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US beer market

vendredi 26 septembre 2014 à 14:00

One giant beer conglomerate controls half the US market. Four companies control almost 80%.

That's about as bad as the ISP market, the book publishing market, and the recorded music market.

I think we should take whatever steps are needed so that no company, unless it is a regulated monopoly, controls more than 5% of any field.

US high school dress rules

vendredi 26 septembre 2014 à 14:00

Students in many US high schools protested the dress rules imposed on girls by the American Taliban, and the nasty punishments used to enforce them.

Germany's genocide in Namibia

vendredi 26 septembre 2014 à 14:00

Germany's first 20th century genocide, in Namibia, trained many of the people who carried out Nazi genocide.

EU research on oil spill containment

vendredi 26 septembre 2014 à 14:00

A large EU research project for containing oil spills from undersea oil wells has the stated goal of encouraging public support for such wells.

Research on containing spills is a valid goal; risking the spills is not.

Pseudoscience in UK schools

vendredi 26 septembre 2014 à 14:00

UK schools teach creationist pseudoscience and some universities recognize it academically.