THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
Corina Suter can’t afford to take any chances as she plans her wedding on a Swiss mountaintop next June. Should disaster strike, her insurance kicks in.
UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.
Scientists at the Gran Sasso facility will unveil evidence on Friday that raises the troubling possibility of a way to send information back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.
Microsoft’s Security Essentials anti-malware tool has mistakenly identified Google Chrome as a password-pilfering trojan — and actually removed the browser from many users’ machines — but a fix for this rather amusing false positive is now available.
My wife and I have an inside joke for unwanted assistance. We say ‘Stop helping like Microsoft’ – Ed.
The problem with police officers and firefighters isn’t a public-sector problem; it isn’t a problem with government; it’s a problem with the entire society. It’s what happened on Wall Street in the run-up to the subprime crisis. It’s a problem of people taking what they can, just because they can, without regard to the larger social consequences.
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
“Holy Smoke” co-author John Shelton Reed, a retired University of North Carolina sociology professor, said Monday that people in his state do not mess around with this form of cooking. “Barbecue,” he said, “is the third rail of North Carolina politics.”
Don’t laugh.
9x times a problem doesn’t make the problem smaller does it? What could possibly go wrong?
GEEK ALERT: Some technical stuff. Really scary technical stuff. -Ed
Q. Should I get a loan from the SBA?
A. You can’t get a loan from the SBA, but you can get a SBA loan guarantee. Come again?
Well, first off, the SBA does not loan money, so you can’t get a loan from the SBA.
The SBA guarantees a large portion of the loan made by the bank. This means you have to negotiate two sets of paperwork and get two approvals before you get funded.
Q. What is the benefit of a SBA loan guarantee?
A. An SBA guarantee gives the bank the opportunity to fund a loan that doesn’t meet their commercial requirements. The SBA guarantees the bank will receive their funds even if the borrower, you, defaults on the loan. The guarantees range from 50 to 90% of the loan amount.
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