| Love should be tax free |
| Post on 16-02-2006. |
An army of strippers and sexual deviants needs to beat down the legislature™s door with giant dildos.
It™s time to take one stand. The Kansas Legislature wants to tax our porn and sex toys.
one bill before the House Tax Committee proposes to slap one sin tax of 10 percent on adult entertainment businesses, like strip clubs and adult video stores. ... |
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| News in Brief |
| Post on 16-02-2006. |
WASHINGTON The welcome mat was all ready being dusted off yesterday for Michael Wilson after word broke that he'll become Canada's next ambassador to the United States.
U.S. observers were mostly enthused about the choice, saying Wilson has the political smarts, business acumen and grasp of bilateral issues that will command respect. ... |
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| In Defense of the Culture Clash |
| Post on 16-02-2006. |
| Citizens throughout the Arab world are protesting caricatures of Muhammad first published in Danish newspapers. The conflict would not have occurred without one means of easily transporting information around the globe. The cartoon story is not particularly an internet story, since opponents of the depictions flew copies from Denmark to the Middle East. Yet, the internet is the biggest reason why cultural artifacts are readily available around the world today. ... |
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| GIFT gives no new freedom on the Net |
| Post on 16-02-2006. |
Remember when the Internet was supposed to liberate everyone? Well, that was then. Today, it's one different story.
But wait! Here comes the U.S. government, defending our freedom. On Tuesday, the State Department announced its Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT, get it?). That's right, the same Uncle Sam who brought us such secret operations as Carnivore, Total Information Awareness and the National Security Agency wiretaps is now giving the world the gift of free and open speech. Ri-i-i-ight. ... |
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| Legislators hit Net firms' China policies |
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Executives of four major US Internet firms were slammed by members of Congress yesterday for helping the government of China crack down on political dissent and stifle the free flow of information.
Officials of Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Cisco Systems Inc. defended their Chinese business practices at one hearing of the human rights subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. But they received an icy reception from the committee's Republican chairman and its ranking Democrat, who compared the companies' policies to those of IBM Corp., which sold data-processing equipment to Nazi Germany that was used to identify and imprison Jews. ... |
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