“Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws wich would force ISPs to block or degrade bittorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away,” — an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes - WWdN: In Exile
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“AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte” — AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte | TechCrunch
Concept art for some of the units
notes.unwieldy: The $144,146,165 Button -
The average New York City taxi cab driver makes $90,747 in revenue per year. There are roughly 13,267 cabs in the city. In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to begin taking credit cards, which involved installing a touch screen system for payment.
During payment, the user is presented with three…
Head of Time Warner Cable Is Unfamiliar With Apple's AirPlay - NYTimes.com -
AirPlay, a software tool included with Apple’s iPads and iPhones, is widely viewed as being potentially disruptive to the cable industry, because it makes it easy for people to view a broad variety of Internet content on a television. Time Warner Cable’s leader, however, hasn’t heard of it.
Open Channel - How Florida brothers' 'pill mill' operation fueled painkiller abuse epidemic -
The deluge of cash became a problem. Employees could be heard on the wiretaps complaining about cash drawers being stuffed to the top. It wasn’t worth keeping dollar bills, so those were separated and then burned by the barrel. Bigger bills were stuffed into garbage bags, then hauled to a bank.
“So Germany’s experience isn’t, as the Germans imagine, an argument for unilateral austerity in Southern Europe; it’s an argument for much more expansionary policies elsewhere, and in particular for the European Central Bank to drop its obsession with inflation and focus on growth.” — Those Revolting Europeans - NYTimes.com
“The fact of the matter is this. The average American lives to be 75. The average pro football player lives to be 55” — The NFL: The No Future League
This new design is simple, sturdy, and timeless. It makes it look like the Nets have always been in Brooklyn, and that they always will be.
Sir Richard Branson: The full interview | Marketplace from American Public Media -
Branson: Every penny that the Virgin Group take out of those three airlines, we invest in that area. Now, it’s not on a charity basis. I mean obviously, if we can be powering our planes with clean fuels, we’ll have a competitor jet aviation fuel; we will hopefully not be taxed by countries because we’ll be running on clean fuels and therefore hopefully the ticket price will be less; and hopefully more people will travel on us. And that’s really what “screw business as usual” is all about. Try to do things for the right reasons, but also try to make sure that you can pay the bills at the end of the year.
“Sobriety, laudable in many respects, does imply rigidity of thought. The best presidents were open-minded, and generally open to a drink. The nondrinkers, at least over the last century or so, were terrible presidents.” — The Wrath of Grapes - NYTimes.com
“It seems to me that there is a group of people who believe that all markets eventually commoditize and everyone will be satisfied with sub-standard products as long as the prices are lower. Not coincidentally, these people also tend to write sub-standard analysis of Apple.” — The Argument That Apple Cannot Keep Growing « John Moltz’s Very Nice Web Site
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