So of course, if you have kids, the only logical thing to do is to pay someone else $15/month to stalk them online for you.
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64% of teens say that most teens do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about.
Posted in economics, education, ethics, hypocrisy, internet, media, privacy, technology, tagged paranoia, parenting on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Little Slice of Irony in Salem
Posted in constitution, economics, ethics, hypocrisy, oregon, politics, property, tax, tagged hypocrisy, oregon, sizemore on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m kind of shocked that the R-G folks couldn’t come up with anything more salacious in this article about Bill Sizemore’s tax fraud woes:
A judge agreed Monday to delay conservative activist Bill Sizemore’s arraignment, giving the longtime foe of public employees three more weeks to decide whether to accept taxpayer-funded legal defense against criminal charges [...]
good news for health science
Posted in constitution, economics, ethics, fair use, free speech, medicine, patents, property, science on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
another link from Wired this morning: pro bono group’s challenge to patent on naturally-occurring genetic material allowed to proceed:
U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet of New York, in ruling that the case may proceed to trial, noted that the litigation might open the door to challenges of a host of other patented genes. About [...]
If the law is a secret, do you have to obey it?
Posted in copyright, dissent, economics, ethics, first sale doctrine, free speech, internet, media, politics, technology on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m thinking that negotiating a secret treaty that will strip rights from internet users to pacify movie studios is a pretty good way to make sure that it’s eventually rejected by the American people.
is it legal to make backup copies of your DVDs?
Posted in contracts, copyright, economics, fair use, first sale doctrine, free (or not) software, media, property, technology on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of those questions that has bothered me ever since the DeCSS thing went down way back in 2001. The crux of the problem is this: the movie industry wants to sell you a DVD like it’s a physical object, and then use technology to restrict your use as though you have [...]
Bottomless Bailout or Nationalization- the only choices left
Posted in economics, ethics, politics, securities on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What TPM does not say is that it’s been clear since, say, August 2008 that these are the only choices. Either we keep pissing good money after bad, or we … stop.
The issue isn’t whether people like the idea of ‘nationalization’. It’s better framed as whether you a) want the government to temporarily take over [...]
Posner Gets Basic US History Wrong
Posted in constitution, dissent, economics, education, ethics, hypocrisy, politics, tagged lincoln, posner, stare decisis on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
although since he doesn’t give a damn about stare decisis, I guess I’m not surprised that he can’t be bothered to actually check the factual truth behind the decisions his clerks write for him.
