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...capitalist ideal is free markets and level playing fields; the lobbyist ideal is influencing the levers of power to help clients. In 2004 the Denver Post found 100 Bush appointees regulating industries they used to represent as lobbyists or lawyers. That didn't include former quasi-lobbyists like Vice President Dick Cheney, who became a CEO because Halliburton wanted government contracts...
...real consequences of DRM may have nothing to do with piracy. One side effect of Apple's FairPlay software is that music purchased on iTunes plays only on Apple products--i.e., on iPods. The result is that DRM helps perpetuate Apple's quasi-monopoly in the portable digital-music-player market, which ironically has a slightly Microsoftesque air about it. (The European Union is looking into an antitrust suit.) If--meaning when--Apple drops DRM for good, the playing field on the hardware side will get a whole lot more level and the iPod will have a whole lot more...
...legislation, not payroll. They're insider hens who made their livings working for foxes, and learning how the henhouse really works. In 2004, the Denver Post found more than 100 top Bush appointees regulating industries they used to represent as lobbyists or lawyers. And that didn't include former quasi-lobbyists like Vice President Cheney, who became a Fortune 500 CEO because Halliburton wanted a Washington hand to expand its access to government contracts...
...There’s a good chance that being a public figure will mean having a public genome. With proper legal safeguards, personalized genomes will mean better medical care for most of us. But for many—especially the quasi-famous—one’s genes will be about as private as one’s pants...
...assassinated; Lyndon Johnson's Presidency wrecked on the shoals of the Great Society and Vietnam; electoral defeats in the '70s and '80s interrupted only by the (failed) Carter Administration; Clinton's victories in the '90s accompanied by the Republican takeover of Congress. And at the heart of the Democrats' quasi-tragic account, at the very center of the wistful might-have-been-but-wasn't-quite-to-be narrative, is the leader who was cut down before he had the chance fully to lead: Robert Kennedy...