Cory Doctorow is Writing Alternate History
Here‘s a revealing quote: "She had two junior surveyors with her, all of them loaded with positioning gear that tied in to Galileo, the European GPS network — the Galileo… Read more »
Category: politics
Guns are a fundamental dividing line of civilization
Donald Sensing: "I oppose licensing and basic government control because — am I getting the message through here? — I AM SOVEREIGN in America, not the government, and I do… Read more »
Germany’s Jobless Racket
Newsweek: "As long as the government is more interested in shuffling the jobless between useless projects and playing with the numbers instead of tackling real labor market reform, it will… Read more »
See how they vote
Stephen Dulaney: "YahooMegaVote an email subscription service where you provide your zip code and the service returns an email with the names of your representatives in Washington and how they… Read more »
Alabama judge loses Ten Commandments case
Salon: " A Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of Alabama’s judicial building violates the constitution’s ban on government promotion of religion, a federal judge ruled Monday." U.S. District Judge… Read more »
France Doesn’t Fail to Fail
Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003: France slides from 20th to 30th. Fits perfectly with the rosy picture painted by Socialists Apparatchiks who keep claiming (even after they spectacularly lost the latest… Read more »
Up Against the Firewall
Red Herring: "U.S. technology companies are helping China build its Big Brother Internet–the political fallout has already begun. […] Technology companies should avoid the Chinese Internet pledge and the national… Read more »
Left-wing absolutism
Nick Denton: "I finally understand why the Left has failed over the last two decades. It has stopped trying to persuade. […] For the Left, or at least for my… Read more »
Web sites in Spain go blank to protest new laws
CTV.ca: "The government says the law, which stems from European Union directives, aims to encourage online commerce by making the Internet a safer place to do business. It wants companies… Read more »
Google excluding controversial sites
CNet: "Absent from Google’s French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy, according to a new report from Harvard University’s Berkman Center…. Read more »