#108 Appearing to enjoy Classical Music (16)
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There are a number of industries that survive solely upon white guilt: Penguin Classics, the SPCA, free range chicken farms, and the entire rubber bracelet market. Yet all of these pale in comparison to classical music, which has used white guilt to exist for over a century beyond its relevance. Though white people do not actually listen to classical music, they like to believe that they are the type of people who would enjoy it. ...
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Bill said:
Oh man...I love John Williams! What does that say about me???
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Justin said:
One of the best posts from Stuff White People Like --JB
Fox vs. MSNBC: Michelle's Speech (2)
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Quote of the Day: Thornberg on Housing (3)
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"People are saying the reason prices are falling are because of all of the foreclosures, but the foreclosures are happening because the prices are falling. They've got it backwards. The prices are falling because they're too freakin' high."Chris Thornberg, Beacon Economics, Aug 27, 2008 The above quote is from a Voice of San Diego article by Kelly Bennett: Local Prices Down 30 Percent from Peak
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Brian said:
"People are saying the reason prices are falling are because of all of the foreclosures, but the foreclosures are happening because the prices are falling. They've got it backwards. The prices are falling because they're too freakin' high."Chris Thornberg, Beacon Economics, Aug 27, 2008
FDIC may tap Treasury after bank failure (1)
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You can add the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to the list of entities that may be in line for a Treasury Department bail-out, The Wall Street Journal reports, following an interview with the agency's chairwoman. The FDIC is a bit cash-strapped these days as it props up failing banks across the country. It announced on Tuesday that 117 ailing banks are now under its care and that the FDIC holds an astounding $78 billion in ...
FDIC may tap Treasury after bank failure (1)
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You can add the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to the list of entities that may be in line for a Treasury Department bail-out, The Wall Street Journal reports, following an interview with the agency's chairwoman. The FDIC is a bit cash-strapped these days as it props up failing banks across the country. It announced on Tuesday that 117 ailing banks are now under its care and that the FDIC holds an astounding $78 billion in ...
Movie Labels To Launch New Open Market Play Anywhere Scheme (14)
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Most of the big movie studios and many online movie retailers are preparing to to launch a new initiative tentatively called Open Market, first proposed last year by Sony Pictures, we’ve learned. All of the major studios besides those associated with Walt Disney are already on board and will be part of the announcements made next month. Sony Pictures CTO Mitch Singer’s presentation to industry participants supporting Open Market is available here. Open Market is ...
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Roger Åberg said:
Finns en viktig miss i den sista sliden - varken iTunes eller iPod/iPhone är med och då är det fail.
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Chuck LeDuc said:
What a side-splitter: they're coming up with a standard for DRM and Apple isn't on board? If only Hollywood could make movies as funny as their business decisions they'd sell a lot more tickets.
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Yan said:
Good in concept...historically getting this group to agree anything is in the same league as world peace...
Movie Labels To Launch New “Open Market” Play Anywhere Scheme As Last Ditch Effort To Save DRM (19)
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Most of the big movie studios and many online movie retailers are preparing to to launch a new initiative tentatively called Open Market, first proposed last year by Sony Pictures, we’ve learned. All of the major studios besides those associated with Walt Disney are already on board and will be part of the announcements made next month. Sony Pictures CTO Mitch Singer’s presentation to industry participants supporting Open Market is available here. Open Market is ...
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Chuck LeDuc said:
What a side-splitter: they're coming up with a standard for DRM and Apple isn't on board? If only Hollywood could make movies as funny as their business decisions they'd sell a lot more tickets.
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Roger Åberg said:
Finns en viktig miss i den sista sliden - varken iTunes eller iPod/iPhone är med och då är det fail.
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Yan said:
Good in concept...historically getting this group to agree anything is in the same league as world peace...
Broadcom buys AMD's DTV chip unit (1)
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As expected, Broadcom Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s digital TV (DTV) chip business for approximately $192.8 million in cash.
