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Uh-Oh, Your Company’s Copier Is Doing More Than Just Copying. I just learned that every copier built after 2002 has a hard drive that stores a record of every single piece of paper copied on the machine. This means that when the copier is relinquished by a company so that it can be sold as a used machine to another company, all of the information that has been copied by users of the machine at the original company is available as a record to the purchaser of the machine—information like medical records, police reports, etc. Uh-oh. [Thanks to Mark Fee] UPDATE: Jerry Klaes writes: “I just read your post regarding the hard drive on copiers. Though another LRC reader wrote to tell me the same thing as Jerry, Jim Diehl found this article which supports my original post.

Ideas. The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty. Federal Deposit Insurance: A Banking System Built on Sand | The. Did Locke Really Justify Limited Government? | The Freeman | Ide. FEBRUARY 24, 2010 by JOSEPH R. STROMBERG John Locke (1632–1704) was a physician, statesman, and political philosopher, filling that last office in a dry, “empirical,” and militantly antipoetic English mode. Locke’s stock has risen and fallen over the years. Contemporaries called him a Socinian (a precursor of Unitarianism), a deist, a Muslim, and an opportunist. Locke’s fame rests on his Two Treatises of Government.

The point of the rights adduced—labor-based property and so on—was to buttress an argument that the king could not (should not) expropriate English gentlemen–a rather meager result, unless of course all their rights eventually “trickle down” to the rest of us. These market activities precede the creation of states. Locke’s Problems Since at least the eighteenth century, frustrated readers of Locke have “corrected” his system to purge it of apparently foreign elements. Social Contract. Mercantilism and Colonial Empire. Locke and Slavery. Bastard Feudalism Land and State.

C. Cafe Hayek — where orders emerge. The Pelican Post. LewRockwell.com. What Do the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and Trash Collection in San. “Dr. King did not make the boycott, the boycott made Dr. King.” ~ Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement The lessons of the past keep being repeated, over and over and over, and… Blogger Mike “Mish” Shedlock posted a fascinating story on his website regarding a situation in San Francisco.

When the local garbage company and its union found out about “Joe” they complained to the city. None of this is really that surprising. Consider: When the Montgomery Bus Boycotts began, black people immediately tried to find alternative means of transportation. Any competent student of U.S. history knows how all this played out. One arm of the State ostensibly stopping another arm of the State from infringing on black folks is an example of the irony of coercion. Either way, we’ll never know. Trash Collecting Entrepreneur Squashed In San Francisco. In response to Seattle Trash Collectors Make Average of $109,553 But Want More; 1,600 Apply to Haul Trash if Teamsters Strike I received an Email from Michael about union monopolies in San Francisco.

Michael Writes ... Here in San Francisco picking up a garbage costs about $37/can per week.A contractor I know got fed up, canceled his service as did his neighbor. They simply loaded both houses garbage into his truck, took it to the dump and paid the $40 to get rid of it. He charged his friend $10.As a contractor he had to go to the dump all the time anyway. Pretty soon he had a small business, neighbors paying him $10 instead of $37, a difference of over $1400 per year or the price of a vacation or plasma TV for the family.He sorted their garbage and turned in the recycling for more money.

In regards to trash hauling wages in Seattle, many people wondered how Waste Management arrived at the figure of $109,553 per employee. It should not have been two difficult to find. Personal Liberty Digest | Bob Livingston | Bob Livingston Letter. Photography Is Not A Crime. Mises Economics Blog. A Primer on Austrian Economics - Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan - [Based on the notes for a lecture given by the author to Young Americans for Liberty at the University of California, San Diego on May 4, 2010.] The jurisdiction of economics extends far beyond the study of production and consumption of goods and services.

The science of economics consists of the study of human action, interaction, and cooperation. Even if you accept the mainstream division of micro- and macroeconomics, at the most basic levels economics deals with how market agents make decisions and how these decisions affect interactions between individuals. Even the broadest of market trends, usually condemned to the realm of "macroeconomics," boils down to interactions between individual market agents.[1] How individuals interact in tandem, forming the economic system as studied in modern macroeconomics, is simply fascinating. Of the three above-mentioned major intellectual movements, the Austrian School is probably the smallest and least known. What is Austrian Economics? The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisi.

