Arguments against Capital Punishment

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Capital punishment was never so much
fun!

Capital punishment was never so much
fun! 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates are very pleased to announce the release of a new Macintosh word game called Hangman Pro.

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Allied Capital Punishment

Allied Capital Punishment 06/24/2004 04:28 PM
After years of short-seller quailing, the SEC finally takes an interest in Allied Capital

Iraq Reinstates Capital Punishment (AP)

Iraq Reinstates Capital Punishment (AP) 08/08/2004 07:03 AM
AP - Iraq reinstated on Sunday its capital punishment law for people guilty of murder, endangering national security and distributing drugs, the government announced.

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement 06/22/2005 03:00 AM
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a non-profit think tank, educator and professional association, and Human Capital, a leading talent management magazine, announced today an agreement to bring HCI's game-changing research and information to readers of Human Capital. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]

Piracy's Own Punishment

Piracy's Own Punishment 08/16/2004 12:24 PM
On Piracy. If it is true, first, that widespread piracy at some point diminishes the incentives for industry to invest in new works; And if it is true, second, that piracy is limited to a demographic, say, 15-25 year-olds (perhaps because people older than that are lazy or value their...

Punishment fails to fit the cybercrime

Punishment fails to fit the cybercrime 08/19/2004 05:33 AM
ZDNet UK Aug 19 2004 10:13AM GMT

Spam punishment doesn't fit the crime

Spam punishment doesn't fit the crime 12/27/2004 11:20 AM
Opinion We need a common sense approach

EC freezes Microsoft's punishment

EC freezes Microsoft's punishment 06/28/2004 03:29 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 28 2004 7:54AM GMT

Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment?

Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? 04/09/2004 04:04 PM

Punishment and Amusement
(washingtonpost.com)

Punishment and Amusement
(washingtonpost.com) 05/22/2004 12:40 AM
washingtonpost.com - Prisoners posed in three of the most infamous photographs of abuse to come out of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not being softened up for interrogation by intelligence officers but instead were being punished for criminal acts or the amusement of their jailers, according to previously secret documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Microsoft's Punishment Delayed

Microsoft's Punishment Delayed 06/28/2004 11:53 AM
The commission defers to a Luxembourg court appeal, but Microsoft's clock is still ticking.

EU: Microsoft punishment on hold

EU: Microsoft punishment on hold 06/28/2004 04:50 AM
Silicon.com Jun 28 2004 8:57AM GMT

N.Y. Teacher on Leave for Soapy
Punishment (AP)

N.Y. Teacher on Leave for Soapy
Punishment (AP) 06/11/2004 05:01 AM
AP - An elementary school teacher was placed on paid leave for washing a boy's mouth out with soap after he shouted an obscenity at a classmate.

Oxford hackers face punishment

Oxford hackers face punishment 07/15/2004 12:23 PM
Two Oxford University students face disciplinary action after infiltrating its computer systems.

Misuse of 3G Mobiles to Invite
Punishment

Misuse of 3G Mobiles to Invite
Punishment 01/01/2005 09:00 PM
Arab News Jan 2 2005 12:28AM GMT

Porn producers face severe punishment

Porn producers face severe punishment 09/06/2004 07:00 AM
Techzonez Sep 6 2004 11:23AM GMT

Woman sells her sons Play Station as
punishment

Woman sells her sons Play Station as
punishment 06/05/2004 02:47 AM
[ Mom eBays son's PS2 as punishment ] .. these parents are hard core .. get you back via eBay

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Bush Vows Punishment for Abusers of
Iraqi Prisoners

Bush Vows Punishment for Abusers of
Iraqi Prisoners 05/05/2004 12:51 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 5 2004 5:01PM GMT

Arguments

Arguments 07/23/2004 11:08 AM
I didn't have time to read all the Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, but it seems to capture a side of life a little too accurately. And compulsively. (Thanks to Mike O for the link.)...

Crackseat Driver - The Supreme Court
takes on collective punishment. By
Dahlia Lithwick

Crackseat Driver - The Supreme Court
takes on collective punishment. By
Dahlia Lithwick 11/05/2003 05:18 AM
Crackseat Driver: The Supreme Court takes on collective punishment .. Surpreme Court Dispatch .. Dahlia Lithwick

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"United Nations Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(1984):"

"United Nations Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(1984):" 05/15/2004 08:41 AM

Homework causes family arguments

Homework causes family arguments 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Homework causes so much stress in families it can do more harm than good, says research.

Tripping on their own feeble arguments

Tripping on their own feeble arguments 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
The Social Security debate continues to be infuriating. Pardon me while I release some smoke from the top of my pate.

