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Three Reasons Why I’m Rooting For Google+ To Fail
20 Jul 2011 6:59 am John Hawkins

In all fairness, you’d have to call Google+ a success already.
The numbers are still a little iffy, but at a minimum, it looks like they’ve reached the 10 million user mark for a service that only debuted on June 28.
That’s good news for Google, but bad news for me, because despite the fact I feel obligated to have an account, I really don’t like Google+.
Why?
Well, first off, Google is already so huge that you could make a great case that it should be broken up as a monopoly. …

Info Age Arms Race
8 Jul 2011 9:22 am Courtney Messerschmidt

Information is intell and intell is power. Thus – unlimited info = unlimited power!
Oh, you know this is so.

The very same cat that enabled two of Great Satan’s hyperpuissant fans to unleash “Shi Lang” upon a world worried about Collectivist China’s not so Peaceful Looking Rise – returns to continue to put steel on target in the new millennium’s new battlefields:
“…The ‘lationship between economics and national security in East Asia is changing, and not just because of China’s rise. Ongoing long-term trends, especially the globalization of production and the …

Don’t Film Me Bro: Getting Arrested for Filming People in Public Places
2 Jul 2011 11:21 am Warner Todd Huston

The law has not caught up with cell phone cameras, Flip Cameras, compact video cameras, and the electronic age. Two stories being reported last weekend prove out how the ubiquity of video capture devices are often a gray area in the law.
In one case a woman in Rochester, New York, pulled out her video camera to record the actions of a local policeman as he arrested a neighbor. As it happens, this woman was standing on her own front lawn, no where near the policeman who was going about his …

Comparing The GOP Presidential Contenders On Their Number Of Twitter Followers
27 Jun 2011 4:48 am John Hawkins

Social media is more important than ever, blah, blah, blah. Measure of strength, blah, blah, blah. May disagree over how important this is, blah, blah, blah! Your mileage may vary, blah, blah, blah! Oh, and Ron Paul!
Now, without further ado, a ranking of GOP presidential contenders (and some select “maybe they’ll runs”) based on their Twitter Followers. (PS: If the candidate has more than one account, I used the bigger account.)
Newt Gingrich: 1,325,512
Sarah Palin: 577,653
Ron Paul: 56,859
Michele Bachamann: 55,662
Mitt Romney: 54,981
Rick Perry 46,368
Herman Cain: 45,822
Chris Christie: 44,215
Tim Pawlenty: 42,423
Thaddeus McCotter: …

It’s Time For The Government To Break-Up Google
24 Jun 2011 6:29 am John Hawkins

“I am certain you know that I am in favor of competition. So any type of monopoly, I would not be in favor of…” — Milton Friedman
When one company dominates the free market to such an extent that it creates a monopoly, consumers will benefit if that company is broken up by the government. That’s how you keep companies from becoming “too big to fail” and it also insures that there’s enough competition so that one company can’t dominate the market and become as unresponsive to consumers as the …

The Atlantic Magazine’s Lies: Of Breitbarts, Kochs, and RightOnLine
22 Jun 2011 11:22 am Warner Todd Huston

Last weekend Americans For Prosperity once again held its RightOnLine conference, this year in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consequently, the Atlantic Magazine decided to do a report on what went on at RightOnLine. Unfortunately, the whole thing was filled with opinions stated as fact, misconstructions of facts, and outright lies. Sadly, along with the rest of the Old Media, it seems as if the veracity of The Atlantic has taken a hit in this bad Obama economy.
The Atlantic assigned third string reporter Tina Dupuy to handle the RightOnLine retrospective, apparently, …

When Anti-Technology Kills
17 Jun 2011 12:01 am Dennis Avery

CHURCHVILLE, VA—This week’s headlines: Another huge, awful outbreak of food-borne bacteria. This time the worst, so far, in modern history; perhaps 2000 sickened, and about 20 dead. At least 500 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome. That means liver damage—and potential death from kidney failure. More than 1000 cases of severe diarrhea. Usually it is the very young and the elderly who are most at risk of serious consequences, but this outbreak targeted young adults, mostly women.
All the known cases involved people who recently ate food in northern Germany—but …

Obviously, Twitter Shares Part Of The Blame For Weiner Being Pond Scum
8 Jun 2011 9:21 am William Teach

ABC News doesn’t come out specifically and say that Twitter shares the burden for Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY) sexting issue, but they sure imply the hell out of it! Congressman Weiner: Did Twitter Make Sexting Too Easy?
In the end, of course, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner said he did it to himself. He was the one who got in contact with women, he admits. He concedes he sent lewd pictures, and then lied about it.
“[I'm] deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and actions,” Weiner said again and again. “This was …

Political Candidates Ignore Social Media at their Peril
24 May 2011 2:32 pm Rachel Alexander

Political campaigns are gearing up for the 2012 elections and candidates are wondering how much in resources they should allocate to social media. Many campaigns rely on volunteers or scarcely devote any resources to social media. Even though Obama’s defeat of John McCain in the 2008 presidential election was partly due to Obama deeply integrating digital strategy into his real-world campaign, many campaigns still shrug off the importance of social media, spending less than five percent of their media expenditures online.
Social media is taking over traditional areas of campaigns, from fundraising to …

NASA’s New Mission: Left-Wing Propaganda Targeting Children
20 May 2011 12:53 pm Dave Blount

