The other day I mentioned Lego’s longstanding financial problems and why I think it has had such problems earning profits. One thing I left out was Lego’s focus on silly lawsuits. All other things being equal, a company that decides to deal with its competitors in the legal arena rather than the marketplace is a…
November, 2005
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The local Republican student group recently put up a series of fliers on campus which reminded me why I’m not a Republican, even though I’m extremely conservative. These students are probably to the right of most conservatives, bringing in jingoists like Pat Buchanan and supporters of the Japanese internment like Michelle Malkin to speak (as…
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The other day I ended up at Rogers Cadenhead’s DrudgeRetort.Com site and saw a story that piqued my interest — the Supreme Court this week refused to hear a case involving whether or not the presence of “In God We Trust” on money is a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment clause. The comments thread…
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Note: this article is very much a work in progress, but I’ve had it sitting on my hard drive staring back at me too long. Any feedback is appreciated. The first few months I played World of Warcraft, my various characters were continually broke. Given that there are items that sell in the in-game Auction…
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Boing! Boing! has a nice roundup of links related to Sony’s infecting potentially millions of personal computers with a rootkit distributed with their compact discs. In fact, there is some evidence that more than half a million nameservers made DNS queries for the domain that the rootkit phones home to. All of those PCs are…
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I have long been skeptical of MMORPG Project Entropia so when news reports surfaced that someone had paid $100,000 for an in-game piece of virtual property, I was a bit skeptical. Now it turns out that, in fact, the entire story is apparently another likely PE fabrication. That investor who spent $100,000 for an virtual…
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For awhile now, Bill O’Reilly and Al Franken have been running neck-and-neck in the Nutcase 500, but earlier this week O’Reilly took a slight lead through some bizarre comments on his radio show. Discussing a ridiculous ballot mreasure in San Francisco that ultimately put the city on record as opposing military recruiters at public schools,…
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I have a lot of love for the Logitech TrackMan Wheel — over the last decade or so, I’ve bought about 10 of these at $30-$40 apiece. I absolutely love these things, and was very geeked to learn that Logitech was making a cordless version. Finally getting one of these in my hands, however, revealed…
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It was just a typical Monday — I had nothing to do and, of course, World of Warcraft’s authentication/login server was hosed so Lisa and I couldn’t play until well after midnight (its a sign of just how sick our addiction is that we were still awake trying to logon that late.) The bottom line…
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Watching and reading excerpts of the hearings today on high oil prices, it amazes me that hundreds of years after the publication of the works of Adam Smith and other classical economists that the workings of markets remain such a mystery to so many people. This is especially egregious a sin among lawmakers who stop…