There are a number of strange arguments floating around out there as part of the desperate effort to try to get the American people to buy President Bush's Social Security pig-in-a-fiscal-poke. Something happens when you put these arguments side by side: They undermine one another.

Consider, if you will, this comment from someone named Craig on my most recent Social Security post. As far as I can tell, Craig has cut-and-pasted big chunks of long quotes from two different Washington Times columns into his comment, one by Thomas Sowell and another by John Palffy. (I'll write off the failure to attribute these quotes to oversight since the commenter does say "Please read the following info.")

Sowell argues that the Social Security Trust Fund is a mere "legal and accounting fiction" because one arm of the government is putting its excess cash into the hands of another, in the form of the IOUs known as Treasury bonds. As I and others keep noting, the idea that Treasury bonds are mere fictions is one that would be news to the vast number of institutions and individuals around the world who consider them the bluest of blue chip investments. What this argument really says is that the government doesn't have to make good on those bonds -- they're just a "fiction" -- when they're purchased with our Social Security taxes, set aside to handle the future shortfalls of the system, and held in trust for the retirements of America's working people. The U.S. government would never default on the bonds purchased by another country's central bank -- but hey, if the American people put their retirement money in such a form, the government is sure to renege on the debt. We're so sure it's going to renege that we're getting ready to ditch the most successful and beloved U.S. government program in history.

Why will the government default? Apparently, we're to believe, because it can. "Liberals are desperate to keep Social Security as it is, because that would mean they can continue spending your money as they see fit," Sowell writes. Funny, though; the money was fine until Bush's conservatives started cutting taxes four years ago. "Our money" was frittered away not by "liberals" but by the current administration -- on dividend tax cuts, estate tax cuts, wars of choice and other elective policies. Those policies could be reversed as easily, maybe more easily, than privatizing Social Security.

But this all gets more interesting in the second half of Craig's post, where he moves from Sowell's argument to Palffy's. Palffy wants us to put aside the silly notion that privatization means our retirement funds will be at risk. How foolish to imagine that there is any reason to worry about placing Social Security money in private markets rather than in the government's hands! But since the pesky AARP is stirring up those excitable seniors again, Palffy has a plan to soothe our graying hairs: Why, we can require that all those private (excuse me, "personal") accounts invest their money in one safe place. That ultra-reliable investment? Inflation-protected Treasury bonds!

So much for the idea that private accounts restore free-market choice. Under this plan, Social Security pretty much remains exactly the same, except that there are little chunks of money in Treasury bonds that have our names on them instead of one big chunk of bonds with Social Security's name on it. The government is still holding all that money for us, and if we're to believe Sowell and his ilk, the government can't resist getting its greedy Big Government paws on any money in sight, so there's just as much reason under the new plan as under the existing one to expect the perfidious liberals in Congress (despite their minority status!) to default on its obligations.

This round-trip doesn't get us very far at all, does it? The spinning is desperate, contradictory, ultimately inane. That's what happens when your stated plans of "reform" don't match your actual goal (eliminating Social Security). Or maybe the Washington Times' columnists, and their advocates among the population of blog commenters, need new marching orders from the White House: They did such a good job on the "private/personal" switcheroo.

In the end, there's one thing I can agree with the conservatives on: Social Security is only as safe as the lawmakers in Washington allow it to be. Sowell & co. say we must fear because we can't trust the government to keep Social Security afloat. But the government he is telling us will betray Social Security isn't in the hands of the "liberals" upon whom his finger points. It is the Bush administration that has endangered Social Security, and it is the Bush administration that now wishes to end Social Security as we know it. It may get its way. But let's make sure the American people understand who's responsible for the ensuing debacle.

Search Arguments Used in Adsense

Search Arguments Used in Adsense 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
"I just added the argument?srcheng=foo to a page previously showing international travel related adsense..."

CNN.com - Government wants ID arguments
secret - Sep 6, 2004

CNN.com - Government wants ID arguments
secret - Sep 6, 2004 09/07/2004 03:50 PM
is secret .. reports .. CNN

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Judge hears Novell-SCO arguments

Judge hears Novell-SCO arguments 05/12/2004 09:50 AM
ZDNet May 12 2004 2:12PM GMT

FDA to Hear Arguments Over Breast
Implants (AP)

FDA to Hear Arguments Over Breast
Implants (AP) 04/12/2005 02:31 AM
AP - Newer generations of silicone-gel breast implants are less prone to break and leak than earlier versions, argue two companies seeking an end to the nation's 13-year near-ban on the devices.

Oracle, DOJ Present Closing Arguments

Oracle, DOJ Present Closing Arguments 07/20/2004 09:36 PM
Delivering the final blows in an often-dramatic legal battle, Oracle and the Justice Department sparred again as they summed up the fine points of a pivotal trial challenging the software maker's $7.7 billion takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.

