money & guns

I want to compete for an X Prize.  Or maybe the N-Prize.  I don’t care which one, I just want to build awesome stuff.
Let me know if you want to be on my team.  If you could come up with a good team name, that’d be cool too.

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Cnet’s Don Reisinger just did something awesome.  Don’s been pissed about getting pushed around by lawmakers and corporations for years and finally decided to use his public influence to make his voice heard.  Here’s a brief excerpt:

How many times must we hear that video games cause violence before we stand up together and stop the [...]

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Yesterday, Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts introduced a House bill that would decriminalize up to 3oz. of marijuana at the federal level (though you’d be hard pressed to find a mention of this in any major news outlets). It’s about time somebody grew a pair of balls (Barney apparently had them back in the [...]

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If you already read “Gold, Silver, and Copper-jacketed Lead“, and doubted what I or Rick Falkvinge had to say, check out this article: “Squanderville versus Thriftyville” by the the richest man in the world.

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The subject of this post is an article, originally from The Nation, on asset forfeiture and conflict of interest in the drug war.  Except, saying it that way is glibly misleading.  The article really illuminates, whether the authors know it or not, one of the primary underlying motives of the War on Drugs—namely an additional [...]

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As is fitting, my first post here will relate to both money AND guns.  But first some administrative notes.
I chose the domain moneyandguns.com because it was available and not lame and didn’t really care whether anything I ever wrote here had anything to do with either.  Everything else I’d thought of in the preceding weeks [...]

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