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[The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It] What, you didn't think Apple would ever kill an app you actually ...: We ought to preserve similar freedoms in a new world where Web platforms can and do shut down outside software all the time, whether on the Facebook platform or Google Apps. This might come about through software authors uniting to temper some of the practices that give Web-platform makers much more control over outside software than Microsoft ever had for its desktops, or again, through narrow regulation to ensure nondiscriminatory accessibility to these platforms””especially if one platform outgrows the rest.

[Ethical Sourcing & MEC] Ethical Sourcing & MEC: Product Quality & China: Second to the whomever posted to first post concerning riding a plane made entirely in China: I agree, if I found out that the round trip flight from Canada to China was a plane made entirely in China, I would immediately ask them to switch my plane. But give China a decade or two, I am sure we can make some pretty good planes by then.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Announcing: Second Annual Movie-Plot Threat ...: The TSA will be in full food police mode and the public will be outraged at any non-American (whatever that means) working anywhere in food service due to natural fear and paranoia. This will mean that most restaruants will need to fire all their non-American looking workers.

[Gadgetophilia] Republicans dismiss Democrats' climate change plan as 'classic ...: Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, scienceWASHINGTON ”” President Barack Obama's commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread use of ethanol: Does it help or hurt the fight against global warming?The Environmental Protection Agency is close to proposing ethanol standards. But two years ago, when Congress ordered a huge increase in ethanol use, lawmakers also told the agency to show that ethanol would produce less pollution linked to global warming than would gasoline.

[Belmont Club] Belmont Club » The raincoat of Franklin Raines: For make no mistake about it: the CRA’s sweet deals and the Fannie and Freddie support of them was not done on the backs of the designer raincoat crowd but rather by stealing from the people who did not get such deals. People seem to think that when they manage to wrest a 4% no down payment loan for the poor from a bank that normally requires 20% down and a 7% rate they are preventing the bank management from buying designer raincoats for themselves.

[Full Comment] Jonathan Kay: In defence of Hérouxville, Part II - Full Comment: On last week’s podcast, James Bissett, a former head of Canada's Immigration Service and advocated a system under which Canada wouldn't allow asylum claims from citizens of democratic countries like the Czech Republic, and one that would direct far more resources towards people living in refugee camps abroad. This week, Janet Dench, Executive Director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, joins host Chris Selley to discuss her very different perspective on reform.

[AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points] AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points » Blog Archive » Business ...: While I’m sure that there is diversity, perversity, gross waste and corruption at the big 3, they made it even more obvious that they are slow, inefficient and clueless when Nasty Pelosie called them down for flying large company aircraft to Washington. All 3 missed a perfect opportunity to remind the entire world of her demand to have a personal Boeing 757 to fly her at taxpayer expense because she feels that a lowly Gulfstream IV is beneath her aristocratic, feminist dignity.

[Full Comment] Richard L. Cravatts: Double standard for campus free speech - Full ...: Because “such an environment is antithetical to the mission” of the university, they say, and if the academy abandons that goal for the sake of selected groups and favored causes today, it clearly makes victims of other groups whose views .... Get headlines and stories from Full Comment and other National Post feeds delivered straight to your BlackBerry or Windows Mobile-powered PDA with Viigo. Free, instant, lightning-fast access gets you what you want, when you want it. ...

[Tammy Erickson] Is Gen Y Really All That Narcissistic? - Tammy Erickson: Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at the University of San Diego, goes on to conclude that Ys are narcissistic: focused only on themselves and incapable of acknowledging or appreciating others’ points of view or circumstances. Twenge’s conclusions are based on her analysis of the data from a standardized narcissistic personality inventory, in which respondents score themselves against statements such as “I think I am a special person.” Analyzing data from published reports, Twenge concluded that the average college student is 30 percent more narcissistic in 2006 than was the average student in 1982.

[Hillary Is 44] Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » Obama The Tin Pot Dictator: During Bush’s second term, some of the lowest ranking torturers from Abu Ghraib were prosecuted as bad apples, while those officials responsible for the policies that led to Abu Ghraib remained untouched. If the public continued to push for justice for torturers during the early months of Bush’s third term, he would certainly have gone with another bad apple approach, perhaps targeting only low-ranking CIA interrogators and CIA contractors for prosecution.

[Behind The Ducks Beat] LeGarrette Blount will never play again at Oregon, but Chip Kelly ...: I know it's not all, but more than enough, but in my business I've met many parents and found that paying for cable & internet, that new Blackberry, or tickets to Blazers games, are more important than saving away even $100 a month for their children's future (not to mention retirement). My wife and I save $100 a month for our 20-month old son since he was born, when he turns 18 he'll have just about $78k, and if he doesn't need to touch it and just lets it sit for another 22 years (no additional deposits), he'll have more than $1.2 million!

[amandacongdon.com] amandacongdon.com » I was “Caught”?!? haha: The reason I say that is because of your ABC report a couple months ago, where you questioned the credibility of bloggers getting paid by Edwards (like me, which I disclosed). I thought you were on quite a high horse there, but I didn’t bother to respond since most people know I make my living by producing video for clients - not by blogging, or working for any journalistic organization.

[Yeas & Nays] Opinion Articles - Yeas and Nays | News Blog | Current Events Blog ...: Obama passed over Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal reporters, picking on lesser-known reporters from Univision, Stars and Stripes newspaper, and Ebony. Even Ann Compton of ABC Radio conceded to the president that she was shocked to be called on.Some claimed he was trying to appeal to a broader constituency, but one White House reporter said, nonetheless, “He thumbed his nose at protocol.

[Get Rich Slowly] What's the Difference Between High-Income Earners and Low-Income ...: First of all, I work with low-income people everyday in my position at a non-profit. I know low-income, and making $30000 is .

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: DRM in Windows Vista: On the contrary, it's an externality to them and to the "content providers" and they've chosen to spend their effort trying to make sure I can't do to Vista what I plan to do to my laptop's DRM-crippled DVD player. They'll fail, but since they're not the ones footing the bill, they don't care.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In the Sunday papers: we are into conspiracy territory' when asked about bugging Green's blackberry - no denial, Marr missed it. ...

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