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- In a way we're amazed it's taken this long, but the first external USB high-definition TV tuner for PCs is coming out. The OnAir USB... |
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- In a way we're amazed it's taken this long, but the first external USB high-definition TV tuner for PCs is coming out. The OnAir USB... |
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etc (Dec 31 2003 17:49 GMT) - BBC :: (December 31, 2003) The government of Ariel Sharon has again been accused of trying to pre-empt any future... |
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- aih, entrando no clima... FELIZ ANO NOVO e tudo de bom...! bjinhus e se cuida |
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- Oi Rafael, eu e meu namorado adoramos ler seu blog! E estas lindas pérolas que as pessoas deixam em comentários à sua pessoa, fazem parte da nossa vida, por isso ignore-os e lembre-se que existem pessoas fascinadas por ler todas as coisas novas que você tem a postar! Boa sorte em 2004 e feliz ano novo para você e toda sua família!! Beijos e abraços... |
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- Oi, Rafael... feliz ano novo pra vc... e eu acho vc foda...vc é d+, seus posts são muito bons...eu sempre entro aqui e racho o bico das coisas que vc escreve... |
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- o meu também nem é bleh. Mas que puxa. |
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- So, Central 1.0 has been out for quite some time (and the betas for even longer)... but, no one seems to be making any Central apps available (I see 6 total Central apps, all free samples). To the contrary, interested developers end up posting things like this in Macromedia's forums: “ |
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- ...And Counting That's how long until it's a New Year. Overall, I guess I'm reasonably glad to have the current... |
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- Excerpt: "[T]he viability of our country's young startup companies is being compromised by recent actions taken by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). While we recognize the pressure placed on the FASB to issue standards more quickly, we have a grave concern that their 'rush to regulate' has needlessly burdened young companies in several ways." (Venture Capital Journal via Hoover's Online) |
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- Excerpt: "FASB seems determined to force public companies to treat their employee stock options as an expense. But many members of Congress want to table the change or enact less stringent rules. The private accounting board hasn't clashed with Congress since 1994, when they fought over the same issue." (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! |
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- Excerpt: "Market timing, for those who haven't followed the mutual-fund scandal that broke in September, is the rapid-fire trading that allegedly allowed fund companies and their clients to benefit at the expense of ordinary investors.... But hold on a minute.... [Some investment managers] believe that by shifting money among different types of investments-- bonds, stocks, cash, real estate, gold-- they can avoid market downturns. That kind of strategy is what 'market timing' used to mean ... |
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- Excerpt: "I've been able to confirm through informal discussions with representatives from the DOL and the SEC (though unofficially) that, as the rest of the alert suggests, only one of the exceptions applies to exclude regularly scheduled blackout periods used by companies as a prophylactic measure to avoid insider trading problems under Rule 10b-5; the other exception does not apply." (Haynes and Boone LLP) |
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- Excerpt: "In the absence of better data, critics in the field point to a different reason for the fusion operation's fast rise: money. Medicare can pay a surgeon as much as four times more for a spinal fusion, some doctors say, as for a laminectomy ... Doctors and hospitals are not the only players with a financial stake in fusion operations. |
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- Excerpt: "Our company's self-funded health plan is subject to HIPAA's privacy rules. We know that the plan must provide individuals with an accounting of certain disclosures of their protected health information upon request. What types of disclosures have to be included in the accounting and what information about the disclosures must be provided?" (Employee Benefits Institute of America (EBIA)) |
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- Excerpt: "Contrary to myth, private insurers add to the cost of Medicare. Steering seniors into the private plans just hastens the day Medicare goes broke." (Jane Bryant Quinn on MSNBC) |
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- Excerpt: "We are an organization of IBM retirees growing in size, possessing a significant IBM share voting strength and representing IBM retirees nationwide. We are united in our belief that over the years IBM has committed lifetime medical benefits to employees who stayed with them until retirement." (BenefitsRestoration@IBM) |
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- Frum and Perle to Bush: "Start More Wars!". Richard Perle and David Frum have authored a new book, challenging the Bush Administration to start more wars in order to win the war on terror. According to today's Daily Telegraph of London, within the book President Bush was sent... |
