D&D is taking back Russia

Dunkin' Donuts is trying to to get back into Russia, after pulling out in 1999, the new English company is trying to  get into the Russian coffee wars, the tea drinking nation is now getting into coffee, and D&D wants to emulate Starbucks which has 31 locations so far and is the third in the $575 million coffee bushiness. 11 years ago D&D pulled out of Russia following three years of losses exacerbated by a rogue franchisee who sold liquor and meat pies along side with the donuts and coffee. D&D's new plan is to team up with Konstantin Petrov, a Russian real- estate developer. I wish my fave coffee company the best of luck in the motherland ;)
from a guy who is drinking a awesome cup of coffee
Chris M

Ford is back on track

ford is finally making its return to the top, the American car giant reported $2.1 billion profit for the first quarter. this is AWESOMEEE I mean its starting to look like America is back on its feet, and as long as ford doesn't try the same shit it did last time and keeps innovating the market . this isn't to say everything is dreamy for ford right now, they are $31.3 Billion in debt, though that's down from about $34 Billion earlier this year. but the point is the company went from being like $ -10 billion to $2.1 billion, I would say someone is doing something right. I have to say though can we have some cool looking cars cus other than like the mustang I can't think of a American car that is just cool.
From a guy who REALLY wants a BMW
Chris M

china really likes oil

China needs oil, like a LOT like HOLY SHIT, we thought we where gas guzzlers. nope that would be the Chinese. its probably the something billion people they have that is the reason they need it all. But why they need the gas is not the point of this post. seeing as the Chinese need gas they where like hey south Americans how about we loan you $20,000,000,000 (I figured you might want to see the zeros.) and that's just what they did, they loaned the money to Mr. Hugo Chavez. this is one of china's largest foreign loans to date. the loan comes at probably the best timing for Mr.Chavez since his popularity has come under fire because of Venezuela's crumbling infrastructure and other things. it looks like china is trying to get in on the oil business but it might be prity hard for them. will have to see how it goes.
from a guy who tends to walk or jog most places.
Chris M

fileshareing is for college students

so i was checking stuff out and came acourse ppl talking about a new law about file sharing and happened to come acouse this story about college filesharers that in effect show that a new law on file sharing on campuses — in short, it may not make much difference.
"Students who are about to graduate often hand down the tricks of
stealing music and movies to the next senior class... At the College of
New Jersey, that means surreptitiously finding a new home each year for a
computer holding an enormous directory of illegal files on the campus.
... The machine runs software called Direct Connect, which lets people on
a local network easily trade files among their hard drives in a way that
is usually undetectable to anyone outside the network. ... Educause
recently unveiled a website with information about the new regulations.
It provides case studies from six 'role-model campuses,' listing the
steps they are taking to combat piracy. Another page lists 57 legal
sources of music and movies on the Web. But when asked which campuses
have forged new policies in reaction to the law, Educause officials were
unable to name any."
from a guy who will plead the 5th when it comes to weather or not he will file share
Chris M

PS part of the research came from slashdot not just the WSJ figerd I should say that before someone jumped down my throat about it.

U.K.'s drinking problem

Idk about you but when I think of crazy drunks I most def think about the U.K. where you can drink at 16 and most tend to do in excuse. crazy drinking and partying routinely turns the weekend landscape int he capital of wales into a scene from the Night of the living dead, with intoxicated young men and women stumbling around in trash that litters the street. while this seams like a laughable issues its not when you add the violence that is escalating with the rise in drinking. the seriousness of the problem has caused many politicians to try an enact measures against the rampant drinking which many say is caused by the rise in cheap alcohol and pre-mixed cocktails. The man problem is that while drinking has fallen majorly in almost every other country it has risen in the UK by a whopping 19% like holy shit. so really until the UK gets its youth to stop drinking or chill it out at lest they most likely will contun to have this problem
from a dude who is legally too young to drink himself
Chris M

so I think we should ditch the teachers.

ok so we all understand the public school system is broken, this is a known, but after reading an article in the WSJ I think I know one of the reasons. we have to many teachers, this may seam awesome right ? cus there are a lot of ignorant kids (not dumb just lacking knowledge). Wrong, we have way to many teachers, (also BTW I don't want anyone to take this as a slam on teachers, its not I have a lot of respect for them cus I sure as hell couldn't teach the lil buggers). the problem is not that teachers aren't retiring or anything its that schools keep hiring extra teachers in good none recession years and when 3 years later the school and state are both going broke they can't lay off the teachers. so here's a real simple solution. DON'T HIRE MORE THAN YOU NEED. schools please stop being greedy, its unbecoming and no one feels it worse than you. expt for maybe the tax payers. on another note this sort of thing wouldn't happen as much if we ran schools as business but that's a WHOLE other argument and discussion.
A guy who never was taught to by a public school teacher in the first place.....
Chris M

Iad, apple's new toy

the google apple war is well known too techies and none-techs alike, personally this blogger thinks apple can shove it, for google owns the web, nof said. but it looks like apple is taking on the mobile web with the in program its introducing called Iad, (btw what the F*ck is with the I in front of everything I mean come on), this is most likely in response to googles recent attempt to acquire the Mobile phone ad agency AdMob, this is apples first stab at what has been so far mainly google turf, with its new Iad it will reach hundreds of millions of Itouch and IPhone users. Iad will be released with the next update in Iphone firmware. I think it will just annoy a hell of a lot of people but we'll see how it goes. also one good thing will come of this update, finally IPhone users will get multitask functionality.
from a guy who really can't wait to get a new phone
Chris M