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  • Free Market Competition (no, really)

    My solution? Require open access to network capacity & performance information so the consumer can make their own informed assessment prior to inking a contract with a wireless provider. Then market pressure would lead to price competition based on reality. The FCC and any state regulatory agencies with jurisdiction over utilities have the ...
    Posted to Technology by plumedenom on October 11, 2009

  • Fantastic article!

    Someone tell me why those in the USA who try so hard to get the 10 commandments posted all over in our public square and taught to our kids in school break so many of them trying to get that done? And also fight so hard to take money from the poor and middle class and put in the hands of the rich? And also to keep corporate greed-based health ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008

  • Wasting time on the www after 11/4/08

    Dear Mr Manjoo, I've book marked your article/blog. The fact that the melt-down started on 9/15/08 just at end of the campaign for POTUS has kept me very busy. I have an RSS feed from FT. I start getting info on East Asia: Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Australia at 9:15 pm EST. I hit FT again around 8:00 am. FT is very good at ...
    Posted to Technology by larry278 on November 5, 2008

  • Re: Treasuries...

    I am much too poor and too ethnic - 3rd Generation American from Midwestern Chicago -- with three wonderful Italian Grandparents - and too fundamentally well educated to count myself as a Conservative, a Republican, or a John Birch Society Member. However, being 54 years of age, and seeing the disaster that is my America today, in every ...
    Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard2 on September 18, 2008

  • Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -

    So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
    Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard1 on July 18, 2008

  • Re: What difference will it make?

    kgsbca: So the politicians should stay out of this, if they know what is good for the US economy. They probably won't, though, for if the company is acquired by a foreign owner, they will lose a valuable source of local campaign contributions, and we know that is the most important issue for politicians. No one yet seems to have noticed ...
    Posted to Moneybox by Saphireyes on June 28, 2008

  • What so few get right about South Africa's xenphobic riots.

    As many Cape Town citizens pretend a 'return to normal', the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), PASSOP, the eMzantsi Ubuntu Coalition and several other organizations continue to oppose the nakedly racist motives of the city in forcing traumatized refugees back to townships they fled in fear of their lives. By denying the refugees inner-city ...
    Posted to Foreigners by mgolby on June 23, 2008

  • Both Rich AND Smart -- Now, THAT is RARE

    I have been fulminating for years now about Harvard, and was happy to learn about Michael Kinsley's long ago household affiliation there. I was never headed for Harvard, but years later, learned that a high school classmate of mine, female from Homewood Floosmoor Community High School -- served Harvard as a Deputy Admissions Director for ...
    Posted to Readme by MichaelBernard1 on June 19, 2008

  • Increase Govt Revenue: Nationalize Industries

    For those ritewing folks complaining about taxation or the threat of increased taxes AND who realize debt kills the value of the US dollar, here is one solution: NATIONALIZE SOME INDUSTRIES. Let the government turn a profit and bring in revenue by rendering certain private property such as energy resources (coal, gas, oil) as public property ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Usama2 on January 8, 2008

  • A....W A Y...T O...H E L P...L A S...V E G A S

    NOTE; I herein use the word ''gaming'' to sometimes desribe games of chance, and ''gamers'' as those who play them......because, for those who practice, and calculate the odds, rightly or wrongly believe they are not gambling.....they are taking calculated risks. ie: Walking across the street blindfolded is gambling. Looking both ways as one ...
    Posted to Moneybox by discuss on October 29, 2007