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Aphoristic Observation: The Internet Kill Switch

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 27, 2010 @ 1:45 pm Humor

Clearly, in times of emergency, the internet, in order to be protected, must be destroyed. Cross-posted at The Libertarian Standard.

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How to Mirror a Censored WordPress Blog

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 17, 2010 @ 8:51 pm Featured Posts

A couple of days ago David mentioned on The Libertarian Standard that the Mises Institute providing its entire online media and literature library as a set of free torrents can be seen as part of a distributed or grassroots intellectual guerrilla resistance against the state. This is just one aspect of the Mises Institute’s effort [...]

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If you don’t like it, leave — for a price

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 28, 2010 @ 12:29 pm Featured Posts

A common retort that libertarians, even minarchists, hear when criticizing ‘their’ government is “If you don’t like it, then just leave.”1 Indeed, residency is perceived to be one piece of evidence (among others, like voting, paying taxes, etc.) for one’s implicit consent to the state and its rules. Just leave. As if there are better alternatives. [...]

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Movie Review: Ninja Assassin

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 27, 2010 @ 5:35 pm Education

First of all, I found the title of the movie to be redundant from the get-go. The action scenes are mostly way over the top. The gore insanely so. Swords and other blades slice through body parts, even cutting men in half at the waist, as if they were hot knives slicing through butter. Ninja [...]

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Taking the Pledge of Liberty and Justice for All Seriously

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 17, 2009 @ 1:05 pm Education

A 10-year-old boy is taking a stand for “liberty and justice for all,” refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance until gays and lesbians enjoy equal rights. Good for him. But this will be best achieved by getting the state out of marriage entirely. Let people define marriage how they will. Barring that, the second best option [...]

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The US Post Office has got to go

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 1, 2009 @ 3:42 pm Personal News

I got a package in today. For the second time in two weeks, the third time since we’ve lived in Nebraska, and the fourth time I can remember while living in an apartment, the postman did not even bother making a first attempt at delivering the package to my door. I managed to get to [...]

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John C. Wright’s Austrian Anaylsis of the Financial Crisis

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 27, 2008 @ 1:34 pm (Austrian) Economics

At least one science fiction author has a pretty sound grasp of economic theory and history, and of the current financial crisis. Ludwig von Mises over half a century ago proved, beyond a shadow of doubt, that a little intervention in one sector of the economy creates an incentive for a lot of intervention in [...]

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The New Apple iMissile

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 18, 2008 @ 12:17 am Business

In recent news, Apple has joined the military-industrial complex. Get ready to say hello to the new iMissile. No offense, fanboys and girls. It’s my first LOLcat. Like it? (I added just the Apple logo and the text, someone else had already put the cat in.)

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Will IP be the death of the Watchmen movie?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché August 19, 2008 @ 3:02 pm Science Fiction and Fantasy

Bad news, folks. Fox is attempting to use IP laws to kill Warner’s upcoming Watchmen movie. No, they’re not trying to get a share of the profits as is common practice. They’re actually trying to block it. Bastards.

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A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 8, 2008 @ 3:19 pm Statism
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