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Prosecutors asked for 1 year for each year he failed to file a tax return ( MSNBC)
"... prosecutors had urged the court to impose a stiff penalty on the actor nonetheless, because of his notoriety and the potential of a high-profile case to deter tax crime nationwide. "
This is so wrong 
Besides the fact that tax-evasion is a victimless crime it seems you also get extra jail-time if you have a succesful career and if you can "cause" other people to also commit crimes...
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The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read, now the readers can respond - and disagree (by Paul Graham,  Paul Graham)
Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages. So here's an attempt at a disagreement hierarchy.
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Because of the Internet, you no longer have to buy information in pre-fabricated packages, you can just go online select the articles you want to read (by Michael Scherer,  TIME)
And there are lots of websites and blogs to help you out. Every day hundreds of different bloggers will pre-select articles for you and provide links. There is a corollary effect here: As the value of the package declines, the value of the individual article increases.
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Are banks "too big to fail"? (by Alex Epstein,  Ayn Rand Institute)
Any doctrine that encourages overly risky investing, and punishes sound risk-taking is unfair and destructive. We need to phase out "too big to fail" and replace it with a free market in banking, which would reward sound long-term lending and borrowing practices and punish irresponsible ones.
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Change
Obama was saying the opposite of what his signs read; he stands for the welfare state status quo, which must not be changed, never |
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Despite the approaching Olympic Games, it should come as no surprise to most observers of China that information is subject to vigorous censorship ( opennet)
YouTube enables certain actors actors to determine geolocational filtering by country, but the Chinese government chose to block the entire site on March 15. Some Western media outlets and various other websites, have reportedly become inaccessible in the week since the protests began.
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Latest Findings Raise New Questions about Hijackers and Suggest Incomplete Investigation ( CooperativeResearch)
A 298-page document entitled Hijackers Timeline (Redacted) has been obtained from the FBI (subsequent to a FOIA request). The document was a major source of information for the 9/11 Commission’s final report. Though the commission cited the timeline 52 times in its report, it failed to include some of the document’s most important material.
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A nuclear attack by terrorists causing widespread panic, chaos and death is inevitable and will happen soon, a senior Scottish police officer has warn (by Rob Edwards,  Sunday Herald)
Efforts to prevent terrorist groups from obtaining materials that could be made into radioactive dirty bombs - or even crude nuclear explosives - are bound to fail, he said. And the result will be horror on an unprecedented scale.
My comment to this fear-mongering:
- nothing is inevitable
- the death toll of a 'dirty bomb' is minimal, except maybe in the immediate blast radius
- I get my daily horror on 'an unprecedented scale' on a daily basis when looking at the destruction of individual rights and privacy
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Kill the Messenger
A documentary on the case of Sibel Edmonds who uncovered evidence of an international criminal network |
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The UN Internet Grab Continues
The UN agenda goes way beyond taxing us in the name of controlling the weather, it is continuing its grab to control the internet |
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The subject was limited to the sphere of politics, for the purpose of defining and clarifying the basic principles involved in politcs (by Ayn Rand,  hartford web publishing)
The text answers questions on the social system, the basic principles of America, the definition of (inalienable) rights of man, the recognition of another's rights, the definition of force, the role of a proper government, "mixed" social systems, moral principles, "the greatest good" and motives.
Very good overview of subject, right to the point.
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New derivation of equations governing the greenhouse effect reveals "runaway warming" impossible (by Michael Asher,  DailyTech)
"Runaway greenhouse theories contradict energy balance equations," Miskolczi states. Just as the theory of relativity sets an upper limit on velocity, his theory sets an upper limit on the greenhouse effect, a limit which prevents it from warming the Earth more than a certain amount.
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Court: Family's religious beliefs 'no evidence' of 1st Amendment violation ( WorldNetDaily)
A California court has ruled that several children in one homeschool family must be enrolled in a public school or "legally qualified" private school, and must attend, sending ripples of shock into the nation's homeschooling advocates as the family reviews its options for appeal.
It says ". . . the educational program of the State of California was designed to promote the general welfare of all the people and was not designed to accommodate the personal ideas of any individual in the field of education."
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Thousands of street lamps in suburban areas are being switched off after midnight to cut energy bills and meet climate change targets. (by David Derbyshare,  Daily Mail UK)
The council claims the scheme will save £100,000 and nearly 600 tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
But the Government-backed blackouts have provoked anger from police leaders and motoring organisations.
"Good street lighting reduces crime, it makes the public feel safe and it reduces the risk of road traffic accidents.
It's not about humans, it's about the environment!
PS: I bet the costs of NOT lighting the streets will be higher. Just one murder or one deadly accident will easily cost £100,000.
Streets should be put into private hands, let the market decide which streets should be lighted and which not.
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It examines the role of IT in Burma and presents a technical analysis of the abrupt shutdown of Internet connectivity by the Burmese government. ( OpenNet Initiative)
Completely cutting international Internet links is rare. Nepal, which severed all international Internet connections when martial law was declared, is the only other state to take such drastic action. What makes the Burmese junta stand out, however, is its apparent goal of also preventing information from reaching a wider international audience.
Interesting read, especially concerning the prospects for the next round of information wars and in general the impact of communication technology in shaping key political events in Burma and other countries.
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Added direct access to all news categories and formatted the site to 1024x768 resolution
I still need to reorder the news categories, remove some old news that are no longer valid and do some small fixes to the design template.
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You can now browse back in time to view older entries.
At the bottom you will find all dates when I made an update to the page. It's a work in progress but it seems to function. Older entries (from 2006 and 2005) obviously are prone to errors.
Next in line is to rearrange the news and download categories and put up some sort of category archive (you can already access a category by clicking on the icon but I have to improve that)
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Avatars, RSS feed, new site in preparation (by Clemens Lode,  alciada.net)
Fixed the avatar image, fixed an issue with the RSS feed (the dates where incorrect) and made some adjustments here and there. Currently I am working on a new site, a relaunch of my former webpage "ClawSoftware" which will act as a platform for organizing, advertising and distributing current software projects that I'm working on.
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"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." [Ayn Rand]
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