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The Human population explosion may turn out not to be that bad.
The Human population explosion may turn out not to be that bad. The experts predict that the population will level out at about 9 billion around 2050. We will be saved by the dynamic that wealthy people have less children, and so as the poorest people of ... 		Mar 11, 2009
10:10:00 AM
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'Consumer Rights': Who decides What Goes into Windows?
Q: Don't consumers have a right to Microsoft Windows without Internet Explorer? ... A: No one has a right to buy whatever they wish, one only has the right to buy what others choose to voluntary sell to them. ... This answer is, quite literally, a ... 		Mar 2, 2009
8:29:00 AM
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Is it mine?
Suppose I make, create, invent or discover something. Is it my property? Should I have unlimited rights to do what I want with it? Am I entitled to a “monopoly&rdqu... 		Feb 26, 2009
9:54:00 AM
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The Google Bombshell
Google de-listed a German website because it was cheating. Sounds right: Google is the good guy protecting its customer from receiving deceptive results. They were the bad guys trying to deceive. They got what they deserved. Does anyone see any danger ... 		Nov 14, 2008
4:03:00 PM
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HENRY's Having Trouble Getting by on $500K
While Fortune acknowledges that HENRY (families that are High Earners Not Rich Yet) are the bread and butter of its subscription list and so you can't expect them to be too hard on them, this article is not exactly hard hitting journalism,. They do agree ... 		Nov 3, 2008
11:17:00 AM
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Eminent Domain for Intellectual Property Rights
‘Eminent Domain’ is the process by which government can take private property when it deems it necessary for the greater good. For example government may want to build a road, and uses ‘Eminent Domain’ to force owners of the land ... 		Jul 4, 2008
3:27:00 PM
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Human Ingenuity Will Solve The Food Crisis, Oil Crisis, And Global Warming – but can ‘they’ afford it?
Optimists look to human ingenuity to solve any problem that humanity confronts – including all those that it creates. In the 1960’s there was great concern that the world couldn’t feed itself. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman ... 		Jul 3, 2008
12:49:00 PM
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Peak Oil Theory and the Limits of Growth
I was surfing through blogs on Peak Oil and saw old thread (that, maddeningly, I can’t find again), started by someone asking for a refutation of Peak Oil theory, and his responders were happy to oblige. I found it to be a curious phrasing of a ... 		Jun 19, 2008
2:49:00 PM
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Peak Oil
'Peak Oil Theory' seems to generate an awful lot of hot air. If you google 'debunk peak oil' and read some of the blogs you will see (as most blogs!) an incredible level of arrogance .. the people who are so confident they are right and everyone else is ... 		Jun 18, 2008
9:28:00 PM
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Man on Earth: The Origin of Faith?
John Reader's description of a society whose survival is based on rice production shows how evolution begat faith. Rice is capable of supporting large populations on small amounts of land (think of China, Japan, India) provided that it's needs for water ... 		Jun 7, 2008
12:57:00 PM
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The Exhaustion of renewable Energy
There's a nutty thought. How can we run out of renewable energy? A commenter (who is in favor of biofuels) in rome_food_crisis_sum... 		Jun 5, 2008
11:23:00 AM
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Man on Earth: a depressing thought
This book is a study of various human cultures around the world. It is replete with superfluous detail -- well, delightful detail if you are looking for an interesting read -- but the detail somewhat obscures the message. Each culture that John Reader ... 		Jun 4, 2008
12:03:00 PM
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How does short-term food-aid work?
There’s a food crisis because the price of food has escalated, because there are more people wanting food than there is food available. When the price goes up only richer people can afford food, and the poorest people cannot, so demand and supply ... 		Jun 2, 2008
9:19:00 PM