Free Investment Newsletter | Invest Yourself: I really like what they (Robert B. Rinear) say on the currency. That all seems very very true. The currencies in the world are all crap. The best may be Japan and they can’t keep the Yen low enough to be a competitive exporter so it is wreaking havoc on their economy… The Yankee Dollar is a piece of crap. But we are less crappy then the Yuan or the Euro. We are…
Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt – NYTimes.com: Or: http://nyti.ms/1sEIHC3 Studies published in the journals Science (here) and Geophysical Research Letters (here) magazine find that the antarctic is melting, probably at a very very fast pace. The terms “beyond the point of no return” and “unstoppable” are used to describe the collapse of this glacial area in Antarctica. How long it will take is harder to predict. This really scares the bejeebers out of everyone. Let me…
These Aren’t The Patent Trolls You’re Looking For | TechCrunch: Wow this is a great analysis/discussion of Patent Trolls. This is a great discussion of the companies that exercise their IP rights and ways in which they do so. IBM invents a lot (patents) but doesn’t directly utilize most of their inventions directly. Plus, even if they do, they often have peripheral uses of the technology where licensing out is a great way to commercialize….
Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it’s really bad news : TreeHugger: The ABCs of colony collapse among Bees appears to be really, really ugly. Well, it has been ugly, but know we know a little more about it, vs. being mainly in the dark. This current research seems to find that a combination of pesticides and fungicides reduces the immune system of bees. This story summarizing the research is just filled with…
Courthouse News Service: A chip maker, Marvel Technology Group, just lost a $1.17B law suit for stealing the technology of Carnegie Mellon University. One has to marvel at this company’s antics, a company that trades by the symbol MRVL, and should in no way be confused with the comic company, although its antics carry both intrigue and humor. You might call them the Chip Pirates of the Caribbean given their off-short headquarters in Bermuda. Their…
Coming to a Couch Near You: A New Wave of Telecommuting: Very cool discussion about Telecommuting. And Traffic. I just saw stats on the worst commutes in America. (several different ways to slice n dice it). One stat was the average person spends a bout a week per year (38 hours) in traffic. I have no idea where Mr Average lives, cause the rest of us used to ring up that many commuting hours in…
