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Cool Stuff I Discovered Via Jim Henley

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
  • The BugMeNot Firefox extension. Download it, install it, then right click on the password field of any major newspaper site that asks for registration. Choose the “BugMeNot” option. It automatically searches the BugMeNot site, finds a workable username and PW, and fills them in for you! Very cool.
  • Via Natlie Solent, this brilliant comment on Kelo from the Crooked Timber site:
    It’s not exactly theft (or the abolition of property) either, though. Perhaps it might be illuminating to consider other cases in which (1) someone does X to someone else and pays for it, and that isn’t a crime; (2) someone does X to someone else uncompensated, and that is a crime; and see how it looks when, (3) someone does X to someone against their will but compensates them (presumably at what some third party determines to be the market rate).

  • X is “having sex with.” Case 1 is prostitution, which is
    less clearly acceptable than (other?) commerce but generally
    regarded as a matter for the consciences of the individuals
    involved. Case 2 is rape. Case 3 looks a lot more like rape
    than like prostitution to me.

  • X is “demanding labour from.” Case 1 is employment, which
    few seem to mind much. Case 2 is kidnap and slavery, or
    something of the kind. Case 3 is, I suppose, kidnap and
    indentured servitude of some sort. Again, 3 seems much nearer
    to 2 than to 1.

    Anyone got an example where 3 isn’t much nearer 2 than 1?

    • I can’t think of any.

    Jim’s site is here.

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