The news media are in the process of creating a great new historical myth. This is the myth that our present financial crisis is the result of economic freedom and laissez-faire capitalism. The attempt to place the blame on laissez faire is readily confirmed by a Google search under the terms "crisis + laissez faire. " On the first page of the results that come up, or in the web entries to which those results refer, statements of the following kind appear: "The mortgage crisis is laissez-faire gone wrong. ""Sarkozy [Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France] said 'laissez-faire' economics, 'self-regulation' and the view that 'the all-powerful market' always knows best are finished. ""'America's laissez-faire ideology, as practiced during the subprime crisis, was as simplistic as it was dangerous,' chipped in Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister.

""Paulson brings laissez-faire approach on financial crisis…. "" Recent articles in The New York Times provide further confirmation. Home. The Alleged Absence of Depressions Under. Don't Go with the Flow   | by Doug French. Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantán. Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time. The Truth About “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. The following is an educational service of the Downsize DC Foundation.

As we said yesterday, millions of Americans believe . . . We need the government to regulate business people, otherwise they will run wild, laying waste to the environment, and selling us bad food, bad drugs, and harmful products. One big reason people believe this is because they attended government schools and were taught about a famous book, “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair’s book supposedly demonstrated that . . . * Once upon a time, before government regulation, meat packing plants were endangering Americans with poison food * The motivation for this poisoning was profits. But here’s what most people don’t know . . . * “The Jungle” was a novel, not a factual report * Most of what Sinclair wrote was pure fiction, un-connected to reality This is your chance to learn the truth.

“The Jungle” was intended to dramatize working conditions, NOT food safety. “I have an utter contempt for him. (Source: U.S. Welcome to The Future of Freedom Foundation. Top of the Ticket | NASA now sending photos of people (instead o. Vladimir Putin has been kicked out of an exclusive club, but he may not even care. This week, meeting in The Hague, leaders from seven of the world’s biggest economic powers agreed to blackball Putin’s Russia, reducing the G-8 to the G-7. They ratified the decision to move the group’s upcoming annual world economic summit to Brussels, taking away from Putin the chance to host the event in Sochi, site of his recent successful Winter Olympic Games. When the Group of Seven -- the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Italy and Canada -- chose to bring Russia into their fold in 1998, it was assumed the privileges of membership would encourage the Russians to continue on their bumpy path toward democracy and a free-market economy.

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, politicians, diplomats and academics in Europe and the U.S. had confidence a new world order was in place. Economic rivalries might continue, but brute force and grabs for territory... Read for yourself: The full text of Arizona's controversial ille. You may have heard a little something recently about this ongoing emotional controversy all across the United States over a frustrated Arizona’s homegrown legislative answer to the problem of an unsecured federal border with Mexico, illegal immigrants flowing across and the numerous side effects of such social movements including crime. As The Ticket wrote at the time of the bill's signing, the state and its Republican Gov. Jan Brewer are disappointed in the ongoing inadequate federal response.

(See related story links below.) Democrat President Obama criticized the state's move as "misguided. " Meanwhile, a new poll here shows most Americans kind of like Arizona's legislative solution to federal inaction. So today, as we often do here, The Ticket is publishing for the first time the entire Arizona illegal immigrant law. Yes, yes, this may expunge some of the fun of likening Arizona to Germany, the racial.... ...profiling allegations and organizing boycotts of boycotters. -- Andrew Malcolm. Tom Woods. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Which Only Wicked Oppressors Could. Hit & Run : Reason Magazine. PwCWith tax season upon us, if you were a foreign business owner regarding all of this scurrying around to file forms and pay the United States government its take, would you consider the activity as relatively attractive compared to the alternatives?

Or would you consider it a turnoff? To judge by rankings released last year by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (you can call it PwC), businesses may venture into the Land of the Free for market opportunities, but that may well be despite a pretty uncompetitive tax regime. The U.S. ranks 64 out of 189 for ease of paying taxes, has a total tax rate that's above average and, importantly, barely seems to be trying to compete with other countries that Americans once mocked as overtaxed and overgoverned. According to PwC, "Paying Taxes 2014 looks not only at corporate income tax, but at all of the taxes and mandatory contributions that a domestic medium-size case study company must pay. PwC Err... Well...