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	TANSTAAFL Times R.I.P. \| Samizdata.net
		After all if Samizdata offered to pay $50 for a 500 word article or a cartoon, I'm sure our editors would be at risk of being crushed in the stampede of eager wannabe contributors.
		So I've decided to write this blog and acknowledge that Samizdata.net is achieving what I had hoped for, and that I'm better off, at least for the time being, as a regular contributor to this blog, than ruling my own dilapidated kingdom.
		I like to think that TANSTAAFL Times was ahead of its time: offering a libertarian slant on current affairs.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/2002/12/tanstaafl_times_rip.html (836 words)

	TANSTAAFL Series: Coding the Transparent Society
		TANSTAAFL DesignShop events are forward-looking events designed to address strategic, policy, cultural, and philosophical aspects of a particular issue or group of issues.
		They bring together individuals, teams, and organizations who are "stakeholders" within the context of the subject matter and are meant to be catalyzing events that substantially augment, leverage, redesign and create new intellectual tools and processes that narrow the gap between Vision and Current Reality.
		You are invited to participate in the MG Taylor TANSTAAFL DesignShop event, where these and many, many other critical issues concerning the future of society and of the global information infrastructure will be discussed, solutions explored and next steps designed.
	www.mgtaylor.com /public/2001/coding_transparent_soc.html (1597 words)

	Afterzed Internet Lessons - TANSTAAFL
		TANSTAAFL is a term from a book by Robert A. Heinlein (one of the best Science Fiction authors that ever lived) called "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress".
		In fact, you don't have to try very hard at all to find them, as one of the major business models of internet commerce is giving free stuff to surfers in exchange for viewing advertisements.
		It's a good idea to look around and be sure that the lunch does not have string attached before you eat it.
	www.afterzed.com /lessons/tanstaafl.html (1000 words)

	There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
		The first example is the "Free Lunch" sign in Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (RAH may very well have introduced TANSTAAFL that way in the first place), which here only signifies that the drinks cost twice as much as in other places.
		On a deeper level, TANSTAAFL is a remainder that A is A, that you can't escape reality, that you can't just wish yourself a free lunch out of thin air.
		And this is exactly the meaning of TANSTAAFL that should be utterly obvious to every thinking being but that on the other hand is disappearing from this world.
	www.geoffmetcalf.com /lunch_20010625.html (488 words)

	ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE IN ONE SENTENCE: TANSTAAFL
		Once upon a time, Tanstaafl was made a king of all the lands.
		His first act was to call all his economic advisers and tell them to write up all the economic knowledge the society possessed.
		But in the interim, king Tanstaafl had become a very busy man, what with running a kingdom of all the lands and everything.
	senior.british.edu.uy /economics/Knowledge.htm (330 words)

	Tanstaafl Cable: High Temperature Wire/Lead Wire
		TANSTAAFL Electric Cable stocks quality high temperature wire and cable for appliances, cooking equipment, electric heaters, ovens, kilns, motors, transformers, lighting fixtures, furnaces, heating and air conditioning equipment and more.
		At TANSTAAFL you can find high temperature wire with hard to find temperature ratings up to 1000°F, in stock and ready-to-ship.
		Professional electrical engineering assistance is available to ensure you select the proper high temperature wire for your application.
	www.tanstaafl-cable.com (100 words)

	TANSTAAFL
		TANSTAAFL is a derivatives research and trading firm founded in 1992.
		The firm sold its AMEX specialist book to Susquehanna Investment Group in November 2005 and ceased day to day trading in August 2006 and is currently idle.
		This website and the domains trt.com and tanstaafl.net are the property of TANSTAAFL Research and Trading LLC.
	www.tanstaafl.net (94 words)

	TANSTAAFL and the Novice Writer by Elizabeth Moon
		TANSTAAFL and the Novice Writer by Elizabeth Moon
		When I was teaching short workshops, I found that some beginning writers want business information in the curriculum and others hate it.
		TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
	www.sfwa.org /writing/tanstaafl.htm (1260 words)

	ipedia.com: TANSTAAFL Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," invented by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and promulgated in his 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,...
		TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," invented by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and promulgated in his 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a libertarian utopia.
		Hard-core (classical liberal) advocates of the TANSTAAFL principle seem to assume that markets are efficient unless due to interference by the government or other "outside" forces.
	www.ipedia.com /tanstaafl.html (442 words)

