TiVo gauges Super Bowl viewing habits of its subscribers The results are in from the digital video recorder set: Britney Spears beat the men on the field in the Super Bowl instant replay department. From John Ellis’ blog.
TiVo gauges Super Bowl viewing habits of its subscribers
The results are in from the digital video recorder set: Britney Spears beat the men on the field in the Super Bowl instant replay department.
From John Ellis’ blog.
Steinberg chosen to lead powerful Assembly panel Sacramento Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg was named to a key post Wednesday by newly installed Speaker Herb Wesson. Steinberg, 42, will serve as chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, which measures the fiscal impact of legislation and potentially can kill any bill requiring public funds. Steinberg will begin the … Continue reading “Steinberg chosen to lead powerful”
Steinberg chosen to lead powerful Assembly panel
Sacramento Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg was named to a key post Wednesday by newly installed Speaker Herb Wesson.
Steinberg, 42, will serve as chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, which measures the fiscal impact of legislation and potentially can kill any bill requiring public funds.
Steinberg will begin the job March 11, nearly one week after the state’s primary election. Steinberg’s current role as Judiciary Committee chair will be filled by Assemblywoman Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro.
Pygmies one and all, but there’s not much to choose from any more. Term limits are a mistake, boys and girls.
Long Beach Press-Telegram Online Assemblywoman Sally M. Havice on Wednesday said opponent Linda T. Sanchez accepted contributions from outside the newly drawn congressional district they both want to represent. I like Sally – vote for her if you can.
Long Beach Press-Telegram Online
Assemblywoman Sally M. Havice on Wednesday said opponent Linda T. Sanchez accepted contributions from outside the newly drawn congressional district they both want to represent.
I like Sally – vote for her if you can.
Cisco (CSCO:Nasdaq) lost 1.55 (-8.33%) to 17.06, after it reported second-quarter earnings that easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. Its shares jumped in after-hours trading, but fell again as traders took profits on the good news. For the current fiscal third quarter, the computer networking gearmaker told analysts on an earnings conference call that despite the … Continue reading “Ain’t this the shits?”
Cisco (CSCO:Nasdaq) lost 1.55 (-8.33%) to 17.06, after it
reported second-quarter earnings that easily beat Wall Street’s
expectations. Its shares jumped in after-hours trading, but fell
again as traders took profits on the good news. For the current
fiscal third quarter, the computer networking gearmaker told
analysts on an earnings conference call that despite the
traditionally week seasonal sales for the first three months of
the year, it expects flat to slightly higher revenue growth, but
declined to provide any longer-term forecast. During the second
quarter ended Jan. 26, Cisco earned 9 cents a share on a pro
forma basis, down from 18 cents a year earlier. Wall Street had
forecast a 5-cent pro forma profit. Cisco’s ability to deliver
strong results in a tech recession pleased a few fans on the
earnings call Wednesday.
Nothing is ever good enough for Wall Street.
“Al Qaeda is … planning new attacks on the US…. Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups … have silently declared war on the US; in turn, we must fight them as we would in a war.” — Steve Emerson, May 31, 2001… NPR blacklisted Emerson in 1998, bowing to a pressure campaign by Muslim extremists … Continue reading “A curious silence on public radio”
“Al Qaeda is … planning new attacks on the US…. Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups … have silently declared war on the US; in turn, we must fight them as we would in a war.” — Steve Emerson, May 31, 2001…
NPR blacklisted Emerson in 1998, bowing to a pressure campaign by Muslim extremists who falsely libeled him as an anti-Muslim bigot. It was an outrageous charge: He always stresses that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful and law-abiding. Nevertheless, NPR officials – including its national news editor – explicitly vowed to keep Emerson off the air. ”You have my promise he won’t be used again,” producer Ellen Silva wrote to Ali Abunimah of the American Arab Action Network. ”It is NPR policy.”
I had a similar experience with the PBS News Hour show – they interviewed me on-camera for a story on child support reform in California, a process that I was intimately involved in. I explained that the structural reorganization contemplated by the legislature was unlikely to produce results, since the basic problem was that the State of California demanded unrealistically large percentages of income from child support obligors, mainly fathers. I ended up in the cutting-room floor, and they went to Washington for a second opinion agreeing with the other side. Our tax dollars support this sort of spinning, of course. (Jacoby story linked by InstaPundit.)
80211Planet – Insights: The Magic of CMOS Chip Sets Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., recently announced that it had completed development of one of the first all-CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) 802.11b chip set solutions (RF transceiver and baseband processor). The article correctly identified that one of the profound impacts that … Continue reading “80211Planet – Insights: The Magic”
80211Planet – Insights: The Magic of CMOS Chip Sets
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., recently announced that it had completed development of one of the first all-CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) 802.11b chip set solutions (RF transceiver and baseband processor). The article correctly identified that one of the profound impacts that CMOS technology will have on the 802.11 industry will be substantially lower production costs.
