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Thougts on the Republican YouTube debates

» by russ November 28th, 2007 at 11:57 pm » View Comments

I was watching the first half of the Republican CNN YouTube debates and I thought I would share my thoughts. First it seemed immigration dominated the first 15-20 minutes. You have Giuliani and Romney duking it out about who supported illegal immigrants. I can see Romney’s point that he hired a company [...]



Yahoo! settles with jailed Chinese journalists

» by russ November 14th, 2007 at 8:52 pm » View Comments

According to this Register article Yahoo has decided to settle the lawsuit brought against them by the families of jailed Chinese journalists. When Yahoo was seeking to have this lawsuit dropped I issued my support for Yahoo. I don’t feel any differently but in someways I do feel better that they are helping [...]



Germans are not fans of Google

» by russ October 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 pm » View Comments

I found this post on Mashable about Google’s loss in a German court over the use of the gmail.com domain in Germany. In the article the author also points out that Germany is not very happy about their purchase of Doubleclick. I don’t think this is too unusual when you consider how [...]



Yahoo seeks to dismiss Chinese lawsuit

» by russ August 29th, 2007 at 10:50 pm » View Comments

I was reading an article on CNet News about how Yahoo is seeking to drop a lawsuit in California brought against them by Chinese reporters that were jailed. In the story they outline how a Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo turned over evidence about the reporters to Chinese authorities. This evidence was used [...]



Outsourced DMV

» by russ July 31st, 2007 at 7:30 pm » View Comments

I found this article on Michelle Malkin’s site the other day but I’m just getting to blog it. I wanted to comment on this as I feel these types of articles that are used to defend protectionist policies against globalization. Basically the gist of the article is Orange County California is outsourcing DMV [...]



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