	TANSTAAFL - FX Reserves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which discusses the problems caused by not considering the eventual outcome of an unbalanced economy.
		It is thought that TANSTAAFL may not always hold at the individual level, depending on the interpretation of the phrase; for example, some may argue that mothers often provide their children with lunch at no cost.
		TANSTAAFL is the name of the student-run snack bar in the Pierce residential student dorm of the University of Chicago.
	www.fxreserves.com /article/tanstaafl.htm (615 words)

	TANSTAAFL
		Tanstaafl manages with about a quarter of this- and bear in mind the figure for England is local only, and thereby excludes the national military.
		Tanstaafl, humanity's first independent nation in space, (well, on the Moon) is now in the hands of Luke: lukebunyip@bigpond.com In the near term, Luke will also be the Player at Large for dealing with any newly independent space territories, until they become large and important enough to require new players.
		Tanstaafl continues to swell with immigrants, sponging a few off other Lunar colonization programs, and drawing a lot of attention from other Lunar settlers.
	mysite.verizon.net /resocu4b/Natrep/tanstaafl.htm (763 words)

	TRT Services Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is attributed to Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
		TANSTAAFL Research and Trading, LLC (TRT) is an options trading firm, registered in New York as an LLC, January 21, 1994 owned by its partners.
		TANSTAAFL strives to create a standard second to none and is looking forward to making public it's execution times, improvements and competitive percentages with other exchanges.
	www.trt.com /about.htm (627 words)

	TANSTAAFL City, CyberSpace Welcome
		TANSTAAFL City is a place that you can always visit, knowing that it has what you're looking for, and more.
		You have been invited to visit TANSTAAFL City in the hopes that during one or more of your visits you will take the time to consult with MajorDomo and discover how you can actually change your own future, for the better.
		TANSTAAFL City is presently in evolution, a project which began 3/15/98.
	members.aol.com /ztanstaafl/TC_1_B.html (652 words)

	Heron Aerospace: TANSTAAFL
		The TANSTAAFL acronym ("There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch") comes from Robert Heinlein's classic SF novel "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
		TANSTAAFL may well have arisen from it by mutation.
		The phrase "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" is also attributed to the Economics Nobel Laureate, Milton Friedman, as a one-sentence summary of economics he used from time to time.
	www.heronaerospace.com /tanstaafl.html (190 words)

	TANSTAAFL Online Media - Search Engine Optimization and Marketing
		TANSTAAFL is an acronym for “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” TANSTAAFL was made widely popular by Sci-Fi author Robert A. Heinlein in his book “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”.
		TANSTAAFL, as a principle, is also popular with economists such as Milton Friedman who will more properly say, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
		TANSTAAFL Online Media is a Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Company.
	www.tanstaaflonlinemedia.com (240 words)

	There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
		As first discussed by Robert Heinlein in his book, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress...
		The TANSTAAFL principle is closely related to the fundamental theorem of ecological economics, that everything depends on everything else.
		Whenever you think you are getting something for nothing, look again—someone, somewhere, somehow is paying for it.
	www.mgtaylor.com /public/2001/tanstaafl.html (200 words)

	The Art and Craft of Great Software Architecture and Development: TANSTAAFL
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
		Listen, no-one's perfect (certainly not me) but software development's not easy - every day you have to be learning something that makes you a little bit better.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	softarc.blogspot.com /2006/05/tanstaafl.html (789 words)

	TANSTAAFL \| Dangerous Intersection
		Possibly his best crafted novel was The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, 1966, which depicts a colonial revolution, the moon breaking away from Earth’s government in 2076.
		It is one of his most didactic political novels and brings together a great deal, if not all, his written polemic, and the novel wherein the acronym TANSTAAFL first appeared.
		When I say he created America, what I mean is that in his fiction he presented an ideal, buried beneath the entertainment, of what it might mean to be a free human being, based solidly on the principles of early America and the post WWII ideals of the Greatest Generation.
	dangerousintersection.org /?p=1450 (2116 words)

