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Russia Spends More Oil Cash to Prolong Economic Boom - 16 years ago
"But Loginova suggests, the country would earn immense returns from creating a super-agency or ministry that would oversee the transportation ministry – which she suggests has been especially neglectful about planning – the customs service, and the economic development ministry. Were that to happen, even for a short time, she argues, it would be possible for Moscow to take five steps thatby ProjectC - Project C
Russia is far from oil's peak - By F William Engdahl - 16 years ago
"The Soviet geologists had turned Western orthodox geology on its head. They called their theory of oil origin the "abiotic" theory - non-biological - to distinguish it from the Western biological theory of origins. ... Following their abiotic or non-fossil theory of the deep origins of petroleum, the Russian and Ukrainian petroleum geophysicists and chemists began with a deby ProjectC - Project C
Persistent corruption in low-income countries requires global action - 16 years ago
Concerted efforts needed in rich and poor countries to stem flow of corrupt monies and make justice work for the poorest Transparency International London/Berlin, 26 September 2007 Source The divide in perceived levels of corruption in rich and poor countries remains as sharp as ever, according to the 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released today by Transparency International, tby ProjectC - Project C
(United States) Shock and Awe - By Jim Kunstler - 16 years ago
"The next several weeks are liable to be a time of great stress as these realities become increasingly undeniable. I imagine the public chatter will become increasingly delusional as the wave crests. When it it finally comes, the shock of recognition that we are a bankrupt nation will present itself at first as a great silence. The public's collective jaw will fall open, but no sound wiby ProjectC - Project C
(Maglev) Münchner Transrapid kann starten - 16 years ago
STOIBERS VERMÄCHTNIS Münchner Transrapid kann starten Spiegel 25. September 2007 Source Der Weg für die Transrapidstrecke vom Münchner Flughafen in die Innenstadt ist frei. Bayern, die Deutsche Bahn und die Industrie haben sich geeinigt, wie die Finanzierungslücke des 1,85-Milliarden-Euro-Projekts geschlossen werden kann. Die Opposition kritisiert dies als "Abschiedsgeschenk für Sby ProjectC - Project C
Russian OS to be installed in every school - 16 years ago
CNews September 14, 2007 Source Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication stated at a press conference. Experts and market participants consider the terms within which software is to be developed quite reasonableby ProjectC - Project C
The Four Day Work Week - 16 years ago
The Four Day Work Week: Sixteen Reasons Why This Might Be an Idea Whose Time Has Come Posted by Prof. Goose September 20, 2007 Source Reason #1; the impact a 4 day work week could have on crude oil imports I’m talking about perhaps a 40% reduction in the amount of oil we need Monday through Friday simply by rearranging our work week. No wonder this idea was utilized in the 70’s. Bby ProjectC - Project C
Chicken Chicken Chicken - 16 years ago
( Source ) <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value=" name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Video of the Day For thosby ProjectC - Project C
The Dis-information Society - By Jim Kunstler - 16 years ago
"All this occurred against the background of what has come to be called Peak Oil, the turnaround point in global oil production, and indeed the all-time high-point of world oil consumption, which can be dated precisely now (in the rearview mirror) as having topped absolutely in July of 2006 -- the exact moment, incidentally, that a gigantic pin first pierced the outermost molecules of the soby ProjectC - Project C
'This Process Will Go On' - 16 years ago
"...So that was really what we were all dealing with from the very beginning: the possibility of creating not just a reconstruction of Europe, but of advancing a structure that might bring peace to the world as a whole." 'This Process Will Go On' An EU visionary discusses the future of a united Europe —and whether it can be a counterweight to U.S. power WEB EXCLUSIVby ProjectC - Project C
History repeating in Florida and Lessons from the Roaring 20s - By Dr. Housing Bubble - 16 years ago
