Kinsella Law

Latest article: Causation and Aggression) (co-authored with Patrick Tinsley), in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 7, no. 4 (winter 2004): 97-112, a special Reinach symposium issue (based on the Reinach and Rothbard: An International Symposium, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 29-30, 2001).

• FireFox browser. Much better than Internet Explorer. Rarely crashes; faster; has tabbed browsing.
• The Google Toolbar (or, for FireFox, the GoogleBar).
• Google Desktop search. This is just fantastic: google indexes emails, Word files and other documents on your computer and instantly shows results when you do a google search.
• SharpReader: a great RSS feed aggregator. How did I live without it?

And most of these, the indefatigable Jeff Tucker told me about! Also increasingly useful: Skype, with its free Internet telephony; and AIM, which also now has Internet telephony and even video (which I have not tried yet).

Recently found a copy of a review by Peter McDermott of my 1997 book Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk. Other reviews here.

A revised version forthcoming in early 2005 is International Investment Political Risk and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide.

I mentioned previously my latest book, Online Contract Formation, published a couple months ago. It provides practical advice about legal issues related to formation of contracts through online means, from a multi-jurisdictional perspective.

Amazon is now carrying it. I need some reviews. A few readers should post some short reviews. I suggested on smart-ass one to a friend, “If I were interested in the law of online contract formation from a multi-jurisdictional perspective, this is the book I would get.”

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While you’re at it–do a favor for 3 buddies, and plug their books also on Amazon:

• Bay of One Hundred Fires (thriller novel by my first boss, conservative attorney Lanier Yeates–I discuss it here)
• Ready, Aim, Right! (collected columns by libertarian journalist Jack Criss–I discuss it here); and
• There’s a Government in Your Soup: Why There’s Too Much Government in Your Kitchen, and What You Can Do About It (by libertarian/LewRockweller chef Brad Edmonds–I reviewed it here)

Daddy needs a gmail invite. Please send to: stephan -at- kinsellalaw dot com.

It is mind-boggling that there is not an easy way to convert a huge, memory-sucking color-scanned PDF file into a black and white file.

More to come later. For now–see Sandefur’s post.

I need some help/advice from any tech/geeks out there. I am going paperless and scanning lots of paper documents into PDF files.

I have a Visioneer scanner. It sucks, but still. I use it with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (which also sucks, like all things hardware and software) to scan lots of documents into PDF. This is very slow. The worst thing is it invokes the PaperPort 8.0 Scan Manager, which is slow, and also, it pops up a damned scan manager screen every time it scans the next page. I can get nothing done on my PC when it’s scanning, it ties up the whole GD screen.

I want a better way to simply scan documents into PDF. Faster, and does it in background. And works with my stupid Visioneer scanner. I think I only need better software/driver. I was thinking of buying PaperPort 9.0 Deluxe. I don’t care about its ability to do document management but I want a simple, easy, fast way to use my scanner to create PDF files, in the background. Is that too much to ask?

Any advice or recos from geeks out there would be appreciated. Please don’t tell me to get a new scanner or mail the docs to Thailand to do it on the cheap. Don’t fight the hypo, people.

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