Brazil has a small ethanol program and a massive offshore drilling program.
Here is a quote:
But Brazil is going to be energy independent not because they have a small but successful ethanol program. They are going to be energy independent because they had a massive offshore drilling program which has more than doubled their oil production from 650,000 barrels a day in 1990 to 1.6 million barrels a day now.
Lots of people around big cities want to work for Wal-Mart.
Earlier this year Wal-Mart opened a new store in suburban Chicago and had
25,000 applications for 325 positions.
Last year they had 11,000 applications for about the same number of jobs in Oakland, California.
The city of Houston is not "the ultimate Bush Country".
In fact the current mayor, who appointed the police chief, is a democrat, not a republican.
He was Deputy Secretary of Energy under Clinton.
As is common in most American cities, the Democrats are more in the central city and the republicans are in the suburbs.
The police chief is part of the central city government; he has nothing to do with the suburbs.
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Vonage 911 Deadline Passed
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911 is not the same as E911 (enhanced 911).
Vonage is being required to support E911, not just 911.
911 can mean just routing the call to a center based on your address. E911 requires that the center also receive your address and phone number.
Notice that the story is sent in by Jamie Garson, who has a yak.ca email address. The Yahoo story is a Business Wire press release. For a fee, Business Wire will distribute any press release and Yahoo will reprint it. There is no independent reporter involved here.
Music Choice is a partnership among subsidiaries of Microsoft Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Sony Corporation of America, EMI Music and several leading U.S. cable providers: Adelphia Cable Communications, Comcast Cable Communications, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable.
This has nothing to do with mp3.com, because Amazon is getting permission from the copyright owners unlike mp3.com.
From CNET:
As with Amazon's existing "Search Inside the Book" feature, only books in the public domain or whose copyright holders have granted permission will be included in the new digital book programs, he [Jeff Bezos] said. That will help the company avoid the copyright concerns Google's project has sparked.
Google is the one who has to worry about bad publicity here. If the case goes forward Google's internal emails related to this case are going to have to be turned over as part of discovery. How certain can Google be that none of its managers said something "evil" in an email (or at least something that could be made to look evil when taken out of context).
If Google were to lose, they could be on the hook for a large number of damage awards. Someone who inherited the rights to an out-of-print calculus book may not care that anyone ever reads it. But they may take up an offer to sue Google, if the lawyer works on contingency. Statutory damages in a copyright case can be up to $150K per work and do not require showing. Statutory damages do not require showing any actual damages, such as that author lost anything or that Google made anything from copying the book.
The rules of civil court pretty much require that a defendant testify if they want to have any chance of winning the case. (Refusal to testify can be taken as evidence of guilt in a civil case.) So this defense would require affirmatively testify that they did not engage in the alleged file sharing.
Lying under oath could land one in jail.
I bet the RIAA would pay for investigators to try to find evidence of perjury and turn over the evidence to the US attorney for criminal prosecution.
The Dolan family, who controls CableVision, have just proposed a $7.9B leveraged buyout of the cable assets. To get the cash, they are planning on selling $4.25B in junk bonds. This would be the second largest junk bond offering in history, after the RJR ("Barbarians at the Gate") junk bond.
One of the first English actions in WWI was cutting the German undersea cables. This did not cut off Germany, but it made English interception of German communications much easier. Eventually the British intercepted, and shared with the US, the "Zimmermn Telegraph" in which Germany proposed to help Mexico attack the US. This was one of the reasons the US entered the war.
Check out the new Boeing Dreamliner. Its fuselage is being made out of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic instead of aluminum. This will be the first large plane with an all composite skin.
Plastic is stronger and lighter than aluminum so the plane can fly faster and use 20% less fuel.
There are only 20% as many fasteners as would be needed with aluminum.
Maintenance is being guaranteed to be 30% lower than for aluminum planes.
They will also be able to pressurize the cabin at the equivalent of 6,000 feet instead of the usual 8,000, which should make it easier to control cable temperature and humidity.
Consolidation could be a problem if companies only merged. But they do also split up. Relevant to his topic, Time Warner
plans to spin off its cable holdings.
Also, Comcast will swap its stock in Time Warner Cable for some Adelphia systems. This will unwind the relationship between Time Warner and Comcast.
Other companies are allowed to lay their own cable and provide service. Cable and telephone companies generally have to pay "franchise" fees to the local goverment.
The goal of both cable companies and telephone companies is to provide the so-called triple play: video, voice and data(internet). Cable is ahead in this, but the goal of both types of companies is to provide all three services.
Their is a similar Frech project, but its budget is 1/1000 the size of the Google Print budget.
Jacques Chirac is going to try to get the rest of Europe to put together a project to put European literature online.
While Google will have European literature, the fear is that it will be biased toward the "Angle-Saxon" point-of-view (e.g. the Scarlet Pimpernel over Victor Hugo on the French Revolution).
Are there no European companies who see an opportunity here? More generally, Yahoo and MSN are both trying to compete with Google. Are there any European competitors in search?
