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  1. Re:What's the point of these suits? on Florida Citizens' Anti-trust Payout Dwarfed By Lawyers' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One way to stop these predatory lawsuits is to require that the lawyers get paid in coupons when the class members settlement is in coupons.

    See http://overlawyered.com/archives/01/mar2.html#0316 a

  2. Re:ah, slashdot on Dot-Coms Say 'Unions Not Welcome!' · · Score: 2

    c) accept that collective bargaining can fit very neatly within a free market. If a company can't deal with workers organizing, then it's the company's fault. Nobody forces companies to accept unions, it's sometimes just the best business decision to make.

    This is clearly wrong. Companies are forced to accept unions all the times. That is what the NRLB is all about. They force elections for the union and then require that the employer accept the union as the representative of all the workers. Even workers that vote against the union are coerced into accepting union representation.

    The current labor laws are incompatible with a free market.

  3. Re:E-Rate is not a discount on FCC Seeks Comment on Internet Filtering Rules · · Score: 1

    Politics and Porn are pretty much the same thing. Someone is getting screwed.

  4. E-Rate is not a discount on FCC Seeks Comment on Internet Filtering Rules · · Score: 1

    E-Rate is a subsidy paid for with a tax on your long distance phone bill. Schools and libraries must submit piles of paperwork to apply for grants. It is not a discount!

    When schools and libraries apply for E-Rate grants, they already agree to many restrictions on how they can use the provided Internet access. Filtering is just one more rule.

    Under the current rules you cannot use E-Rate Internet access for religious education. Why is religious freedom less important than porn?

  5. Don't like their rules then don't take their Money on Librarians To Sue Over Mandatory Censoring · · Score: 1

    The simple solution is to refuse the federal money. It is naive to think libraries can take all that E-Rate money with out any strings attached. Congress is refusing to provide the E-Rate subsidy to institutions without filters. By refusing the subsidy they aren't depriving anyone of their rights.

    There is no right to free unfiltered Internet access. There is not even a right to free or subsidized, but filtered Internet.
    attached.

  6. Department of Information on Information Poisoning · · Score: 1

    Caleb Carr want a new government agency to frighten individuals out of reporting sensational news. Only large news organizations will be able to comply with the new Information Regulations. What horrors does he site for gutting freedom of speech on the Net? o Kiddie Porn o The Blair Witch Project Website (some people thought it was real) o The Drudge Report Kiddie Porn is already illegal. I think we can stand the threat of the Blair Witch, but the Drudge Report is clearly evil. We must destroy Drudge and anyone else that attempt to release news without proper approval. Because of the blue dress and the embarrassment to our President we must give up freedom of speech on the net. Mr Carr's idea of information regulation is the semen stain, and our Constitution is the blue dress. "Am I ultimately saying that the government should shut down the Drudge Report because it's irresponsible and specious? Absolutely not. I'm saying there should be an agency in place that would terrify Matt Drudge into vetting his reports and not publishing hearsay unless it is labeled as such. If such an agency existed, would Drudge, like the snake oil salesman he is, eventually be driven out of business by the reduced sensationalism of his product? Perhaps. And I can't say I'd shed a tear. But he wouldn't have been shut down by the government. "