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Adam Smith Institute Blog
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Privacy, business and government (Mar 31 2004 21:50 GMT) - The Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), an activist group in America, has condemned the use of supermarket loyalty cards due to their intrusion into personal lives. Yet it seems to me that loyalty cards are not very... |
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New Office (Mar 31 2004 21:50 GMT) - After a long Joel-esque office search, we finally found what we were looking for here in Davis Square. I had exactly two personal requests for this space, one of which I am now certain was completely ignored: I asked for a shower and a foosball table, and the build-out is already half done with no sign of a shower. (Besides, I saw the blueprints, and there is no sign of a shower in the plans.) So here's my list of advice when growing a small company and getting a new office: |
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Nice change of pace (Mar 31 2004 21:50 GMT) - With all the shitty stuff that goes on day in and day out, it's so nice to hear something good for a change:A University of Wisconsin student who vanished from her apartment four days ago was found alive Wednesday in a marshy area in Madison after a passer-by spotted her and called police, authorities said.Since I've been at home for some of the day, I got to see the breaking news flash. The girl apparently has some injuries, although they are not life threatening. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Mega Diesel Engine (Mar 31 2004 21:50 GMT) - JOEL JOHNSON -- The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C is the worlds most powerful engine. Available in 6 to 14 cylinder versions, the turbocharged two-stroke diesel is designed to propel large container ships and produces 108.920 horsepower, weighing in at 2300 tons. At its most efficient setting, the 14-cylinder version guzzles 1,660 gallons... |
Ecademy: user blogs
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File sharing is NOT killing record sales - Cato-affiliated economist finds [Maurizio Morabito] (Mar 31 2004 21:49 GMT) - Wonder if this has been picked up by others in the dailenews feed?Internet music piracy has no negative effect on legitimate music sales, according to a study released today by two university researchers that contradicts the music industry's assertion that the illegal downloading of music online is taking a big bite out of its bottom line. Songs that were heavily downloaded showed no measurable drop in sales, the researchers found after tracking sales of 680 albums over the course of 17 weeks in the second half of 2002. Matching that data with activity on the OpenNap file-sharing network, they concluded that file sharing actually increases CD sales for hot albums that sell more than 600,000 copies. For every 150 downloads of a song from those albums, sales increase by a copy, the researchers found. |
Ecademy: user blogs
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File sharing is NOT killing record sales - Cato-affiliated economist finds [Maurizio Morabito] (Mar 31 2004 21:49 GMT) - Wonder if this has been picked up by others in the dailenews feed?Internet music piracy has no negative effect on legitimate music sales, according to a study released today by two university researchers that contradicts the music industry's assertion that the illegal downloading of music online is taking a big bite out of its bottom line. Songs that were heavily downloaded showed no measurable drop in sales, the researchers found after tracking sales of 680 albums over the course of 17 weeks in the second half of 2002. Matching that data with activity on the OpenNap file-sharing network, they concluded that file sharing actually increases CD sales for hot albums that sell more than 600,000 copies. For every 150 downloads of a song from those albums, sales increase by a copy, the researchers found. |
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