Tag Archives: Politics

BBC News – Netherlands makes net neutrality a law

The Nether­lands of course makes the right call.

June 23, 2011 – 10:52 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Neon Tommy – Benton Harbor Public Workers Forced Into Concessions

This is insane, to read about.

April 20, 2011 – 2:04 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Yahoo! News – Armenia makes chess compulsory in schools

This seems like a cool idea, and I imag­ine would cre­ate stu­dents more skilled in crit­i­cal think­ing and logic, all good things.

April 19, 2011 – 1:21 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes

When this goes through (though pos­si­bly not this year) some busi­ness is going to make a mint pro­vid­ing a back-end ser­vice to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a pur­chase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Check­out should start build­ing that now, if they haven’t already.

April 12, 2011 – 11:26 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again

If it wasn’t so frus­trat­ing you have to almost admire Repub­li­cans abil­ity to ignore their own experts or exam­ples when legislating.

April 10, 2011 – 1:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – “Serious”

Seri­ous is mak­ing stuff up apparently.

April 9, 2011 – 5:52 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Ludicrous and Cruel

I love that term voodoo eco­nom­ics, but in this case it seems to fit so well when you try to under­stand some of the ridicu­lous assump­tions made.

April 7, 2011 – 10:27 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off