After spending 23 years “locked in” — conscious but paralysed and unable to communicate — Mr Houben is now seemingly able to express himself in remarkably lucid messages while Mrs Wouters guides his hand over a computer screen
In the primary, it would depend on the other candidates, Huckabee said. But "she has more management experience and executive experience than Barack Obama," he argued.
HahahahahahahaHahahahaha....can't breathe...hahaHahahahahahahaHahahahahahaha.....must stop...laughing...HahahahahahahaHahahahahahahaHahahahahahahaHahahahahahahaHahahahahahaha. Oh. You're serious.
Microsoft is just being evil again. Now, this isn't typical Microsoft bashing — someone has to fight Google. And in a way, you have to hand it to Microsoft. They're the underdog here fighting a Google that grows in power every day, and their Facebook content deal won't likely be matched by Google any time soon.
According to the Arkansas Department of Health, around 450 thousand Arkansans lack health insurance. More than a thousand of those uninsured made their way to Little Rock’s Statehouse Convention Center on Saturday for the National Association of Free Clinics “C.A.R.E.” event. [...] According to the NAFC, more than 90 percent of those who came on Saturday had three or more life-threatening conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, cardio-vascular, and pulmonary disease. Dr. Kimberly Garner, who works for the Veteran’s Administration in North Little Rock and was one of the volunteer physicians at the clinic, says those kinds of numbers illustrate the need for change.
Microsoft(MSFT) wants to pay News Corp (NWS) and other large publishers to de-list their Web sites from Google's (GOOG) search index, the Financial Times reports.
The divergence of consumer benefit and corporate benefit has been on my mind a lot lately. It happens all the time (insurance companies, drug companies, etc.) but it's rare that it is as transparent and ballsy as this.
Think about it: Microsoft is paying another company to make it harder for you to find their content. Not to help you in any way - just to help them. I know this is naive of me, but I believe (I hope) that companies do better in the long term if they keep their customers best interests in mind as they make business decisions. That is, they should strive to find the intersection of corporate benefit and customer benefit. What Microsoft is doing right now is bypassing the inconvenience of creating a better product and skipping straight to the cashing in part. You might say that this is just another example of Microsoft being Microsoft but I think this goes further. In the case of Internet Explorer, for example. IE was actually a significantly better product than Netscape Navigator (at the time) . It wasn't just that it was free, NN was pretty crappy. The same is somewhat true with Windows and hardware manufacturers. I mean, no offense to Linux lovers, but it's not like desktop linux was ready for primetime back when Microsoft was doing its illegal/immoral work in coercing dell et. al to put Windows on their desktops. I guess what I'm saying is that while Microsoft was forcing consumers down a certain path it wasn't a particularly bad path at the time.
This, on the other hand, is an attempt to actually steer the internet to a worse place. They are trying to wrangle the web into a nice little box that they can control. And they're doing it the way they always do - by pouring money into it.
And who suffers? Me. Well, not me actually. I can't stand Fox News.
This up-and-down action happens on a moment-to-moment basis, thus male bodies continually optimize the gonadal climate for spermatogenesis and sperm storage. It’s also why it’s generally inadvisable for men to wear tight-fitting jeans or especially snug “tighty whities”--under these restrictive conditions the testicles are shoved up against the body and artificially warmed so that the cremasteric muscle cannot do its job properly. Another reason not to wear these things is that it’s no longer 1988.
