Archive for April, 2010
Apparently you need to call in the Swat and sniper teams to keep an eye on them!
Meanwhile, let’s look at some of the recent protests in Arizona, and compare photos. You decide which side of the political spectrum is violent.
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And more. I can’t say anything else than agree with Instapundit here.
Everything that’s happening to Europe…our metrics our worse in just about every way, the effects just haven’t hit us yet.
One more reason to oppose the lobbyists who fight for stronger copyrights. They’re already absurdly overpowered.
Good, I’m glad to see the Supreme Court uphold that religious symbols can have more significance than just the religion, and also that separation of Church and State doesn’t mean forced atheism.
And seeing the ACLU lose a battle in their hypocritical war against Christianity is nice too.
Over at Big Government is a proposal for modernizing education by essentially napster-izing it: publishing lectures under creative commons licenses.
Education is definitely one of the next big bubbles to burst. While teaching isn’t entirely just information distribution, there’s definitely an aspect of it that is – and everything else related to information distribution has plummeted in price, thanks to computers and the internet. Journalism and Education are essentially the two holdout industries that are fighting this, and newspapers are already dying as a result of the fight. Education can not be far behind.
While I think distributing many of the more basic lectures and materials is a good start to making education much more affordable, there are a couple of other components that make up higher education that probably need to be integrated at the same time. Accreditation is definitely one of them, and interaction is the second. While creative commons licenses would solve the cost problem for easier classes, more advanced classes at universities are nearly always a stronger mix of accreditation and interaction than just lectures – but communications and collaborations technologies could certainly help those, as well.
And not just that, but need to be able to countersue when that’s taken away from them.
While we all know that conservatives are horrible bloodsucking oil spilling monsters, here’s what the good guys have been up to: The U.N. Environmental Ambassador built himself a 20,000 square foot home, the Assistant Energy Secretary has a $250-500,000 invested in green companies who’s fortunes she directly affects, and BBC executives have made 68,000 domestic (to Britain) flights in the past two years.
We knew they were installed for financial, not safety reasons. And we also knew that numerous towns and cities would start playing all sorts of “Gotcha” games with motorists…And now we know that there’s significant evidence that they decrease safety.
