Photography Is Not A Crime

Mises Economics Blog What the Latest "Hot News" Ruling Means for Financial Web Sites - And Maybe Your Blog The hot news doctrine, created a century ago to prevent telegraphy from spoiling the prospects of East Coast newspapers, is having a resurgence in the digital era. It's just been used to squash publications by financial news aggregator Web sites. There's a fascinating piece explaining this news over at MediaShift--centering on the federal district ruling from May 18th, Barclays Capital Inc. versus TheFlyOnTheWall.com, that forbids the financial news aggregator Web site from broadcasting daily stock recommendations made by the financial firms analysts. It's one of the first and biggest tests of the "hot news" doctrine in the Internet era, and there's a possibility it may help define how news aggregators operate in the future. What exactly is "hot news"? Nowadays the Net has changed how news is shared, and its influence has altered the TV and paper-based news publishing industries.

What Do the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and Trash Collection in San “Dr. King did not make the boycott, the boycott made Dr. King.” ~ Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement The lessons of the past keep being repeated, over and over and over, and… Blogger Mike “Mish” Shedlock posted a fascinating story on his website regarding a situation in San Francisco. When the local garbage company and its union found out about “Joe” they complained to the city. None of this is really that surprising. Consider: When the Montgomery Bus Boycotts began, black people immediately tried to find alternative means of transportation. Any competent student of U.S. history knows how all this played out. One arm of the State ostensibly stopping another arm of the State from infringing on black folks is an example of the irony of coercion. Either way, we’ll never know.

PolicyTool - Policy for the Masses Trash Collecting Entrepreneur Squashed In San Francisco In response to Seattle Trash Collectors Make Average of $109,553 But Want More; 1,600 Apply to Haul Trash if Teamsters Strike I received an Email from Michael about union monopolies in San Francisco. Michael Writes ... Here in San Francisco picking up a garbage costs about $37/can per week.A contractor I know got fed up, canceled his service as did his neighbor. In regards to trash hauling wages in Seattle, many people wondered how Waste Management arrived at the figure of $109,553 per employee. It should not have been two difficult to find. As I stated in the first link, $109,553 is simply preposterous, yet the union complained and even authorized a strike. Trash collection can easily be done for a third of what the union gets as "Joe" in San Francisco proved. Seattle should put the contract to a genuinely competitive bid as should San Francisco. No doubt some will crow this example proves privatization does not work.

10 Ways To Avoid Being Sued On Twitter Adrianos is an Internet Defamation attorney in Los Angeles and authors the California Defamation Law Blog. Follow him @adrianos. Let me cut to the chase. You DO NOT want to be sued on Twitter. Being sued already stinks enough. Trust me. But being sued for a tweet is even worse. First off, think of what your friends will say. Second, imagine what your customers will say when they read about it online and the headline reads, “Drunk Twit Gets Sued For Tweets.” Worst of all, you could lose your privilege to Tweet under Twitter’s Terms of Service. So how do you avoid this? 1. Remember when your mother told you not to say anything if you didn’t have anything nice to say. 2. I will be the first to admit that I’ve experienced what is known as “Twitter Rage.” Sometimes I lash out at the offender with a particularly pointed public tweet. I’ll usually go for a run or go to the gym and lift some weights. 3. The second reason it’s important has to do with defamation law. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisi The news media are in the process of creating a great new historical myth. This is the myth that our present financial crisis is the result of economic freedom and laissez-faire capitalism. The attempt to place the blame on laissez faire is readily confirmed by a Google search under the terms "crisis + laissez faire." On the first page of the results that come up, or in the web entries to which those results refer, statements of the following kind appear: "The mortgage crisis is laissez-faire gone wrong."" Recent articles in The New York Times provide further confirmation. The mentality displayed in these statements is so completely and utterly at odds with the actual meaning of laissez faire that it would be capable of describing the economic policy of the old Soviet Union as one of laissez faire in its last decades. Laissez-faire capitalism has a definite meaning, which is totally ignored, contradicted, and downright defiled by such statements as those quoted above.

