Curt Doolittle

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  • Question? What value is there to being an american citizen?

    Question? What value is there to being an american citizen?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-11 19:26:00 UTC

  • Is Facebook Making A Strategic Error, Or Is Their Current Problem Just A Matter

    Is Facebook Making A Strategic Error, Or Is Their Current Problem Just A Matter Of Timing? http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/04/26/is-facebook-making-a-strategic-error-or-is-their-current-problem-just-a-matter-of-timing/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-04-26 21:53:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/195631777837101057

  • TROUBLE WITH SERGEY BRIN’S COMMENTS ABOUT APPS *Please enlighten me.* I have a h

    TROUBLE WITH SERGEY BRIN’S COMMENTS ABOUT APPS

    *Please enlighten me.*

    I have a hard time taking Brin’s criticism of FB and Apple seriously. Google is an app. FB is an app. Apple is an app/hardware structure. Google makes its money from freely available information. FB and Apple, as well as some international sites, consist of closed content. Since advertising works on google and doesn’t work on FB and elsewhere, then I don’t understand what he’s complaining about. Google owns the commercial and intellectual sphere. Apple is trying to make sure porn and viruses don’t make it onto their platform, and FB is trying to make something, anything, that will make money over the long term by understanding consumers and their preferences in a way that Google seems unable to.

    Why this is bad just doesn’t make sense to me.

    Now, if you talk about the government’s threatening to hide information and communications from their people, then yes, I understand that. I understand that China should probably be isolated from the entire internet infrastructure so that we can as easily shut them out if we want to — and may need to since our military relies upon the internet now.

    But I don’t understand the concern with information that’s inaccesible in ‘apps’.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-04-16 14:47:00 UTC

  • A Heretical Question? Do Women Have Too Much Power?

    GIVENS: Given that women control access to sex and access to reproduction. Given that women have a different mating strategy from men. Given that women determine the outcome of elections. Given that women prefer anti-liberty policies. Given that in the modern economy women are more easily employable than men. (Or rather, that the distribution of women is heavier in the middle, to the disadvantage of men in the lower two quintiles.) Given that women are financially capable of raising children on their own, and are doing so in record numbers. Given that the only sector in which women do not dominate is in the upper quintile of intellectual ability, and therefore the upper incomes in the private sector. Do women not have both in logic and in practice, the power to effectively enslave men by legislative means? Women evolved in order to manipulate one group of men in order to gain control of another group of men. The agrarian order changed that for a short time. Women evolved to seek the best alpha mates that they could obtain, then use sex to gain the resources and cooperation of beta males, once they have their children. Men could cooperate politically because they only differ in ability. But women differ from men in that they do not seek liberty to succeed in order to obtain access to sex and reproduction. Women already control access to sex and reproduction. So can men and women cooperate in a democratic order if it is possible within that political order to conduct involuntary transfers?

  • A Heretical Question? Do Women Have Too Much Power?

    GIVENS: Given that women control access to sex and access to reproduction. Given that women have a different mating strategy from men. Given that women determine the outcome of elections. Given that women prefer anti-liberty policies. Given that in the modern economy women are more easily employable than men. (Or rather, that the distribution of women is heavier in the middle, to the disadvantage of men in the lower two quintiles.) Given that women are financially capable of raising children on their own, and are doing so in record numbers. Given that the only sector in which women do not dominate is in the upper quintile of intellectual ability, and therefore the upper incomes in the private sector. Do women not have both in logic and in practice, the power to effectively enslave men by legislative means? Women evolved in order to manipulate one group of men in order to gain control of another group of men. The agrarian order changed that for a short time. Women evolved to seek the best alpha mates that they could obtain, then use sex to gain the resources and cooperation of beta males, once they have their children. Men could cooperate politically because they only differ in ability. But women differ from men in that they do not seek liberty to succeed in order to obtain access to sex and reproduction. Women already control access to sex and reproduction. So can men and women cooperate in a democratic order if it is possible within that political order to conduct involuntary transfers?

  • IN ANSWER TO A POLITICAL PROBLEM, WHICH APPROACH DO YOU GRAVITATE TO? a) “What s

    IN ANSWER TO A POLITICAL PROBLEM, WHICH APPROACH DO YOU GRAVITATE TO?

    a) “What should we believe” or “how should we think”?

    b) “What can we take action upon to bring this about despite our differences in thinking?”

    c) “What rules can we impose to produce that end despite what people think?”

    There are only three means of coercing other people

    a) moral – which means, what narratives can I construct that will signal inclusion or exclusion from the group?

    b) exchange – which means, how do I make something someone will act on voluntarily?

    c) violence – what rules can I enforce to make this come into being, regardless of preference of the individuals today?

    It should not surprise us that we have institutions that serve these three purposes: Religion, commerce and government.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-04-13 17:23:00 UTC

  • economics, what does STRUCTURAL mean? I’ll provide the Austrian answer. It makes

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/03/26/the-definition-of-structural-unemployment/In economics, what does STRUCTURAL mean? I’ll provide the Austrian answer. It makes sense. Will someone else try to provide one that makes sense for keynesianism?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-03-27 09:56:00 UTC

  • Did Sowell Not Conceive Of The Left Right Conflict As The Masculine And Feminine?

    I’ll have to ask him if I get the chance.

  • Did Sowell Not Conceive Of The Left Right Conflict As The Masculine And Feminine?

    I’ll have to ask him if I get the chance.

  • DO WE HAVE CHINS? An Interesting question by the Smithsonian

    http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/01/why-do-humans-have-chins/WHY DO WE HAVE CHINS? An Interesting question by the Smithsonian.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-01-06 17:49:00 UTC