Entering Freshman members of the Class of 2008 live in a world where:
10. Alan Greenspan has always been setting the nation�s financial direction.
The Beloit College Class of 2008 Mindset lists 49 additional items that form part of the base experience of this years college freshman.
The Beloit Mindset webpage hasn’t been updated with the 2008 list quite yet (mid day) so for your reading pleasure I have included their news release below the fold.
Some folks like it but uninvited toe licking exactly what Dutch parliament member peter van heest says it is:
“It is a violation of one’s privacy and one’s physical integrity,” he told a local news agency. “The norm… is that no one should touch your body if you haven’t asked them first.”But why, then, should it need its own special category in Dutch law? It seems more appropriate that the Dutch should clarify their assault laws so that things like this will not fall through the cracks rather than following the path van heest and the good Professor advocates.
Malkin’s definition of culturally and ideologically diverse is someone who answers yes to the 20 questions on her litmus test. Perhaps she is tongue in cheek…but I think Dean’s answers are a little closer to my definition of these terms.
Via the Traffic Jam.
Not DSL, not 3 Mbps cable. Nope, this is broadband:
Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, July 6, 2004 – ResearchChannel, an industry leader in Internet distribution of quality content, demonstrated the first successful transmission of full bandwidth High Definition (HD) 1080i video between two desktop computers using high speed networking technology at the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) conference in Cairns, Australia today. Conference attendees were treated to three HD video clips streamed at a sustained data rate of 1.5 gigabits per second. (emphasis added)And, I think, this is exactly what big media and big cable are afraid of and why we haven’t seen a more agressive roll out of broadband services. Heck, even 100 Mbps full duplex would open the door to massive disintermediation of the media industry.
The good folks over at Marginal Revolution show again that they are paying attention to all things economic by bringing our attention to New Zealand’s decriminalization of prostitution.
Alex is so intrigued by the sex-safety manual (PDF) produced by the NZ equivalent of OSHA that he doesn’t get around to discussing the economic side of the decriminalization. Who can blame him? The manual is both well done and a hoot! I’ve downloaded a copy to read at leisure but even a brief skim will be both instructional and entertaining for any of you so inclined.
PZ Myers adds that the Kiwi feds have published a straightforward, unblushing guide to safe sex behavior and suggests that the manual’s section on repetitive stress injuries might also be useful to computer-using geeks.
One thing that is not quite clear to me is whether the ability to produce an entertaining manual is enough to justify the governments involvement in the business. I can’t think of any other good reasons…
Oh, the answers provided for the IQ question posed by Alex Tabarrok seem, at first look, to provide a topological solution more then a safe sex solution.