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From the news 5600 years ago. QUOTE Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth. According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation...

This is an actual patent application from Microsoft -- which is just hilarious. From /. "A newly disclosed Microsoft patent application — Avatar Individualized by Physical Characteristic — takes aim at fat people, proposing to generate fat avatars in gaming environments for individuals whose health records indicate they're overweight, limiting their game play, and even banning them. From the patent application: 'An...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 18, 2009 -> 06:29 PM) The key sentence... "We're not that far from a point where job gains will outweigh job losses, but that's not enough to reduce the unemployment rate," he said So in other words, people still are getting laid off more than they are being hired, plus there are all of the new people entering who aren't able to collect unemployment...

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Dec 18, 2009 -> 02:43 PM) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/36-states-re...set=&ccode= The key sentence... "We're not that far from a point where job gains will outweigh job losses, but that's not enough to reduce the unemployment rate," he said So in other words, people still are getting laid off more than they are being hired, plus there are all of the new...

Won't work. Wii already does this, so Microsoft is a little late to the game.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 17, 2009 -> 05:38 PM) Franken just became the Almighty in the Senate (now that Barackus the Great has ascended). (IMG: style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif ) Lol, now that's somewhat funny. The best part of this article is the John McCain quote "I must say that I don't know what's happening here in this body but I think it's wrong."

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 17, 2009 -> 07:50 AM) That's called protectionism, and it's not a very good idea. If we did that the world would cry foul -- as a matter of fact, they did when they started talking about the stimulus a long time ago. The US is currently one of the least protectionist countries in the global economy. US corporations can't even open a department store in India, for example. The...

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 18, 2009 -> 03:49 PM) He probably forgot about that. He's totally clueless. He probably hasn't caught on to the capabilities of those newfangled video tapes yet either.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Dec 16, 2009 -> 03:02 PM) "World industrial production" whatever that means. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/0...in-one-picture/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/2...eat-depression/ huh! very interesting.