1 day ago by Fish

Having just read Levitt and Dubner’s SuperFreakenomics as well as Tenner’s Why Things Bite Back, I’ve been thinking lately about unintended consequences, sometimes referred to as a “law of unintended consequences”. As defined by Rob Norton, it is “that actions of people – and especially of governmen ...

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1 day ago by Kert

Matthew Paolini asked: If you’re a cat lover like me, few things are more important than the continued good health of your favorite feline. It goes without saying that part of being a cat lover is accepting responsibility for your pet’s health. That means finding and building a good relationship wit ...

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28 days ago by innovation2

Image via Wikipedia When society jumps on a bandwagon, even for a good cause, there may be unintended consequences. The unintended consequence of crop-based biofuels may be the loss of wildlife habitat, particularly that of the birds who call this country’s grasslands home, say researchers from Mich ...

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30 days ago by Marc Gallagher

I expect there are many people out in the world today, some of them even Obama’s most staunch supporters, wondering why Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Saying that I’m incredulous is an understatement. He just bombed the moon. He has continually bombed and killed civilian innocents in Pakistan ...

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44 days ago by IRSTaxSupport.com

The IRS said Thursday it will extend a moratorium on collecting penalties from some small businesses that were hit with big fines for not disclosing the use of questionable tax shelters. The moratorium began in July at the request of lawmakers who wanted time to change the law to make the penalties ...

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47 days ago by yfg

New Connecting Directors Website. The Connecting Directors owner says the reason the posts about the Funeral bad guys are gone is a software problem. That means 2years of conversations about the following funeral bad guys gone. NFDA Executive Secretary Randall L. Earl who took preneed money to set u ...

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56 days ago by Ariel Goldring

According to the Associated Press: An Indiana court has ruled that a pizza shop must pay for a 340-pound employee’s weight-loss surgery to ensure the success of another operation for a back injury he suffered at work — raising concern among businesses bracing for more such claims. So what is the con ...

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61 days ago by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from ...

An upshot of the financial crisis could be that investors go back to basics. In the case of equities, the means “plain old stock-picking” as Mario Gabelli of Gabelli Asset Management describes it. The paragraphs below are an excerpt of a recent interview Hedgeweek had with Gabelli. GFM: Will the US ...

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80 days ago by Steve

The Law of Unintended Consequence - I’m going to steal this perfect description of the outcome of events caused by an implementation from my company’s corporate blog about health care reform. The law so perfectly puts what happens much to often in the IT world in a nutshell. “The “law of unintended ...

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83 days ago by The Real Camino

Below is a NPR story about Cash For Clunkers that cites an example where It would take five to eight years to undo the carbon footprint caused by the trade-in program. By taking into account the green house gas emissions generated by the production of the vehicle, the example shows that the program' ...

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