Scorching critique of some arguments for
copyright

Scorching critique of some arguments for
copyright 05/25/2004 10:22 AM
Mark Lemley, a UC Berkeley law prof, has just published a paper on copyright called "Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property," that's a good, fast read. Lemley says that in copyright's early days, the justificaiton for the auhtor's monopoly was to give authors the incentive to crete new works, but that today, we have the "ex ante" arguments that copyright also gives authors the incentive to exploit their creations -- to make more of them once they are created -- and to "steward" them by ensuring that only good, quality derivative works enter the market.

Without saying much about the idea that copyright can be a good incentive to create, Lemley tears these other arguments for copyright to shreds, in a highly entertaining fashion:

The argument that a single company is better positioned than the market to make efficient use of an idea should strike us as jarringly counterintuitive in a market economy. Our normal supposition is that the invisible hand of the market will work by permitting different companies to compete with each other. It is competition, not the skill or incentives of any given firm, that drives the market to efficiency. Nothing about the fact that a work was once subject to copyright or patent protection should change our intuition here. It is hard to imagine Senators, lobbyists, and scholars arguing with a straight face that the government should grant one company the perpetual right to control the sale of all paper clips in the country, on the theory that otherwise no one will have an incentive to make and distribute paper clips.24 We know from long experience that companies will make and distribute paper clips if they can sell them for more than it costs to supply them. The market for paper clips functions just fine without this type of government intervention. We can also predict with some confidence that if we did grant one company the exclusive right to make paper clips, the likely result would be an increase in the price and a decrease in the supply of paper clips. Yet supporters of the CTEA confidently predict exactly the opposite in the case of copyrighted works from the 1920s.

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Oracle, U.S. Present Closing Arguments
(AP)

Oracle, U.S. Present Closing Arguments
(AP) 07/20/2004 09:09 PM
AP - Delivering the final blows in an often-dramatic legal battle, Oracle Corp. and the Justice Department sparred again Tuesday as they summed up the fine points of a pivotal trial challenging the software maker's $7.7 billion takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc.

Oracle, U.S. Prepare Closing Arguments
(AP)

Oracle, U.S. Prepare Closing Arguments
(AP) 07/20/2004 04:37 PM
AP - Oracle Corp. and the Justice Department prepared Tuesday for pivotal closing arguments in the government's dramatic antitrust case challenging the software maker's $7.7 billion takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc.

Leader: Non-moralistic arguments on Big
Brother

Leader: Non-moralistic arguments on Big
Brother 04/19/2004 03:16 PM
Silicon.com Apr 19 2004 5:38PM GMT

New U.S. Memo Backs Off Torture
Arguments

New U.S. Memo Backs Off Torture
Arguments 12/31/2004 06:48 PM
The Justice Department said President Bush could ignore domestic and international prohibitions against torture in the name of national security.

Closing Arguments Set for Terror Trial
(AP)

Closing Arguments Set for Terror Trial
(AP) 12/29/2004 10:11 AM
AP - After nearly six months of testimony, closing arguments were set to begin Wednesday in the trial of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart and her two co-defendants, all of whom were members of a legal team that represented imprisoned Egyptian Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman in the 1990s.

Arguments due in MS antitrust settlement
appeal

Arguments due in MS antitrust settlement
appeal 11/04/2003 01:23 PM
A Washington, D.C. appeals court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday over whether the U.S. government's antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp. was adequate. Microsoft is returning to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where it has already won a smattering of favorable rulings in the U.S. government's case against it, to defend itself against an appeal of the settlement by the state of Massachusetts.

Justices Hear Arguments on Internet
Pornography Law

Justices Hear Arguments on Internet
Pornography Law 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments about Internet pornography, one of the most vexing issues at the intersection of technology and First Amendment rights.

Arguments with Teenage Daughters Can Be
Good? (Reuters)

Arguments with Teenage Daughters Can Be
Good? (Reuters) 04/16/2004 08:53 AM
Reuters - Mothers exasperated by petty arguments with their teenage daughters should take heart from new research in Britain which shows arguing may actually be good for their relationships with moody offspring.

Judge hears arguments in Novell-SCO suit

Judge hears arguments in Novell-SCO suit 05/11/2004 08:44 PM
A federal judge heard arguments from Novell Inc. and The SCO Group Inc. in a Utah court Tuesday in the "slander of title" case brought by SCO against Novell last January.

Government Asks Court to Keep ID
Arguments Secret

Government Asks Court to Keep ID
Arguments Secret 09/07/2004 02:03 PM

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