http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/01334112182/dailydirt-horse-other-other-red-meat.shtml#c216 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:53:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/01334112182/dailydirt-horse-other-other-red-meat.shtml#c216
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2011/10/slaughtering_horses_for_meat_is_banned_in_the_u_s_why_.html]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/01334112182/dailydirt-horse-other-other-red-meat.shtml#c173 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:31:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/01334112182/dailydirt-horse-other-other-red-meat.shtml#c173 So it's a Catholic, not Protestant thing at root.

Not sure, actually. It might well be Celtic, all that stuff with horse sacrifices, horse burials etc. Offhand I can't remember if the Celts were in favour of or against eating it. I'd have to do more research to refresh things than I currently have time for (and than this thread would allow for). If the Celts (and possibly other pre-Christian populations like the Germanics and the Slavs) ate it ritually, then the prohibition-turned-taboo would indeed have been Catholic (IX-XIIth centuries) and particularly enforced in those "frontier" lands that centuries later, for completely unrelated economic reasons, were to turn Protestant. I wonder if there is a parallel with the Anglo-Saxon taboo on "toadstools" (some of which which were undoubtedly consumed in ritual contexts).]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130221/16025122066/british-politician-tells-local-paper-it-cant-quote-him-because-he-dislikes-its-readers-comments.shtml#c114 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:44:47 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130221/16025122066/british-politician-tells-local-paper-it-cant-quote-him-because-he-dislikes-its-readers-comments.shtml#c114 walking deads, slaves to a moribund system.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130224/22430522090/non-profit-responds-to-threatened-lawsuit-ferrari-remaking-video-to-hide-ferrari.shtml#c156 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:21:11 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130224/22430522090/non-profit-responds-to-threatened-lawsuit-ferrari-remaking-video-to-hide-ferrari.shtml#c156 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120919/04145920428/wikimedia-scandal-proof-unreliability-confirmation-crowdsourcing-works.shtml#c147 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:00:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120919/04145920428/wikimedia-scandal-proof-unreliability-confirmation-crowdsourcing-works.shtml#c147
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accoya_wood

and tell me its' not a commercial ad? OK, it's been "tagged" at such, but that's two and a half years ago and nothing has been done about it. Yet, someone could just have translated the Danish version, which is not a commercial ad.

This said, years of experience with Wikipedia, including a brief spree as an editor, have taught me that the English and the Spanish localizations are rather untrustworthy, and the French one even more so. To some degree this is also the case of Swedish Wikipedia, whereas the German and the Italian ones are quite reliable. Other localizations I'm familiar with, like those in Portuguese or, worse still, in Danish, are almost irrelevant.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120913/10023820372/jokes-you-facebook-thats-testicle-tree.shtml#c263 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:04:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120913/10023820372/jokes-you-facebook-thats-testicle-tree.shtml#c263
Q: do people really need FB? Just read today that FB is losing users in the age range 14-24 at a dramatic rate.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120831/23401720235/some-thoughts-innovation-agenda.shtml#c146 Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:40:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120831/23401720235/some-thoughts-innovation-agenda.shtml#c146 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110801/04071415343/swiss-justice-minister-decides-that-isps-should-have-to-retain-data-despite-no-legal-basis.shtml#c163 Wed, 3 Aug 2011 01:24:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110801/04071415343/swiss-justice-minister-decides-that-isps-should-have-to-retain-data-despite-no-legal-basis.shtml#c163 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/03584915133/italian-court-realizes-that-yahoo-isnt-liable-infringing-works-found-via-its-search-engine.shtml#c93 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:53:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/03584915133/italian-court-realizes-that-yahoo-isnt-liable-infringing-works-found-via-its-search-engine.shtml#c93
http://torrentfreak.com/italian-isps-sued-for-ignoring-btjunkie-blockade-110713/]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110712/17123815072/eu-court-disagrees-with-pretty-much-every-other-court-says-ebay-may-be-liable-third-party-trademark-infringement.shtml#c242 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:16:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110712/17123815072/eu-court-disagrees-with-pretty-much-every-other-court-says-ebay-may-be-liable-third-party-trademark-infringement.shtml#c242 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c636 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:03:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c636 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c521 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:53:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c521 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c519 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:42:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c519 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c518 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:39:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c518 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c512 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:29:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110629/01455714898/danish-law-enforcement-would-like-to-outlaw-anonymous-use-internet.shtml#c512 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01380514855/major-french-political-party-puts-repealing-hadopithree-strikes-its-platform.shtml#c135 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:07:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01380514855/major-french-political-party-puts-repealing-hadopithree-strikes-its-platform.shtml#c135
http://tinyurl.com/4xlfrhd

the Mafia, but it's a bit untraditional.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01380514855/major-french-political-party-puts-repealing-hadopithree-strikes-its-platform.shtml#c73 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:44:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01380514855/major-french-political-party-puts-repealing-hadopithree-strikes-its-platform.shtml#c73 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01380514855/major-french-political-party-puts-repealing-hadopithree-strikes-its-platform.shtml#c51 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:06:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01380514855/major-french-political-party-puts-repealing-hadopithree-strikes-its-platform.shtml#c51 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110608/23514814631/jeff-bezos-innovation-stubborn-vision-flexible-details.shtml#c33 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:55:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110608/23514814631/jeff-bezos-innovation-stubborn-vision-flexible-details.shtml#c33 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110509/02203814205/ny-times-ignores-its-own-reporters-key-tweets-patting-itself-back-over-speed-its-bin-laden-coverage.shtml#c237 Tue, 10 May 2011 03:36:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110509/02203814205/ny-times-ignores-its-own-reporters-key-tweets-patting-itself-back-over-speed-its-bin-laden-coverage.shtml#c237 That is the real problem about the NYT and others of the same ilk, not whether they act as sock puppets of the circles of power in a more or less efficient manner.]]>