Category: Business
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Millions of Men Drop Out of Workforce
From the NY Times: “I have come to realize that my free time is worth a lot to me,” he said. To make ends meet, he has tapped the equity in his home through a $30,000 second mortgage, and he is drawing down the family’s savings, at the rate of $7,500 a year. About $60,000 […]
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Ken Lay Pardoned by God
Ken Lay had a heart attack and died in his vacation home. Unfortunately the thousands of ex-employees of Enron will not have the same luxury.
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Congress Considering Adding MySpace to Data Retention Requiments
Again, What about the children! and The terrorists will win! are invoked: In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children–and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well. During Wednesday’s hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that […]
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Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast
Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast Dr. Eric from drericsblog.com and I work out the world’s problems.
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HOWTO: Tell AT&T To Fuck Off
From Metafilter: On the eve of its hearing on charges that it assisted in the government’s illegal spying on millions of Americans, AT&T, the largest phone company in the United States, has changed its privacy policy to clearly establish its ownership of its customers’ personal account information. Because your records aren’t yours. They can do […]
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Ken Lay: Guilty on All Counts
Time for the prison sex! The verdict put the blame for the demise of what was once the nation’s seventh-largest company squarely on its top two executives. It came in the sixth day of deliberations following a trial that lasted nearly four months.
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China Lifts Yuan
What imploding US dollar? The world’s most significant trading relationship took a psychologically important turn Monday as China moved to make its exports more expensive.
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Chicago Housing Market Cools Down
From the Trib: But many agents say the buying frenzy is now over, and “normal” has returned. Prices this year will appreciate less rapidly, and in many cases houses won’t sell themselves before a sign has even gone into the ground.
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Immediate Action Required: Online Business at Risk
I’m breaking from the usual blogging tips of my newsletter to bring you a public service announcement crucial to anybody that does business online. The foundation of business online is open and free access to the complete internet: no limits, no fences, no boundaries. This is called ‘Net Neutrality.’ Over the past two decades, the […]
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Affiliate Spam
Full disclosure: Affiliates get a percentage of the price to advertise a product to their email lists. Your Frosty Friend does belong to several affiliate programs (including Andy’s own very good one). She has tried and tested the products, classes or programs all herself and feels confident enough to recommend them to her friends and associates. For which […]