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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
(Via Daily Kos.)
Of 85,532 new registered voters in the south Florida county, 56,175 were Democrats, only 9,313 were Republican. That is, 66 percent of new registration were Democratic, only 11 percent were Republican (the rest were third party and 'no party affiliation'). Even more incredible is the shift in ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
In a free market, a company is free to innovate, even if that innovation is disruptive to the existing business model of the dominant players. The iPod, for example, has been successful because people can import (copy) their CD collection onto it and listen wherever they want. The ability for ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Support the FAIR USE Act!:
"FAIR USE Act would remove some of the entertainment industry's most draconian anti-innovation weapons and chip away at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's broad restrictions on fair use. Take action to help restore balance in copyright now."
Technorati Tags: copyfight, DRM
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
Geeklawyer posted a piece on the French DRM laws and a reaction to it in the Washington Post. Now, I don't know the political leanings of the reporter, but I'd guess its right of center, simply because most reporting these days seems to be.
So the point Geeklawyer made was on ...
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Saturday, September 10th, 2005
So Bush wants us to 'remember the spirit of 9/11' and how we all were united.
In other words, he wants us to stop calling him names.
Well, I remember 9/11. Even though it's mostly been edited out of the collective consciousness, I remember Bush sitting on his ass, dumbstruck, impotent, and ...
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