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Germany may soon have smart factories, but if you put an award from 2007 on your homepage then your marketing seems like it’s stuck in the stone age

Also, in my opinion top-down prescriptive standardization is too slow a process to keep up with the speed of technological development and/or the languages of the world-wide web. To me, this seems doomed to fail, because it will remain years … Continue reading

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Do you have more confidence in government regulation than in corporate governance (or vice versa)?

Yet another ridiculous aspect of modern life is the curious supposition that a regulator who is paid by private enterprise must be better than a regulator who is paid with tax dollars (or vice versa). I suspect that a large … Continue reading

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Most people are free to choose, but few people care to question

Let me unpack that a little (this sketchy shorthand also happens to be an indication of one of several themes in an upcoming book ). Actually many of the themes — including this one — are interwoven with other themes, … Continue reading

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Are Sports Events like the World Cup or the Olympics Good or Bad for Local Economies / Economic + Real Estate Development?

Real Estate Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: Are World Cup 2014 + Olympics 2016 Good or Bad for the Local / Municipal Economy? Linked In News Post Forum

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One big difference between prostitution and slavery is that most prostitutes get paid in cold hard cash

If you offer to give me a lot of money, but only if I perform certain tasks, is that servitude? Linked In News Post Forum

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The Occupy Movement is occupying maladjustment to pro-consumerism

… and researchers at Fordham University publish an article in the Christian Science Monitor saying that they don’t like it. Linked In News Post Forum

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Google threatens to close YouTube Channels

Close ties between Google / YouTube and United States government are implicated. Linked In News Post Forum

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Does the Energy Sector want to do to the Environment as the Banking Industry did to the Economy?

Why, then, are Republicans pretending otherwise? Part of the answer is that the party is rewarding its benefactors: the oil and gas industry doesn’t create many jobs, but it does spend a lot of money on lobbying and campaign contributions. … Continue reading

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Leipzig Book Fair

There’s a lot of ACTA talk at the Leipzig Book Fair — if you have some answers to my questions, then please let me know! Linked In News Post Forum

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It’s about time!

A manifesto for being male, being a man, and nonetheless living the life of a mensch. Linked In News Post Forum

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