Any form of global taxation, however, cripples this liberalizing process since taxpayers would have no safe havens.

FORBES: Should International Bureaucracies Get Taxing Powers or Direct Funding?

This simply makes fiscal problems worse, and, as it leads to higher taxes, cripples the economy as well.

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The exploding price of oil, meanwhile, cripples transport firms and fuels inflation for everything that has to be moved around.

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Toby Ziegler's exhibition "The Cripples" (until Oct. 20) in Q-Park in Old Burlington Street features five massive metal sculptures, inspired by Bruegel's painting.

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Lowry painted the working poor and, more and more, strange beggars and cripples against featureless backgrounds, yet he had no obvious political agenda.

ECONOMIST: Singular visions

While I cannot say that this bill was passed with poor intentions, I believe that the bill inadvertently cripples the potential for valuable student and teacher connections.

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The lack of critical developmental infrastructure to support entrepreneurs cripples the potential to create a stronger ecosystem or environment that encourages entrepreneurship across Africa, according to Arjuna Costa at the Omidyar Network.

BBC: Motives for investing: Profit or altruism?

Luckily, a community fostered fix seems pretty simple too -- XDA user RyanZA has already created a patch to modify write permissions on affected devices -- though Galaxy S III users are reporting that the fix cripples the phone's camera app.

ENGADGET: Security exploit opens Samsung Galaxy S III, Note II to attack, could let apps from Google Play write to Kernel