Man this is sooo me.
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Technology & Prosperity Speed Up
Everyone knows (or should) that our world is speeding up. Technological advances have gotten us to a place where we can build on other tech speeding the process of creating newer, better, shiner things. Along with this technology has come a more and more affluent American middle class. In comparing real luxuries, the average American is doing better and better. This comes from a combination of increased real spending power and cheaper and cheaper stuff. (Thanks Capitalism!) Below is a chart detailing our progress.
Obama: Out Of Iraq = 80,000 Troops On The Ground
The brains behind Obama are recommending that the “Pull Out” of Iraq look a lot more like a simple force reduction. Returning us to troop levels not that far below Pre-Surge levels. While there is a significant difference in “stance” of 150k troops “on the front lines” and 80k troops in “oversight” – though the terms are as malleable as any applied to this war – it falls far short of “pulling out”. Now people with some semblance of foreign policy knowledge will find it comforting that, as many suspected, the Democrats have no intention of leaving Iraq except ceremonially for the TV cameras. On the other hand, the anti-war zealots won’t be to happy to learn that the candidate most pandering to them – isn’t quite the pacifist he claims to be .
Parents Argue Over Which Gang Son Should Join
I don’t know if we should be rejoicing over the fact that the a Crip & a Baller can come together in racial, gang-land, and sexual harmony – well at least long enough to get knocked up – or just feel really sad for the kid.
A couple can’t agree on which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join.
A fight about the decision led to a public disturbance with the father’s arrest. Joseph Manzanares went to the video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays, police told KMGH Denver.
Police arrested Manzanares at his home, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval told KMGH Denver.
The girlfriend told authorities they were fighting over which gang their son should join. The girlfriend, who is black, is a member of the Crips while Manzanares, who is Hispanic, belongs to the Westside Ballers.
“They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised,” Sandoval said. “Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would ‘claim.'”
Intel & Nvidia Trade Virtual Blows
For the past few weeks Intel & Nvidia have been taking swipes at each other in stock market analyst meetings. Let’s face it in the world of geeky computer tech, video cards are about as hip as it comes. Wether you’re helping macboys be creative in Photoshop and Final Cut Studio or helping gamers frag in Q3A and actually run Crysis… graphics is what the cool kids are all about.
Apparently the CEO of Nvidia didn’t like the idea of stogy Intel all up in its grill and trying to hang with his peeps. So what was Jen-Hsun Huang to do, but throw down:
“We’re going to open a can of whoop ass”…
Intel’s integrated offerings [are] “a joke,” but that even if Intel manages increase graphics performance by ten times by 2010, that’s barely up to par with current NVIDIA offerings…
Intel fired back minutes later, sending emails to analysts detailing NVIDIA’s poor track record when it comes to Vista crashes due to incomplete drivers. Almost on queue, Huang responded once again…
“NVIDIA has to support several new titles every week,” he said, alleging that Intel’s graphics just have to support the basic office packages. “You already have the right machine to run Excel. You bought it four years ago”…
“How much faster can you render the blue screen of death?”