Chrysler just filed for bankruptcy and the US government either has or is about to take a controlling stake in GM. But don’t worry; this whole recession business is just media hype. The real danger here is Swine Flu.
As of today I will no longer be reading The Globe and Mail. It has been a source of great irritation but sometimes humour, alas only because of the idiocy of the articles and stupidity of the columnists and editors. … Continue reading
The Industry Minister of Canada, the (Dis)honoable Jim Prentice, is about to announce the Canadian version of the DCMA (That’s the digital millennium copyright act – a US law that’s only ever benefit the big-guns at the MPAA and RIAA) … Continue reading
shit. That’s what the comments are by Stockwell Day in regard to video allegedly aired by the Taliban in which they pledge to send attackers to the US, German, Canada, and the UK to blow up some stuff. Day believes … Continue reading
The original Star Wars film, that’s Episode IV: A New Hope, has been in the top 10 highest grossing films in time and people fail to recognise how truly amazing that is. I have some figures for you to contemplate. … Continue reading
::THUMB:strange-ebay-email.png:right:ebay email:: I got a couple emails the other day, and they seemed to me as they were just your standard ‘phishing’ emails, so I promptly deleted them and carried on my way. I got another one today and decided … Continue reading
Hmmm. What I just read sounds an awful lot like what I devoted 90% of my 2 MA years to: frontiers, the greatest military power of the time, and keeping out those pesky barbarians. I have to admit that I … Continue reading
So…I replied to a blog on the Warwick university website in part about the apparent lack of quality of the US football (soccer) team. I defended them, and did a fairly good job too. I said that I wouldn’t be … Continue reading
I haven’t posted anything substantial in quite sometime; the only things that I have posted have been on a different site – my Warwick blog – and it’s focused entirely on my research so it’s of little relevance here. I’ll … Continue reading
Read The Globe and Mail article about the hurricane Katrina and donations from nations around the world. Discuss any of the following: 1. The uselessness of national debt/credit when one countries loans another money for disaster aid, then the same … Continue reading