Tag Archives: Law

The Balad Burn Pit: All-purpose toxic materials disposal in Iraq [iraq, vet health]

By Daniel | Published: April 8, 2009
Update Feb 20, 2010: The anger is rising: read this LAtimes piece. Something made me mad today. So I’m posting about it. After reading an article on Wikileaks regarding the Balad Burn Pit, where toxic chemicals such as “…acetaldehyde, Acrolien, Arsenic, Benzene, Carbon Monoxide, Ethylbenzene, Formaldehyde, Hydrogen Cyanide, Hydrogen Fluoride, Phosgene, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfuric Acid, Toluene, Trichloroethane and [...]
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Free books on Copyright [sources for open source]

By Daniel | Published: February 6, 2009
Certain smarty pants (I’m looking at you James Boyle) are stepping up to write accessible, interesting, and essential works on the depressing state of copyright law/file sharing/free culture. Things are not good, and everyone should know not just the base headlines “Teenager sued by RIAA for $15,000“—but the facts. I now refer to Boyle: It is [...]
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