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The Truth: Microsoft is cutting employee benefits because the market price of an IT professional has dropped. In other words, Microsoft is cutting benefits because it can, not because of its internal cost structure. The market determines the price you'll pay. Costs have little to do with price setting, even though the cable TV monopolies raise prices and blame "rising costs"; don't be a sucker for false economic theory. They raise prices because they can. Microsoft is lowering the price it is willing to pay for services, because the market price has dropped. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Riotous humor from Microsoft's own Knowledge Base tech support articles. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Satellite will help eye warming. Apparently it is incapable of detecting global cooling? A new research satellite has been launched that is supposed to help monitor the global environment. I guess it has been programmed to only produce results that agree with pre-determined dogma? [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Okay, the report from the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday told us something that everyone with basic common sense already knew. 1. There were no WMDs in Iraq. 2. The President knew that. 3. So did all the other members of the administration: Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc. 4. They all lied, many of them still are lying. 5. Bush gave a speech yesterday about how Kerry flip-flops, what a lot of nerve he has, on the same day a committee chaired by a Republican, with a Republican majority, confirmed that his pretense for war was a lie. A war in which hundreds of Americans have died. Now, at the same time, we're asked to believe that the announcement of a terrorist threat by this administration during the rollout of the Democratic ticket is just the normal course of business. Now, really, what's the probability that's true? 1 percent? 5 percent maybe? If you're a Republican, now that you know what you know about how the war started, do you believe in their integrity when it comes to terrorist threats? I think it's high time for the Republicans to clean this mess up. We're a deep troubled situation, and we need a regime with some integrity running the country. Even the staunchest Republican must see that by now? I don't get it. It's not too late for the Republicans to run someone else. [Scripting News]
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Britt Blaser:  The worst moment in my life was a hard landing at Danang, Vietnam in early 1968. [John Robb's Weblog]
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Tons of interesting news items at WiFi Networking News. Worth a look. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Retraining.

Two of the funniest artists on the Web are here in the U.K. Hugh MacLeod, creator of the above, is one. (Here's another sample.) Chris Hill, of Ubergeek.tv, is the other. His Switch to Mac and Switch to Linux animations remain unsurpassed in their right-on funnitude.

Speaking of which, the extremely funny Gluetrain Manifesto is still up.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]
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SS1 X Prize flights planned for late September. Scaled Composites plans to fly SpaceShipOne on its Ansari X Prize qualification flights in late... [spacetoday.net]
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Surfin': Tracking, Blogging, and Hamming [ARRL Amateur Radio News]
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DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance [Slashdot]
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