The point is that there arent free markets anywhere - people who advocate them ignore the fact that they never will be.

The EU still prevents poor African countires form exporting produce to us by using tarrfs - ditto the americans who hugely subsidiase grain.

As I understand it, Ireland exported food …

I've already read books 10, 11 and 12 (in that order) of A Dance to the Music of Time and I've just finished book 9, The Military Philosophers. The order is unusual, but that's the thing with being disorganized.

Here are the things that struck me:

1. The Powell dude is …

Sarah from work (knowing that I'm an advocate of free markets) photocopied some pages from Star of the Sea which contained a newspaper article that said that the free market was to blame for the Irish Potato Famine. I've thought about it on-and-off for several months and I've decided I …

Willem Buiter writes that per capita CO2 emissions aren't important. He's right that what we need is a global tax on every tonne of CO2Eq (carbon dioxide equivalent) emitted. But the revenue from that tax should be re-distributed among countries according to population size, according to the TaxBack idea.

Ariën asked of Own-Id:

Why do you make people redirect to your domain? isn't it easier to add the meta
tags?

I think the easiest method of delegating your OpenId depends on several factors:

1. Do you have an editable web page under your own domain name?
2. Are you comfortable with …

At no point did I think of walking out, especially considering that I think my legs were frozen in place. Get the babybio out on your ivy mate!

I agree with you on the complex narration dialogue, I'm still not 100% sure of the relationships. However that didn't reduce my …

'The Opposite of Sex' would bear a second viewing. I think there's something wrong with my brain because I find it hard to follow sentences like, "she's my ex-boyfriend's cousin's sister". There seems to be more than average of that sort of thing going on in the film. It's enjoyable …

After reading a post on the increasing complexity of Java, I wonder if it may be time to have a Java equivalent of the Python 3000 project. I'd start off by getting rid of primitives.

Willem Buiter's post gives me an opportunity to get something off my chest about the Iraq war. The question is: was it legal to go to war?

It's clear to me that to go to war you need permission from the UN in the form of a resolution of the …

The latest release of Imprimatur supports the HEAD method, and it has the option to follow redirects.