Met warns officers off photographers 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime study The Metropolitan Police has issued guidance to its officers to remind them that using a camera in public is not in itself a terrorist offence. There has been increasing concern in recent months that police have been over-using terrorism laws and public order legislation to harass professional and amateur photographers. The issue was raised in Parliament and the Home Office agreed to look at the rules. The guidance reminds officers that the public do not need a licence to take photographs in the street and the police have no power to stop people taking pictures of anything they like, including police officers. The over-used Terrorism Act of 2000 does not ban photography either, although it does allow police to look at images on phones or cameras during a search to see if they could be useful to a terrorist. The guidelines also remind coppers that they will often work with the media, which can impact on the Met's reputation. More from the Met here

Read for yourself: The full text of Arizona's controversial ille You may have heard a little something recently about this ongoing emotional controversy all across the United States over a frustrated Arizona’s homegrown legislative answer to the problem of an unsecured federal border with Mexico, illegal immigrants flowing across and the numerous side effects of such social movements including crime. As The Ticket wrote at the time of the bill's signing, the state and its Republican Gov. Jan Brewer are disappointed in the ongoing inadequate federal response.(See related story links below.) Democrat President Obama criticized the state's move as "misguided." Meanwhile, a new poll here shows most Americans kind of like Arizona's legislative solution to federal inaction. So today, as we often do here, The Ticket is publishing for the first time the entire Arizona illegal immigrant law. Yes, yes, this may expunge some of the fun of likening Arizona to Germany, the racial.... ...profiling allegations and organizing boycotts of boycotters. -- Andrew Malcolm

Bert P. Krages Attorney at Law Photographer's Rights Page The Photographer’s Right The Photographer’s Right is a PDF document that is loosely based on the ACLU Bust Card. You may make copies and carry them in your wallet, pocket, or camera bag to give you quick access to information about your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography. You may distribute the guide to others, provided that such distribution is not done for commercial gain and credit is given to the author. Photographers are stopped, harassed, and even intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they are taking photographs of subjects that make other people uncomfortable. Ironically, unrestricted photography by private citizens has played an integral role in protecting the freedom, security, and well­being of all Americans. As the document states, there are not very many legal restrictions on what can be photographed when in public view. Photography Law in Other Countries

Did Locke Really Justify Limited Government? | The Freeman | Ide FEBRUARY 24, 2010 by JOSEPH R. STROMBERG John Locke (1632–1704) was a physician, statesman, and political philosopher, filling that last office in a dry, “empirical,” and militantly antipoetic English mode. Locke’s stock has risen and fallen over the years. Contemporaries called him a Socinian (a precursor of Unitarianism), a deist, a Muslim, and an opportunist. Locke’s fame rests on his Two Treatises of Government. The point of the rights adduced—labor-based property and so on—was to buttress an argument that the king could not (should not) expropriate English gentlemen–a rather meager result, unless of course all their rights eventually “trickle down” to the rest of us. These market activities precede the creation of states. Locke’s Problems Since at least the eighteenth century, frustrated readers of Locke have “corrected” his system to purge it of apparently foreign elements. Social Contract. Mercantilism and Colonial Empire. Locke and Slavery. Bastard Feudalism Land and State. C.

The Pelican Post Cafe Hayek — where orders emerge The Truth About “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair The following is an educational service of the Downsize DC Foundation. As we said yesterday, millions of Americans believe . . . We need the government to regulate business people, otherwise they will run wild, laying waste to the environment, and selling us bad food, bad drugs, and harmful products. One big reason people believe this is because they attended government schools and were taught about a famous book, “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair’s book supposedly demonstrated that . . . * Once upon a time, before government regulation, meat packing plants were endangering Americans with poison food * The motivation for this poisoning was profits. But here’s what most people don’t know . . . * “The Jungle” was a novel, not a factual report * Most of what Sinclair wrote was pure fiction, un-connected to reality This is your chance to learn the truth. “The Jungle” was intended to dramatize working conditions, NOT food safety. “I have an utter contempt for him. (Source: U.S.