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Sunday, December 19, 2004 |
 It looks like an idea I was pitching to telecom companies back in the mid nineties is starting to gain traction. High altitude blimps. They operate at altitudes above weather paterns (which makes it easy for long-duration station keeping). At 1/27 th of the distance of a LEO satellite, these systems can easily connect to low power hand held systems and provide extremely high resolution images without expensive equipment.
5:46:35 PM 
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FT. Al Qaeda's Saudi operation repeats threat to Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure made by bin Laden late last week. “We call on all the mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula to unify their ranks . . . and target the oil supplies that do not serve the Islamic nation but the enemies of this nation.”
New post to Global Guerrillas: THE SYSTEMPUNKT
4:38:36 PM
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One big problem for Social Security privatization is that the great bull run in stocks is over and unlikely to return for the next decade or so (a bit of wisdom from Warren Buffet). Given this, any estimates that use historical returns from the stock market as their basis are wildly optimistic.
4:24:14 PM
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The Firefox question is: at what level of market share (currently it is 89% and falling) does Micrsoft go into damage control and launch a crash program to rework IE?
4:16:39 PM
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Lind dumps on the Iraqi elections. Refuge populations are extreeeeemly destabilizing. The 300,000 people still displaced from Fallujah is just the start. Refuges manufacture a TAZ in every location they congregate.
9:44:22 AM
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CLI corp casualties. More under the radar "Halliburton" targeting. CLI, an engineering and construction company, had acquired more than $40 million worth of government construction contracts to build a center in Taji to retrofit Soviet-era armored vehicles for Iraqi civil-defense purposes, according to published reports.
9:23:51 AM
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Friedman is right on this. There aren't many American generals that don't think that the shortest distance between two points is always straight line. In this situation, the indirect approach is almost much shorter.
9:02:12 AM
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