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Thoughtcrime - Charlie's Diary
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/05/thoughtcrime.html
Being the blog of Charles Stross, author, and occasional guests . Back to: The Ultimate Tech Frontier: Your Brain. Forward to: The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all). Last week, our newly re-elected Prime Minister, David Cameron, said something quite remarkable in a speech outlining his new government's legislative plans. For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'.". Merely obeying the law. Back in 20...
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On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF - Charlie's Diary
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/12/on-the-lack-of-cultural-estran.html
Being the blog of Charles Stross, author, and occasional guests . Back to: An age-old question. Forward to: Ask the Author. On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF. Because I don't want to name and shame the guilty on the front page of my blog I'm putting it below the cut. But, for reference: the 1100 page novel I bailed on was Pandora's Star. By Peter Hamilton, and it also put me in mind of most of the novels of Jack McDevitt (but notably his far-future. But I still find it. You speak a dialect of th...
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The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value | naked capitalism
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/myth-maximizing-shareholder-value.html
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