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* How to Destroy a James Turrell

* The Towering Inferno: How Museum Tower threatens the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Woodall Rodgers roofdeck park, two of the most prized assets of the cityâ(TM)s vaunted Arts District.

Yes, architects are noticing - the D Magazine article got a partial reprint here:
* Controversy Surrounds Dallas' Museum Tower

The "progressive" techies in Texas gravitate to the most "progressive" parts of Texas.

FTFY

How the Dallas-Fort Worth Tech Sector Has Roared Back

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is one of the most significant high-tech business centers in the United States, with several global leadership brands. With about 3,000 technology companies and nearly 230,000 high-tech employees, DFW is arguably the second-largest technology business center in the country, behind California’s Silicon Valley.

Texas counties have some of the highest property tax rates in the US.

What Texas does not have is a state regular income tax, but then again Texas saves all kinds of money that other states would normally spend on death penalty trial defenders and non-fraudulent arson investigators.

because when they do, they all say "Big deal".

People in the National Guard are part time soldiers, full time civilians, so the Guard has to accommodate that.

Here's what a guardsman at the time said:

http://frontburner2.dmagazine.com/archives/005868. html

The major media are jumping on the Bush National Guard story with a glee they have yet to exhibit with John Kerry's record, even though media critics are questioning their timing. The major complaint against Bush is that he "gamed the system." I was there. We all gamed the system. .... portion omitted, click the link for the whole thing, its short...

Bush didn't avoid his service anymore than I did. We both did what we could to avoid the worst thing a young man can face: boredom.

Be afraid when your company owns your brain ... The scary part is he was under court order to drive 160 miles to and from work everyday to work for 8 hours a day without pay to finish a program that he may not even eventually own and told he must finish it and show Alcatel how it works. He worked for 12 years on this program before coming to Alcatel. His big mistake was trusting those vultures and telling them about it. He should have waited until he wasn't working for them anymore, then developed it. Alcatel is suing everyone: Intel, Cisco, this guy. They've found a new way to make money.... litigation.
Alcatel: Where we litigate, not innovate.
More info: here, here,and here.

Last December, there was a story here on Slashdot about broadband access over power lines; The link is below. It looks like it is still in the works, but maybe you would be willing to be an alpha tester :-)

On a side note, lately I've seen a lot of modems fried by electrical storms; I would sure hate to see what would happen to your computer if you had one of these things plugged into it.

http://www.dmagazine.com/magazine/bd feature.html

They look promising in this area. Peep this article for more info.

Why on earth is he going to the FCC? With his credentials, he could go just about anywhere, and have a lot less people laughing at him too. I'd rather see him at media fusion (article in D Magazine here) working on getting networks up accross the power lines. He could make a much bigger difference there. At the FCC he'll ust be sitting on his duff all day, helping to catch those "terrorist" pirate radio stations...
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