I guess the last fifty years or so we could sorta pretend that we were a sovereign nation and not ruled by global oil corporations, but the recent BP disaster has put some cracks in that facade. This article from ProPublica demonstrates how Texas police kowtow to BP security. Those Texas cops are working for [...]
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The South Florida Raging Grannies weigh in on the recent CBS advocacy ad kerfuffle. What does CBS stand for? Watch the video to find out. Or, check out the Women’s Media Center to learn more. Here’s more about the raging grannies from Wikipedia. Writing about corporate free speech in his dissenting opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti Justice Rehnquist noted that “[a] State grants to a business corporation the blessings of potentially perpetual life and limited liability to enhance its efficiency as an economic entity. It might reasonably be concluded that those properties, so beneficial [...] Jens Roland has written a clear explanation of why you should care about file-sharing. A lot of money has been poured into creating a campaign of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about file-sharing. When discussed in the mainstream media it’s almost always associated with piracy and theft of intellectual property. The recent ruling in Sweden against the [...] Why the Kindle is not good for intellectual [...] Whoops! This story is years old. Nothing to see here. Alert terrorist-hunters in Kentucky nab would-be Steven King. Nation, you can rest easy tonight. “My story is based on fiction,” said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. “It’s a fake story. I made it up. I’ve been working on one of my short stories, [...] Here’s Carlin on why education in the US is fucked: The most common response from those who oppose net neutrality is – We don’t need legislation because no one’s throttling bits, or creating multi-tiered internet distribution. The Time Warner branch in Beaumont, Texas is trying out a system where slow access is cheaper than fast access (over the same cable lines). This sets up a structure [...] |
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