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[TechCrunch] Complaints Against Yelp's “Extortion” Practices Grow Louder: And in my experience, when you have smart people who work well together, it's foolish not to invest.” Maybe because it was his birthday ”” or maybe because he had made tens of millions of dollars on PayPal ”” Levchin agreed, investing $1 million in the ....

[Car Advice | News | Reviews] After 77 years GM no longer No1 | Car Advice | News | Reviews: Also, for decades the japanese gov't has manipulated their currency against the US Dollar, to make their exports more competitive, & the japanese banks were complicit. That means Japan, at a financial & gov't level, .

[Buy Gold] Buy Gold: Gold Bullion Investments: Which to Buy, Gold Coins or ...: A higher premium is normally paid for smaller-sized coins and investment bars (i.e., 5% - 20% depending on size) than is paid for large investment grade bullion bars (i.e., 2%- 5%). This is because, like with most products, it costs the manufacturer - in this case, a mint or refiner - more money to make, say, 400 one-ounce perfectly shaped, designed and inscripted pure gold coins, than it does for that mint or refiner to produce the single inexact weight and pure “400-ounce” gold bar described above.

[The Lab] Bare Necessity Car « The Lab: As I had mentioned in an early thread - I can’t help but think that eventually with online vehicle ordering becoming mainstream as software systems organize automotive plants efficiently the future of cars could be this premise of people customizing their componentry just as they would the color and materials similar to the way you order a computer or work with a home-decorator. Certainly dealers are still needed to allow the customers to touch and experience and test-drive before a purchase, but I believe that people are going to continue to push for more flexible purchasing options.

[Big Government] » Anthony Weiner's AAA Rated Attack on Beck and Goldline: Amateur ...: Weiner goes on in his report to quote a bunch of conservative commentators who have pushed gold, sponsored by Goldline, and one wonders - how thin-skinned is this man?  Why is he so concerned about television commentators while Rome is burning?  How egotistical can he be to go on a crusade against people actively trying to help their viewers, and even if they had unseemly reasons for doing so which I do not believe to be the case, why is it his job to crucify them?  People can make decisions for themselves.  When you take that decision-making mechanism away, you get stagnancy, dependency and serfdom.  Exactly what Weiner and all of his progressive friends apparently want, not because they care about the people but because of their base lust to be the people’s masters.

[Pajiba] American Violet Review: As for your stating that multiple studies show laws in the south are skewed to persecute African Americans, well, I can find studies that are just as reputable stating that African Americans are more likely to commit violent crimes, and I'm willing to bet someone would bray at me about context and the biases of those doing the study, so I'm afraid I can't buy that as a concrete argument. By the way, your assumption that those church members left the congregation that sponsored the movie for racist reasons is itself bigoted and unfair (there's more than one reason a movie sponsorship would make someone leave a church), unless the NPR story you were citing included something you left out.

[Girl in a Party Hat] A Snowman in July | Girl in a Party Hat: Right or wrong, [the doctor] is giving you a snapshot of performance during a very short period of time in which a child is put in an unfamiliar environment with an unfamiliar adult and asked to comply.  My guess is that if Sophie decided she didn’t want to do a task, she convincingly said, “I can’t,” or “I’m very tired.”  During administration of select standardized tests, this counts as an incorrect answer.  There is no game playing or adult manipulation allowed.  If I assumed Sophie was incapable of learning a new task every time she told me, “I’m so tired,” I would have thrown in the towel long ago.

[naked capitalism] Tom Adams: Face to Face With Polished Wall Street Psychopathy (SEC ...: The SEC accuses ICP of inflating the prices of bonds it sold to the CDOs and defrauding the investors in the transactions by manipulating the bond price data, violating the terms of the agreements and effectively stealing from the investors and insurers in order to line their own pockets. The actions of ICP helped offset their own losses and bad investment decisions (they purchased a $1.3 billion pool of mortgage bonds from the blown up Bear Stearns hedge funds at what they thought was a great bargain but what turned out to be overly optimistic prices).

[ForcedGreen] The Facts On Climategate |: Just last month Australian officials were prompted to issue a shipping warning because of hundreds if not thousands, of Antarctic icebergs floating towards New Zealand. Scientist Neal Young (glaciologist) said they were the remains of a massive ice floe which split from the Antarctic as sea and air temperatures rise due to global warming.

[SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog] SEOmoz | I'm Getting More Worried about the Effectiveness of Webspam: Too Much Baby Thrown Out with the Bathwater - perhaps, as link manipulation and spam have grown in popularity, Google's found that they can't penalize a technique or sites employing it without dramatically reducing the usefulness of their index (because so many "good," "relevant" sites/pages do some dirty stuff, too). If this is the case, they'll need to work on much more subtle, targeted detection and elimination systems, and these might be substantially harder to employ.

[The Big Picture] Subsidizing Fossil Fuels: $72 billion (vs $29 billion) | The Big ...: Our entire culture (including our economy), since roughly 1905, has been built around the gasoline powered automobile and, increasingly, on petrochemicals. Our way of life is now dependent on getting oil out of the ground: transportation infrastructure, zoning, suburbs, the food supply, packaging, plastics, jobs (in the auto, oil, chemical and related industries, as well as commuting for those employed elsewhere), foreign policy, fiscal policy, and the military-industrial complex.

[HorsesAss.Org] HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » Rossi on Palin: “She's bright and ...: Both skills are important, a President with great ideas who isn’t an effective communicator (Carter) can’t get anything done, an effective communicator who is easily manipulated by idealouges and goes for the simple answer every time (Reagan, Bush) can get things accomplished, but in entirely the wrong direction.

[Rome News by Watson] Rome News by Watson | Blog Archive » "And Justice For All": and make everyone understand………….As far as the other stuff with Judge Colston, Leigh Patterson and Ron Patton, i’m not so sure and the jury is still out……………I can be convinced with cold, hard evidence, but it will take a LOT to convince me that the DA has done anything underhanded…………I’m not naive, but I would be very disappointed if I discovered she had done something wrong………Since my point about the Lemming case has been made, i feel no more need to state it as it is just rubbing salt in the wound…….

[97th Floor: SEO, Viral Marketing & Social Media Blog] » Public Spam Report: Google Your Honeymoon with Rip Off Report ...: Larry seemed sober but he kept on looking at my boobs and my friend's. Then Sergey Brin was asking if they were real, and it made me laugh because .

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Hanging nicely: a practical ...: The current SS109 long range machine gun derived round that’s become 5.56 NATO (US green tip M855) has the same mechanism, but there are anecdotal reports that the manufacturing variations in this bullet are quite a bit greater than for the simple 55 gr FMJ that doesn’t have add the complexity of a forward bit of steel, and therefore the stopping power of M855 is a lot more variable. Combine this with the 14.5 inch barreled M4 carbines that are now all the rage and you have a problem for any sort of medium to long range fighting.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global ...: There are ways to promote economic advancement in developing countries that don’t leave them a stinking, sooty ruin, and if a fraction of the money wasted on AGW studies had been devoted to it most of those steps could already have been taken. Of course the real problem with that approach is that nobody will get a Noble Prize for it and they would have to get out of their limos and jets and do real dirty work out in the field.

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