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How to Change the Future with Brian David Johnson – Intel Futurist
Brian David Johnson (@IntelFuturist) describes his job as Futurist at Intel as telling the company what people will be doing 10-15 years into the future so that they can plan the technology now. Below are some notes Heavenly and I took from the lecture: Johnson said he “Wants to design things that embrace the complexities […]
Does Increasing the Minimum Wage Work?
Post by Burlington Free Press. Increasing the minimum wage shouldn’t make much of a difference as the starting wage, whatever it is, is always going to be at the bottom. When you increase the minimum wage the wages for everyone else will go up to compensate for the difference as the person that’s been […]
Vote No on Burlington’s Proposed Redistricting Plan
Ballot Item 5 – Proposed charter change RE: Ward Boundaries, City council, School board, Ward officer, and Voter registration board composition? The proposed redistricting plan would add an additional ward for a total of 8 wards with 4 larger districts. There would be 2 less city councilors for a a total of 12 city councilors. […]
Vote No on Gun Control Ballot Items in Burlington
Ballot Items 6, 7 and 8 are about gun control and are probably the most controversial ballot items on the ballot. My guess is that like most things that city government tries to do this is just a step towards a complete gun ban in Burlington, which I’m sure some of the supporters of these […]
Remembering Karen Kerin – Vermont Libertarian Candidate for Attorney General
Karen was a fiscally conservative, pro-liberty supporter of the law as created by the nation and state founders. While campaigning, Karen fought for victim’s rights, regulatory reform and gun rights. Karen felt there was too little justice for the victims of crime. Karen felt that we had too many laws and regulations that intruded on […]
I’m dreaming of an Icy Christmas
My first post of 2014, begins with ranting about the weather ending in 2013, and continuing into 2014. Luckily, here in the New North End of Burlington, we had no power outages with the ice storm that left almost 1/2 an inch of ice over everything… The first day of the storm, we had an […]
DIY Websites with WordPress
From time to time we find that people want the lowest cost option available to get a web site started but still have the option to get outside help with the development/updating of the site. While we haven’t officially published this as a service, we have been offering to setup installation of WordPress (or Drupal […]
Tumblr Deletes Popular Blogger Account – Special $5/mo WordPress Hosting Offer
Since Yahoo bought Tumblr many users have been concerned about what changes in policy Yahoo might take with the popular blog service. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for Yahoo to start alienating users of Tumblr. The story of Bohemea having her accounts deleted for 5 copyright violation notices. Bohemea has blogged for 5 years, posting […]
Remembering Hardy Macia – Vermont Libertarian Activist
Last Sunday, I attended the “Celebration of Life” for Hardy Macia, former chair of the Vermont Libertarian Party and one of Vermont’s greatest Libertarian-activists. It was very moving to see so many people express how much he touched their lives. I said a few words about Hardy. For those interested, I have posted a transcript below…
Atlas Shrugged Comes to Vermont!
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 will begin showing at Essex Cinemas on April 29th.
Request Atlas Shrugged to be Shown in Vermont
Atlas Shrugged is coming to theatres April 15th… let them know that you want to see it here in Vermont!
Free Screening of Sick and Sicker Movie
The exclusive New England premier of Sick and Sicker, a 50-minute film that shows what happens
Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer
The trailer for the movie Atlas Shrugged was just released on Saturday…
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged Movie Coming to Theaters April 15, 2011
Atlas Shrugged was first published in 1957 and has been one of the most influential books of all time. Ever since, fans have been waiting for a film based on it and now here it comes.
Merchants Bancshares Inc MBVT – Buy
Banking stocks are down a bit today, including Merchant’s Bank (MBVT), as a result of an Massachusetts court decision against Bank of America (BAC) which voided a couple foreclosure sales the bank made, which violated Massachussetts law.
Leahy’s Bill to Censor Internet
Today the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 19-0 vote. COICA would empower the attorney general to get court orders barring Internet providers from routing their users to sites suspected of copyright infringement. Many people are concerned about this due to the possible unintended consequences that these types of government actions often have. Read the COICA Fact Sheet by DemandProgress.org for more details and reasons to be against it. They also have a petition to sign if you like.
Google Voice Review
For several months now we have been testing Google Voice with our businesses. Overall it’s worked out quite well.
Vermont Libertarian Party Convention 2010
Come celebrate with like minded Vermonters on April 24th at the Orchid in South Burlington at the Vermont Libertarian Party state convention.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Liberty Themed Quotes
Here are some liberty themed quotes by Martin Luthor King, Jr.
Tea Party – The Documentary Film – Thanksgiving 2009
This Thanksgiving a new movie/ documentary about the Tea Parties of 2009 is going to be released, called TEA PARTY: The Documentary Film. It releases direct to DVD and via download from the Apple Appstore this Thanksgiving Day at www.TeaPartyMovie.com.
Thoughts on Burlington Telecom Crisis
I believe that Burlington Telecom’s current financial situation is a concern for the City of Burlington’s economic health. The city already has so much on it’s plate, I don’t think that it needs the extra burden of trying to keep a risky upstart afloat in an extremely competitive industry such as telecommunications.
Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy by Lawrence Reed
Last week the Ethan Allen Institute put on presentation at Sheraton featuring guest speaker Lawrence Reed. He had some very good things to say about how to put Vermont (or any state or locality) back on the right track. The main part of of speech was about seven principles that if followed by everyone involved in crafting policy in government would help improve our economy and way of life as we would be a much freer and more industrious people.
Presidential Internet Kill Switch
Yesterday, EWeek published an article about a Presidential Internet Kill Switch, that would provide the power to the President of the United States to shut down the Internet whenever the President felt there is threat to strategic national interests.