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...copy-conservative lawyer behind the popular copyright blog “Copyrights and Campaigns.” “The Internet completely changed the game—all of a sudden the teenager who used to be making a mix-tape for his friend can make millions of perfect copies and send them all over the world...
...hold the opinion that none of us should be shouting at our children? In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children...
...primary reason taxpayers are skeptical about government spending is that the government is forever finding money that it should not be spending or should not have spent. The special TARP placeholder is a perfect example. Its existence means the people running the financial arms of the Administration have not made up their minds about what to do if the banking system suffers more stress or begins to collapse as it threatened to do late last year. The results from the bank "stress tests" showed that the capital needs of America's banks are modest, about $74 billion, compared to more...
...burden to the high end of the income brackets. Whether this is morally or economically defensible won't matter much if the total tax dollars that comes from people making over $250,000 a year is well below budget. Even if the federal government has a perfect track record of holding to its expense plan for the next two years, IRS receipts could be off by tens of billions of dollars. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...first reaction to this news was shock. Sometime after I backed into a stump, but definitely before I clipped the neighbor's garage-actually it was around the time the babysitter somehow creased a perfect inch-deep furrow along the entire passenger side, headlight to brake light-I stopped thinking of the van as having any monetary value whatsoever. I resolved to drive it for at least 10 years, or until I developed a capacity for shame, whichever came first. At which point I would pay someone to take it off my hands...