August 2009
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Oy Tenenbaum! RIAA wins $675,000, or $22,500 per... →
artistspaid:
Ben Sheffner / Ars Technica:
A Boston federal jury has ordered Joel Tenenbaum to pay a total of $675,000—$22,500 per song—to the major record labels for willfully infringing 30 songs by downloading and distributing them over the KaZaA peer-to-peer network. The figure is closer to the $222,000 award in the first Jammie Thomas-Rasset trial than the $1.92 million figure from the...
July 2009
39 posts
Leader of Nigerian Sect Reported Dead After... →
When you kill someone after capturing them, without a trial, it’s called murder.
Man Hit By Central Park Tree Branch In Coma →
I walked past the police and bystanders yesterday on my way to work. I wondered what had happened. So sad.
Watchlivejamie:
William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin’s Farewell Speech
It’s kindof beautiful
11 Famous People Who Were in the Completely... →
onemoretimewithfeeling:
I have hope!
In a recession that wilts dreams, it’s nice to read something like this.
“The Bloomberg administration, which has struggled with a seemingly intractable...”
– “I didn’t expect the city to be the way it is, I was expecting something different, something better.” - Hector Correa (NYT)
Survey says Manhattan rents down 11% from 2006... →
The Health Benefits of Rice Krispies →
“Because the H1N1 virus is new, most people haven’t developed an immunity...”
– WSJ
Asthma! That’s all it takes to make this fatal?
“This is poking teachers’ unions straight in the eye”
– Mike Petrilli, a vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a research group that studies education policy. From ‘Administration Takes Aim at State Laws on Teachers’ (NYT).
Not what I’d expect from a so-called “Socialist”.
“Can you have an Adderall ready for me? Can you crush it up?”
– Girl in front on me on the bus, talking to the friend she’ll be staying with.
“as Smith noted, the market will only work to the best interests of society if it...”
– WSJ This is what I was attempting to get at
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“Recent monetary experience, in Germany and elsewhere, show that the theories of some economists on the influence of speculation are too optimistic. According to economists, speculators foreseeing the future variations of exchanges and anticipating them with their transactions, lessen the fluctuations themselves. But this theoretical conception often does not correspond to reality....
“Meng Li, a bond analyst with a fondness for magic tricks, playfully fanned out a...”
– - For High Line Visitors, Park Is a Railway Out of Manhattan (NYT)
Sounds like somebody read The Game.
“Shipments of window air-conditioners from manufacturers to distributors were...”
– - Life Without Air Conditioning (NYT)
Perhaps this is why I’m having no luck selling my extra air conditioner.
“current data reveal that in Cypus, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece,...”
– A fascinating article on obesity with smorgasbord of trivia
Onion waste turned into electricity at California... →
$1.1m of annual savings, $9.5m cost = 11.6% return, not counting government incentives. Good work.
“With the exception of Jordan, no country in the Middle East has granted...”
– WSJ
“How’d they get these rocks here?”
– Tourist, in Central Park, wondering about the naturally occuring boulders
“The program, which aims to convert as many as 400 units, is designed to provide...”
– The cost of living in this city is incredible (WSJ)
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I’ll try to combine what I’ve read in three books: “Great Depression Ahead”, “Dollar Crisis”, and “Holy Grail of Macroeconomics”. The paradigms are demographics, vicious/virtuous cycle caused by the dollar’s status as the global reserve currency, and an over-indebted balance-sheet driven economy, respectively.
The US baby boomers are the...