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[Tech Eye - Latest technology headlines] Digital Economy Bill could be law by April | Internet news ...: “We are proud of the record of Liberal Democrat peers in taking swift action, including working across party lines, to defeat some of the worst legislation to come out of this Labour government,” the letter read. “We applaud the intention to give parties accused of copyright infringement the protection of the courts rather than subjecting them to the political whim of the Secretary of State.

[Liberal Democrat Voice] Lord Clement-Jones on the Digital Economy Bill: web blocking amendment: sites when they get told, even if it were technically feasible (trust me it isn’t) the ability of Rupert Murdoch et al (who have lots of lawyers) to get a judge (who likely doesn’t know any better) to block a small protest site (which probably doesn’t have lots of lawyers) which contains a small except from his newspaper (copy and pasted, with proper attribution) and criticizes something he says or done is just one way in which this amendment could be used.

[Boing Boing] Brits: tell the LibDem Peers not to bring web-censorship to ...: The awful UK Digital Economy Bill is being debated in the House of Lords, and it might just get more awful, thanks to the LibDems. The LibDem peers, Lords Razzall and Clement-Jones, have introduced an amendment that would open the door to nationally censoring entire websites on unsubstantiated claims of copyright infringement -- so YouTube or WordPress.com might disappear from the British Internet if someone makes a false accusation of copyright infringement against them.

[Pakistan Politics] Live with Talat - 3 March 2010 | Pakistan Politics: iF ji and Mian Tufail agitated against Bhutto’s election in 1977 it was their democratic right to protest against an election that they viewed as being a rigged one. And by the way every single party except for PPP participated in that agitation.

[Science current event] Unsettled Science | Science current event: Jones’ non-peer-reviewed findings are essential to the famed “hockey joint” chart that alarmed Al Gore into an Oscar. Additionally, the emails display a despite for the rattling whim of peer-review as comfortably as alive cabal to conquer dissident points of horizon.

[Business and Markets news, Funds, Finance and Stock Market] George Osborne says voters are £281 each worse off in 'broken ...: Former chancellor laughed as he spoke of a Tory leadership whose members were young enough to be his childrenThe former chancellor Kenneth Clarke handed Labour a handy weapon for its election campaign when he mocked David Cameron and George Osborne as leaders of a "young, inexperienced team".In an echo of Ronald Reagan's famous putdown of Walter Mondale, a junior by 17 years, in the 1984 US presid...

[Anchor Rising] Anchor Rising: The Unions Cannot Survive a Perpetually Down Economy: The reason for optimism is that Rhode Island is such a naturally attractive place to live and do business that throwing of the unnecessary governmental weights will make recovery light work. The reason for pessimism is that union culture leaves labor leaders' way of doing business as secure as, well, as secure as established politicians in Rhode Island.

[Business and Markets news, Funds, Finance and Stock Market] Vox pop: When should Britain cut the budget deficit? | Business ...: As it is, he has indicated that he will become fully domiciled in the UK for tax purposes should the Conservatives win the next general election, and he should be congratulated for being the first non-dom peer to clarify his position. However, the principle still stands that people who exempt themselves from British taxes should not then be allowed to jet in and vote in the House of Lords.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Surprise: NYT now covering lefty “Coffee ...: The slogan is “Wake Up and Stand Up.” The mission statement declares that the federal government is “not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges we face as Americans.”

[BlueOregon] BlueOregon: More on the Misleading Economic Analyses of Pozdena ...: Jaeger expects “the usual differences of opinion among well-informed economists.” What he doesn’t like is economists who mislead the public “by misrepresenting published economic research, making public claims about findings that have not been peer-reviewed, are not based on methods and analysis that are transparent and available to the public and to other economists for inspection.”

[NewsReal Blog] Obama's Next Target - Your Retirement Savings | NewsReal Blog: So the Democrats are looking for money. They can’t help noticing that Americans have saved many billions of dollars–private property, theoretically, but under contemporary constitutional jurisprudence, subject to pretty much any whim that may come out of Washington.

[Irvine Housing Blog] Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate and Irvine Homes - Do We ...: Boomers fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to live in areas that avoided the housing bubble never believed they had hundreds of thousands of extra equity dollars to create false expectations. Prudent boomers in these areas maintained other savings vehicles, whereas in California even the prudent came to believe outside saving was less important when the appreciation God's endowed them with so much housing wealth.

[Common Sense Political Thought] Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » Amy Bishop Is A ...: Stack’s beef with the IRS seems to have developed from personal problems stemming from possible tax evasion on his part. But it appears to have turned into a full-blown ideological stance, and again, it’s clear that he hopes others who share his ideological stance—and believe me, there are a lot of crazy right wing nuts in the area who do, and I have no doubt Stack was aware of this—will act on his wishes.

[Second Thoughts] Second Thoughts: Finding the Lawn-Mower: Philip Linden's Evil Ideas: Oh, and I want to take this opportunity to note, and thanks Jamie, for reminding me, just how much the code-as-law gang are suspect in general precisely because they suddenly jump the tracks of code-as-law on a whim, when they feel like it, and suddenly invoke this majestic "communit" that will, through a combination of "peer pressure"

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