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Does Income Inequality Matter? 1186

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:16PM from the an-issue-worth-discussing dept.

theodp is concerned about the following: "Alarmed by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's record-setting $53M bonus, Charles Wheelan (aka The Naked Economist) argues that income inequality matters. Wheelan notes that the Gini Coefficient (a measure of income inequality) for the U.S. has been moving away from countries like Japan and Sweden and closer to that of Brazil, where the murder rate is 5X that of NYC and crime is materially impacting GDP."

Wikipedia Blocks Qatar [Updated] 204

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 01, 2007 @10:30AM from the the-law-of-unintended-consequenceas dept.

GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country's sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qataris from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns about impartiality — the majority of Al Jazeera journalists operate out of Qatar, for example. This raises a number of issues about internet connectivity in small countries — what other internet bottlenecks like this exist?" Update: 01/02 13:32 GMT by Z : Jim Wales wrote in the comments that the story is 'completely false'. Either way, the ban has been lifted and anonymous editing is once again possible from Qatar.

Comment As an archivist... (Score 1) 800

by sarastro_us on Wednesday September 20, 2006 @11:54AM (#16146500) Attached to: Analog Revival Means Vinyl Will Outlive CD

I'm thrilled to see that analog media are still going strong. Digital audio may be more convenient, and sound indistinguishable from analog, but I do sometimes wonder what musicologists will think of us in 50 or 100 years when the vast majority of music that we have produced in the late 20th century has completely disappeared because we all thought digital was 'forever'.

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