Published on March 15, 2010 by Technology Slice
FaceBook Opening Office In India – Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users. The office, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, will have advertising and developer support teams, the company said Monday. It will supplement Facebook’s [...]
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Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice
Texas Independence Day 2010 – Texas Independence Day 2010 commemorates the historic event 174 years ago on March 2, 1836, the day Texas gained its independence from Mexico. Most are familiar with the Declaration of Independence, but not all know that Texas had its own Declaration of Independence, signed on March 2, 1836, declaring Texas [...]
Tags: 1776, 28th State, Acts, Austin Texas, Declaration Of Independence, Independence Day, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Local Media, March 2 1836, Mexico, News 8 Austin, Nine Years, Oppression, Rick Perry, Roundup, Texans, Texas Governor, Texas Independence Day, tyranny, United States
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Published on February 19, 2010 by Technology Slice
Echelon Building Austin – A small plane crashed into a business tower that houses some federal offices in Austin on Thursday morning, engulfing the entire front half of the seven-story building in flames. The plane, which according to reports was either a Cherokee Piper or a Cirrus, hit the Echelon Building on Mopac and U.S. [...]
Tags: Assistant Director, Austin Texas, Austin Travis County Ems, Business Tower, Cherokee, Cirrus, Department Of Homeland, Department Of Homeland Security, Director James, Echelon, Federal Offices, Flames, Homeland Security, Irs, Mopac, Piper, Thursday Morning, Travis County, U S Department, U S Department Of Homeland Security
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Published on February 19, 2010 by Technology Slice
Joseph Andrew Stack – Federal authorities are investigating the following Web posting linked to Joseph Stack, the pilot of the single-engine plane that crashed into an Austin, Texas, office building that housed IRS offices. If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it [...]
Tags: Austin Texas, Desperate Measures, Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Engine Plane, Federal Authorities, Irs Offices, Joseph Andrew, Long Time, No Doubt, Pilot, Rant, Realization, Simple Truth, Stack, Writing Process
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Published on February 19, 2010 by Technology Slice
Joe Stack – At first blush, it would seem that the man who flew his small airplane into an Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas — fortunately killing no one, apparently, although one employee is still missing at the moment I write — was a right-wing government hater. But read Joe Stack’s statement, which [...]
Tags: Airplane, Austin Texas, Blush, Conundrum, Corporate Greed, Elephant, Hater, Heavy Hand, Internal Revenue Service, Internal Revenue Service Building, Irs, Joe Stack, Right Wing, Unions, White Elephant
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