Posts Tagged ‘economy’

Morning Joe: Serious Glee

Posted: March 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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The mask is dropping fast

6:06 a.m. I haven’t seen the set so happy since the election of Obama.

6:09 a.m. Joe is making the war point back.

6:12 a.m. Yup look at that lineup coming up, its going to be the bash Rush day again. It would be nice if at least one of the conservatives they talked to on the radio would be allowed on to defend.

6:14 a.m. I conclude that Scarborough is not going to be running statewide in Florida.

6:24 a.m. You know times have changed when pregnancy is celebrated that way, I like it. Very nice maturity dress too.

6:36 a.m. This woman is editor of the Financial times and she is preaching socialism?

6:42 a.m. Mika: “Couldn’t all these bailouts hurt more than not doing it?”

6:44 a.m. Freeland in a few months it won’t be the economy keeping you up at night, but it is worth it.

7:01 a.m. “The woman slut themselves out” Mika’s mom instincts are really solid.

7:24 a.m. For some reason they play Hugley saying he doesn’t want incendiary rhetoric but then compares the republican convention to Nazi Germany, that clip doesn’t make it.

7:27 a.m. Steele proved Limbaugh right. Conservatives will let republicans know when they are their party again.

7:29 a.m. Rush is keeping the conservatives in. The White house is happy. Chuck Todd does say that the Whitehouse might regret it next year.

7:48 a.m. You might need someone to restore confidence but you have to have policies that inspire confidence as well. What good is having great cheerleaders when you are the Detroit Lions?

8:05 a.m. Wow Tina Brown has not mentioned Rush once.

8:09 a.m. They are right Clinton has been a very active Sec of State so far.

8:12 a.m. The cut the deficit in have is insanity, this was said by a NY TIMES REPORTER!

8:12 a.m. Eugene Robinson: “5 years from now we will all be clutching our groins.” Does that mean he wants Obama/America to fail?

8:15 a.m. No wonder the focus is on Limbaugh, when they have to defend the actual Obama policies they can’t.

8:29 a.m. Herbert doesn’t want to talk economy, I wonder why?

8:33 a.m. Auto zone has a profit since of course people are fixing their cars instead of buying new ones.

8:35 a.m Good news people are still flushing their toilets!

8:49 a.m. That duck hunt game looks cool

Ok lets talk porn…

Posted: March 2, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, oddities, opinion/news, tech
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Now that I have your attention…

I was thinking of this post concerning file sharing and how it has been a pain to persuade people off of these sites. Mostly due to free music and porn.

I can’t tell you how many systems I’ve worked on that were loaded with porn or with explicit icons on the desktop. I’ve actually had to tell explain the risk difference between stuff you will download with limewire or torrents and “good” porn sites that have subscription walls and do not want to infect you because they want you to be paying your $10 or $20 or whatever a month to keep looking.

These are tough economic times as my own job search has shown. With this in mind consider old but very relevant article:

“The contributors, or amateur porn models, they target are between the age of 18 and 24.

“Often struggling students, young single mothers, or just underpaid young women.

“So they come to a site that seemingly offers them an opportunity to make money while expressing themselves as sexual beings in an environment they are told is pro-female and that their creations will be viewed exclusively by members.

Now many of those sites do have subscription walls for their material just like many songs have copy protection and we all know how that works out. Once that file is downloaded by a member and put on a torrent or on a system with any file sharing poof the wall is gone.

Do you remember this exchange from the Magnificent Seven:

Chris: Harry tells me you faced bigger odds during the Travis County war.
O’Reilly: Well, they paid me six hundred dollars for that one.
Vin: He said you got that Selena thing cleared up in less than a month.
O’Reilly: Paid me eight hundred dollars for that one.
Vin: You cost a lot.
O’Reilly: Yeah. That’s right, I cost a lot.
Chris: The offer is twenty dollars.
[O’Reilly keeps chopping wood. Chris and Vin turn to leave.]
O’Reilly: Twenty dollars? Right now, that’s a lot.

Consider this for a moment (content warning):
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Four legs good two legs better

Posted: March 2, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I guess the Obama administration has painted the side of the barn again and Dissenting Justice has the temerity to notice:

Today, the Obama administration responded to criticism surrounding the earmarks and to demands that he veto the budget unless Congress deletes them. Peter Orszag, the White House Budget Director says that the President will not cause a standoff over earmarks because the anti-earmark movement is now a relic of the past: “This is last year’s business . . . We just need to move on.” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (who sponsored several earmarks in the proposed budget) echoed Orszag’s statement that the earmark controversy is “last year’s” issue.

Well the Napoleon Obama administration is only two months old it has proven itself truly Orwellian. I expect to see a lot more of this over the next four years.

The Anchoress’ post missing President Bush is looking better and better.

The test of the media

Posted: February 28, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Instapundit reports that there have been “Tea Party” protests nationwide drawing anywhere from 100 to 1500 people. They have been pretty much self made spread on the web using tools such as twitter.

It will now remain to be seen if and how the media reports on these protests particularly if they continue. Because dissatisfaction over what is going on is not confined to supporters of the president.

It will be very hard to pooh pooh this stuff if people in their towns and cities see it going on and ignored. Particularly when the “tax cut” is only a withholding adjustment that will be paid back anyways.

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