The one thing about “Democracy,” by which I’m talking about just the simple (ha) idea of allowing people to elect their leaders,is that it sometimes doesn’t go the way you want. from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010895,00.html “Western leaders lined up to express their concern at the political earthquake, but in the Arab world, the apparent landslide was greeted […]
I’d love to hear their reasons why this won’t happen in the United States (or show us that it hasn’t already) Davos Dispatches: Brin defends Google’s China move Dig this: This is nothing…there’s no malicious plan there, it just legitimately is a bottleneck that bandwidth is somewhat limited. The worlds fastest growing economy, where 97% […]
I love this. Not only is the Senate trying to tell Cable Companies what is “marketable” or “what the public wants” (the other 365 days a year the senate seems to care not at all about “what the public wants”), but then you get gems like this: ‘It almost seems like an invitation to an […]