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The Free Market Labor Arbitrage Process 
FSK via FSK's Guide to Reality on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
For some reason, people have a mental block regarding the Labor Theory of Value. I've received more hate mail for that post than any other. I should have called it "The Free Market Labor Arbitrage Process". Viewed this way, it's a free market concept and not a communist concept.In a free market, labor is u
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Best Black Friday Specials
(unknown author) via Emergent Chaos on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
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LOL
Via Paul Kedrosky. Feel free to use this as an open thread.
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Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Governments Work for Special Interests, Markets Work for Ordinary People
(unknown author) via www.cato-unbound.org on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
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This is another essay in response to Long's lead essay "Corporations versus the Market; or Whip Conflation Now."I particular enjoyed this paragraph:"From a libertarian standpoint, however, the market is not a substratum that persists unaffected through changes in policy; the market is the sphere of voluntary transactions, and so every law tha
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Government Can Determine Location of Cell Phones without Telco Help
(unknown author) via Schneier on Security on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Interesting: Triggerfish, also known as cell-site simulators or digital analyzers, are nothing new: the technology was used in the 1990s to hunt down renowned hacker Kevin Mitnick. By posing as a cell tower, triggerfish trick nearby cell phones into transmitting their serial numbers, phone numbers, and other data to law enforcement. Most previous descriptions of the technology, however, suggested
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Anarchist Imperatives and Fundamental Change by Michael Van Dyke
(unknown author) via The Other Journal on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
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Thanks for the share, Nathan.Interesting stuff.
This essay argues that an anarchist critique of institutions needs to reemerge in America in order to deepen our political life and make fundamental changes imaginable.
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Ethical Killing Machines
kdawson via Slashdot on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
ubermiester writes "The New York Times reports on research to develop autonomous battlefield robots that would 'behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans.' The researchers claim that these real-life terminators 'can be designed without an instinct for self-preservation and, as a result, no tendency to lash out in fear. They can be built without anger or recklessness... and they can be m
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Big Bailouts, Bigger Bucks
Barry Ritholtz via The Big Picture on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a problem while doing the research for the Bailout Nation book. I needed some way to put this into proper historical perspective.
If we add in the Citi
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It Isn’t About No-Knocks. It’s About Home Invasions.
Radley Balko via The Agitator on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Chris Roach notes last week’s drug raid death of FBI agent Sam Hicks, and writes…
…”libertarians’ silence on the Hicks’ case as the fact
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Clinton Accepts Sec. Of State Offer
(unknown author) via NPR Programs: Day to Day on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
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OH NOES!
Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving also discusses two other nominations that came out Friday: Bill Richardson for Sec. of Commerce and Timothy Geithner for Treasury Secretary.
» E-Mail This
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Welcome to Post-Moral Hazard America
(unknown author) via The Agitator on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
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For those who don't want to visit the site, its: "Are you an idiot to keep paying your mortgage?"Sounds like one of those Onion News Roundtable discussion topics.
Where you’ll find headlines like this one.
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Atlas of True(?) Names
Benjamin Zimmer via Language Log on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
As reported by Der Spiegel and picked up by the New York Times blog
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Taxation is Still Theft, No Matter How Many Logical Fallacies You Employ
(unknown author) via no third solution on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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If you read nothing else, read this:'Look, I want to help people as much as the next guy. I don’t want to see pain and suffering. But it is at the very least, unimaginative, and at worst, downright cruel, to suppose that the only way we can possibly help Group A, is by positively inflicting harm on Group B. Perhaps more importantly, this is an argu
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Taxation is Still Theft, No Matter How Many Logical Fallacies You Employ
(unknown author) via no third solution on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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If you read nothing else, read this:'Look, I want to help people as much as the next guy. I don’t want to see pain and suffering. But it is at the very least, unimaginative, and at worst, downright cruel, to suppose that the only way we can possibly help Group A, is by positively inflicting harm on Group B. Perhaps more importantly, this is an argu
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Lego Safe
schneier via Schneier on Security on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Nice:
You might think that a Lego safe would be easy to open. Maybe just remove a few bricks and you're in. But that's not the case with this thing, the cutting edge of Lego safe technology. The safe weighs 14 pounds and has a motion detecting alarm so it can't be moved without creating a huge ruckus.
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I Love the Smell of Murderous Thuggery in the Evening
Radley Balko via The Agitator on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Legendary high-end Paris candle-maker Cire Trudon introduces “Ernesto,” for those of you who want to fill your home with the scent of a sweaty, murdering, Lati
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Why Can’t We Secede?
(unknown author) via no third solution on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
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Money line:'How embarrassingly nonsensical is it, for a group of men to say, “We want you to be a part of our group, our enlightened ‘Society’ so badly that we’re willing to kill you if you reject our offer?” '
I read about a Zogby Poll a few months ago, that suggests something like
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What’s So Bad About Deflation?
David Z via no third solution on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
In response to a Christian Science Monitor article on the perils of Deflation, Todd asks:
The whole idea of “deflation” seems mostly nonsense to me. The only way to have true deflation is through a decrease in the money supply (like destroying money). I think when they say “deflation”
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Global deflation risk grows
(unknown author) via Christian Science Monitor | To on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
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The whole idea of "deflation" seems mostly nonsense to me. The only way to have true deflation is through a decrease in the money supply (like destroying money). I think when they say "deflation" they usually mean what I would call "net deflation," taking into account not just the money supply but the supply, quality, and cost-to-make of goods as well. So wh
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Where to Send Guantanamo Prisoners? They Can Move in With Me
(unknown author) via Juris Naturalist on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
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Wow.
Where does the incentive to torture come from? Is it not among the most fearful of responses? Is it not the ultimate demonstration of justifying the means by the ends? Who can practice torture and expect to escape any consequences?
These are not conservative prob
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