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Public Schooling as a 1971 Chevy Impala (Cato-at-liberty)
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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/07/18/public-schooling-a...
do you wish the automobile industry were run like public schooling, or do you wish that public education was part of our free enterprise system
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Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever Thanks to DRM | TorrentFreak
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http://torrentfreak.com/spore-most-pirated-game-ever-thanks-...
DRM encouraged thousands to get their copy illegally.
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EZ Hacks: Ways to Access Blocked Websites
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http://ezhex.blogspot.com/2008/08/ways-to-access-blocked-web...
How to access blocked websites
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Republicans and Democrats
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http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/06/quote-of-day_14.html
When you look at the Republicans you see the scum off the top of business. When you look at the Democrats you see the scum off the top of politics. Personally, I prefer business. A businessman will steal from you directly instead of getting the IRS to do it for him. And when Republicans ruin the environment, destroy the supply of affordable housing, and wreck the industrial infrastructure, at least they make a buck off it. The Democrats just do these things for fun.
Democrats are also the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it. One philosophy is not necessarily an improvement on the other, but if you want the tooth fairy to come, you’ve got to have some teeth under your pillow.
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Division of Labour: Subsidies for Millionaires; Tax Hikes if You Make $100k
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http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004683.php
Democrats and farm subsidies
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Crash Landing: More Weird Movie Conventions
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http://www.gene-callahan.org/blog/2008/06/more-weird-movie-c...
Why do so few characters in the movies shut the door behind them after entering a house/flat?
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Crash Landing: Do Scientific Explanations Compete with Religious Explanations?
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http://www.gene-callahan.org/blog/2008/06/do-scientific-expl...
The idea behind this supposed conflict is that "God" serves as a kind of default causal mechanism invoked to explain anything not yet understood scientifically. Thus, if current science has no explanation for the existence of living creatures, then that is seen -- superstitiously, according to one camp, or faithfully, according to the other -- as evidence that there is still "room" for God in our world view. And, if scientific advances should conquer that problem, then it is hoped or feared that the territory plausibly claimed by religion will be reduced by just the area now newly occupied by science.
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Cafe Hayek: Commerce and Nature
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/04/commerce-and-na.h...
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled Nature.” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature"-but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers’ purposes) and hatred of dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the “Naturist” reveals his hatred for his own race-i.e., his own self hatred.
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Cafe Hayek: Green Is As Green Does
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/04/green-is-as-gre.h...
In Europe, consumers pay up to $9 a gallon for gasoline, in part because European Union governments tax gasoline at rates of $2 to $3 a gallon and more. What most people don't realize is that gasoline taxes are implicit carbon taxes. Taxing gasoline at $1 a gallon is roughly equivalent to taxing the carbon dioxide emissions from gasoline at $100 per ton.
Yet where in Europe is the miracle fuel to replace petroleum? Where are all the zero-emission vehicles? Europe is not one mile closer than we are to achieving a "beyond petroleum" transport system. In fact, from 1990 to 2004, EU transport sector carbon dioxide emissions increased by almost 26%.
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Cafe Hayek: The Market, Not Nature, Is Bountiful
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2008/04/the-market-not.ht...
But nature is not bountiful. If it were, human history would be one of prosperity and long, healthy lives rather than one of oppressive poverty and short, miserable lives. Nature is miserly.
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