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Rachel Hoffman’s death on 20/20 with John Stossel : Part 1
August 31, 2008 by dinofond.
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Rachel Hoffman’s death on 20/20 with John Stossel : Part 2
August 31, 2008 by dinofond.
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Morning Tea
August 28, 2008 by dinofond.
Yogi Redbush says “Open up to infinity and you become infinity.” I’m infinity.
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Philip Sayce performing with Melissa Etheridge at DNC ‘08
August 27, 2008 by dinofond.
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22 cents of every dollar emerica is spending is borrowed
August 26, 2008 by dinofond.
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Quote of the Day
August 23, 2008 by dinofond.
“The greatest thing that happened to me was, when I stopped believing in God, I stopped believing in the Devil. When I stopped believing in the Devil, all my fear went away. I’m not afraid to die, I’m not afraid to walk down the street. I’m not looking over my shoulder thinking the Devil’s going to get me, or ‘God is watching me, so I’d better not do that,’ when there’s nothing wrong with what I’ve done”.
~ dUg Pinnick
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LeRoi Holloway Moore September 7, 1961 – August 19, 2008
August 22, 2008 by dinofond.
LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died on Tuesday from complications stemming from an ATV accident he suffered in June. He was 46. Moore crashed his ATV on June 30 on his farm near Charlottesville, VA. He had been discharged from the hospital and returned to his Los Angeles home to begin a physical rehabilitation program, but complications from the accident sent him back to the hospital on July 17. The band issued a statement on its official website, describing Moore’s death as “unexpected.” Béla Fleck and the Flecktones saxophonist Jeff Coffin had been sitting in for the band’s summer tour.
The AP reports that Dave Matthews Band went ahead with their show on Tuesday at L.A.’s Staples Center, where Matthews dedicated the concert to Moore.
The Dave Matthews Band formed in 1991 in Charlottesville, according to their website, when vocalist-guitarist Matthews tapped Moore and drummer Carter Beauford — both accomplished jazz musicians in the local Charlottesville music scene — to help record to tape some songs Matthews had written. Since then, according to the RIAA, Dave Matthews Band has sold over 31 million units in the U.S., putting them in the Top 100 highest-selling music acts of all time.
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Quote of the day
August 20, 2008 by dinofond.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
~ Robert J. Hanlon
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I have been saying this for years but the un-tech don’t have a fucking clue
August 20, 2008 by dinofond.
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Most Companies in US Avoid Federal Income Taxes
August 19, 2008 by dinofond.
Report Says Most Corporations Pay No Federal Income Taxes; Lawmakers Blame Loopholes
By JENNIFER C. KERR Associated Press Writer
Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress.The study by the Government Accountability Office, expected to be released next Tuesday, said about 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes over the same period.
Collectively, the companies reported trillions of dollars in sales, according to GAO’s estimate.
“It’s shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing to support our country,” said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who asked for the GAO study with Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
An outside tax expert, Chris Edwards of the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, said increasing numbers of limited liability corporations and so-called “S” corporations pay taxes under individual tax codes.
“Half of all business income in the United States now ends up going through the individual tax code,” Edwards said.
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Happy 10th Birtday imac
August 19, 2008 by dinofond.
It’s true the imac is 10 years old, what were you doing in August of 1998? I was unhappily running a Window$ 98 first addition HP that would “blue screen of death” every hour at least.
Ahh but even the Macintosh was running OS 9.2 which also had it’s issues. However the imac was the turning point for Apples come back of a 30% home market share we see today. I find it funny that Microsoft funded this little machine with a 250 million dollar stock purchase to get the DOJ off their back during the first big Monopoly suit. If Apple were to go broke Microsoft would have been in deep doo doo.
Then in 2001 as quickly as Apple could bring it to market the release OS X (formerly NEXT OS) was released. Shortly after a new very cool completely redesigned imac emerged.
Apple has come a long way with the imac being so eco minded as to encase them in Aluminum instead of bromide based PVC. In fact I am witting this from just such an imac
Happy 10th Birthday imac!
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Soviet Jazz-Funk, 1974
August 19, 2008 by dinofond.
This is a really cool random find youtube find 
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