How US soldiers defend freedom

Guinness record: Sarah Palin throws a stone 180 meters.

Where is ground zero mosque?
“just a stone’s throw away from 9/11’s sacred ground" - Sarah Palin

Bad Hardware: How does she know where is? She red from her palm, of course. :)
However, stoning of sacred ground is the latest fear from her rich arsenal of stupidity. Actually it is 180 meters far away. However, I didn't know ms. Palin is still able to throw a stone 180m far away.

Global recovery is slowing.

U.S. Stocks Fall as Data Cast Doubt on Global Economic Recovery

USA debt as part of GDP still grows 24%. Each year

What will happen one day when the other countries stop financing dollar printing?

AIT is accusing Dell of selling at least 11.8 million defective computers

AIT is accusing Dell of selling at least 11.8 million defective computers and then attempting to conceal the problems from customers. In the suit, which has been going on for three years, Internet services company AIT says it lost business thanks to Dell's faulty computers.

Who destroyed U.S. economy ? USA overall debt today is 367% of domestic product

"How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."

Briefly , in the past 40 years Republican ideology has gone from solid principles to hype and slogans.
Example? Stockman says "the second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt. In 1970 it was just 40% of gross domestic product, or about $425 billion. When it reaches $18 trillion, it will be 40 times greater than in 1970." Using inflation factor of 4,6 time in that period that means today debt should be today 1960 billions. But it is 9,18 times higher. 4/10 x 9,18 give today's USA debt 367% of domestic product


National debt of Greece, put at €300 billion ($413.6 billion), is bigger than the country's economy, with some estimates predicting it will reach 120 percent of gross domestic product in 2010.

Now who is  worse debtor,  USA 367% or Greece 120% ?  USA of course, three times worse.
 Obviously we have 271% of USA external debts translated to internal, according to table below. Only 4 countries ( in bold  below) unable to do it are worse than USA (UK is debt holder thus it is only relative debtor). Thus , in absolutely terms worse debtor than USA are only Ireland, Netherland and Switzerland.

20. United States
External debt (as % of GDP): 95.9%
19. Australia
External debt (as % of GDP): 108.8%
18. Hungary
External debt (as % of GDP): 124.2%
17. Italy
External debt (as % of GDP): 154.6%
16. Greece
External debt (as % of GDP): 175.3%
15. Spain
External debt (as % of GDP): 184.7%
14. Germany
External debt (as % of GDP): 189.4%
13. Finland
External debt (as % of GDP): 205.7%
12. Norway
External debt (as % of GDP): 208.9%
11. Hong Kong
External debt (as % of GDP): 218.8%
10. Portugal
External debt (as % of GDP): 231.5%
9. France
External debt (as % of GDP): 247.2%
8. Austria
External debt (as % of GDP): 268.9%
7. Sweden
External debt (as % of GDP): 275%
6. Denmark
External debt (as % of GDP): 315.2%
5. Belgium
External debt (as % of GDP): 345.6%
4. Switzerland
External debt (as % of GDP): 390%
3. Netherlands
External debt (as % of GDP): 395.6%
2. United Kingdom
External debt (as % of GDP): 427.6%
1. Ireland
External debt (as % of GDP): 1,352%

America Goes Dark

The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being contemplated across the nation, from Philadelphia to Fresno.

And a nation that once prized education — that was among the first to provide basic schooling to all its children — is now cutting back. Teachers are being laid off; programs are being canceled; in Hawaii, the school year itself is being drastically shortened. And all signs point to even more cuts ahead.  America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere. 

BAD HARDWARE: Twilight zone?

China hearts mobile Internet access

Tech-savy Chinese consumers have already surpassed their American counterparts in mobile Internet use, with 38% of Chinese wireless subscribers surfing the Web compared to just 27% of Americans. 


China remains on course to overtake the United States and assume the role of the world's number one economic superpower by the year 2025.

Currently 2nd.

The Chinese government wants its own Internet

China's plan to use internet for propaganda

The US Creativity Crisis

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.
Seems that the production off shoring was the last US creative invention. :)

By 2007 the richest 1 percent were back to where they were in 1928.

—With 23.5 percent of the total wealth.
No immediate recovery.
Crash in both cases came a year later. Recovery started in 1933 and will start in 2012 ! Thus, Obama will not, alas, fix the economy during his mandate. What mandate? First. And most likely,the only one .

3D Blu-Ray Players

Advances in 3D TV technology are growing at a stunning pace, and the first of these breakthrough 3D products - including the initial stereoscopic 3D Blu Ray players and 3D TV models - are slowly becoming more widely available.

Only recently has the media form seen a resurgence in popularity, thanks to films like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. Movie theaters continue to use polarized anaglyph images, but now there's an even newer technology in 3D Blu Ray Players capable of bringing crystal clear 3D right into your living room. In addition to high quality DVD and Blu Ray playback, these new players will also support such online services as Amazon Video On Demand, and web based video services likeYouTube.

The next advance is likely to come in 3D gaming, with rumours that a straightforward software update will enable 3D imaging on the PS3 consoles.

Microsoft opens Win7 source code to Russian secret service

Gulp, I use Win7.
However, nothing new for KGB. Previously , their spy worked for Microsoft by years.


God help US.

Intel's co-founder: U.S. without its growth engine

Andrew Grove, the co-founder of Intel Corp., doesn't buy the again-fashionable argument that startups, preferably technology startups, are the best way to create new American jobs.

Hopeless search for job

Are we about to see a wave of Americans giving up on the labor market?
What now? Research instead of job search (above)? What else after US automobile industry out sourcing?. One of the growth alternatives in California is grass growth.

Thomas Jefferson's black prediction from 1791 !

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. "

Bad Hardware: Atlanta, did you know that ? I mean that the pessimism bubble was actually predicted in 1791 by founding fathers. The American dream—the idea that children grow up to live better than their parents, now has nothing with reality. The USA are now back 20 years in expectations inflation.

Dollar in free fall

The worsening state of the U.S. economy and the risk of a double-dip recession .
The dollar plunged today following a United Nations report which called for the greenback to be replaced as the global reserve currency by the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs).

Sofia, flying infrared telescope

Dell sold computers with 97% failure rate over three years

Nichicon capacitors were expected to have a failure rate of 97 percent over three years.

“They knew millions of computers would be out there causing inevitable damage and were not giving people an opportunity to fix that damage.” 

Curiosity: Why not on Moon ?

NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, is sitting pretty on a set of spiffy new wheels that would be the envy of any car show on Earth.
It would be nice drive it on another celestial body like Moon without imminent half an hour of delay between the next driving command.

Look how Hayabusa did it on Asteriod.
Seems it is pretty hard to land safely. And return back. Anywhere.

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Where? Here.