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Greece Finance. Is This Alphabet Thing All About Google's Tesla Envy? Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) are reintroducing legislation to revive the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression era bill which would force big banks to split their investment and commercial banking practices. : politics. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Native Advertising (HBO) Facebook to Acquire Oculus : technology. 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis. Economic growth in Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 2000 to 2007.

2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis

Iceland is in red. The 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis was a major economic and political event in Iceland that involved the collapse of all three of the country's major privately owned commercial banks, following their difficulties in refinancing their short-term debt and a run on deposits in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Relative to the size of its economy, Iceland's systemic banking collapse is the largest experienced by any country in economic history.[1] However, the financial crisis still had a serious negative impact on the Icelandic economy.

The national currency fell sharply in value, foreign currency transactions were virtually suspended for weeks, and the market capitalisation of the Icelandic stock exchange fell by more than 90%. The main countermeasures to combat the crisis were: Enforcement of strict capital controls to help protect the ISK currency. Development[edit] Currency[edit] Facebook. Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee : Shots - Health News. Hide captionYou could do all that brain work.

Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee : Shots - Health News

Or you could make it up. iStockphoto.com Many online journals are ready to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number. Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion. For years, the key rationale given by broadband providers for implementing data caps was that it was the only way they could deal with "congestion.

Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion

" Of course, for years, independent researchers showed that this was bogus, and there was no data crunch coming. If you actually caught a technologist from a broadband provider, rather than a business person or lobbyist, they'd quietly admit that there was no congestion problem, and that basic upgrades and network maintenance could easily deal with the growth in usage. But, of course, that took away the broadband providers' chief reason for crying about how they "need" data caps. American Bob: "Jobbed" Wall Photos. Xbox 360 Sales Ban for US Recommended by Judge.

Update: A Microsoft representative stated, "the full Commission will rule on this in August, and until that time, nothing will change.

Xbox 360 Sales Ban for US Recommended by Judge

" As such, IGN received the following statement, which is identical to the original comment from last month: “The recommendation by the Administrative Law Judge is the first step in the process leading to the Commission’s final ruling. We remain confident the Commission will ultimately rule in Microsoft’s favor in this case and that Motorola will be held to its promise to make its standard essential patents available on fair and reasonable terms.” Original Story: Following up on a previous ruling, which deemed Microsoft in violation of Motorola WiFi and video codec patents, judge David Shaw has recommended against the continued sale of the Xbox 360 in the United States, according to MCV.

Should Microsoft be deemed in infringement of existing patents, it would threaten the possibility of selling consoles using that tech. Source: MCV. We're About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It. Image: moodboard/Getty Net neutrality is a dead man walking.

We're About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It

Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For. It's a new year, but one thing hasn't changed: The economy still blows.

Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For

Five years after Wall Street crashed, America's banker-gamblers have only gotten richer, while huge swaths of the country are still drowning in personal debt, tens of millions of Americans remain unemployed – and the new jobs being created are largely low-wage, sub-contracted, part-time grunt work. Millennials have been especially hard-hit by the downturn, which is probably why so many people in this generation (like myself) regard capitalism with a level of suspicion that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. “Integrative medicine”: A brand, not a specialty. Author’s note: This post was inspired in part by a post by Wally Sampson entitled Why would medical schools associate with quackery?

“Integrative medicine”: A brand, not a specialty

Or, How we did it. Once upon a time, there was quackery. Long ago, back in the mists of time before many of our current readers were even born and far back in the memory of even our wizened elders of medicine, “quackery” was the preferred term used to refer to ineffective and potentially harmful medical practices not supported by evidence. Physicians, having a grounding in science and prior plausibility, for the most part understood that modalities such as homeopathy, reflexology, and various “energy healing” (i.e., faith healing) methodologies were based either on prescientific vitalism, magical thinking, and/or science that was at best incorrect or at the very least grossly distorted.

More importantly, physicians weren’t afraid to call quackery quackery, quacks quacks, and charlatans charlatans.