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Anyone have experience with Vodafone blocking Skype over its landline ADSL connections? I am trying to make a work related call and finding that it consistently drops my connection after about 60-120 seconds, every time, even though there doesn’t seem to be Amy general connectivity problems.

NB. If your argument for ending Prohibition starts with “Tax and regulate…” then you’re doing it wrong.

Heard a megaphone leading chants out our window, walked down to find a street demonstration by union workers in downtown Lisboa. Procession is moving down from Bairro Alto, through Chiado and Praça de Camões, and then on up to a rally at Campo das Cebolas. Organized by CGTP, one of the major national union federations. Demands, based on the signs, seem to be for a shorter work week, better pay, and a “policy of the Left.” Chanting breaking into occasional songs, lots of red flags, a good old GOVERNO RUA banner, and maybe a few hundred marchers (no doubt feeding into a larger rally) based on hasty eyeball estimates.

Dear LazyWeb: images for the cover of a booklet about competition (a positive take on it, from kind of a weird angle)

Jeff Sessions is one of the worst people in the United States. Of course it is true that people are not commodities. They’re not papers or nationalities or legal statuses either. If you are destroying people’s families and livelihood because you’ve got a citizen buddy who needs a job and you don’t care how many “aliens” you hurt in the process of helping him out and you don’t care how incredibly invasive and violent against human lives and livelihoods and families the political means you’re using may be, well, you’re the asshole here, and you’re the one who needs reminding that people are people. Wherever they came from. #AbolishBorders #NotOneMore #EndInternationalApartheid #NoHumanBeingIsIllegal

This is the most important gif that has ever been posted to Facebook. http://ift.tt/1uVDPHW #LOL #pbuh

Name the libertarian author. Who wrote this? “The real being is man, the indiv­idu­al. Society or the collectivity—and the State or govern­ment which claims to represent it—if it is not a hollow abstraction, must be made up of individuals. And it is in the organism of every individual that all thoughts and human actions inevitably have their origin, and from being indiv­idu­al they become collective thoughts and acts when they are or become accepted by many individuals. Social action, therefore, is neither the negation nor the com­plement of individual initiative, but is the resultant of initiatives, thoughts and actions of all individuals who make up society. . . . “. . . Even if we pursue our hypothesis of the ideal govern­ment of the authoritarian socialists, it follows from what we have said that far from resulting in an increase in the productive, organizing and protective forces in society, it would greatly reduce them, limiting initiative to a few, and giving them the right to do everything without, of course, being able to provide them with the gift of being all-know­ing. . . .”*

Does English have a morphological case system?

Literally just read a libertarian comment: beginning “The Coase in me suspects …” lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll brother truly the coase is within us all! http://ift.tt/1j1fqva #pbuh

This is my generation’s “Duck and Cover.” http://ift.tt/1m0qVmx “INHALANTS” by McGruff The Crime Dog: