Andrew Tobias asks if we can finally put the tax argument to bed:

Is the reason you’re not investing in stocks these days (a) the prospect of having to pay 15% capital gains tax?  Or (b) the fear of further losses?  (Well, or – c – that you don’t have any money?)
Is the reason you don’t [...]

Posted April 9, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: Andrew Tobias, argument, economy, taxes. Be the first one.

Quite a while ago now, stepinrazor asked people to do some self-censorhip in a post in the Flickr Ideas forum. FlyButtafly quickly joined the discussion, noting that she’d encountered some material she found offensive in pictures from other Flickr members: “as I’m going through the pictures, one shows up of a protestor holding a sign [...]

Posted August 1, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: Anthony Comstock, argument, Charles Keating, civil liberties, community standards, cultural imperialism, first amendment, flickr, free speech, freedom, J. Edgar Hoover, may offend, moral superiority, obscenity, porn, pornography. 6 Comments.

I prefaced my point about how the standards we choose in libraries isolate us from the larger stream of progress driving development outside libraries with the note that I was sure to get hanged for it.
It’s true.
I commented that there were over 140,00 registered Amazon API developers and 365 public OpenSearch targets (hey look, there’s [...]

Posted February 23, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: a9, amazon api, amazon web services, argument, AWS, cage match, code4lib, code4lib 2006, future libraries, information retrieval, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library standards, opensearch, search, search and retrieval, search retrieval, sru/srw, srw/sru, web services. 6 Comments.

Regarding nudity in photographs posted to Flickr, dancharvey says:
Honestly, I’m more concerned about all the cats and flowers. Cliche is more damaging than breasts. Your opinion may vary.
nudity, censorship, flickr, photo, photography, top-v, argument, cliche, reason

Posted December 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: argument, censorship, cliche, flickr, nudity, photo, photography, reason, top-v. 11 Comments.