Potpourri: Sept. 10, 2012
Millions of Americans now use "cloud computing" -- but few realize they're doing so, or understand what it is. MSN.com explained: There's no actual cloud. It's a term to describe gigantic servers with worldwide storage capacity, which can be accessed by multitudes of users. Instead of storing information on individual PCs or local servers, the data goes global. Mike Quick of Cloud Strategies says: "Once people are moved into the cloud, they recognize they can improve on productivity, costs, security and efficiency without changing the way they do business day to day."
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TV comic Bill Maher says it's puzzling that former President George W. Bush mysteriously was absent from the GOP convention. "What about Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, Tom Foley and other prominent Republicans?" he asked. "Did they stop existing too?"
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Political accusations can be downright silly. When GOP nominee John Raese called U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., "far left," it invited horse-laughs around West Virginia.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: David Kinney, 32, of Charleston, is charged with shooting a Poca man to death as he sat in his car on a West Side street.
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Retired WVU economist Tom Witt told the state Chamber of Commerce that only 53.7 percent of working-age West Virginians hold jobs. Therefore, logic implies that the state's unemployment rate is 46.3 percent. So why do state officials claim that the rate is around 8 percent?
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Tampa's stripper clubs prospered during the GOP national convention. One disrober was a Sarah Palin lookalike. A strip club official told The New York Times that Democrats spend an average of $50 each in take-it-off bars during conventions, while Republicans average $150. That proves which is the party of the rich.
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Thriller writer James Patterson earned $94 million last year, a world record, according to
Forbes magazine. This newspaper's Flipside page reviewed one of his "Maximum Ride" novels, about teenagers with wings. It's odd that a writer can become rich from tales of flying teens. But no odder, we suppose, than the worldwide success of the Harry Potter stories, about a boy in wizard school.
Millions of Americans now use "cloud computing" -- but few realize they're doing so, or understand what it is. MSN.com explained: There's no actual cloud. It's a term to describe gigantic servers with worldwide storage capacity, which can be accessed by multitudes of users. Instead of storing information on individual PCs or local servers, the data goes global. Mike Quick of Cloud Strategies says: "Once people are moved into the cloud, they recognize they can improve on productivity, costs, security and efficiency without changing the way they do business day to day."
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TV comic Bill Maher says it's puzzling that former President George W. Bush mysteriously was absent from the GOP convention. "What about Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, Tom Foley and other prominent Republicans?" he asked. "Did they stop existing too?"
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Political accusations can be downright silly. When GOP nominee John Raese called U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., "far left," it invited horse-laughs around West Virginia.
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Bearing arms in West Virginia: David Kinney, 32, of Charleston, is charged with shooting a Poca man to death as he sat in his car on a West Side street.
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Retired WVU economist Tom Witt told the state Chamber of Commerce that only 53.7 percent of working-age West Virginians hold jobs. Therefore, logic implies that the state's unemployment rate is 46.3 percent. So why do state officials claim that the rate is around 8 percent?
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Tampa's stripper clubs prospered during the GOP national convention. One disrober was a Sarah Palin lookalike. A strip club official told The New York Times that Democrats spend an average of $50 each in take-it-off bars during conventions, while Republicans average $150. That proves which is the party of the rich.
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Thriller writer James Patterson earned $94 million last year, a world record, according to
Forbes magazine. This newspaper's Flipside page reviewed one of his "Maximum Ride" novels, about teenagers with wings. It's odd that a writer can become rich from tales of flying teens. But no odder, we suppose, than the worldwide success of the Harry Potter stories, about a boy in wizard school.
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