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13 Oct 2009 11:12

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U.S., World: Russia to U.S.: Back off of Iran; let’s see what they do first

  • We are convinced that threats, sanctions, and threats of pressure in the present situation are counter-productive.
  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov • Regarding the U.S. applying pressure to Iran for its nuclear program. Russia has not completely committed to towing the U.S.’ line on the issue, despite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushing for it. • source
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13 Oct 2009 11:01

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Tech: The URL shortener race has already been won by Bit.ly

See that blue line? That’s bit.ly. See that green line? That’s TinyURL, getting its lunch eaten because it has no analytics. See those other lines? That’s everyone else. source
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13 Oct 2009 10:47

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Biz: Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling gets a Supreme Court hearing for his trial

  • Man, if he gets off … Skilling, the Enron executive who didn’t have the, uh, fortune of dying just before getting sentenced, will get his day in front of the Supreme Court due to questions about the judgment. Skilling says the legal claim that he deprived the company of “honest services” is invalid, and notes that an argument that he did it for personal gain was never made. So off to the top court it goes. source
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13 Oct 2009 10:01

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U.S.: The California legislature even less-loved than Schwartzenegger

  • 13% approval rating for the clogged-up state legislature source
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13 Oct 2009 09:58

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U.S.: Arnold Schwartzenegger’s approval nearing Gray Davis’. Really.

  • 22% Gray Davis’ approval rating at the time that Arnold Schwartzenegger was elected in a recall
  • 27% Arnold Schwartzenegger’s current approval rating; he’s nearing Planet Hollywood in popularity source
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13 Oct 2009 09:47

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World: Carter-Ruck had the U.K. press over a barrel in parliament

  • The media laws in this country increasingly place newspapers in a Kafkaesque world in which we cannot tell the public anything about information which is being suppressed, nor the proceedings which suppress it.
  • The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger • Describing a bizarre situation in which his newspaper was not allowed to publish a question about the Trafigura toxic waste scandal. The gag pushed for by the Carter-Ruck law firm, was lifted just a short time ago. Reminder: The U.K. doesn’t have the same freedom of press as the U.S., so stuff like this occasionally happens. • source
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13 Oct 2009 09:31

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Tech: Daily Poll: Is T-Mobile doing enough for Sidekick customers?

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13 Oct 2009 09:19

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Tech: Here’s how much T-Mobile plans to compensate Sidekick users

  • $100 size of the gift card T-Mobile is giving customers who lost their data, good for any T-Mobile product or service
  • one month of free service for Sidekick customers, whether data was lost in Microsoft’s server failure or not source
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