A discussion of the legal and political issues.
Andy Stern, Liberal Fascist
Jonah Goldberg, call your office.
[Update a while later]
Thoughts (and reality check for Stern) from JPet.
Abolishing Email?
That’s what a major IT company plans to do.
I’ve long thought that for intra-organization communications blogs are much better than email. I was very concerned a few years ago when I was consulting for a major aerospace corporation (which shall remain nameless to protect the guilty) how much technical work was going on in emails that were difficult to archive or search properly.
Who Lost Egypt?
We know who. And a lot of people were warning about it at the time. And I think it’s going to eventually result in Israeli tanks on the banks of the Nile.
Not Understanding Libertarianism
This is a weird comment thread on a post about the latest crusade of the nanny state — against salt.
This would actually be good for me, because I have cut way back on the salt over the past few months, and have thereby reduced my blood pressure, but neither my salt intake, or anyone else’s, is the business of the FDA.
[Update late morning]
More thoughts on the FDA and sodium at Reason.
Insane, Or Evil?
Some thoughts on the Norwegian mass murderer and appropriate punishment.
“Stomp Out Capitalism”
The Occumorons declare their goal. No wonder Pelosi and Obama endorsed them.
George Nield
An interview on the subject of space transportation safety. Just for the record, I have always thought, and continue to think, that the notion that private operators are likely to be less safe than NASA to be foolishly ludicrous. All the incentives are the other way.
A Failure Of Imagination
Thoughts on our continuing fecklessness with regard to the Iran threat.
[Update a few minutes later]
Michael Totten says that the war may have already started, quietly. Well, it wasn’t that quiet in Isfahan.
It Was Just A Matter Of Time
They’ve cloned a Stradivarius with a 3-D printer. I don’t think we’re that far from Star Trek replicators.
The economic and market effects of this technology will be far reaching. For instance, as Eric Drexler pointed out in the eighties, what happens when there is no way, other than a chain of custody, to tell the difference between the original Mona Lisa and an exact copy?