As you read this, please keep in mind that I say it all with a track record of nearly 14 years of being proactive and having a zero-tolerance policy towards criminal activity and network abuse on our system. We have great relationships with Law Enforcement Agencies both here in Canada and abroad. We are always helpful and (usually) happy to answer questions, and help LEA understand the complexities and nuances of the internet. We've had the good fortune to meet some really intelligent and clued in cybercrime units. We participate in numerous communities in combating .net abuse and cybercrime.
How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet
Investing Local: The Game-Changer for a Dismal Economy
A little less than a year ago while I was driving up north for my annual dose of solitude in a cabin outside of Algonquin Park, I had somewhat of an epiphany. It came after the realization that the miserable urban sprawl that was decimating ever more land around Toronto for sterile subdivisions of cubical houses and big box stores was reaching ever outward from the GTA (green belt, hah!). I was listening to Damon Vickers “The Day After the Dollar Crashes”, which was less about what happens after the dollar finally crashes, and more of a call-to-arms… Read the rest
Special Privilege (part 1)
Yesterday I received my copy of Vincent R. Locascio’s “Special Priviledge: How the Monetary Elite Benefit…At Your Expense“. It was published in 2001 by the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME)and I hope they don’t mind my quoting vast tracts of it here.
This book predates Locascio’s “The Monetary Elite vs. Gold’s Honest Discipline” by a few years. In May 2005, a copy of this latter book arrived out-of-the-blue to my attention at the easyDNS offices. The inside cover was
The Map is not the Territory
Can a domain name be the difference between success and failure in a business? Are domain names the single best investment one can possibly make in one’s business? These are the main questions debated in an ongoing chain of posts, then my comments, and a follow-up post, and another of my comments and yet another post between myself and Andrei over at DomainingTips.
The conventional wisdom among domainers is that without the domain name, you’re nowhere, or, investing in domain names is the single best thing you can
Blaming “The 1%” is like blaming “Zionists”, “Blacks” or “Gays”
Some people like, to make all the rules and tell others what to do.
They make it their way, so they always win, and the others always lose.
Street gangs and madmen How they wage their private wars
In bankers clothes their hearts are froze and
Their wives hold hands with whores– Airbourne: Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
There is a lot of “empirical data” coming out in reputable information channels (like Facebook and Twitter) that the 1% are over-represented in the corridors of power, have more than their fair share of wealth and are basically to
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