welfare systems, trees
everywhere, and "Lighthouses of Knowledge" with
small libraries and free internet access as well, a low cost open
university system.....and flowers!
Curitiba's pedestrian-only (no cars) city center is filled with
gardens.
Hand Job
Hand Job
03/19/2005 02:32 AM365 Gay Mar 19 2005 5:05AM GMT
Give this guy a hand!
Give this guy a hand!
01/06/2005 11:57 PM
The Hand Collector.
I have no idea how these people got their cats
hands wedged into their scanners, or why. An Invisible Hand?
An Invisible Hand?
09/01/2004 05:42 AMAn Invisible Hand? - An Unexplained Effect During Solar
Eclipses Casts Doubt on General Relativityhttp://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3104321
“ASSUME nothing” is a good motto in science.
Even the humble pendulum may spring a surprise on you. In 1954 Maurice
Allais, a French economist who would go on to win, in 1988, the Nobel
prize in his subject, decided to observe and record the movements of a
pendulum over a period of 30 days. Coincidentally, one of his
observations took place during a solar eclipse. When the moon passed
in front of the sun, the pendulum unexpectedly started moving a bit
faster than it should have done. Since that first observation, the
“Allais effect”, as it is now called, has confounded physicists.
If the effect is real, it could indicate a hitherto unperceived flaw
in General Relativity—the current explanation of how gravity works.
That would be a bombshell—and an ironic one, since it was
observations taken during a solar eclipse (of the way that light is
bent when it passes close to the sun) which established General
Relativity in the first place. So attempts to duplicate Dr Allais's
observation are important. However, they have had mixed success,
leading sceptics to question whether there was anything to be
explained. Now Chris Duif, a researcher at the Delft University of
Technology, in the Netherlands, has reviewed the evidence. According
to a
paper he
has just posted on arXiv.org, an online publication archive, the
effect is real, unexplained, and could be linked to another anomaly
involving a pair of American spacecraft.
A Dremel in the hand...
A Dremel in the hand...
04/12/2004 06:11 AM
When I was a bartender, I learned to believe in the power of the full
moon. I never bought into the whole idea of celestial bodies
determining behaviour such as horoscopes, but I overcame my scepticism
after too many nights of full moon freaks. It isn't a full moon and I
don't know if there is a celestial convergence, but there are an awful
lot of people lately who either need a good trepanning by a qualified mental dentist in possession of a
good quality Dremel or a fleet enema.
Jarkko was on holiday last week and we did a few fun things that I
have been scanning the photos from over the last day or three. So,
there are a number of photos coming up soon. Tomorrow, we go shopping
for a decent photo scanner since negative/photo scanners are a lot
cheaper than the last time I looked five years ago.
And, if you live in Finland and understand English, Meng Weng Wong
was nice enough to set me up with a mailing list since I have near
epileptic fits over excessive use of animated smileys on the wailing
wall and mailing lists are a lot easier to manage, thread and organize
than a flat web page. It's unmoderated and should be a fun list for
the local expats to share news articles, URLs, local events and the
usual mailing list kind of stuff. Meng is the guy behind SPF so spam
shouldn't be a problem, either. If interested, the subscription page and the subscription address,
subscribe-iesaf@v2.listbox.com, should be self-explanatory.
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