PaperRound: 6th September '09
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Lies, damned lies, etc...
/How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers
The British Government's official figures on the level of illegal file sharing in the UK come from questionable research commissioned by the music industry, the BBC has revealed.
The Radio 4 show More or Less - which is devoted to the "often abused but ever ubiquitous world of numbers" - decided to examine the Government's claim that 7m people in Britain are engaged in illegal file sharing.
The 7m figure comes from the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property, a Government advisory body.
On The Road
/I'm hitting the road for the next week or so. Visiting family and friends.
There will be no PaperRound for the next two weekends and no blogging or tweeting.
You lucky people!
There will be no PaperRound for the next two weekends and no blogging or tweeting.
You lucky people!
The 'Left-Wing' Rogues Gallery
/Neil Clark: The 'Left-Wing' Rogues Gallery:
Here is a 'rogues gallery' of 10 political figures who, while campaigning under a left or progressive banner ended up siding with capitalism and betraying the very people - and the causes - their parties were supposed to represent.
You don't say!
/ “Legal Age 21 has not worked.” Yes, we know. - Reason Magazine
“Legal Age 21 has not worked.” Of course, any 20-year-old could, and probably would, tell you that. But the quote in question was written by Dr. Morris Chafet, a psychiatrist who served on the presidential committee that pushed to have the legal drinking age raised to 21. That push paid off on July 17, 1984, when President Ronald Reagan signed the new drinking age into law.
Since that time, however, Chafet has apparently had a change of heart. The Los Angeles Times reports that in an editorial that has yet to be published, Chafet describes his effort to raise the drinking age as the “single most regrettable decision” of his career.
“Legal Age 21 has not worked.” Of course, any 20-year-old could, and probably would, tell you that. But the quote in question was written by Dr. Morris Chafet, a psychiatrist who served on the presidential committee that pushed to have the legal drinking age raised to 21. That push paid off on July 17, 1984, when President Ronald Reagan signed the new drinking age into law.