“Christianity Is Life” – Middle East Quarterly The Islamist campaign of violence in Algeria has turned some Muslims, especially Berbers, away from Islam and toward Christianity, reports the Algiers daily Al-Yawm in late December 2000, as reprinted in Courrier International, January 4-10, 2001, p. 29. The following extracts are translated from the French. In Kabylie, … Continue reading “This had to happen sooner or later —”
“Christianity Is Life” – Middle East Quarterly
The Islamist campaign of violence in Algeria has turned some Muslims, especially Berbers, away from Islam and toward Christianity, reports the Algiers daily Al-Yawm in late December 2000, as reprinted in Courrier International, January 4-10, 2001, p. 29. The following extracts are translated from the French.
In Kabylie, people of all ages are converting to Christianity.
But of course. If the bin Laden’s are going to claim the mantle of Islam, and the clerics aren’t going to denounce him, then Official Islam becomes a dead-end. It’s destiny. (from Rantburg.)
One of India’s prominent English-language dailies has launched a sharp verbal offensive against the US and Israel: The Hindu : Bush’s new stridency: Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has described the U.S. itself as “the greatest evil”. Given Mr. Bush’s objections to the suspected Iranian plans of acquiring WMDs, Ayatollah Khamenei is critical of America’s archetypal … Continue reading “Not all swimming in India/Israel relations —”
One of India’s prominent English-language dailies has launched a sharp verbal offensive against the US and Israel: The Hindu : Bush’s new stridency:
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has described the U.S. itself as “the greatest evil”. Given Mr. Bush’s objections to the suspected Iranian plans of acquiring WMDs, Ayatollah Khamenei is critical of America’s archetypal “sales of lethal weapons” to Israel and others. However, it has been left to Iran’s President, Mohammad Khatami, to reaffirm Teheran’s sustainable advocacy of a “dialogue among civilisations” as the cultured answer to the “insults” that Mr. Bush has now heaped upon the Iranian people.
Was it something we said? Personally, I prefer the Free Press’ ragging on us for being too soft on Pakistan to these scurrilous insults. The Hindu’s frame of reference was apparently formed back in the heyday of the Congress, when the US was too closely tied to Pakistan. Wake up, folks – times have changed.
The California teachers’ union is seeking changes to state law that will allow them to negotiate curricula, text books, and school standards as part of their package with the state, not just salaries and benefits. Sac Bee columnist Dan Weintraub explains union head Wayne Johnson’s views: Johnson says that public-school teachers, college graduates all and … Continue reading “Teachers union seeking power over school policy”
The California teachers’ union is seeking changes to state law that will allow them to negotiate curricula, text books, and school standards as part of their package with the state, not just salaries and benefits. Sac Bee columnist Dan Weintraub explains union head Wayne Johnson’s views:
Johnson says that public-school teachers, college graduates all and many with advanced degrees, deserve to be consulted as professionals about the work they are asked to do. He’s right. But that is not the same as giving their unions the ability to dictate education policy in contracts negotiated at the threat of a strike and set in stone for years so that future school boards cannot change them.
California has taken some important steps toward school accountability in the past five years, with new standards, curriculum and tests. The new system is not perfect, and it still needs some adjustments. But giving the unions control over how that accountability program plays out at the local level would be a huge step backward.
If they get their way, local school boards and parents will have no say in education policy, and with Democrats controlling huge majorities in both houses and the governorship, they very well might get their way. So just when it seemed that public education in California couldn’t get any worse, this nefarious scheme threatens to destroy it altogether.
See the comments of the illustrious Joanne Jacobs on this power-grab.
Bloomberg.com : Energy News Washington, Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) — Kenneth Lay, former chairman of Enron Corp., won’t appear at a House hearing this morning after his attorney refused to accept a subpoena compelling him to appear, CNN said. Lay’s attorney, Earl Silbert, said there wasn’t enough time because Lay had returned to Houston and Silbert … Continue reading “Dude, where’s my Lay?”
Washington, Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) — Kenneth Lay, former chairman of Enron Corp., won’t appear at a House hearing this morning after his attorney refused to accept a subpoena compelling him to appear, CNN said.
Lay’s attorney, Earl Silbert, said there wasn’t enough time because Lay had returned to Houston and Silbert didn’t know where to find him, CNN said.
This is looking like about a 3 politician scandal, meaning it’s not going to be over until 3 politicians are hounded from office for their ties to Enron. My vote for the scapegoats is: Billy Tauzin, Chuck Schumer, and Gray Davis. What’s yours?
