Monthly Archives: March 2008

‘Good’ Pirates Help Companies Sell More Products | TorrentFreak

http://torrentfreak.com/good-pirates-help-businesses-sell-more-product-080324/

If you are downloading stuff you wouldn’t have bought in the first place, according to economist Karen Croxson, you are probably doing the company that created the product a big favor. You, Mr `Good’ Pirate, are telling your friends, adding to the media `buzz’ and driving up sales.

Iraq, $5,000 Per Second? – New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/opinion/23kristof.html?em&ex=1206504000&en=d5db0ce293e0ef20&ei=5087%0A

“The Iraq war is now going better than expected, for a change. Most critics of the war, myself included, blew it: we didn’t anticipate the improvements in security that are partly the result of last year’s “surge.”

The improvement is real but fragile and limited. Here’s what it amounts to: We’ve cut our casualty rates to the unacceptable levels that plagued us back in 2005, and we still don’t have any exit plan for years to come — all for a bill that is accumulating at the rate of almost $5,000 every second!”