What does NASA do with our money now that Obama has pulled the plug on space exploration? Its new primary mission is to help Muslims feel good about themselves for their imaginary technological accomplishments, but another important objective is to brainwash gullible children with anti-human leftist ideology:
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Web site network includes “Climate Kids: NASA’s Eyes on the Earth,” which use cartoons, games, and other activities to teach children about man-made global warming and climate change.
A sample of the appalling content:
One of the features on …

Big Brother Bubba’s Ministry of Internet Facts
18 May 2011 11:45 am Warner Todd Huston

Bill Clinton wants the government to “correct” what you say on the Internet, folks. Should the government listen to the former panderer-in-chief, we’ll go from Big Brother to Big Bubba on the ol’ Internet tubes.
Bubba is not happy with what he claims is the “misinformation” on the Internet and he wants the force of government to stop it all. Politico is reporting that Clinton makes the proposal in an upcoming CNBC interview saying, “It would be a legitimate thing to do.”
No, Bubba, it would not.
Clinton says that the idea of …

Why We Can’t Trust Government on Technology
30 Apr 2011 9:30 am Warner Todd Huston

Free market advocates have for years been fighting the anti-capitalist left over government control of the Internet, a battle that has reached a temporary plateau when Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) arbitrarily decided that it was in full control of the Internet and by fiat implemented the left’s long-sought net neutrality rules. This isn’t the only technology kerfuffle that the federal government is involved in, either.
Another techno-mess has been raging over a contract being considered by the Department of the Interior for its new email/messaging system using a cloud computing …

Reading Books Is Apparently Bad For Globull Warming
28 Apr 2011 9:56 am William Teach

All you folks who read books, you are killing Gaia, and need to immediately buy an e-reader (until the alarmists determine that they are bad for Gaia). From TerraPass
Unfortunately, the business of publishing books, newspapers, and magazines has a large environmental impact. In addition to the tens of millions of trees harvested every year, paper manufacturing is responsible for 11 percent of all freshwater consumed by industrial nations, and is associated with an annual discharge of 153 billion gallons of wastewater. (snip)
According to a 2009 brief by …

Apple Tracks Our Every Move — Blacks, Hispanics Suffer Most
26 Apr 2011 1:18 pm Dave Blount

It’s bad enough if Apple is violating our privacy by tracking our movements with its iPhone. But what’s far worse is that this constitutes racism:
Friday on MSNBC’s daytime programming, host Thomas Roberts explained that in the wake of revelations the iPhone tracks your movements with its operating software, minorities, specifically blacks and Latinos are most vulnerable, since they use their cell phones more than whites according to a Nielsen study.
“Alright, so one day after learning of a hidden iPhone feature that tracks your every single move, there’s new concern that …

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Attacks Apple iPad
20 Apr 2011 10:59 am Warner Todd Huston

Chicago area Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. is apparently as fickle as he is uninformed about economics and the Constitution both. In March we saw him praising the Apple iPad as technology so important that he wanted to have the federal government buy one for every American student. Only a month later he was calling the iPad a destroyer of American jobs. Talk about a whiplash inducing turn around.
In March, Jackson was pleased to announce a brilliant idea to put a provision into the Constitution that gives every student an iPad …

FCC net neutrality mavens impose forced wireless broadband sharing
10 Apr 2011 11:42 am Chris Wysocki

Maybe now that Congress is done haggling over miniscule budget cuts they can return their attention to the Obama Administration’s net neutrality power grab. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is hell-bent on redistributing the networks built by AT&T and Verizon to every penny ante bit player who comes along.
Why build your own wireless network when you can get Socialists R Us to force the existing networks to carry your traffic for you? The FCC cleverly calls it “equal access” but it’s anything but equal. So now we …

From Nat’l Journal, One of the Most Biased Reports Seen in Some Time
6 Apr 2011 11:30 am Warner Todd Huston

Once in a while a purported news report is so biased that it simply must be highlighted. Today’s award for the most biased report goes to National Journal for its left-slanted piece on Obama’s warning to the House GOP that he will veto any budget that cancels his FCC attempt to take control of the Internet away from private industry.
In his very first paragraph for the National Journal, Josh Smith dives straight into the left side of the pool — and in at the deep end yet — by accepting …

Moonbat Tech: Bamboo Bicycles
30 Mar 2011 3:06 pm Dave Blount

Possibly because it grows so fast or because it’s associated with the exotic Orient, moonbats have decided that bamboo is “sustainable.” Even bamboo flooring, slathered in all manner of unpronounceable chemicals to keep it from splintering, is marketed as “green.” Bicycles are green too, not only because they represent pre-fossil fuel technology but because they symbolize the poverty implicit in communism, serving as the primary mode of transport in socialist hellholes like Cuba. Put bamboo and bicycles together, and you can impress even the Moonbat Messiah:
NEW YORK — President Barack …

Paul Krugman’s Freaky Anne Hathaway Fantasy
27 Mar 2011 8:16 pm Jenn Q. Public

Originally published at NewsReal
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Every time news coverage of actress Anne Hathaway spikes, so does Berkshire Hathaway stock. At least, that’s the fantasy Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman promoted on his New York Times blog this weekend.

It’s about time New Jersey deregulated all telephone and cable TV services
13 Mar 2011 5:47 pm Chris Wysocki

In a little over a week the NJ State Senate will vote on a bill to eliminate century-old regulations on telephone and cable television companies. It has already passed in the Assembly, by 66 – 7. The “Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act” (SB 2664) removes requirements for the Board of Public Utilities to micromanage every telecom business decision. Thanks to archaic rules established back when Marconi was an apprentice lineman the BPU has to approve even the smallest change to any …

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