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From UK PC world . A new type of PC which is incorporated into a conventional three-point plug is being released in the UK. The Plug Computer is based on a platform developed by US semiconductor firm, Marvell. The device squeezes a 1.2GHz processor, 512MB of DRAM, 512MB of NAN...

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The article on Social Liberalism is: http://www.cis.org.au/Policy/winter09/links/argy.pdf Any comments welcome.

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Not everyone enjoyed my recent post about PoMas -- post-materialist consumers who live modestly but spend up big. Some readers were particularly irritated by the comment about food intolerances. For example, Galaca says : I can’t help feeling this is yet another article sneeri...

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Andrew Norton, from the Centre for Independent Studies, kindly invited me to submit an article for the Policy magazine. It relates to the choice between classical Liberalism and what I called Social Liberalism. The link to the article is : http://www.cis.org.au/Policy/winter09...

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Why does Toyota's humble hybrid drive some people into a rage? Around 2005-2006, journalists started writing about " Prius rage ", " Prius envy " and "hybrid hatred". According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , it started in California where the state allowed solo Prius drivers...

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A perfectly good player. Meets grandmaster rated opponent. Things end happily, for everyone except the perfectly good player. A very nice combination. White to play S Zagrebelny vs A Ponyi 16. ? See game for solution.

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Behavioral Assumptions and Management Ability: A Tentative Test Date: 2009-06 By: Benito Arruñada Xosé H. Vázquez The paper explores the consequences that relying on different behavioral assumptions in training managers may have on their future performance. We argue that train...

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British Airways chair Willie Walsh has asked the company's 40,000 employees to work unpaid for a month to save the company and their jobs. The airline made a £401 million loss for the year ending in March. This seems to be due primarily to higher fuel prices, but partly to dec...

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Are you appalled by McMansions, $4000 barbeques and luxury four wheel drives that never leave the bitumen? Does Clive Hamilton's book Affluenza strike a chord with you? Do you dream of downshifting to simpler lifestyle but feel you can't afford it? If so, you could be a PoMa -...

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Complexity has been something that thoughtful souls have worried about regarding consumers. For a couple of decades policy makers' first instinct in dealing with problems in the consumer market has been better disclosure. It can't do any harm and may do some good. Once you've...

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Paul Krugman has an article on the need to stay the course - Paul Krugman makes a few telling points against the proposition that Obamas fiscal package now needs to be gradually pulled back. The Fed is raising the monetary base: does this risk a resurgence of inflation? The mo...

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"Australia has very few anarcho-capitalist bloggers like Paul Staines of Guido Falkes [sic] fame, reformed raver libertarians with an eye for scandal (and another on the latest market moves)" writes Christian Kerr . Instead of breaking stories, he says Australia's political bl...

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HT: Kieran Healy's Weblog

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If you're a blogger and you venture into government whether in the bureaucracy proper or as a 'staffer' you've got a problem. You can't keep expressing yourself as candidly as you might wish for fear of breaching the relevant public service code of conduct, of having some perf...

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Well bargain hunters fresh from your kills at Borders (they don't stand a chance when you've got those Troppo coupons in your hand) have we got a deal for you? The entire autobiography of Ben Franklin read by Ben himself. OK, well I lied about that last bit, it's really Greg H...

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The Harvard Open-Access Policies The goal of university research is the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. We collectively take this to be a good. It is an essential part of our duties as faculty members to distribute the fruits of our scholarship as widel...

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Truly ruly.

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Exciting stuff! Infrastructure For A Learning Health Care System: CaBIG In his proposal for a new cancer care policy in a data-rich future (Jan/Feb 09), Lynn Etheredge correctly notes that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has built the requisite infrastructure for a learnin...

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