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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
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Hiding Underground. I'm fascinated at how Bush apparently is oblivious to how his comments about the cowardize, etc... of Saddam or bin Laden or anyone else could just as easily be turned against him, since Bush himself is to all appearences a... [LewRockwell.com Blog]
I've notice that the Crusaders never notice that the things they say about their enemies are generally at least as true of themselves.
10:46:51 PM 
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Someone in my comments pointed out a site that sells stickers and other goods inspired by the Bakersfield cops. It would be amusing to surreptitiously put the stickers on an unattended cop car...
9:35:26 PM
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Selling Out Freedom. The Freedom Communications chain of newspapers (and other media properties) plans a huge step that will endanger the long-term prospects of the Hoiles family keeping operational control--which will probably mean an attenuation of the chain's historic adherence to a largely libertarian editorial philosophy. The Los Angeles Times reports today on a plan to sell most of the company to a new holding company such that, if family members end up selling more than 70 percent of the stock, two investment companies in on the deal would obtain voting control. (The restructuring details are complicated--consult the whole story if that sort of thing excites you.)
The founder of the chain was R.C. Hoiles, whose libertarianism was so staunch he famously came out against internment of the Japanese in his flagship paper, now known as the Orange County Register, then still the Santa Ana Register. This position, conventional wisdom now, was a daring one in southern California during World War II. Hoiles tried to keep a libertarian line on all his company's papers, giving, for example, his first newspaper job at the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph to libertarian lecturer and Freedom School (later Rampart College) founder Robert LeFevre, a significant libertarian influence in the 1960s (and the inspiration for Bernado La Paz in Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress).
The company, and its guiding philosophy, stayed in the family for generations, but all such dynasties come to an eventual end. It is impossible for one man's vision, no matter how powerful, to necessary dominate his family generations down the line. (Ask Henry Ford and J. Howard Pew and John D. MacArthur what they would think of the foundations that bear their name today.) Though today's announced move would not be an immediate abandonment of the company by the family, it clearly sets the groundwork for an eventual one. (For more nitty-gritty on the family squabbles that led to this, see this copy of an archived New York Times story from August 19.) [Hit & Run]
This is rather bad news, as Freedom Communications is the only media company I know of that is not controlled by collectivists.
7:26:11 PM
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Riverbend has a very interesting post about the widely varying Iraqi reaction to Saddam Hussein's capture.
12:41:26 PM
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Tinderbox 2.1. Tinderbox 2.1 is out. Download it right away; in addition to a bunch of nice user interface improvements, it adds Export Macros which make complicated Web export problems a breeze. [Mark Bernstein]
I've taken a quick look at the new version. It fixed one of the bugs I'd found (file corruption from creating a note by dragging a text file) but not the other (incompatibility with a Japanese font in the Finder).
12:29:51 PM
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Brad Edmonds at LewRockwell.com -
Why Abolishing Government Would Not Bring Chaos - Mr. Edmonds
answers common questions about how an anarcho-capitalist society would
deal with police, military, corporations, and justice and assures us
that such a society does not assume that people are basically good,
nor is it a utopia. [smith2004]
I wrote recently that
government should be abolished. Among the responses to the article
were objections of the sort shared by most who encounter for the first
time the prospect of living without forcible government. The most
common objections are fundamentally similar to each other: Violence
would rule the day; corporations would run over us little people;
foreign governments would invade; big neighborhoods would pillage
small neighborhoods; etc. The books I linked in the previous article
answer these objections, but since most of us (myself included) might
not buy a book online -- and then be sure to read it -- every
single time we surf the net, I'll address those objections briefly
here, and provide links to online articles wherever possible.
The pervasiveness of these objections makes it worth addressing them,
as does the fact that it seems counterintuitive to assert that
abolishing government would bring more peace, security, and abundance
-- just as it seems counterintuitive that the way to reduce gun
violence is to allow everybody to own guns.
[End the War on Freedom]
10:00:01 AM
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Groove for OS X. In his column this week, InfoWorld CTO Chad Dickerson provides his technology holiday wish list. Included on the list: A port of Groove Workspace to Mac OS X. In a recent interview with Chad's former colleague, Steve Gillmor, Ray Ozzie responded to this long-standing issue. Groove for Mac OS X is by far the number one request from users since we first launched a preview version of Groove Workspace in October of 2000. Here's the exchange between Steve Gillmor and Ray:
SG: How's the Mac version coming?
Ozzie: [laughs] The Mac version is great. I am so happy that Microsoft bought Connectix. I don't have a good answer for you there, Steve. I just don't have customer demand right now to fund a native port. I would love to do it. I would really love to do it. I just don't know how to fund it.
Steve brought iTunes to Windows. How about bringing Groove Workspace to OS X? 
[Groove.net Weblog]
I'd like to see this too, since most of the people I know who would be interested use OS X. It's probably a bad sign if the number one request is considered to be not enough customer demand, though.
9:22:41 AM
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