Campaign For Liberty — Collective Bargaining

Campaign For Liberty — Collective Bargaining: "rights are universal, and yet only 52% of government employees in Wisconsin enjoy the collective bargaining privileges that all this fuss is about.

Public sector employees already enjoy protections under civil service laws that far surpass those extended to private sector workers; a public sector union is redundant. And if the state cannot be trusted to treat its own employees fairly, then it should be denied the power to regulate any workplace, public or private."

"In 1993, Virginia and Wisconsin were equal in per capita income; nearly 20 years into Virginia's 'war on the middle class', their per capita income is 20% higher than Wisconsin's. You still have time to change your signs to say, 'Thank You, Mr. Walker', all you unionists, socialists, and communists coming to Madison next week.

One of the eye-opening discoveries of the recent turbulence in Wisconsin is that our teachers' union sells its own health insurance to school districts for as much as 50% over market price for private policies - collectively bargained, of course."

Republicans and UN Resolutions � LewRockwell.com Blog

Republicans and UN Resolutions LewRockwell.com Blog: "If the Republicans really wanted to get out of the UN, they could have done so when they controlled the Congress and the presidency for over four years under Bush. But of course they did nothing. Just like they will do nothing if they regain total control of the government again in 2012."

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com: "A 2009 study found that hybrid drivers drive around 25 percent more than other drivers, even when they share similar commute times. In other words, they get so cocky that their cars are saving them so much fuel that they go out and burn more fuel."

"As a piece of technology becomes more efficient, our use of it goes up, too. So if we invent new building materials that mean it takes less energy to heat a house, humans respond by building giant new homes -- hey, with the money you'll save on heating, you can afford it!"

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com: "The vast majority -- over 90 percent -- of food-related emissions don't come from transportation, but production. So if food is grown in a place where it can't be produced efficiently, like our hypothetical oranges, it'll end up being more harmful to the environment than food that's been efficiently grown and then flown in. Any non-native crop usually requires extra irrigation and stronger fertilizers, which add far more to a dish's carbon footprint than one lousy airplane trip."

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com: "To make up for the environmental damage, you might have to take that reusable bag on your weekly grocery run for about four straight years. And when we finally do get sick of wading through the knee-high piles of unused reusable bags in our homes and throw them out, the heavier material means that they'll take up more landfill space and take longer to decompose."

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com: "Adding corn ethanol to gasoline makes cars less energy-efficient, and producing it actually requires about 30 percent more energy than we can get out of it."

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com

6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help | Cracked.com: "One study of Cambodian orphanages revealed that only 25 percent of 'orphans' there had actually lost both parents. In the worst cases, this leads to children being placed in orphanages by both of their alive but desperately poor parents, because they can only get someone to help their kids if they completely abandon them to rich people who take pictures alongside them"

The Most Worlds Important Unanswered Historical Question: What Changed in 1800?

The Most Worlds Important Unanswered Historical Question: What Changed in 1800?: "Our world is not even remotely like the world of 1800. In contrast, 1800 was recognizably similar A.D. 1."

"The world of 1800 would have been recognizable to Socrates, except for the printed book. In contrast, the world of 1889 would not have been recognizable to the young John Tyler."

"What happened around the year 1800 in Great Britain that led to approximately 2% per annum economic growth for the next two centuries?"

BBC News - Obama authorises covert aid to Libyan rebels - reports

BBC News - Obama authorises covert aid to Libyan rebels - reports: "US President Barack Obama has secretly authorised covert assistance to rebels seeking to overthrow Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, US media reports say"

Why are there keyloggers on Samsung laptops? | InSecurity Complex - CNET News

Why are there keyloggers on Samsung laptops? | InSecurity Complex - CNET News: "Samsung put the [keylogger] software on the laptop to monitor machine performance 'and to find out how it is being used.'
'In other words, Samsung wanted to gather usage data without obtaining consent from laptop owners,' Hassan wrote."

Samsung cleared of false key logger allegations: It turns out that a misfiring antivirus program called VIPRE, made by the GFI Software company, falsely identified a Microsoft Windows directory as malicious software