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Mises Institute Torrents 2.0 Released
Posted by: | CommentsGreat news, folks. The good people at the Ludwig von Mises Institute have released version 2.0 of their media and book “torrents,” which is simply the easiest way to obtain the entire Mises online library. (Click here for a brief intro to torrents.)
What is particularly awesome about LVMI in this regard is that they understand that material like this doesn’t have to be protected by the strong arm of the state through aggressive copyright law. Instead, they just completely circumvent it. All of it is provided at the grand old price of $0.00. How awesome is that? To have an entire library of knowledge at your fingertips for the cost of a few gigabytes of bandwidth.
And besides being an absolutely heroic gesture, it even benefits LVMI monetarily as well. Ever since LVMI started giving away everything in electronic PDF form for free, their book sales have skyrocketed – because it turns out many people (like me) continue to want hard copies in addition to the electronic editions.
Huzzah to the great Ludwig von Mises Institute!
Here’s the text of their blog post with the appropriate links:
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June 15, 2010 by David Veksler
It’s been about a year early since the first public release of torrents containing all the document and media content on Mises.org. The Mises Institute staff adds new content frequently, so it is time for version 2.0. Here are the 2010 torrents: Mises Media (132 GB), Books (8.6GB), Journals (4.1 GB), PDFs (324 MB), and ReasonPapers (1.4 GB).
For more files and details see the original announcement. If you are new to BitTorrent, install the uTorrent client, open the links above, and you’ll be on your way.
If you downloaded an earlier version of this content, please do not re-download everything. In both uTorrent and Vuze, you can get just the missing files. In uTorrent, start the download and let it create the placeholder directory, then stop it. Overwrite the placeholder directory with your existing files, then “Force Re-Check.” You can do the same in Vuze – just enable the option to “Truncate existing files that are too large” under Options->Files. Then resume.
By my best calculations, we seeded last year’s torrents to thousands of computers worldwide and served over 4 terabytes from our servers alone. Please help us spread the word and make this release even bigger.
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Tags: economics, free market, technology
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Smoking is Healthier than Fascism
Posted by: | CommentsThis article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct ways.
Smoking bans have gone into effect in many jurisdictions, mostly indoors (bars, restaurants, workplaces, casinos, even apartments and condos) but also outdoors (beaches, in front of public buildings, parks and stadiums). Under the auspices of “protecting people” the government tries to discourage individuals from smoking by levying “sin taxes” on the cigarettes they buy and prohibits smokers from lighting up in places they share with non-smokers. To dissuade people—especially young folks—from starting to smoke, the government has banned cigarette advertising from TV and radio.
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Tags: economics, fascism, free market, health, individualism, memes, property rights
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Progressives Against Progress
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“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, support government intervention through intervention in the market, minimum or living wages, and universal healthcare. We find neither progress nor justice in government actions that advance one group at the expense of another. Don’t get us wrong: we are for progress — for economic growth, wealth creation, and the elimination of poverty — but we understand that progress grows from voluntary interactions and respect of individual rights. That which violates the rights of individuals cannot be progress.
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Anarchy and Christianity
Posted by: | CommentsBook review of Anarchy and Christianity, by Jacques Ellul. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids, MI. 1988 / trans. to English 1991. 105 pages. Retail: $14.00
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was a French sociologist, philosopher, and theologian, but his main profession was teaching law at the University of Bordeaux. He held strong views about the nature of government as antithetical to Christian faith, and is counted among the 20th century Christian anarchists.
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Tags: anarchy, ethics, free market, free society, gospel, government, history, Marx, philosophy, The State, theology
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What’s the difference between a gas station and a hospital?
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So, what is the difference between gas stations and hospitals? More after the jump…
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