Some Guantánamo detainees to get laptops
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- These captives already get to order fast-food takeout from the base and have access to a phone booth for weekly calls. Now some 17 Uighur Muslims awaiting a nation to grant them asylum are about to go high-tech, with laptops and web training.While awaiting details of President Barack Obama's order to close the prison camps by Jan. 22, commanders here have ordered 20 laptops for the captives of Camp Iguana. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1073991.html
If the captives go to a Super Max in the US, will the ACLU sue to get them back to Gitmo? Where life was easy.
Microsoft Will Move Jobs Out of U.S. If Obama Tax Plan Passes
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits.
“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is great. I have the hard cover copy of Black Swan, which if I recall correctly came out in 2007 or late 2006 and which predicts in a footnote the coming problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You should read his book. Parts are boring, but he let's you know which parts you can skip.
Maybe I will read it. Thanks.
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