I don't know if this is unethical or merely unseemly; all I know is it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Ad agencies fund drug research. You want more? As expected, the Bushies are relaxing clean air rules to let their friends (can you say Enron?) upgrade equipment without improving emission controls. Oh, and they're gonna let 18-wheelers potentially destroy turtle nesting areas on Padre Island in Texas, too. What's slightly unbelievable is that there's been a 20-year effort to save the turtles from extinction by the Feds, and that whole effort may be jeopardized. Does this make sense?
Wow. If the docks lockout on the West Coast was partially about technology, try this one on for size. IBM is about to begin selling "autonomous" software with the ability to fix itself and keep running. I can hear the anguished cries of IT professionals now. In similar news, here's an assessment of whether the new Homeland Security Department will really work, from a corporate merger perspective. Short answer: nope.
If you missed All Things Considered today, it has some wonderful tape of cockpit conversations between an AF plane (carrying about half of the Cabinet) and the White House Situation Room on Nov. 22, 1963, the date JFK was killed. The half-hour segment is narrated by one of the observers, Walter Cronkite.
Posted by Linkmeister at November 22, 2002 02:14 PM