An ISP can better control voice quality by avoiding using the public internet.
Time Warner Cable's VoIP service only uses IP only over their own network. Their network delivers calls to
Sprint or MCI. From then on the calls are handled just like "regular" phone calls.
If you testify then you have to answer their questions under oath. The top question on the RIAA list would be: where you using p2p to share RIAA member owned songs? If you were sharing and deny it, that is a felony.
This differs from a criminal case, where the jury is instructed to not hold silence against the accused. Also as pointed out by others, the standard of proof is lower in a civil case.
Together these points make the common criminal defense strategy of staying silent and letting your lawyer raise doubts a much less effective tactic in civil cases.
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This is a CA case and there is a CA shield law that gives reporters the right to shield their sources.
There have been bills introduced to create a federal shield law, but they have not passed.
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Amtrak has an Auto Train from near DC to near Orlando. It is a slow (50mph) overnight train. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Train/.
Lots of people around big cities want to work for Wal-Mart. Earlier this year Wal-Mart opened a new store in suburban Chicago and had 25,000 applications for 325 positions. Last year they had 11,000 applications for about the same number of jobs in Oakland, California.
As is common in most American cities, the Democrats are more in the central city and the republicans are in the suburbs. The police chief is part of the central city government; he has nothing to do with the suburbs.
911 can mean just routing the call to a center based on your address. E911 requires that the center also receive your address and phone number.
Notice that the story is sent in by Jamie Garson, who has a yak.ca email address. The Yahoo story is a Business Wire press release. For a fee, Business Wire will distribute any press release and Yahoo will reprint it. There is no independent reporter involved here.
From a Music Choice press release:
AT&T (symbol T) is listed on the NYSE. It did a reverse split (1 for 5) on 19-Nov-02.
If Google were to lose, they could be on the hook for a large number of damage awards. Someone who inherited the rights to an out-of-print calculus book may not care that anyone ever reads it. But they may take up an offer to sue Google, if the lawyer works on contingency. Statutory damages in a copyright case can be up to $150K per work and do not require showing. Statutory damages do not require showing any actual damages, such as that author lost anything or that Google made anything from copying the book.
MSNBC is not the actual source. They are just redistributing a Reuters article out of Amseterdam. Other sites reprinting the article here.
Lying under oath could land one in jail. I bet the RIAA would pay for investigators to try to find evidence of perjury and turn over the evidence to the US attorney for criminal prosecution.
Google also has information about New York (NYSE) and American (AMEX) stock exchange traded stocks.
The Dolan family, who controls CableVision, have just proposed a $7.9B leveraged buyout of the cable assets. To get the cash, they are planning on selling $4.25B in junk bonds. This would be the second largest junk bond offering in history, after the RJR ("Barbarians at the Gate") junk bond.
One of the first English actions in WWI was cutting the German undersea cables. This did not cut off Germany, but it made English interception of German communications much easier. Eventually the British intercepted, and shared with the US, the "Zimmermn Telegraph" in which Germany proposed to help Mexico attack the US. This was one of the reasons the US entered the war.
Allowing some alternate ISPs (eg Earthlink) on Warner cable was a condition imposed by the goverment for allowing the Time Warner - AOL merger.
Plastic is stronger and lighter than aluminum so the plane can fly faster and use 20% less fuel. There are only 20% as many fasteners as would be needed with aluminum. Maintenance is being guaranteed to be 30% lower than for aluminum planes. They will also be able to pressurize the cabin at the equivalent of 6,000 feet instead of the usual 8,000, which should make it easier to control cable temperature and humidity.
Also, Comcast will swap its stock in Time Warner Cable for some Adelphia systems. This will unwind the relationship between Time Warner and Comcast.
The goal of both cable companies and telephone companies is to provide the so-called triple play: video, voice and data(internet). Cable is ahead in this, but the goal of both types of companies is to provide all three services.
Their is a similar Frech project, but its budget is 1/1000 the size of the Google Print budget. Jacques Chirac is going to try to get the rest of Europe to put together a project to put European literature online. While Google will have European literature, the fear is that it will be biased toward the "Angle-Saxon" point-of-view (e.g. the Scarlet Pimpernel over Victor Hugo on the French Revolution).
Are there no European companies who see an opportunity here? More generally, Yahoo and MSN are both trying to compete with Google. Are there any European competitors in search?
Time Warner Cable's VoIP service only uses IP only over their own network. Their network delivers calls to Sprint or MCI. From then on the calls are handled just like "regular" phone calls.
If you testify then you have to answer their questions under oath. The top question on the RIAA list would be: where you using p2p to share RIAA member owned songs? If you were sharing and deny it, that is a felony.
This differs from a criminal case, where the jury is instructed to not hold silence against the accused. Also as pointed out by others, the standard of proof is lower in a civil case. Together these points make the common criminal defense strategy of staying silent and letting your lawyer raise doubts a much less effective tactic in civil cases.
This is a CA case and there is a CA shield law that gives reporters the right to shield their sources. There have been bills introduced to create a federal shield law, but they have not passed.