Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Rep Knollenburg wants to help Big Three

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/BIZ/804290426/-1/rss

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg proposed spending more than $1.2 billion
over five years to aid domestic automakers as
they spend billions to comply with new fuel economy standards.
He also
proposed a rewrite of the tax code that could be worth as much as $3.2 billion
to Detroit's Big Three automakers in annual tax rebates.

Normally I would say I am against such subsides, but I see how this area is hurting and would support it if there were a provision that the money has to be spent in the US or somehow be guaranteed to help American workers. This money cannot be spent overseas.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

No good title

Having watched three hoops games or more that he has done in this tournament, plus numerous games over the years, I am starting to think I could listen to Dick Enberg do play by play of a board meeting. For my money, he is one of the best out there. I think Michigan State fans should be happy they got him and Jay Bilas to do their games instead of Nantz and Packer. I like Jim Nantz a lot, especially in a few weeks at the Masters (An Experience Unlike Any Other), but can't take Packer a whole lot.

Haven't gotten any responses to my begging for money post yet. I thought of something else, if you want to stake me, that would be fine too.

Hopefully I will have my bed back up this weekend.

Listening to This Week In Tech (TWIT), which is a great roundtable of those involved in technology, and they are talking about recent rulings by the US Copyright office that are going to kill internet radio. If you listen to internet radio, go to http://www.saveourinternetradio.com/ and read more. Of course, this was lead by the RIAA. This is interesting since there was an article in Playboy this month (yes, I read the articles) about the U.S. Copyright office is really serving as a system of legalized extortion. Just more evidence that ours is a government of the people for the corporations who can lobby best.

There is another article how unions are starting to be formed in Iraq to deal with the appalling working conditions there and how the Bush administration is trying to make sure they don't go anywhere. Hopefully the Democrats will engender some hope in this arena. That seems to be the way to breed democracy over there, like Poland maybe?

Anyway, I am going to bed. Talk to you later.

Monday, November 13, 2006

Monday Night

Trying to figure out if I should just go to bed, but I have things to do yet. Guess I should not have played that 3 hour game first.
This is Game week. Go here to see the countdown - 4 days 16 hours as I write this. The magnitude of this game is truly astounding. I don't want to think about it too much as I will not do anything, and I mean anything, else. I have already reviewed the TV schedule (as mentioned yesterday) and found all the prior games that Michigan won, and am recording them. That is one of the things I need to do tonight is to get some more things off my DVR to have room for the new things.

Anyway, nothing real exciting, however, I did have a thought. When is someone just going to develop a tapeworm that can be controlled? I wouldn't mind taking a tapeworm pill once a month that will eat all the fat going through my body, but allow my digestive system to absorb all the nutrients it needs. And then it dissolves and I create a new one. This sounds like the weight loss plan to beat all weight loss plans, why isn't anyone on this? Remember, nature has had all kinds of time to perfect these things, look to her for guidance.

Sean