Slashdot today has an article titled U.S. Copyright Lobby Out of Touch with the following editorial:
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I received a few e-mails from yesterday's post/slashdot-crosspost, Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges (Newsvine link). Here is one such e-mail:
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Today on slashdot, an interesting article link is posted about a couple who is facing charges over trying to do what the police are supposed to do: protect them from violent offenders. The slashdot editorial reads:
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It has almost been a year since the Global Unanimocracy Network was created when I coined the phrase unanimocracy. While the term hasn't taken off, I do use it to explain my political beliefs — no law passes without unanimous consent. If EVERYONE agrees, a law is made.
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While I found anarcho-capitalism mostly through self-inquiry (and a lot of reading of every political and apolitical), I also see a significant case for anarcho-capitalism within the Bible (notably the New Testament).
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So yesterday came and went with a lot of media attention, but it wasn't until today that I really spent a few minutes figuring out what all the hoopla really is about.
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MineWeb carried a great little article today titled Global gold dehedging slows down (1). The article talks about how the major gold producers have slowed down their gold dehedging in the third quarter of 2006.
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I'm really amazed with Skype — the quality tends to be terrible, the software is buggy, the delay over their VoIP to POTS network is significant. Yet the upside is that it not only works, but it tends to make me more productive — as well as my staff and my volunteers.
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So I ran up to Milwaukee today to see something I didn't believe when I heard it — that some new homes may not really be all that wonderful to live in. I wish I could take pictures or give an address, but the homeowner is hoping for a lawsuit of some kind to get a resolution.
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Christ did not vote. He didn't. He didn't talk about voting, He didn't promote Christians to support government or Caesar. There is no reason to think He would have supported it.
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Someone I worked with years ago is feeling pretty lucky about the house they're trying to sell. They feel good because they don't really understand the math involved in the process of what they're losing.
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I live in an odd town — right between an middle/upper class caucasion town and a lower/middle class hispanic town.
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In a Slashdot article titled (Mis)Tracking Web Traffic, I made this post titled General traffic figures are useless.:
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Slashdot had an article today titled FDA Set to Approve Products from Cloned Cows, to which I replied: I'm excited.
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I've always been confused by the real estate agent as well as the real estate industry as a whole.
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When the Fed "injected liquidity" by keeping interest rates low, banks were able to partake of the inflationary dollar by loaning it out to anyone at almost no interest rate.
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Laws are titled to make voters think the laws do something. Laws are written with some intensions that can be described as "good for society," but all laws have loopholes.
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Finally some news on the credit crunch in my area — Chicago. The Chicago Tribune asks "What's in your wallet?", the coming credit crunch. Oops.
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I helped two friends this summer who run very large companies — companies that have been grossing 8 figures annually each.
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I was looking at a pint glass of Diet 7UP a few weeks ago, staring at the formation of bubbles near the bottom and watched them as they rose.
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