LIBERTY: Micro-Finance as opposed to gubamint handouts

Saturday, October 28, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/ymdbmr

http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=348

Micro-Finance: A Way Out of Poverty
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow in Economics

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Since those early beginnings, Yunus and the Grameen Bank have financed literally millions of small projects. A $50 loan allows a woman to buy chickens so she can sell eggs. As the chickens multiply, she has more eggs to sell. Eventually she can sell the chicks as well. The New York Times reported on one woman in India who started with a $50 loan and a 20-chicken farm. She now has $2,000 in borrowing power, a huge sum for her community. Overall, 98 percent of loans are repaid.

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gubamint! How could it possibly succeed?

Freedom. Honesty is inherent in the human condition. It’s in the genes.

We can beat poverty!

There will still be poor people, but there will be prosperous poor people.

And, no government overhead. No government graft. Just peaceful markets.

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ALUMNI: Move sports to a beta blog

Saturday, October 28, 2006

http://jasperjottings.blogspot.com

Switching the blog that I use for the Jasper Jottings sports stories over to the new google offering. I’m always up for some bleeding edge when it really doesn’t matter.

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MONEY: CARSDIRECT may save money

Saturday, October 28, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/wfabs

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/42704033/

October 28 2006
My CarsDirect Experience
Michael Arrington

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Total time spent researching and buying a car: Four hours over a three day period. Total time spent negotiating: none. And I believe I got a better price than if I had tried negotiating with the dealers directly.

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May be I’ll try that next time.

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ALUMNI: Weekly issue pushed

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Http://www.jasperjottings.com

And, I was delayed by a young guy dying. Argh! Class of 1990. That ain’t supposed to happen.

Joe Neikro age 61.

very morose!

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TECHNOLOGY: PRINTERANYWHERE having problems

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Yesterday at work, PA on NOTEBOOK said that PRINTER on WORKTOP was offline. But PA on WORKTOP says it was online.

Today at home, PA on NOTEBOOK says that PRINTER on HOMETOP is offline. But, PA on HOMETOP says it is online.

http://groups.google.com/group/printeranywhere/

Their GOOGLEGROUP has a problem report.

Sounds like a bug at the PA mothership.

I fell back to my PCANYWHERE / GOTOMYPC and printed in both cases. SO I’m sure it ain’t me!

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TECHNOLOGY: Ubuntu 6.10 released

Saturday, October 28, 2006

http://www.ubuntu.com/Welcome

Ubuntu 6.10 flexible and user-friendly released

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Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!

The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.

ubuntu definition

Ubuntu is suitable for both desktop and server use. The current Ubuntu release supports PC (Intel x86), 64-bit PC (AMD64), Sun UltraSPARC and T1 (Sun Fire T1000 and T2000), PowerPC (Apple iBook, Powerbook, G4 and G5) and OpenPower (Power5) architectures.

Ubuntu includes more than 16,000 pieces of software, but the core desktop installation fits on a single CD. Ubuntu covers every standard desktop application from word processing and spreadsheet applications to web server software and programming tools. Read more about Ubuntu on the desktop and Ubuntu on the server.

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couldn’t find a torrent, so I had to do it the old fashioned way. I’ll try it now and report back.

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