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By Will Offensicht | Feb 11, 2008 |
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What happens when the law forbids a company from firing an employee without a formal meeting, but a court has forbidden the employee from meeting with the company?
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By Will Offensicht | Feb 11, 2008 |
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When government employees stopped setting the beat, the Japanese lost the rhythm and their economy fell apart.
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By Hobbes | Feb 8, 2008 |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury believes not only that his religion is dying, but his country's legal and political structure are doomed as well.
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By Will Offensicht | Feb 7, 2008 |
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Air bag rules saved fewer than one tenth the lives they claimed they would save and killed people to boot.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 31, 2008 |
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Public education has gotten rid of the consequences of failure for both teachers and students, so of course very little education takes place.
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By Hobbes | Jan 31, 2008 |
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When Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the west, he took American and British missionaries along. In addition to translating, they also helped with education.
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By Hobbes | Jan 30, 2008 |
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This video just gave us the best news we've heard out of the Middle East in a long, long time -- Iraqis are beginning to laugh at their leaders.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 29, 2008 |
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Crackpots are thick on the ground and we can't fund them all. How do we decide which upcoming genius/crackpot to fund? Einstein didn't have any peers; he would never have passed "peer review."
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 25, 2008 |
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GM found that when you ask for government help, you'd better be careful - you might get what you wish for, and our guys have a track record of losing negotiations.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 23, 2008 |
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It's possible that nobody will ever be able to build anything of significance again.