April 2011
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This week on This American Life: A drug court...
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Microsoft Outsources Tech Jobs to India →
You can’t make this stuff up folks. Microsoft literally offshore outsourced almost all of their internal I.T. department to Infosys in an estimated $100 million dollar deal. That’s right, the people who supposedly make the software of the world offshore outsourced all of their technology infrastructure.
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WatchGreen Blooded: Vermont at a Crossroad via sustainable-sam
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“Two weeks ago, when Obama issued his Executive Order providing for a system of...”
– Glenn Greenwald via pantslessprogressive
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Steal This E-Book
Jon Bruner: On all your titles you've dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren't you worried about piracy?
Tim O'Reilly: No. And so what? Let's say my goal is to sell 10,000 copies of something. And let's say that if by putting DRM in it I sell 10,000 copies and I make my money, and if by having no DRM 100,000 copies go into circulation and I still sell 10,000 copies. Which of those is the better outcome? I think having 100,000 in circulation and selling 10,000 is way better than having just the 10,000 that are paid for and nobody else benefits.
People who don't pay you generally wouldn't have paid you anyway. We're delighted when people who can't afford our books don't pay us for them, if they go out and do something useful with that information.
I think having faith in that basic logic of the market is important. Besides, DRM interferes with the user experience. It makes it much harder to have people adopt your product.
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“I’ll stop calling them teabaggers when they stop calling it Obamacare.”
– Bill Maher (via ibad)
“A Beijing entrepreneur, discussing restaurant choices with his fiancée over...”
– Chinese censorware nukes any voicecall that contains the word “protest”
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How Drug Cops Go Bad →
Morally, it is not much of a leap from legal asset forfeiture—in which cops take property from people who have never been charged with a crime, sell it, and use the proceeds for their department’s budget—to simply pocketing money from suspected drug dealers. Consider what was happening in Tenaha, Texas, until recently. Cops would pull over motorists, accuse them of drug activity with little or...
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“While much of the media presents an unquestioning, sanitized version of the war...”
– Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs (via azspot)
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The Next Step in Scott Walker’s Corporate... →
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“Schellnhuber: The entire affluence-based economic model of the postwar era, be...”
– Leading Climatologist on Fukushima: ‘We Are Looting the Past and Future to Feed the Present’ - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International (via correlationstonone)
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Germany weaning itself from nuclear power for good... →
Along with EcoSummit 2011 happening this week, the German government has announced today that the country plans to wean off nuclear power over the next twenty-five years and replace them with renewable resources. Over the next three months, Germany will take off 7 of its 17 reactors to see how the Germany energy grid will manage with renewables. Germany plans to have 40% of its energy provided by...
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Young migrants changing the face of China's cities... →
For China, the shift presents a challenge: how to integrate the new arrivals into already overburdened cities. An agrarian society for thousands of years, China is on the cusp of having more urban than rural dwellers for the first time.
Full Story: Seattle Times
via emergentfutures @scottnewell
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