In what kind of police state would you find that a purchaser would need governmental permission to buy something from a willing seller?
In this one.
Of course, it’s all about corporations leveraging the power of the state to coerce their rivals. If you are someone who is against corporate power, you should be against government […]

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Yep, it’s the big time. An email I wrote in response to a post by Mark Steyn was reprinted on NRO’s The Corner.
Here’s the link. I feel special now. And for the record, yes, you can find women in hookah bars.
I’m kind of glad I didn’t ask for a link, […]

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You’ve probably never heard his name, but Stanislav Petrov saved your life.

On September 26th, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was the officer on duty when the warning system reported a US missile launch. Petrov kept calm, suspecting a computer error.
Then the system reported another US missile launch.
And another, and another, and another.
What had […]

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Says Ahmedinehjad :
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.
“In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don’t know who has told you that we have it,” he said.
Of course they don’t. If they knew of any, they would […]

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This is so fucked, I can’t even explain how pissed it makes me.
It’s a website where cops rat out other cops for giving them tickets. They admit to breaking the law, but think they should be let go out of “professional courtesy”. I was blind with rage after reading just a few of […]

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Blogging has been interrupted by a heavy workload and the theft of my laptop during a business trip to Montreal. See my Cellfish Media Blog for details.
Also, we have a contest running, so if you sign up for a Cellfish account and subscribe to my blog it would really help me out. The […]

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Arrrr, mateys! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Use this English to Pirate translator if you need help.
English to Pirate Translator from Pirate Monkeyness

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The Kids In The Hall: Comedians or prophets? This new brain surgery is like hardware Gleemonex.
At his signal, two volts of electricity, enough to power a wristwatch, course through the wires and radiate outward from the tip a few millimeters in every direction. Millions of neurons bask in the electricity, and the effect is […]

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Today is Programmer’s Day, as it is the 256th day of the year, the highest number that can be stored in an 8 bit integer.
So to celebrate, I’m going drinking after work. Not that that’s any different that what I was already going to do.

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Interesting speculation here that the recent Bin Laden tape may be a fake, spliced together from old footage. When he talks about recent events, the video is a still frame, leading to suspicion that the voice may be an imitator.
It fits together, since the content on the tape sounds like your typical American leftist […]

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If he was a Republican, he would be in jail. He would not be passing Go, he would not be collecting $200, he would be going directly to jail.
Can you imagine if a Bush staffer was caught smuggling 9/11 related documents out of the National Archives and later confessed to destroying them? […]

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If you are not reading Michael Yon and Michael Totten, then you are not getting the whole story about Iraq.
We don’t see this kind of reporting in the New York Times because it doesn’t reinforce their reader’s preconceptions.

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Software, like all technologies, is inherently political… Code inevitably reflects the choices, biases and desires of its creators.
- Jamais Cascio

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I have nothing to add to this.
In World War II, all Americans were asked to participate, to come together against a common enemy. No such thing was asked of us. We were told to stand aside and let the military and the government handle things. Result? In World War II, we had Rosie the Riveter; […]

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I just saw a McDonald’s commercial for some Angus burger that’s in limited release. The commercial consists of three Boston-accented guys imploring New York area customers to please buy McDonald’s new Angus burger because it’s being tested in a limited market, and they want it to do well enough to make it to Boston […]

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I would like to live long enough to eat in a fancy restaurant and order a dish that contains cut up hot dogs, and have this be socially unremarkable.

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Every move a wrong one. Every time I stayed in with an ace and marginal kicker I lost, the one time I didn’t stay in I would have tripled up.
Sometimes this game utterly disgusts me.

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It was a fairly big week in politics, with Fred Thompson jumping in on the Republican side, and it sounds like this international political figure might be jumping in to the race for the Democratic nomination. Both of these characters provide a lot of red meat for their respective rank and file.

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New iPods, cheaper iPhone, wireless iTunes store.. It was a big day for Apple. Now I need to decide whether to wait for my contract with Verizon to be up and get an iPhone, or get the new iPod Touch instead.. For the same price the Touch has 16GB vs. 8GB for […]

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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promised retirees that if elected president she will not cut Social Security benefits, raise the retirement age or privatize the taxpayer-funded system.
Sounds like a promise to raise taxes to me. But what can I expect from the person who said “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of […]

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