Warm Water, Good Baking

StefanL, 06.11.09, 20:11

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Not to understand the market’s operations

StefanL, 01.11.09, 12:23

No federal or state regulator has market oversight responsibilities or regulatory powers governing the over-the-counter derivatives market or indeed has even sufficient information to understand the market’s operations. The market is totally opaque and is now popularly referred to as “the dark market.” It is enormous -- the reported size of the market as of last June exceeded $680 trillion...

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Back then, at Bell Labs, a Cherry few know

StefanL, 12.10.09, 23:39

Cherry: Yes, it is. Very high. And there was this flavor, other people probably talked about this, but it was group dynamics all going on up there. We were all up in the sixth floor. Although I think I worked mostly in my office and visited the sixth floor with questions, [inaudible] the sixth floor. But there was this attitude,...

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

StefanL, 11.10.09, 22:57

Today we commemorate the 125th birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt who was the First Lady of the United States of America for 12 years from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of the administration her husband, Franklin Delano headed and during that time and after assumed a role as an advocate for the American Civil Rights Movement. Anna...

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"... Opera is mainly for young people."

StefanL, 07.10.09, 15:14

Nearly a month ago, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa announced the end of her opera career, saying "the work was exhausting". We only read about it just now in New Zealand's Herald on Sunday.

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Einladung zu einem Update (selten hier)

StefanL, 01.10.09, 22:01

Wir haben den Microessay Öffentliches Gut - Öffentlicher Wert überarbeitet und hoffentlich klarer, verständlicher und richtiger gemacht. Wir hoffen inständig, dass uns nicht das passiert ist, was derzeit dem Apfel mit dem Schneeleoparden und dem Mikroweich mit Fenster N°7 passiert. Aber, das was wir hier tun, ist ja auch viel einfacher, als ein Betriebssystem weiter zu entwickeln. Kinderzeug geradezu.

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The Third Time

StefanL, 30.09.09, 23:22

For the third time in 25 years PC sales have gone down. On a very high level though. In a higher percentage than before yet. What does that mean? It means the PC industry is fighting with the actual consumation and investment crisis. The diagram also nicely show us that 1994 was the real real year of the world wide PC revolution....

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Öffentlich-rechtlicher Mehrwert, ein Unbegriff

StefanL, 28.09.09, 23:11

Wie es dem öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz passieren konnte und kann, einen Begriff für die Wiederherstellung der eigenen Stellung und des eigenen Werts zu verwenden, der beim größten Teil der Bevölkerung nichts als einen schalen und unangenehmen Beigeschmack erzeugt, erschien uns lange wie ein seltsames Rätsel. Über Generationen hat die sozialdemokratische Form der europäischen Ideologie ihren...

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