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- Martes 30 de DiciembrePor el derecho a decidir |
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- Die Th!nkNerd-Redaktion wünscht allen Lesern nette Partys und einen guten Rutsch ins Jahr 2004 :-) |
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- DiscoverCard. com - Current Promotional Links. (repost) Discover® |
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no special (Dec 31 2003 17:47 GMT) - you thought there would be a special for new year's eve? we had a christmas special about people scanning body parts. that should do. watch the scans quickly as the united states, respectively florida counties, have declared war on nudity.... |
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- Ever wondered what Saddam planned to do with that $750,000 in his possession when he was captured? Maybe something like this: (Thanks to my friend Ed for emailing my first chuckle of the day.) |
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- Meatpackers say new rules intended to keep mad cow disease out of the nation's beef supply could increase processing costs but will be worth it if they restore consumer confidence. |
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- Ever noticed how much of writing is devoted to categories? We've got mysteries, and science fiction, and fantasy, and romance, and then even sub-categories like detective fantasies and horror-based detectives and literary sci-fi and so on ad nauseum. Many writers get a tad bit irritated at being lumped into a category: for example, even though the editors of Best American Mystery Stories 2003 tried to define "mystery" stories broadly enough that almost any crime-related fiction could qualify, at least one writer refused to be included in the anthology because he didn't want to be characterized as a "mystery" writer. What does all this have to do with the title of this post, you might ask? |
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- (US) A Hayden man whose supply of medical marijuana was seized in an October raid by a local-federal drug task force has asked a judge to find the officers in contempt for failing to return the drug.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $cannabis(100%), $medical_cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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RECIPROLL (Dec 31 2003 17:46 GMT) - I hadn't updated my reciproll in a while, since blogrolling.com's search feature has been offline for weeks. The following sites have now been added: The... |
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- Excerpt: "On December 11, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) issued proposed rules on disclosure regarding market timing, fair value pricing, and selective disclosure of portfolio holdings in an effort to prevent the recurring of some abusive practices that have surfaced in the mutual fund industry recently, including late trading, market timing, and selective disclosure." (Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP) |
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- Last post by flamingkitties on 17:19 31/Dec/03 - 1. It feels good to walk to the newsagent at 7am on New Year's Day with a clear head. |
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- Last post by Beelzebub on 16:56 31/Dec/03 - Turron, torrone and other bloody Roman Imperialist tidbits. |
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- Last post by 'arch-nemesis' on 16:48 31/Dec/03 - Best advert evvvvuuuuurrr |
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- Elderly Fla. Drivers to Take Vision Test Drivers? What about voters?... |
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- Während die Menschen in Amerika noch schliefen, hat in Asien das neue Jahr schon begonnen. Mit als erste durfte wie immer die Bevölkerung der Pazifikinsel Kiribati feiern. Auch in Sydney und Tokio wurden die Feuerwerke schon abgebrannt. |
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- The FAA is expanding flight restrictions over an enormous part of the tri-state area for New Year's Eve. The news comes along with word of the discovery of the body of a stowaway in the wheel well of a plane that landed at JFK Tuesday night. It's a discovery raising new security concerns. |
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- A number of new laws take effect on New Year's day. One could mean higher gas prices, but state officials want to know if you think a company's taking advantage and gouging customers. |
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- A 15-year-old who suffered severe burns to his hands and face in a deadly Bronx fire is being questioned by authorities. |
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- A bizarre tragedy involving a police officer in Dover, New Jersey. |
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- The wait is on to find out who will claim the $155 million Mega-Millions jackpot. All we know so far is the winning ticket was sold in Ohio. |
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- He hopped on a train from Greenwich, Connecticut to New York City. But "Metro" the commuting dog actually came from a lot further away: Maryland! |
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- Last post by flamingkitties on 17:19 31/Dec/03 - 1. It feels good to walk to the newsagent at 7am on New Year's Day with a clear head. |
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