Category: the world

  • Wireless Mesh Networking As An Agent of Political Subversion

    Just putting this out there as a ‘ping’ to see if anybody else has thought about this. A recent post at One Free Korea inspired an interesting thought. The general idea is that wireless mesh networking technology being developed and deployed these days seems like an ideal foundation for a dissident network disseminating information in…

  • If You’re A Member of Congress, Vote ‘No’ on Health Care Reform!

    To quote one of my favorite economists, Gary Becker: Despite the long debate, many provisions of both the House and Senate bills remain highly controversial. These include, among many others, the way the uninsured would get coverage, the de-emphasis on health savings accounts, the postponement until 2018 of the elimination of the tax advantages from…

  • Pandemonium

    You know, it’s kind of easy to get freaked out about a possibly approaching tidal wave of global fatalities when every day brings so much news about the “swine flu pandemic”. While that does seem to be frighteningly real possibility, I liked this: While the infected need access to medical care and anti-viral drugs, the…