There’s been a lot of different ideas tossed around for dealing with the excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and one of them has been to capture it and pump it underground where it’ll be trapped, supposedly, forever. As an added bonus it can been used to force the last drops of oil from older . . . → Read More: Carbon sequestration project leaves family with carbonated land.
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[Updated: Looks like a forum mod may have overstepped with his statement. According to an article on Kotaku.com getting banned in the forums will NOT affect your ability to login to EA games afterall.] An article over at the Ripten Video Game blog reports on a post by a community moderator in the Command and . . . → Read More: Got banned from Electronic Arts’ forums? You’re banned from their games too. This is annoying to say the least: Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes – News from The Associated Press More than 38,000 foreign corporations had no tax liability in 2005 and 1.2 million U.S. companies, or 66.7 percent of them, paid no income tax, the GAO said. Combined, the companies had $2.5 trillion . . . → Read More: Almost two-thirds of companies in the U.S. don’t pay income taxes. Back when we were living in Canton I can recall a time when I opened the door to find a young twenty-something man standing there looking a little ragged around the edges who had a sob story about how he was selling magazine subscriptions as a way to get back on his feet and straighten . . . → Read More: Kid at your door with a sob story selling magazines? Yeah, you might want to read this… The True Believers™ down in Florida are suffering fainting spells over a billboard ad that declares all religions to be fairy tales: ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.—It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard unnerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost business. The billboard was on Colonial Drive near Old Cheney . . . → Read More: People get their panties in a twist over atheist billboard. Read about it here: The Consumerist: Sharper Image Suspends Acceptance of Gift Cards Due to Bankruptcy From the story: Despite issuing a press release claiming that they “will continue to conduct business as usual”, The Shaper Image has suspended redemption of all gift certificates after filing for bankruptcy late on Tuesday. After receiving . . . → Read More: Bankrupt: Our favorite junk dealers over at The Sharper Image The folks at Portfolio.com have an interesting article on the ongoing war between media companies and the legions of file sharers. It focuses on how Media Defenders, a company that promises Hollywood that they’ll disrupt file sharing on P2P networks, was hacked by a long high school kid who exposed the company’s inner workings for . . . → Read More: Interesting article: “The Pirates Can’t Be Stopped” We already do the majority of my banking electronically. From the direct depositing of my paycheck to online bill paying we’re already pretty wired, but every now and then we still have to stop by a branch location to deposit a paper check I’ve gotten from someone. Now word has it that I might be . . . → Read More: Coming soon: Depositing checks with your scanner. Those crazy bastards at the RIAA have finally gone off the deep end. In an ongoing lawsuit they are now claiming that ripping a CD which you legally purchased is a violation of copyright law regardless of whether or not you actually distribute the files to anyone else: Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal . . . → Read More: RIAA now saying that you can’t legally rip CDs you own to your PC. I thought this Denver Post article on the rise in popularity of Christian themed stuff was just the ticket on the Eve of one of the most materialistic days of the year. Not that there’s anything wrong with that: Among the items that one could put under the Christmas tree: • An action figure of . . . → Read More: Christian materialism rakes in the cash. |
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