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Amazon apologizes for Kindle episode

Posted in miscellaneous, tagged , , , , , on July 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I have always been a fan of Amazon.com which is why I was particularly saddened and outraged by the recent incident where Amazon remotely deleted books from users’ Kindles. (Volokh had a series of posts on the matter)
Well it appears they have apologized(see below). The apology is remarkably humble, and while it does not erase the [...]

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Ireland outlaws blasphemy

Posted in libertarianism on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Oh well.
Every time a law curtailing freedom of speech happens to pass in a Western, supposedly liberal nation (other examples: hate speech laws, holocaust denial laws) I am astounded by the foresight of the founders of the US, who put in — as the very first entry on the bill of rights — a law [...]

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Road tripping the west: The third (and final) week

Posted in personal, photos, travel and getaways, tagged , , , , , , on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

(For the second week, click here. For a google maps summary of the route for the first two weeks, click here. For a summary of the route for week three, click here.)
Day 15 (July 14), Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington.
I dropped off AM at the airport early in the morning (this time she didn’t miss [...]

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Road tripping the west: The second week

Posted in personal, photos, travel and getaways, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

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Day 8 (July 7), Park City, Utah to Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
I had asked AM a day or two earlier if she would like to fly in to Portland and go to Crater Lake with me over the weekend. Got an email from her in the morning. It was a yes.
Which meant, instead of [...]

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Road tripping the west: The first week

Posted in personal, photos, travel and getaways, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The idea of road tripping the American southwest and mountain-west first occurred to me a month ago when I was wondering how to spend the five free weeks I would have before my planned early August departure for Switzerland. The way I had envisaged it, it was going to just me, doing a grand circle from California [...]

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Homosexuality is no longer a crime in India

Posted in India, libertarianism, tagged , , , on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I cannot really express how thrilled I am with this decision. The High Court, through its judgment, has given millions of Indians the right to be the way they are without facing harassment or prosecution. This is the biggest blow in favor of individual liberty that has happened in India for many, many years. In [...]

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