POLITICAL: Carter calls for debt action

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/23608/

President Carter to U.S.: Tackle Debt Before Lecturing China
Trevor Williams
Atlanta – 12.16.09

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The U.S. should focus on getting its own fiscal house in order and give up pressuring China to revalue its currency, the yuan, former President Jimmy Carter said during a Dec. 3 panel discussion at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

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Pretty bad when ex-President Carter talks financial sense. Guess a stopped clock can be right twice per day. Clearly, the debt should be a priority. If not first, (i.e., national defense, citizen protection, the economy), it’s got to be up there.

The cure is one that the Big Gooferment advocates don’t want to hear — cut spending.

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TECHNOLOGY: Digital dirt

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/us/09text.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: December 8, 2009

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Robert Stephan Cohen, the lawyer who represented Christie Brinkley in her divorce from Peter Cook, said a spouse’s finding out about a cheating partner by reading their personal text messages would have a profound effect on how such cases were played out, both in court and among friends and family. Mr. Cohen predicted that the battles in even the most routine divorces would become uglier with more text messages as evidence.

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People really don’t understand the technology they are using. Nor, do they understand the implications of an “eternal love letter”.

And, in a corporate setting, it’s even worse. Why aren’t they REQUIRED to preserve email forever.

The “digital dirt”, created voluntarily, CAN come back to haunt you.

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