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Shim told me he actually checks this site.

That makes 1 reader!

Today apparently is don’t-pay-for-software day. I say this because today is both Pirate Day (or Talk Like A Pirate Day) and Open Source Day (or Software Freedom Day). Both celebrate classic ways to not pay for your software.

The other alternative is taking them literally together like this:

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We might need to call this union holiday Confused-About-What-I’m-Doing-Day or You’re-Doing-It-Wrong-Day.

I was talking to Vortigus, and like many normal conversations the topic turned to mandatory binding arbitration.

Vort had the best idea ever.

Vortigus: I’m going to start putting in violent beating clauses in any future contracts I sign
Sloth: that’s awesome
Vortigus: Sure, I won’t sue, but you agree to let me violently beat you and your family if you screw me over

I award Vortigus a

With this and two iPhones you can have the most annoying marriage ever.

Sometimes companies do silly things, get bad PR, and then retract them or try to correct the situation.

Sometimes companies do silly things, get bad PR, and then make retarded statements that let the entire world know not to deal with them.
I won’t say this is one of those times since I don’t want to get sued.

Webster’s defines the phrase labor union as: an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members’ interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.

Along those lines, I present two different things to read. They have lots of clickables to sources and such should you care to investigate further.

Getting the ABA Out of the Law School Accreditation Business
100 Years of Medical Robbery

I’m familiar with the Volokh Conspiracy but not enough to know what their leanings are politically. The Ludwig von Mises Institute however I am familiar with. It is a libertarian academic organization (perhaps a thinktank) that follows the Austrian School of economics. In my mind this is a Very Good Thing ™.

Edit: M, I had my mechanism wrong. The ABA’s control is via school accreditation. From the wiki link “Specifically, in most U.S. jurisdictions, graduation from an ABA-accredited law school is expressly stated as a prerequisite towards being allowed to sit for that state’s bar exam, and even for existing lawyers to be admitted to the bar of another state upon motion.”

I am not a fan of a government license to practice something that depends upon some issuance of a private group in general. Regulators shouldn’t be run by those they regulate.

This is Wil Wheaton’s best post ever.

I took this partial screen cap just a few minutes ago. Let’s say 8:50 AM, December 30th, 2008.

Amazon must really think their shipping service is hardcore if they are able to get this product to you six days ago. Either that or they are so pessimistic about their odds of getting it to you in a timely manner that they mean next Christmas.

If it’s the first option I want a time machine too.

The link in the last post was supposed to read:
Mice suspected in killing nearly 100 cats.

Mice suspected in killing nearly 100 mice.