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Monthly Archives: January 2005

Prescription drugs, homophobia and Bad Economics: Why Andy Ho is Wrong

Sunday, January 30, 2005

I used to think that Andy Ho was a bad journalist. Now I think he is dangerously incompetent.
In his latest opinion piece, he rails against ‘big drug firms’ and their ‘undue influence’ on regulaters like the FDA and HSA. Even more reprehensibly, he inveighs against ‘the gay lobby and Aids activists’, weaving a conspiracy theory [...]

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eXeem Open beta out

Saturday, January 22, 2005

And the evolution continues. I don’t know why the copyright cartel (RIAA & MPAA) can’t see this, but the combination of the Internet and humans has made software coding much like a single and yet distributed organic entity.
Evolution by natural selection occurs when organisms most suited to their environment survive to propagate their genes, thus [...]

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Singapore Homophobe watch

Friday, January 21, 2005

So the MP for Jalan Besar GRC Mr Loh Meng See says in Parliament:
The Government took the right moral decision by banning a planned party for gays and introducing HIV screening for pregnant women, who are increasingly at risk of being infected by their husbands.
The Government had also demonstrated, when it brought down Bugis [...]

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School not enough students - might have something to do with the name?

Friday, January 21, 2005

NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy doesn’t have enough students for its Masters Programme in Public Policy. It currently has only 100 students in its first intake.
I wonder what’s in its curriculum.
‘Cracking Heads 101: How to break skulls and get your way’
‘Mentorship 102: Senator Palpatine - the art of shadow-control’
‘Eugenics 201: Graduate Mother’s [...]

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Everything also got copyright!

Friday, January 21, 2005

Schoolgirl goes to museum. Schoolgirl sketches on drawing pad Matisse’s Large Reclining Nude. Security guard tells schoolgirl sketching not allowed ‘because of copyrights’.
What the hell?!? So the constant daily barrage about ‘intellectual property rights’ has created this monster where the average joe who knows shit about the law thinks that anything and everything has copyrights. [...]

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia