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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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Wake Up! An Eye Is Upon You

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 22, 2010 @ 3:48 pm Music

From Wired.com comes news of the US Army’s latest spy mobile — a high altitude, long-duration flight, combat airship, ominously nicknamed “The Unblinking Eye.” This sweet ride and its two sister blimps will cost taxpayers upwards of half a billion dollars. The 5-year contract calls for mere $517 million, and we all know military contractors [...]

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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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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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Dr. Bob Carter on Climate Change

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 28, 2008 @ 9:59 pm Featured Posts
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Consumer Reports, Hookahs, and Legal Positivism

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 28, 2008 @ 2:23 pm Education

Consumer Reports reports that hookahs are not as healthy as many people seem to think. I’m not surprised. What I find interesting and disturbing is the view about law and the state that is expressed by the CR employee’s kid Daniel at the end of the article. What is this guy teaching his kid, huh? [...]

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How Easy It Is To Commit Electronic Voting Fraud

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 18, 2008 @ 4:47 pm Democracy
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Online Ad Business Model Takes a Hit

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 12, 2008 @ 6:23 pm Business

If you’ve ever wondered whether online ads as a primary source of revenue is a viable business model and/or about who really clicks on those annoying ads anyway, check out this item on Slashdot: “6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks.” And that 6% is not representative of the general population. The linked [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke must never have read Mises and Rothbard…

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 15, 2008 @ 9:20 pm (Austrian) Economics

…because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general laws governing scientific extrapolation, as there are not (pace Marx) in the case of politics and economics.” Well, far be it from me to disagree that Marx was wrong about [...]

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Science Future or Science Fiction?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 27, 2007 @ 1:54 pm Science Fiction and Fantasy

David Veksler has some interesting predictions about our scientific, technological, and cultural future. Check them out.

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