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	<title>Let Me Tell You... &#187; Economy</title>
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		<title>Kodak Learns the Art of Patent Trolling</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2011/01/kodak-learns-the-art-of-patent-trolling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read in Bloomberg that Kodak is looking at a possible loss in its ITC patent infringement case against Apple and RIM. Kodak says that the low-resolution preview feature found in most digital cameras is infringing on a Kodak patent. The ITC judge said that patent should be invalidated, because the low-res preview technology is [...]
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		<title>PayPal dumps Wikileaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you already know, PayPal stopped accepting charitable donations for Wikileaks. The Guardian reported that PayPal froze about eighty thousand dollars donated to Wikileaks via PayPal Donations service. So far PayPal has refused to release the funds, nor has it issued refunds to its customers who donated the money. I know this because I donated [...]
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		<title>NATO, Russia, and Romania</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/12/nato-russia-and-romania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent interview for Romania Libera, Basescu announced that Romania will absorb its poor neighbor Moldova within twenty five years. According to Basescu, this "reunification" is a done deal and would have happened earlier if it wasn't for the interference from the evil Russians. Acquiring Moldova's territories is a key aspect of the Greater Romania concept.
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		<title>Deepwater Sombrero</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/05/deepwater-sombrero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 20:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest news reports every attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has failed. At some point last week it became obvious that BP has been copying the failed attempts to stop the 1979 Ixtoc spill. It is interesting to note, that the two drilling rigs &#8211; the Ixtoc [...]
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		<title>Oracle vs. MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems &#8211; the creator of Solaris operating system and manufacturer of my favorite computers &#8211; is being acquired by Oracle &#8211; the maker of the world&#8217;s leading commercial database software that works best on Sun servers. This seems like a good deal for both Oracle and Sun. Unfortunately, this merger will be very bad [...]
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		<title>Your Savings and the Decline of the Dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2009/10/your-savings-and-the-decline-of-the-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I wrote about the plans Russia and other oil-producing nations have for breaking the tie between the price of oil and the value of the dollar. For years Russia and OPEC countries have been tiptoeing around this issue until the recent massive collapse of the US banking industry forced their plans [...]
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		<title>Swiss Humor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IMD &#8211; a Swiss business college situated on the shore of Lake Geneva popular among Russian nouveau riche &#8211; recently published a glossy report ranking &#8220;competitiveness&#8221; of national economies. Reading the preamble to the report one may be very impressed by the advanced methodology used by IMD&#8217;s researchers. Everything looks very proper and scientific. [...]
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		<title>Pipeline Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 22:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EU continues waging a losing battle for its energy independence from Russia. Gazprom, hit hard by the global economic recession and dropping energy demands, may be skating on thin ice, but it is still well ahead of the EU. Following the August war with Georgia, Russia moved to consolidate its gains in the region [...]
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		<title>Open-Sourcing JSF</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese hackers broke into the Department of Defense computer systems and stole several terabytes of information related to the $300-billion Joint Strike Fighter project. Let&#8217;s imagine that three terabytes (this would be the minimum to qualify as &#8220;several&#8221;) of data were transferred over a 10-mbps connection. This is a [...]
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		<title>Loudicrous</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Lou Dobbs decided to join the choir of starry-eyed optimists who believe that the recession is over that the American economy will begin to recover any month now. Lou, what is the point of parading Nobel Prize-winning economists on your show if all you do is interrupt them with your idiotic ideas? I [...]
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