LA Times: FBI Saw Mortgage Fraud Threat in 2004 (1)
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From the LA Times: FBI saw threat of mortgage crisis Long before the mortgage crisis began rocking Main Street and Wall Street, a top FBI official made a chilling, if little-noticed, prediction: The booming mortgage business, fueled by low interest rates and soaring home values, was starting to attract shady operators and billions in losses were possible."It has the potential to be an epidemic,
Tech IPOs out of favor, may stay so for some time (1)
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Tech companies once dominated the U.S. IPO calendar -- but not anymore.
iPhone hacker says the device 'calls home' to Apple, allows apps to be remotely disabled (48)
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Filed under: Cellphones According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of "unauthorized" apps -- a move which suggests that the device makes occasional contact with Apple's servers to see if anything is amiss on your phone. In Jonathan's words: "This ...
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Michael said:
This is interesting, but unsurprising. Apple wants control of their platform. This is just another way of doing it.
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Rick Dillon said:
Looking worse and worse every day...
FriendFeed crawls Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube so you don't have to. (1)
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No, I don't want to use Twitter. I'm way too busy—and, let's be honest, too uninterested (and uninteresting)—to spend all day thumb-typing status updates from my cell phone. That's the problem with Web 2.0 services like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, and the rest: They expect me to eagerly upload, type, click, and tweet my life onto the Internet so these tidbits can be served to others. What I really want is to be able to ...
FriendFeed crawls Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube so you don't have to. [Slate] (4)
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No, I don't want to use Twitter. I'm way too busy—and, let's be honest, too uninterested (and uninteresting)—to spend all day thumb-typing status updates from my cell phone. That's the problem with Web 2.0 services like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, and the rest: They expect me to eagerly upload, type, click, and tweet my life onto the Internet so these tidbits can be served to others. What I really want is to be able to ...
US Blackmailed By China? (2)
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Bloomberg is reporting Fannie's Mudd Soothed Asian Investors as Bonds Rose.Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Daniel Mudd was sitting down to a glass of wine with his wife at their Washington home around 10 p.m. on Saturday July 12 when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called.Concerns about the financial health of the biggest U.S. mortgage finance company had driven Fannie Mae's borrowing costs to the highest since March the previous week and its shares had tumbled ...
Windows Mobile App Store (1)
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For those of you who don't know, Microsoft have responded to the Apple iPhone apps store and launched their own version.Called windows mobile portal, it provides a nice little interface to see all the programs, and gives all sorts of information like promotional videos, links to external websites etc. I don't see any version that will run on the device itself just yet, however if this is going to be a serious answer to what ...
This is the best video I've ever seen on the Late Great $2.5 Trillion US Housing Ponzi Scheme. (2)
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When HP started in 2005, it was hard to get to the truth of what was going on.No more.Now it's all out there for everyone to see. All of it, the whole big stinking heap.And yet the IRS, the FBI and the US Justice Department sleep.And worst of all, our corrupted Congress, our incompetent president, our Wall Street run Treasury Department, and the unaccountable US Federal Reserve are putting your kids, and their kids, and ...
Calculated Risk: The "Foreclosure Crisis" and Exploitation of a Suicide (4)
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This is an extremely distressing story: a woman faxes a suicide note to her mortgage servicer on the day the foreclosure sale is scheduled, and is dead by the time the police arrive.Distressing for anyone with what I take to be a normal sense of human decency, that is. To the local and now national media, it seems to be catnip. Carlene Balderrama's personal tragedy is in danger of becoming an
Microsoft starts its photocopiers, begins Apple counter-offensive (1)
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave his grimmest promise yet that he intends going to battle with Apple in a statement to company staff last night. Ballmer confirmed a grim plan to beat Apple at its own game, saying: "In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment ...
You Know The Banking System Is Unsound When.... (15)
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1. Paulson appears on Face The Nation and says "Our banking system is a safe and a sound one." If the banking system was safe and sound, everyone would know it (or at least think it). There would be no need to say it.2. Paulson says the list of troubled banks "is a very manageable situation". The reality is there are 90 banks on the list of problem banks. Indymac was not one of them ...
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Jon of SMA said:
Wow is this analysis scary. If the US banking system is ready to fail, I don't care where you have your money it will be impacted. And all Bush can do is say hold your breath, things are not that bad. Scary stuff.
