Month: June 2005

  • AMD takes antitrust case to the masses

    AMD launched an anti-trust lawsuit against Intel for “strong-arming major customers to accept exclusive deals.” AMD is taking the unusual step of using a public campaign asking consumers to “demand innovation.” Well, congratulations AMD –- your campaign is working. After using four generations of AMD processors, I bought my first Intel chips -– a dual…

  • The Lost Liberty Hotel

    I was pleased to find this press release floating around the blogosphere: Weare, New Hampshire – Developer Logan Darrow Clements filed papers with the Weare, New Hampshire code enforcement officer to get the ball rolling on a hotel project on property owned by Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. Souter voted in…

  • EU-crippled XP not a hit

    Gee, you mean that forcing a company to release a crippled product isn’t going to be a big seller? PC makers and distributors are holding back from buying the new alternative version of Windows XP that Europe’s competition commissioner ordered Microsoft Corp. to offer as part of the punishment in the software maker’s long antitrust…

  • World’s first bionic man gets mind-controlled limbs.

  • (From Cox and Forkum)

  • U.S. votes for socialism and censorship

    Freedom-loving Americans suffered a major defeat today, and they face another blow to liberty next week. In Kelo vs. New London, the Supreme Court voted that local governments can seize private property for private uses, so long as it serves the “public benefit.” The ruling legitimizes the already common practice of coercively redistributing private propery…

  • crimethink

    ThoughtCrime in Australia: A Christian pastor found guilty of vilifying muslims says he is prepared to go to jail in protest over Victoria’s racial tolerance laws. Two pastors involved with the Catch the Fire Ministries were last year found to have vilified Muslims at a Christian conference, and on a website, by suggesting the Koran…

  • A Nagasaki Report

    Interesting read: American George Weller was the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following the U.S. atomic attack on the city on Aug. 9, 1945. Weller wrote a series of stories about what he saw in the city, but censors at the Occupation’s General Headquarters refused to allow the material to be printed. Weller’s stories,…

  • PETA charged with animal cruelty

    I kid you not: Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said. Police found 18 dead animals in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA. The animals were from…

  • Great article on mises.org: The Myth of the Cell-Phone Addiction.