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December 3, 2010
"47" and other numbers
The biggest mystery about Wikileaks is where its money comes from. Running Wikileaks is not cheap. Reports indicate a staff of about 20, multiple servers in multiple countries, with fairly large bandwidth charges, plus frequent moves to different hosting providers in different nations. Itself expensive and requiring a well-paid staff. Wikileaks is not using bare-bones hosting and staff out of outsourcing India, for sure. Then there is travel. Julian Assange travels around the world, to avoid arrest, moving about every week to a new location. All told I've come up with a total yearly cost of $1.3 million, minimum, not including Assange's likely generous salary.Saw this coming: Julian Assange Fired From IT Job At Pentagon
ARLINGTON, VA—With officials describing his publication of sensitive U.S. State Department documents as "the last straw," Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was asked to resign from his position as the Pentagon's IT coordinator Monday.When it is all f**ked up in all fifty states, all across the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea…can we then proclaim that liberalism doesn’t work? Or no. Will it somehow be Bush’s fault. Victor Davis Hanson From Sacramento to Athens the world is reminded that obligations, despite in-vogue euphemisms like “stimulus” and “Keynesian,” really do have to be met. No surprises here: Andrew Kenny: A Year After Climategate, The Corruption Of Science Persists "The worst nonsense after the scandal was this: "Well, some climate scientists committed a few minor transgressions but the basic science is sound." In fact, the basic science is nonexistent." Unemployment nears 10%. Hey, let’s raise taxes!
“In a surprising setback, the nation’s unemployment rate climbed to 9.8 percent in November, a seven-month high, as hiring slowed across the economy,” the Associated Press reports. Another surprising setback! It’s almost enough to make you nostalgic for the summer of recovery. -- Daffy Ducks - WSJ.comNow that it has infested the White House it's only natural that Narcissism is Out Of The DSM-- And Into The Open -- The Last Psychiatrist.
Posted by Vanderleun at December 3, 2010 7:29 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.