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Still a lot more bottom in Vancouver Real Estate

January 30, 2009

This just in:  Vancouver has been ranked fourth on the world’s list of least affordable cities.  This is well ahead of cities like Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.  As most rational people know, the city’s thundering real estate market has been bolstered by rampant speculation and constant construction of new condominiums.. but [...]

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Verisign’s Domain Redirects

September 23, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeffrey Kay > Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:20:55 AM US/Pacific > To: FoRK > Subject: Verisign’s Domain Redirects > > Seems like DNS is in trouble yet again. This is a pretty interesting > issue. > One could argue that managing a root gTLD server is a public trust [...]

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Waiting For Spielberg..

September 20, 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/magazine/magazinespecial/ MFMERHANT.html September 21, 2003 Waiting For Spielberg By MATTHEW ROSE Unlike most urban legends, the one about the Iranian exile stuck at the Paris airport for 15 years is true. Surrounded by a mountain of his possessions near the Paris Bye Bye lounge at Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Merhan Karimi [...]

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SBC Won’t Name Names in File-Sharing Cases

September 17, 2003

*As proof that market dynamics can influence lawmaking, SBC has fallen into step with Verizon in putting up roadblocks to stop the RIAA’s maniacal tirade against P2P. The quote that says it all? * “We are going to challenge every single one of these that they file until we are told that our position is [...]

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Fans Sue RIAA

September 12, 2003

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/12/riaa/ index.php?redirect63353388000 Consumers strike back, sue RIAA By Liane Cassavoy, PC World.com September 12, 2003 9:35 am ET After taking its antipiracy campaign to court, the music industry is finding itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit that challenges its purported amnesty program as a fraudulent business practice. The Recording Industry Association of America [...]

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Re: To Be or Not To Be….Hispanic

September 1, 2003

On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 08:20 PM, Pablo Shiladitya Bose wrote:> On a road trip through Washington State, Oregon, California, > Utah and Nevada, I got asked if I was Filipino, an “Ah-rab”, Mexican, > and even Nigerian. Pablo… you’re Nigerian? Do you have an important business proposal for me concerning the deposit of [...]

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FINALLY, Someone Sues the RIAA

August 27, 2003

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidR8&ncidR8&e=2&u=/ap/ 20030828/ap_on_hi_te/webcasting_suit Online Music Broadcasters Sue RIAA 36 minutes ago Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO – An alliance of online music broadcasters sued the recording industry in federal court Wednesday, alleging major record labels have unlawfully inflated webcasting royalty rates to keep independent operators out [...]

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Yahoo Buys Overture…

July 14, 2003

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidR8&ncidR8&e=1&u=/ap/ 20030714/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_overture 2 hours, 37 minutes ago Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo! Inc (NasdaqNM: YHOO -news ). on Monday snapped up Overture Services Inc. (NasdaqNM: OVER -news ), the pioneer of pay-for-placement online search results, in a $1.6 billion deal that fortifies the [...]

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NYTimes: Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com

July 6, 2003

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/ abstract.html?resû0B13FD3C5E0C7A8EDDAF0894DB404482 The New York Times June 29, 2003 Online Dating Sheds Its Stigma as Losers.com By AMY HARMON Of the 120 men she traded messages with online in her first four months of Internet dating, Kristen Costello, 33, talked to 20 on the telephone at least once and met 11 in person. Of those, [...]

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