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POPSXBox 360 Price Cut Coming The price cut comes right before Microsoft gives a big presentation at the E3 conference -- so there's some speculation that they're going to introduce a new model with more power or extra features.
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POPSOil: $60/bbl. by next year (?) I agree that the oil market has been driven by speculation. I'd _love_ to see $60/bbl. if only to screw the world's oil-dictators. But should it go that low again? The best way to screw the world's oil-dictators is to find a successful alternative energy source and $60/bbl. oil will only dampen demand for alternatives. BTW, such wild price swings are a typical feature of an item whose supply is dwindling.
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POPSBush War Policy, Oil Prices Chart Must see this oil price chart and pass it on! This article documents and graphically demonstrates the obvious that no one is saying, i.e the wars and war-mongering of Bush government are the main cause of high gas prices.
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POPSFuture iPhone To Get Hardware Keyboard? So reports The Register, which says Apple is shopping around prototypes to carriers. Other touchscreen phones, like the HTC Touch Dual, already sport such a feature. In somewhat related news, the upcoming touchscreen BlackBerry--scheduled to launch in September, possibly--is rumored to have a higher resolution screen than the iPhone. I know, the iPhone's appeal is the user experience, not its technical specifications. But still interesting.
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POPSSpeculation? There is just too much smoke here to think that something is not flaming.
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POPSThe philosophy of kissing Kafkaesque kiss -- a kiss that starts out feeling like it's about to transform you but ends up just bugging you. Sartrean kiss -- a kiss that you worry yourself to death about even though it really doesn't matter anyway. Cartesian kiss -- A particularly well-planned and coordinated movement: "I think, therefore, I aim." In general, a kiss does not count as Cartesian unless it is applied with enough force to remove all doubt that one has been kissed. movement involving greater nose-to-nose contact, but colder Nietzscheian kiss -- "she/he who does not kiss you, makes your lust stronger."
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POPSFeds Settle Lawsuit, $5.8 Million for Anthrax "Person of Interest" Huge cover-up in the anthrax case, and the media is to blame for not questioning the motives, story, of the government looking into this man publicly: The statement also blamed journalists for not questioning the motives of the government's statements or its tactics. Now look at the terms in which the government settled this out of court. Why not let it go to trial instead of paying up? The only motive could be to cover-up the truth of what happened and silence his legal allegations: "The United States does not admit to any violation of the Privacy Act and continues to deny all liability in connection with Dr. Hatfill's claims," So the Feds pay the man $5.8 million for nothing? It was not "Islamo Fascists" who wrote "Allah is great" on the anthrax letters...it was a false flag directed at Leahy and Daschle in Congress! See the 9/11 Anthrax Frame Up
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POPSSolution? $2 Gas in 30 Days if Congress Acts Tell them to do it! Legally limiting financial speculation (oil future's trading) by government regulation would send oil prices down to levels based upon physical supply and demand they claim. One only wonders if this would overcome the devalued dollar which also drives prices up. But they should do it immediately! The argument of these financial analysts says that the propaganda about needing increased supply is wrong and that OPEC and Ahmadinejad's analysis is correct that supply is not the problem.
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POPSAhmadinejad on Oil Prices--"Unwarranted", Supply is Fine Before OPEC he calls prices unwarranted and manipulated and that speculators, weak dollar, and "geopolitical" issues (i.e. war-mongering in the middle east) are driving it, and even political purposes are behind it. Supply is not the problem. Meanwhile, the US and EU are increasing sanctions on Iran, which is stupid, since they are the 4th largest exporter of oil in the world. He added that “the dollar has already lost 15 percent of its value ...Since oil is priced in dollars , producers have had to increase prices in part to offset losses when converting that money into local currency.”
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POPSAnother peak? As the cost of food skyrockets for many reasons, including shortages, the cost of inputs to industrial food production are coming under stress. A 30% rise in a year is serious, 100% in a week is a mania, or major panic. We have been waiting for the other shoe to drop in so many areas, when they all do, we could be killed by a shoe shower.
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POPSHow did the Universe Begin ? The no-boundary wave function also states that space-time was not what we see today at the outset of universal expansion. “When the universe started out,” Hartle explains, “there wasn’t ordinary space-time. Instead of three space directions, as we have now, there were four space directions. At some point, a transition was made to ordinary space-time.”
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POPSReading should not be believing ... Why ?! Only 28% adequately covered benefits, and only 33% adequately covered harms. Articles routinely failed to give any useful quantitative information in absolute terms, preferring unhelpful eye-catchers like "50% higher" instead. Was this new? No. The same thing has been shown in Canada and Australia, and in the US almost a decade ago. Does it matter? Yes. Regardless of what they say in surveys about trusting doctors and priests, and despising hacks, in reality, people listen to journalists. This is not idle speculation. A 2005 study in the Medical Journal of Australia looked at the impact of Kylie Minogue's breasts on mammogram bookings. They rose by 40% during the two-week publicity peak, and six weeks later they were still up by a third. The increase among previously unscreened women in the 40-69 year age group was 101%. These surges were unprecedented. But even academics are influenced by media coverage:
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POPSWhy we need high oil prices I know this sounds crazy, but i honestly believe that high oil prices in the short term (1-5 years) is a very good thing if it forces us to find alternatives. I am definitely concerned that if oil prices drop temporarily, the momentum behind alternatives such as wind and solar will die off - leaving us exactly where we are today - way too dependent on oil and way to harmful to our environment.
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POPSHe Has No Clue This is like choking a chicken in order to try and increase egg production.
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POPSSecret Diary of a London Call Girl Hustler, prostitute, a hooker... that's just semantics to her. Meet Billie Piper - a lovely and smart young woman who sells her body to strangers because she loves sex and money.
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