Barack Obama Trounces Hillary Clinton In Wyoming Caucus
March 9, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama handily won the Wyoming Democratic caucus over opponent Sen. Hillary Clinton.
With 22 of 23 of the state’s counties reporting, MSNBC is reporting Obama won 59 percent, or 4,459 votes, to Clinton’s 40 percent, or 3,081 votes.
Out of Wyoming’s 12 pledged delegates, it is estimated that Obama will pick up at least seven delegates while Clinton will get three at minimum. According to number crunchers at MSNBC, Obama now leads with 1366 delegates altogether to Clinton’s 1227.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe explained that the only way for the Senator from New York to catch up in pledged delegates “would mean getting 68% or 70% of the vote everywhere.” Simply put, the math is very much against Ms. Clinton with the race coming down to the last ten states with almost of all of the “big states” already out of the picture.
Baidu Sued Once Again By Music Industry
March 3, 2008
Baidu, the largest search engine in China, is once again in trouble with the music industry.
The search engine apparently gets substantial traffic because of a service that links to MP3s, with quite a few being of the not kosher variety.
Now the Music Copyright Society of China has sued the search engine, alleging that it provided “music listening, broadcasting and downloading services in various forms on its website without approval, and through unfettered piracy, earning huge advertising revenue on its huge number of hits.”
AP is reporting that the suit was filed in in a Beijing court in January and that the Society is demanding compensation for what it claims is 50 songs used illegally.
Baidu had been sued previously by the The International Federation of Phonographic Industries, which also had problems with the site linking to illegal music.
US Navy Accidentally Drops ‘Training Bomb’
October 30, 2007
An aircraft flying a training mission for the US Navy accidentally dropped what is being referred to as a “training bomb” while flying over Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The plane was coming back to Oceana Naval Air Station when the payload was released.
Nobody was harmed during the event and the only material damage appears to be superficial damage to a wall next to a warehouse which is being described as having some “chipped paint”.
USA Today is reporting that according to Lt. Cmdr. Dave Nunnally, the incident occurred at about 12:15 p.m on Tuesday.
The bomb was not live; the device was about a foot and a half long but was not fitted with explosives. Instead, it was armed with a “smoke charge” that would indicate where the device had been dropped.