Lynne Kiesling The European Parliament has rejected the software patent directive that would have instituted US-style patents on software. See, for example, this UK Register article and this MSN Money article. Hat tip: SlashDot. From the MSN article: The so-called software patent directive, rejected by a 648-14 vote with 18 abstentions, would have given companies …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been following the Tour with two different sites: Daily Peleton for good graphics and well-written post-stage commentary, and Cycling News for five-minute updates during the stages. The combination has done a pretty good job of creating the sense of energy and excitement of the Tour, even without seeing it. I was also …
Lynne Kiesling New York Times columnist John Tierney and I share a hometown, Pittsburgh. In his column today (reg. req.), Tierney emphasizes some of the most appalling abuses of eminent domain that have been perpetrated in our hometown over the past several decades: Pittsburgh has been the great pioneer in eminent domain ever since its …
Lynne Kiesling A good way to kick off the Independence Day holiday is to have a philosohper, Aeon Skoble, give an introductory talk on rights. So yes, geeky as it sounds, I’m liveblogging it. What are rights? We talk about two categories of rights, positive and negative. Positive rights: claims to some good or action, …
Lynne Kiesling The KP Spouse just very kindly dropped me at the airport to go to Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to teach at the Foundations of Liberty workshop sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies. I love doing this. More news as it happens. In thinking about the upcoming week I am reminded of this excellent …
Lynne Kiesling One good piece of fallout from the May 16 Supreme Court decision on interstate wine shipment is New York’s new rule allowing wineries to ship to out of state customers. Happily, this law consequently allows New York customers to receive wine shipments from other states. Sadly, the news is not so sanguine in …
Lynne Kiesling Todd Zywicki’s post on the economics of Kelo is the most thorough analysis I’ve seen of the economics of eminent domain, holdout problems, and how that gets translated into a “public use”. Well worth a read. And if I owned an autographed photograph of Franco Harris’s Immaculate Reception, you couldn’t pry it out …
Lynne Kiesling Jacob Sullum’s Reason column about the New York Times’ support of the Kelo decision is incisive (and well titled!). My favorite part: The nonchalance of the Times regarding eminent domain abuse is of a piece with its derogation of property rights, which it sees as inferior to so-called human rights. (Try to imagine …
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Lynne Kiesling New, fresh voices rock, especially when they are saying good things in compelling and interesting ways. Such is the case with Liberty Belles, five classical liberal women with sharp wits and intellects. One post to illustrate the eloquence, from Clara on gay marriage: I favor allowing people to draw up these contracts, but …
Lynne Kiesling One long-standing conundrum in electric power is that digital information technology has the potential to create a lot of benefits and automate a lot of costly real-time functions, but that it is not widely enough deployed. Exciting work at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is contributing to resolving that conundrum, through transactive control …
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