News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Competition or FCC to "regulate" online search?

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The FCC, founded in the 1930's to assign frequencies to radio broadcasters and do price fixing for the telephone company, wants to expan...

Monday, December 28, 2009

It's the crotch bomber.

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ABC has a picture of the infamous bomb. It was 80 grams of PETN fixed in the bomber's jockey shorts, right between his legs. If it ha...

Sunday, December 27, 2009

What's the difference between a database and the circular file?

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What's-his-face Obama's press secretary was on this morning explaining about how they let the leg bomber on the plane. The governme...

Words of the Weasel Part XIII

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Mitigation. When something goes wrong we don't fix the problem, we mitigate it. We create a "mitigation plan" . Which looks...

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Leg Bomber

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The Christmas day story of a Nigerian attempting to bring down a Northwest Airlines flight with a bomb strapped to his leg is going around. ...

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Congressmen used to vote their district

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Used to be, Congressmen always voted their district. Any issue which the voters in the district cared about, the Congressman would vote the...

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Why ObamaCare is a disaster.

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The Senate voted for cloture on the ObamaCare bill in the wee hours of the morning. That required 60 votes. Actual passage of the bill only...

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