January 2012
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This Is SOOOOOO Pathetic! If THIS Is Protecting... →
Leigh Van Bryan And Emily Bunting Banned From Entering US After Twitter Joke About ‘Destroying America’
Two British touists were barred from entering the United States after joking on Twitter about“destroying America”.
Leigh Van Bryan and Emily Bunting’s Twitter feeds were monitored by US special agents who also took exception to a comment about “digging up Marilyn Monroe”, the Sun...
Meet George Jetson →
Rather than investing in state of the art facilities, corporations found that the opening of China offered them something that exceeded the cost performance of the best automation: an infinite supply of human hands available so cheaply that for the first time in a century the price of labor was a negligible fraction of the cost of goods. Why build complex and expensive factories, when you can...
Isn’t libertarianism fundamentally an appreciation... →
Is Libertarianism Fundamentally about Competition? Or about Property?
David Brin
David Brin Contrary Brin Posted: Jan 30, 2012
Some folks have heard me beat this drum. But it’s a fresh-enough thought - going to fundamentals that run deep beneath normal politics - so that I am moved to raise it yet again. In part because someone recently asked me, as author of The Transparent...
