| Safe at Home Interviews Stephen Flynn
Meet our Stephen Flynn, our first profile in resilience. Quite frankly, we couldn’t have begun with anyone else because Stephen is our inspiration for this whole project. His latest book The Edge of Disaster has an ominous title but in fact – while it demonstrates that we are living on borrowed time – it also shows what is possible if we as individuals – and as a society – decide to construct a more resilient society. His premise is that with the wounds of national disasters still relatively fresh in our minds, we need to act to ensure that our political leaders act to prevent future disasters.
EU court supports privacy of music downloaders
The protection of authors' rights "cannot ... affect the requirements of the protection of personal data," the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) said in its ruling. European copyright laws "do not require the (EU) member states to lay down, in order to ensure effective protection of copyright, an obligation to communicate personal data in the context of civil proceedings," the court said. The case was originally brought to the Spanish courts by Promusicae, a Spanish non-profit organisation of music producers and publishers concerned, as much of the industry is, that their profits are being eaten up by pirated downloads and file-sharing. Promusicae had been seeking a court order to force Telefonica SA to disclose the identities and addresses of several people to whom the Spanish telecommunications group had provided Internet access services.
John Marelius chat transcript
The Republican race appears much closer: John McCain, 31.8%; Mitt Romney, 28.2%; Mike Huckabee, 12.2%; Rudy Giuliani, 9.3%; Ron Paul, 8.2%; Fred Thompson, 2.2%. sd72(Q) In the New York Times last week, David Brooks described Obama's victory in Iowa as political earthquake. How big do you think that win was? And if he repeats it today in New Hampshire, what will that mean for Clinton? johnmarelius(A) I don't think I saw Brooks' column, although I have a lot of respect for him. "Political earthquake" might overstate the case a bit, but Obama's victory was significant for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is it showed a black candidate can win in an almost all-white state. As for Clinton, a second straight loss would not be fatal, but it would put her campaign very much on the ropes.
Boynton Beach commissioners plan $4,500 retreat funded by taxpayers
Boynton Beach city commissioners plan to go to Fort Lauderdale for dinner Friday at Mancini's Restaurant, stay at the Riverside Hotel for the night and then discuss redevelopment the next day. The cost to taxpayers: $4,557.
The spending comes as the city threatens to cut back on services and worries about the potential impact of declining property values and tax law changes that could further hit city and Community Redevelopment Agency budgets. The statewide property tax referendum will be held Jan. 29.
On Tuesday, Mayor Jerry Taylor, serving as the CRA's chairman, told residents there was no money to save the city's original high school, which needs $8 million of renovations. "These are tough times," he said.
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The Church of the Non-Believers
It's a question you may prefer not to be asked. But I'm afraid I have no choice. We find ourselves, this very autumn, three and a half centuries after the intellectual martyrdom of Galileo, caught up in a struggle of ultimate importance, when each one of us must make a commitment. It is time to declare our position. This is the challenge posed by the New Atheists. We are called upon, we lax agnostics, we noncommittal nonbelievers, we vague deists who would be embarrassed to defend antique absurdities like the Virgin Birth or the notion that Mary rose into heaven without dying, or any other blatant myth; we are called out, we fence-sitters, and told to help exorcise this debilitating curse: the curse of faith. The New Atheists will not let us off the hook simply because we are not doctrinaire believers.
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating ...
With a broad range of customer engagements underway, notably customers in the oil and gas, financial and engineering analysis industries, AMD is delivering on its vision of Accelerated Computing with breakthrough benefits for our enterprise customers, said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Graphics Products, AMD. Leveraging the immense graphics processing capabilities acquired from ATI and the HPC domain expertise of AMD, we are developing strong relationships with system vendors and the supporting technology eco-system to deliver processing innovation through an open platforms approach.
AMD FireStream 9170
The AMD FireStream 9170 will be the worlds first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology tailored for scientific and engineering calculations.
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