Florida Housing 1920s Redux: History repeating in Florida and Lessons from the Roaring 20s By Dr. Housing Bubble September 06, 2007 Source "...today we are going to examine a few paragraphs from an amazing book by Frederick Lewis Allen called Only Yesterday written in 1931 which examines the decade of the 1920s in great detail." There was nothing languorous about the atmospby ProjectC - Project C
Creative Accounting and Destructive Risk - By Henry C K Liu - 16 years ago
By Henry C K Liu (This article appeared in AToL on April 3, 2002) Source Note: This article was written more than five years before the credit market crisis of August 2007 and four months after Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on December 2, 2001. The analysis has survived the test of time. Greenspan bought time by unleashing the housing bubble. Today, the problem is essentially the sby ProjectC - Project C
For all those who haven't tried Mandriva lately - By AdamWill - 16 years ago
By AdamWill (604569) September 05, 2007 Source For all those who haven't tried Mandriva in a while, quite a lot has changed. It'd be great if you could try Mandriva again before posting comments. For instance, managing remote repositories is far easier than it used to be: you can configure a full set of official repositories from within the Mandriva package management tools. Instrby ProjectC - Project C
The Coming U.S. Hard Landing - By Nouriel Roubini - 16 years ago
"This is thus the first real crisis of the new world of financial globalization and securitization." The Coming U.S. Hard Landing By Nouriel Roubini Sep 07, 2007 Source The utterly ugly employment figures for August (a fall in jobs for the first time in four years, downward revisions to previous months’ data, a fall in the labor participation rate, and an even weaker employby ProjectC - Project C
(High Noon Global Issue) Calls Grow for Foreigners to Have a Say on U.S. Market Rules - 16 years ago
One (out of twenty) global issues: • Global financial architecture *** Calls Grow for Foreigners to Have a Say on U.S. Market Rules By HEATHER TIMMONS and KATRIN BENNHOLD August 29, 2007 Source Politicians, regulators and financial specialists outside the United States are seeking a role in the oversight of American markets, banks and rating agencies after recent problems relby ProjectC - Project C
The betrayal of imperfect children - By India Knight - 16 years ago
By India Knight September 2, 2007 Source I was delighted the first time I met an adult who knew what I was talking about when I mentioned my youngest child’s condition, DiGeorge syndrome. “Oh yes,” she said. “My sister has that.” I was brimming with questions, given that my daughter was a tiny baby and my friend’s sister a middle-aged adult. She didn’t have many answers, it turned out, beby ProjectC - Project C
A Tribute: Dr. Kurt Richebacher - By Wilfred Hahn - 16 years ago
By Wilfred Hahn 08/29/2007 (01:22 PM) Source It doesn't seem just: The patriarch of the current "anti-bubble" camp," Dr. Kurt Richebächer, has died at age 88. He did not live to see his long-running warnings come to be vindicated. Just as he fell ill, events began to cascade into the vicious credit crash that erupted this past August. Kurt Richebächer was well known arby ProjectC - Project C
Becoming a Linux OEM: A Roadmap - 16 years ago
- Flash Presentation: Eee PC - (Linux) ASUS Eee PC Hand's On Preview - Via aims 1W x86 CPU at mobile, embedded apps - The Asus EcoBook bamboo laptop - Where Jobless Run Factories - Here's the chocolate factory, but where has Willy Wonka gone? *** Becoming a Linux OEM: A Roadmap By Matt Hartley August 27, 2007 Source For years, Microsoft has reigned supreme as the &#by ProjectC - Project C
3 Reasons Why This Credit Bubble is worse than 1929 - By Dr. Housing Bubble - 16 years ago
3 Reasons Why This Credit Bubble is worse than 1929. Precursors to a Recession: Complicit Fed, Population Involved, and Greater Dependence on Credit By Dr. Housing Bubble August 23, 2007 Source The market seems to have taken well to the liquidity injection by the Federal Reserve. Since the past two weeks of subprime debacles and stock market woes, the market is slowly gaining a foothold.by ProjectC - Project C
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara Have Built the World’s First Mode-Locked Silicon Evanescent Laser - 16 years ago
Will Speed Data Transmission by Combining Laser Light with Silicon A Critical Step Toward Achieving Lower Cost, Lower Power, More Compact Devices University of California - Santa Barbara, College of Engineering August 21, 2007 Source Santa Barbara, Calif. – August 21, 2007 – Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have announced they have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanesby ProjectC - Project C
Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft - 16 years ago
By SPACE.com Staff 14 August 2007 Source Following the successful launch and deployment of two inflatable space modules, on Monday the owner and founder of Bigelow Aerospace announced plans to move ahead with the launch of its first human habitable spacecraft, the Sundancer. "As anyone associated with the aerospace industry is aware, global launch costs have been rising rapidly overby ProjectC - Project C
Wozniak's New Goal is Efficient Housing - By Evan Koblentz - 16 years ago
"All of these simple principles wind up with a very attractive house that is as normal and livable as any other, but without insulation or air conditioning or heating. The typical energy bill might be as low as $30 a month, depending on where you live. The outside temperature can be 50 degrees hotter or colder than the inside temperature of 71 degrees." Wozniak's New Goal is Eby ProjectC - Project C
An article from a former bank president in New York - November, 1932 - 16 years ago
"Isn’t it about time that we began thoughtfully to examine some of the fundamentals of our banking and investment theories and methods? -- Former bank president in New York, November, 1932 An article from a former bank president in New York - November, 1932 By Dr. Housing Bubble August 16, 2007 Source ...I’ll be posting an article that came out in the Saturday Evening Post in Nby ProjectC - Project C
A letter from a lawyer, the date of writing is 1933 - 16 years ago
"...a letter written from a lawyer from Mason City, Iowa in the Corn Belt recounting the impact of the Great Depression on his town. It is a poignant and somewhat eerie story to read considering the date of writing is 1933." -- Dr. Housing Bubble, Personal Story by a Lawyer from a Previous Asset Bubble, August 02, 2007 "...Below are paragraphs of the entire letter:" Theby ProjectC - Project C
What has changed (small changes) Overview Project C - 16 years ago
Concerning Overview Project C version 5.51 - Page 9 Added note 4 Our Galactic Environment - http://astro.uchicago.edu/~frisch/ - Page 11 Corrected note 4: ..."Within as well as around us." - Page 22 Note 1, removed the old url (http://www.rischard.net) and replaced it with two new urls: High Noon and 2007 Conferenceby ProjectC - Project C
The end of Computing Science? - By prof. dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra - 16 years ago
By prof. dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra Austin, 19 November 2000 Source EWD1304 - 0 The end of Computing Science? "The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." Sir Antony Hoare, 1980 In academia, in industry, and in the commercial world, there is a widespread belief that computing science aby ProjectC - Project C
High Noon url is now Conference 2007 - 16 years ago
Jean-François Rischard has closed his website (which was ) so I have replaced the High Noon url with Conference 2007, a Global Issues Conference. J.by ProjectC - Project C
Updates - Overview Project C - Debt Bubble - 17 years ago
Well dear reader. I have spend an awful amount of time in digging through the world of finance. And what a spectacle it was. And still is! It has been such a tremendous experience that I truly need to address economics and finance in a more thoroughly way in the first chapters of the English Bazaarmodel book. Because... my oh my. Just read my thought Ludicrous (finance). If you thought that Aby ProjectC - Project C
Bazaarmodel - English version - 17 years ago
There was something bugging me. Translating from Dutch to English, while the book is four years old already and many things happened since. Mmm (musing now...) It must be more timeless. Companies come and go. But the essence of the Bazaarmodel remain important. So I believe that I have decided stop maintaining the Dutch version. And focus completely on the English one instead. Which will be expby ProjectC - Project C
Bazaarmodel Chapter 2 [Draft -- version 0.10b] - 18 years ago
**Draft Version** 2 The history of the bazaar and cathedral management "The centralised mindset is deeply entrenched. When people see patterns and structures, they instinctively assume centralised causes or centralised control. They often see leaders and seeds where none exist. When something happens, they assume that one individual agent must be responsible." -- Mitchel Resnby ProjectC - Project C