Lynne Kiesling On Tuesday, which Ray Gifford has named VOIP State Freedom Day, the FCC issued a ruling (press release) that precludes state public utility commissions from regulating VOIP: The Federal Communications Commission declared today that a type of Internet telephony service offered by Vonage Holdings Corp. called DigitalVoice is not subject to traditional state …
Lynne Kiesling Over at Truck and Barter, Kevin has a post on Wal-Mart’s next victims now that they’ve stomped all over the large toy store model. One of the next victims that Forbes names is retail gasoline. Retail gasoline is a natural extension of the Wal-Mart business model. Sourcing the product through a distributed supply …
Lynne Kiesling So I got two submissions for the Ohio voting outcome homework assignment: one from my virtuoso former student David Stone (and I can only, maybe, take epsilon credit for his virtuosity), and one from Ian Cook at Truck and Barter. Both got to where I expected, but took different routes to get there. …
Lynne Kiesling Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex reminds us of Tyler’s 12 economic policy recommendations for a second Bush term. I agree with Alex that they are all good ideas. One quibble, though: in point 5 Tyler says we should strengthen our commitment to science, by which he is referring to medical science. But one …
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Lynne Kiesling I hope Megan McArdle’s right, and that Jim DeMint’s replacement of Fritz Holling brings a much-need dose of free-trade into Congress. Actually, how do you think these results affect the probability of the textile protectionism that I mentioned on Sunday?
Lynne Kiesling OK, those of you with more time than I have today, here’s a homework assignment: take Ohio’s data on the number of provisional ballots received, and use Ohio’s county-by-county breakdown of votes from yesterday to estimate the final vote count if all provisional ballots are valid and if yesterday’s vote count is taken …
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Lynne Kiesling OK, so I’m a week behind the ChicagoBoyz, but hey! I’m the one with the bona fide shoe fetish! Manolo’s Shoe Blog is a great find, and find it I did via a Technorati cosmos crawl to see what new folks out there were linking to Knowledge Problem. This is hilarious. And if …
Lynne Kiesling I’d have to say the simple answer is “yes”, although the nuances of those changes are a lot more difficult to predict. Ronald Bailey writes at Reason about a recent nanotech conference he attended that made some predictions about how nanotech is likely to affect our lives in 2025. Of course, such long-range …
Lynne Kiesling Please join me in welcoming my dear old (and yes, it’s depressing to say that!) friend Adam to the Internet at Arthur’s Seat. Arthur’s Seat is one of the most dramatic geologic features of Edinburgh, and thus forms the theme for Adam’s commentary from Scotland, on Scotland and beyond. He writes beautifully, and …
Lynne Kiesling This can’t be good. The Bush administration has agreed to consider import limitations on cotton trousers and shorts from China, according to this New York Times article from Saturday (registration required). American manufacturers and the labor union representing textile workers have been pressing for help in advance of the lifting of all trade …
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