Interesting Links for 28-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• Should government reward 'good' businesses? Hint - there's a definition problem...
  (tags: business government uk politics)
• What are BNP supporters really like?
  (tags: bnp politics uk bigotry racism)
• European Commission presents financial transaction tax. This will be...interesting.
  (tags: finance economics europe investment)
• Fascinating discussion of "How much does a website cost?"
  (tags: web design business)
• "How much does a website cost?"
  (tags: pricing design webdesign website business)
• Why conservative Christians flock to a Chicago gay bar
  (tags: religion sexuality lgbt usa christianity)
• 5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work)
  (tags: crime statistics)
• Linus Torvalds's Lessons on Software Development Management
  (tags: linux programming management development software opensource linustorvalds)
• Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers
  (tags: academia copyright publishing usa)
• Amazing visualization of which tech company "steals" employees from which.
  (tags: business employement technology facebook microsoft google apple yahoo)
• Microsoft and Google are battling over who has the most senators
  (tags: politics usa microsoft google patents)
• Cyborg rats think with digital cerebellum
  (tags: rats technology robots brains)
• 10 Weirdest Consumer Products Based on NASA Technology
  (tags: nasa space technology)
• Gender and software systems
  (tags: gender software computers law uk)

Comments

[usmu.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of things to say against a two party system, but it sure does keeps down the extreme right as a political power. It still prefer proportional representation as a system, but it's far easier for the (extreme) right wing to gain a foot hold. Specially when it is front is a smart, normal guy like Geert Wilders or Filip de Winter.