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SSRN bought by Elsevier

jeudi 26 mai 2016 à 02:00

Elsevier, the continual copyright aggressor, has bought SSRN where papers are posted for gratis access. There is plenty of reason to worry.

With proper antitrust laws, this purchase would have been blocked.

The updated overtime requirement

jeudi 26 mai 2016 à 02:00

US retail company executives admit that the updated overtime requirement won't lead to (more) loss of jobs.

IMF social spending targets

jeudi 26 mai 2016 à 02:00

The IMF puts social spending targets into many "aid" contracts, but these are usually not actually followed, and they have little effect compared with the crushing austerity the IMF imposes.

Russian and Ukrainian POWs

jeudi 26 mai 2016 à 02:00

Russia and Ukraine traded prisoners of war, which both countries had put on trial.

War on Painkillers

jeudi 26 mai 2016 à 02:00

Florida's escalation of the War on Painkillers drove abusers to use heroin instead.

The overall effect is likely to be dangerous. The painkillers are made in regulated labs and the pills always the same contents. Heroin is made by unregulated labs and typically diluted with who-knows-what.