http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/14/london-supermarket-s.html – record the faces of everybody who tries to buy cigarettes and is under age. CheapID – now, more than ever.
Read more →I won’t spoil the surprise, but… Bob Ross is Alive! – Watch more free videos
Read more →Basically, things start expensive, with little volume, and then fall over time to a cost of approximately nothing. Now imagine this fanning out to cover another 4.5 billion people for laptops and phones and network hardware.
Read more →I’ve been trying to figure out a sane approach to creating a country. Geolibertarianism has caught my eye. The idea that the land is owned equally by all citizens of the country is both appealing and natural, but geolibertarianism avoids the pitfalls of communism by limiting collectivism to the land, recognizing other property as private. [...]
Read more →Arto has been humoring me through an insanely long comment exchange on natural rights in Libertarianism. I’ve come up with something that I think is worthy of consideration particularly as it deals with the case of economic coercion. Here’s the notion. People have the right to do what it takes for them to stay alive. [...]
Read more →http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739053,00.html Time magazine – no less – on why the USA should invade burma… 1 million people might “need help.” Last I checked there were about 4 million refugees and IDPs in Iraq. Perhaps those folks should be taken good care of first?
Read more →the crux of it is that there’s no contract – inclding agreement to any given framework of property rights – that a new born can be said to have agreed to. and treating land as property isn’t a universal value – not everybody does it and this is why libertarianism’s stance on property rights is [...]
Read more →The Global Swadeshi Network is a new community of people working together on various aspects of personal freedom and economic or technical self-reliance. Swadeshi is Gandhi’s term for economic self reliance. In his time, the international trade in cloth was exporting wealth from India to England, in much the same way that, right now, America [...]
Read more →As he drives out into the dusty fields of Kandahar province keeping one eye open for the Taleban, Harry Spies can’t help daydreaming sometimes about the farm he used to have in Zimbabwe. Three years after he gave up on Africa, Mr Spies is one of a number of white farmers who have brought their [...]
Read more →…industrialists were worried. They feared that the frugal habits maintained by most American families would be difficult to break. Perhaps even more threatening was the fact that the industrial capacity for turning out goods seemed to be increasing at a pace greater than people’s sense that they needed them. It was this latter concern that [...]
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