Tuesday, June 01, 2004

AP.  The gates are starting to come down.  Accenture LLP, a technology and management consulting company, was awarded a government contract Tuesday worth up to $10 billion to develop and expand biometric technology for checking identities of foreigners visiting America.  Priorities, priorities.... 6:11:21 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

David Isenberg has a graph on how 451 historians rate the Bush presidency.  Given this, I guess this will likely be his historical record: Several charges against the Bush administration arose repeatedly in the comments of historians who responded to the survey. Among them were: the doctrine of pre-emptive war, crony capitalism/being “completely in bed with certain corporate interests,” bankruptcy/fiscal irresponsibility, military adventurism, trampling of civil liberties, and anti-environmental policies. It's interesting to note that these historians are looking at Bush through a market-state lens (cooperation, efficient government, unfettered opportunity/choice, and a focus on quality of life issues). 1:14:41 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Here's a question:  which aggregators and blogging systems support RSS enclosures?  I will publish the result on the K-Logs list (1032 people and growing). 12:07:23 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

WSJ.  Despite red-hot oil prices, oil companies are restraining their spending on new projects, worrying industry experts, who fret that producers aren't spending enough to ensure adequate supplies in coming years.  NOTE:  The is interesting.  The oil giants see terrorist attacks against oil supplies as uncertainty that can't be planned against.  Any price improvement due to terrorist attacks will be treated as a windfall.  This demarcates the difference between the needs of corporate producers and those of customers and states.  In contrast, they would like significant new investment in reliable sources of production. 6:51:26 AM    Comment_ Trackback []