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Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today--with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jan. 3, 2008
I'm not sure about it.
Clad in a brown T-shirt with golden print, Neij appeared awkward in court as he struggled to explain the community nature of Pirate Bay to a prosecutor who seemed unfamiliar with non-hierarchical organization.
The prosecutor became visibly frustrated when he tried to get Neij to identify the kingpin who is ultimately responsible for Pirate Bay and the text and graphics on the site. Neij explained that an extended group of people have privileges on the server, and contribute haphazardly as they see fit. The prosecutor seemed not to grasp the concept.
"But someone must ultimately decide whether to put up a certain text or graphic," he protested.
"No," Neij answered. "Why? If someone believes a new text is needed, he just inputs it. Or if a graphic is ugly, someone makes a better one. The one who wants to do something just does it."
This tells much about structure of organization inside service that itself is spread to different parts of world. BitTorrent-like model of company structure or something similar…
Offscreen Technologies Ltd
Offscreen Technologies Ltd is developing Offscr® Studio IDE™ which dramatically shortens the time to market in creating high quality applications for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition devices.
Offscr® Studio IDE™ is now in the late phase of closed beta testing and will be commercially available later this year.
These statements now appear to be pure fantasy. According to the regulatory body which overseas US securities firms Madoff's investment fund may not have made even a single trade.
Someone had to generate all that paperwork which is why Richard Rampell isn't convinced by Madoff's assertion that he acted alone: "To me, that doesn't pass the smell test."
What if two men, in the year 2006, said “Hey, America’s financial system is running up a dangerous amount of risk. Loose credit is creating a bubble in the housing sector. This bubble is certainly going to burst, and it will drag America’s economy into a deep recession.”
You might think that these two men were very smart. You might think that they deserve a great deal of respect for their foresight.
The two men in question are Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb. They were just on CNBC - I found this clip quite surprising. The 5 journalists who interview them greet them with a fair amount of hostility.
Roubini and Taleb are both fairly negative. They have a dark view of where the economy will be over the next 3 or 4 years. Their negativity seems to get in under the skin of the journalists. The journalists run a financial show, what they seem to want most is good news, a reason why their viewers should start investing in the stock market again. Neither Roubini nor Taleb give them what they want.
We can learn a lot by studying Apple and Google and 37 Signals, but in the end, we have to come up with something unique.
I stand by a belief that simplicity will keep you happy in the long run. I currently keep the bare minimum furniture in a very modest house, try to keep the walls mostly free of clutter and make sure there is plenty of open space. Spartan living in a nutshell (the kids seem to love it as well, plenty of room for them to run and jump off of anything!).
Certainly interesting way to thinking about life.
IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor
Reading that title, I got a mental image of body armor sensing incoming bullets and dodging them by jumping off of the wearer.
That comment certainly sounds quite much like Venom from Spider-Man universe of characters. There might be similar scenes in some other series.
Finland. Photographer. Interested of news and other topics from different parts of world.
