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Park pervert patrol shock : Shropshire Star:
www.shropshirestar.com/2008/09/08/town-park-staff-to-quiz-adults/, posted 2008 by peter in fascism msm politics propaganda security
Council staff on the lookout for paedophiles have been ordered to stop and quiz any adults found walking in Telford Town Park without a child, it was revealed today. Anyone who wants to go to the park but is not accompanied by at least one youngster will have to explain why they are there.
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The Permission Problem: Financial Page: The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/08/11/080811ta_talk_surowiecki, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright creativecommons msm patent politics
If too many people own individual parts of a valuable asset, it’s easy to end up with gridlock, since any one person can simply veto the use of the asset.
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Courtney Love redefines music piracy and blasts the RIAA | Salon Technology
archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright music opinion politics
Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software.
I'm talking about major label recording contracts.
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GOOD Guide: to the Shadowy Organizations That Rule the World
www.goodmagazine.com/section/Guide/good_guide_to_the_shadowy_organizations_that_rule_the_world, posted 2008 by peter in conspiracy fascism history humor list politics
From what we can tell, no group on this list is running the world from behind its locked doors. But those without keys can never be sure.
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Is America too big to fail?
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/20/business/20fail.php?page=1, posted 2008 by peter in finance politics usa usdollar
The American consumer has for decades served as the engine of world commerce, using borrowed cash to snap up the accouterments of modern living [...] Eliminate the American wherewithal to shop, and the pain would ripple out to multiple shores.
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Conservapedia
www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page, posted 2008 by peter in collaboration community humor opinion politics propaganda reference religion sat
Discover what Wikipedia, the public school systems, and the liberal media don't want you to know about atheism.
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All aboard the nuclear power superjet. Just don't ask about the landing strip
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/17/nuclearpower.climatechange, posted 2008 by peter in environment oil opinion politics
The global public need only get wind of negligence and "human error" somewhere in the world and suddenly the governments advocating "green" nuclear energy will find themselves accused of gambling recklessly and against their better judgment with the secur
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EU caves to aging rockers, wants 45-year copyright extension
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080716-eu-caves-to-aging-rockers-wants-45-year-copyright-extension.html, posted 2008 by peter in copyright eu politics
The European Union has proposed a plan to retroactively extend the copyright terms on musical recordings for another 45 years.
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Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation
online.wsj.com/article/SB121599469382949593.html, posted 2008 by peter in opinion patent politics toread usa
[...] today's patent system causes more harm than good. Litigation costs, driven by uncertainty about who owns what rights, are now so huge that they outweigh the profits earned from patents.
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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm, posted 2008 by peter in business copyright opinion politics
Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now.
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