Monthly Archives: June 2010

Sanitizing the Inherently Unclean for Dummies

Posted on June 10, 2010 by B Psycho

Found this interesting: Salt Lake City, Utah (CNN) — The executioner says he was eager to join the firing squad. Not because he was familiar with the 1996 case, or felt the need to deliver justice for a raped and … Continue reading →

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First Adopters

Posted on June 10, 2010 by B Psycho

…get hosed.  The latest example: Security Breach on oh-so-fucking-popular iPad!  Q&A with hacker that exposed it here. Most tech companies make their money off the first people to buy the new shit.  The 1.0 version always has something severely wrong … Continue reading →

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(Don't) Watch This Space

Posted on June 5, 2010 by B Psycho

After all the talk in the MSM about freedom of association, it’s rather timely that they take notice of the Red&Black Cafe — an anarchist-owned establishment — exercising theirs.  CNN’s view of this as somehow weird news is amusing, as … Continue reading →

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What's in a name?

Posted on June 4, 2010 by B Psycho

Thoreau questions whether he’s a libertarian.  Read the whole thing, I’m not going to even attempt to break that up. There’s a lot of people out there, people that get way more attention than they deserve, who claim libertarianism yet … Continue reading →

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Liabilities

Posted on June 4, 2010 by B Psycho

Patri Friedman makes a comment about disaster liability.  Brian Doherty, as an excuse to mention Reason’s dumbassed cruise (which I’m surprised Patri is planning on attending), quotes him.  Of course, hilarity ensues, primarily in the form of site regulars actually … Continue reading →

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Stuff Happens

Posted on June 1, 2010 by B Psycho

-BP continues to wing it w/r/t stopping their oil leak.  Meanwhile their stock value sinks.  If this kind of fallout made oil executives flat broke then perhaps there’d be better effort in the Pre-emption of Environmental Catastrophes department, hmm? -Giant … Continue reading →

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Train(wreck)spotting in the Middle East

Posted on June 1, 2010 by B Psycho

The Israeli government has been running a blockade on Gaza for a few years.  Recently an attempt by activists to bring aid through it was met with That Thing That Governments Do, and there’s been a lot of reaction to … Continue reading →

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