	Tanstaafl Intro
		My first Maine Coon, Heidi Ho Josie of Tanstaafl was born in October 1972.
		TANSTAAFL is the first letter of every word from the saying – “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch”!
		It was time to go back to a pure Heidi Ho male so Polly went to Connie with the agreement that I receive a top show quality brown classic tabby female in return.
	www.calitan.net /introtan.html (642 words)

	TANSTAAFL
		But when you look at the tonnage fees charged by the states, they tend to be linear, not turning exponential until you reach the higher weights.
		Today the railroads don't even earn the cost of their capital, but in a world governed by TANSTAAFL the railroads will have no problem raising the money to rebuild.
		Having applied the principle of TANSTAAFL to cars and trucks, it=s only fair to apply it to the airlines.
	allaboardwashington.org /tanstaafl.htm (3609 words)

	The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » TANSTAAFL
		If you want a job that pays $100,000 per year and has great benefits then you have to be willing to do something that is worth that much money to the employer.
		TANSTAAFL is the corrollary to my other perennial favorite, personal responsibility.
		With these two principles you are armed to deal with the real world, not wishful thinking.
	www.thelibertypapers.org /2005/11/22/tanstaafl (1089 words)

	The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » TANSTAAFL
		If you want a job that pays $100,000 per year and has great benefits then you have to be willing to do something that is worth that much money to the employer.
		TANSTAAFL is the corrollary to my other perennial favorite, personal responsibility.
		With these two principles you are armed to deal with the real world, not wishful thinking.
	thelibertypapers.org /2005/11/22/tanstaafl (1028 words)

	tanstaafl - Icerocket Tag
		Author (of “ Stranger in a Strange Land ” (1961) and “ The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ” (1966)) and coiner of the word “ TANSTAAFL ” Robert Anson Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907 in Butler, Missouri.
		He said, “One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements o...
		1st Rule of Economics: TANSTAAFL 1st Rule of Politics: Ignore the first rule of economics.
	www.icerocket.com /tag/tanstaafl (628 words)

	TANSTAAFL - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "TANSTAAFL" is defined.
		TANSTAAFL : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
		TANSTAAFL : Glossary of Internet Terms [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=TANSTAAFL (93 words)

	TRT News Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		April 1, 2005 - TANSTAAFL adds SID to steel portfolio, which includes GGB, CMC, MT, MTLM, RT, SCHN, STLD, STTX, CRS, and ZEUS.
		June 8,2004 - TANSTAAFL adds IEF to our Lehman Bond portfolio, which includes TLT and SHY.
		May 21, 2004 - Tanstaafl Research and Trading will be the first specialist unit to trade using the ANTE system.
	www.tanstaafl.net /news.htm (99 words)

	TANSTAAFL
		The first rule of economics is TANSTAAFL: There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
		When Social Security was implemented, the maximum amount any one person paid into the system was $60 per year—a total of two percent from employee and employer of a maximum $3000 per year.
		Today, the percentage is 12.4% on $97,500 per year because TANSTAAFL is coming due.
	www.americanvision.org /articlearchive2007/10-01-07.asp (968 words)

	What the heck does TANSTAAFL mean?
		TANSTAAFL stands for There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
		Borrowed from the novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by science fiction author Robert Heinlein.
		I recomend this book and any of his other works as some of the best scifi ever written.
	cydathria.com /ms_donna/tanstaafl.html (81 words)

	TANSTAAFL ~ Windows Fanatics
		These were easily traceable to his own experiences, having himself been a man born literally in the horse-and-buggy days who watched most of the great advances of the 20th Century, from the rise of aviation, to landings on the moon, to the space shuttle and the launch of the Hubble telescope.
		Unless you know what a sandbox is, and are running one on your computer, you probably don’t know enough to take on the freeware bandits one-on-one either.
		Tags: freeware, snapfiles, no free lunch, betanews, tanstaafl, robert heinlein, majorgeeks, clif notes
	www.lockergnome.com /nexus/windows/2006/03/13/tanstaafl (1028 words)

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