what a scam. oil prices fall 10% on the week and gas prices only stop rising? yeah sure, we know about the gas and oil markets being different. but how come when the price of oil climbs gas prices rise in lockstep, but when oil falls, gas merely pauses? oil […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
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kinda hard to believe but yahoo is apparently upping google in china because they're part investors in a bunch of chinese online properties, while google has just been an irritation for the chinese gov. i think if the chinese people had unrestricted net access, they would choose google over yahoo. […]
wonder how much the thieves actually stole from the near bankrupt bank. "sorry sir, all we've got here is this old faded 5€ bill, but you're welcome to it" 🙂 Two arrested over bank robbery - The Irish Times - Wed, May 04, 2011.
Rim needs money. Bing needs exposure. So microsoft pays rim to put bing on blackberry. So obvious. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-03/microsoft-s-bing-to-be-default-search-engine-on-rim-s-blackberry.html
this ought to give contrarians a bit of a morale boost. just when it seemed that nothing could stop silver's party, it decides to go on a 2-day heavy redux. maybe it was the new margin rules, or soros dumping, or speculation of imminent interest rates rise. there's always something […]
admittedly, the wikileaks founder is kooky but he does have a point. the american gov probably does use facebook and google and other sites to research people. but this isn't exactly news. everyone probably knows that already and those who want to remain in the shadows just don't use these sites. as long as […]
yeah right, we believe sony when they say they didn't know originally that customers' credit card info was taken by hackers. but now they know. must a japanese dishonor thing not to come clean all the way but do it in steps. toyota did the same last year with the […]
poor little trump. his feelings are hurt and he's going to be depressed. first the lampooning by obama and then the dissing by letterman. at least rosy is off his case for now. why is everyone picking on the poor boy? can't we all get along? Donald Trump fires back at […]
has the west/nato gone completely insane? aren't 2 bs wars in iraq and afghanistan enough? you want to support freedom fighters, that's fine. give them money, give them supplies, give them advisors. but bombing countries without UN resolution is criminal if nothing else. get the hell out of there. Libya: […]