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Home › 2005 › January

Month: January 2005

Liberal bias in the press again?

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 20, 2005 Posted in Media No Comments

Slate says “Over the course of four hours of continuous inauguration coverage from 8 a.m. to noon (collectively, that’s 24 hours among the six outlets), the topic of the president’s (historically poor) approval ratings came up exactly four times, according …

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Let’s try again in Iran

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 19, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

The LA Times reports in Support for War in Iraq Hits New Low that only 39% of Americans “believed the situation in Iraq was “worth going to war over”, and that “a large majority, 65%, said they believed the war …

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Bill Gates, pinup hero

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 19, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Bill Gates in a 1983 Teen Beat photspread.

Who makes investment choices?

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 19, 2005 Posted in Economics, Society No Comments

Intersting column by Michael Kinsley claiming to prove that privatising Social Security won’t work. He makes a similar point to one that I have claimed several times, only to get blank stares: that whether a dollar of earnings is spent …

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IBM pledges 500 patents to Open Source

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 11, 2005 Posted in Intellectual Property No Comments

IBM is pledging 500 patents to Open Source. How cool. This is an extraordinary turn-round in attitude since IBM was forced to unbundle its software, and perhaps a reason that they have thrived where DEC, Unisys and others have not.

Intelligent Design Destroys Civilisation as We Know it!

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 8, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Edge has published the results of its annual question “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” Chris Anderson writes (scroll down) that according to the standards of Intelligent Design, “virtually everything I believe in must …

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Reasons to break the law

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 8, 2005 Posted in Law No Comments

Mr. Gonzales said to the Senate (NYT transcript, Friday Jan 7) “I think the decision not to apply Geneva in our conflict with al Qaeda was absolutely the right decision for a variety of reasons…. It would actually make it …

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What really motivates creators?

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 7, 2005 Posted in Intellectual Property No Comments

Bill Gates’ statement on CNET that “There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don’t think that those incentives should exist” …

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Limits of Copyright

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 5, 2005 Posted in Intellectual Property No Comments

Brad DeLong writes about The Eighteenth-Century Rollback of Intellectual Property and quotes from “The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century” John Brewer (1997): As one of the judges put it… ‘the very matter and content of… …

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Advice column

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 3, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Garrison Keillor used to publish an advice column on Salon called Mr. Blue; wonderful words of wisdom. I missed it sorely when he retired, and it took a while for me to attune to the voice of his replacement, Cary …

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