If you’ve ever bought replacement ink for inkjet printers, you’ll recognise what a magnificent idea this is. Granted, you need to, ehm, hack the printer just a little, as GM demonstrates with this very cool trade show advert for Jeep:
If this article is correct, it is quite shocking. Anyone who has followed the telecoms industry in South Africa will know that the government keeps claiming that the market has failed, yet the market has never been given much opportunity to succeed. During the last decade of “managed liberalisation”, a raft of telecoms services and infrastructure projects were simply illegal, and were either the exclusive domain of the incumbent monopoly, or limited to a few select licence-holders. Meanwhile, the government singularly failed to bring most telecoms services to the people, which was, it said, the purpose of its policy. One of the biggest hurdles for South Africa (as some who read this blog have already discovered) is the fact that only one major undersea cable supplies all of the country’s international bandwidth, and the southern tip of Africa is pretty far from the internet’s backbone.
Funny, yet serious, link of the day. Science: mice get angry because of burning fossil fuels. Illustrated with this figure of an angry mouse:
I like concise definitions that capture the essence of an idea, such as this one, written by Ilana Mercer:
Classical liberals (this writer) are distinguished in that the only rights they recognize are the individual’s right to life, liberty and property, and the pursuit of happiness. The sole role of a legitimate government is to protect only those liberties. Why life, liberty, and property, and not housing, food, education, health care, child benefits, emotional well-being, enriching employment, ad infinitum? Because the former impose no obligations on other free individuals; the latter enslave some in the service of others.
