Comments on: Hackery http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cog http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/comment-page-1/#comment-32361 Cog Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:44:51 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/#comment-32361 <p>Jim, your naivete is touching, and I can only hope it's feigned. It's consistent in the sense that both measures increase the nation's Gini coefficient, which is the real goal of ATR. Duh.</p> Jim, your naivete is touching, and I can only hope it’s feigned. It’s consistent in the sense that both measures increase the nation’s Gini coefficient, which is the real goal of ATR. Duh.

]]> By: Cog http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/comment-page-1/#comment-50593 Cog Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:44:51 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/#comment-50593 <p>Jim, your naivete is touching, and I can only hope it's feigned. It's consistent in the sense that both measures increase the nation's Gini coefficient, which is the real goal of ATR. Duh.</p> Jim, your naivete is touching, and I can only hope it’s feigned. It’s consistent in the sense that both measures increase the nation’s Gini coefficient, which is the real goal of ATR. Duh.

]]> By: Jim Harper http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/comment-page-1/#comment-32360 Jim Harper Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:14:09 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/#comment-32360 <p>I'm disappointed. I wanted to 'blog about this and call it "T-ball for Tim Lee." If a slow fat pitch was ever thrown, this is it.</p> <p>So we know who's shilling for whom, the Property Rights Alliance is housed at Americans for Tax Reform (judging by their shared addresses). ATR has a great brand and business model, but they risk eroding it by doing this kind of shoddy work. <p>Indeed, they are arguably supporting simple rent-seeking. ATR wants lower taxes but higher than necessary transfers of wealth to copyright owners. How is that consistent?</p></p> I’m disappointed. I wanted to ‘blog about this and call it “T-ball for Tim Lee.” If a slow fat pitch was ever thrown, this is it.

So we know who’s shilling for whom, the Property Rights Alliance is housed at Americans for Tax Reform (judging by their shared addresses). ATR has a great brand and business model, but they risk eroding it by doing this kind of shoddy work.

Indeed, they are arguably supporting simple rent-seeking. ATR wants lower taxes but higher than necessary transfers of wealth to copyright owners. How is that consistent?

]]> By: Jim Harper http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/comment-page-1/#comment-50592 Jim Harper Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:14:09 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2005/12/01/hackery/#comment-50592 <p>I'm disappointed. I wanted to 'blog about this and call it "T-ball for Tim Lee." If a slow fat pitch was ever thrown, this is it.<br><br></p> <p>So we know who's shilling for whom, the Property Rights Alliance is housed at Americans for Tax Reform (judging by their shared addresses). ATR has a great brand and business model, but they risk eroding it by doing this kind of shoddy work.<br><br></p> <p>Indeed, they are arguably supporting simple rent-seeking. ATR wants lower taxes but higher than necessary transfers of wealth to copyright owners. How is that consistent?</p> I’m disappointed. I wanted to ‘blog about this and call it “T-ball for Tim Lee.” If a slow fat pitch was ever thrown, this is it.

So we know who’s shilling for whom, the Property Rights Alliance is housed at Americans for Tax Reform (judging by their shared addresses). ATR has a great brand and business model, but they risk eroding it by doing this kind of shoddy work.

Indeed, they are arguably supporting simple rent-seeking. ATR wants lower taxes but higher than necessary transfers of wealth to copyright owners. How is that consistent?

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