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The canker in quarantine policies

No, it’s not the bit­ter reac­tion from the apple and pear lobby to the end of our century-long ban on apple imports from NZ. What else could we expect: thanks to the price (and qual­ity) pro­tec­tion afford by the ban, uncom­pet­i­tive pro­duc­ers in those indus­tries have been ripping-off the con­sumer so long we could hardly …

August 31, 2011 – 9:05 am | By pwg | Posted in Public policy, Trade | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Answering the voices?

“A lot of home­less peo­ple come in and do live web­casts” Extract from Con­fes­sions of an Apple Store Employee (Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics) A primer on mod­ern mores by an Apple slave. The tedium of being earnest.

February 18, 2011 – 7:51 am | By pwg | Posted in Resources | Tagged , | Comments (0)