- 1st
- The road to serfdom → Road pricing enters the Overton window in the UK. This is supermassive news. Road pricing essentially means a network of CCTV cameras tracking all movement on the nation’s roads. Astonishingly, we already have this: “Every time you make a car journey already, you’ll be on CCTV somewhere. The difference is that, in future, the car’s index plates [...]
- Limited liability → A slightly useful explanation of the rights and wrongs of limited liability. I think it could be expressed more clearly, but it does seem that the idea of limited liability is a perfectly logical conclusion of the right to contract. I think I understand this. When an individual mortgages his house by specifying that the only collateral [...]
- 3rd
- Donate now! → Benny Hinn is a snake-oil superstar. He wants you to donate $1,000 to help pay for his new private jet to help him carry the Gospel of Christ to remote locations in the world like Florida. At recent partners conferences I have talked about the cost to secure this state-of-the-art jet aircraft, the tool we must [...]
- Join us now and free the software → The first rule of Freedom club is: you have the freedom to run the program, for any purpose. The second rule of Freedom club is: you have the freedom to run the program, for any purpose. If someone says DRM, goes limp, taps out, your license is over. There are two or more copyleft licenses. One at a time, [...]
- 15th
- Creating good oggs in KDE → KDE, as of version 3.5.5 as found in Ubuntu 6.10, offers you two methods for creating ogg rips of your CDs. Firstly, you may use the Audio CD browser built into Konqueror (by choosing it from the navigation panel or typing audiocd:/ into the address bar). This rather cool plugin (known as an ioslave in [...]
- 20th
- Never buy anything from EPSON → This last January I made the fatal mistake of buying a scanner from Epson. That was about 6 years after swearing never to buy another Epson product in my life after being burned by several of their ultra-broken printers. I should have kept my promise. As a matter of pure academic interest, I will state that [...]
- Does Scotland pay its own way? → The Economist’s famous Lament for Scotland article (subscription required) claimed in May that each Scot is subsidised by England to the tune of about £1,000 per head. At the time, I thought that sounded reasonable, and that the magazine would probably not make a calamitous error when putting an actual figure on Scotland’s effective subsidy. Someone [...]
