Curt Doolittle

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    (FB 1545666396 Timestamp) SANTA – GIFTS WITHOUT DEBT by Eli Harman Santa’s a metaperson. The only way he can keep tabs on all those people, judge all those people, place all those gifts, and eat all those cookies is through division of labor. The reason we use a meta person to give gifts instead of just giving them to each other is to give gifts without giving a corresponding debt. Your debt to santa is already paid by the time you receive his gifts. You just have to keep being good if you want any more next year.

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    (FB 1546014034 Timestamp) IP ABUSE OF THE DAY Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos by Alex Tabarrok —“NYTimes: Any creative illustration “fixed in a tangible medium” is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone’s skin. What many people don’t realize, legal experts said, is that the copyright is inherently owned by the tattoo artist, not the person with the tattoos.”— Some tattoo artists have sold their rights to firms which are now suing video game producers who depict the tattoos on the players likenesses: –“The company Solid Oak Sketches obtained the copyrights for five tattoos on three basketball players — including the portrait and area code on Mr. James — before suing in 2016 because they were used in the NBA 2K series. …Before filing its lawsuit, Solid Oak sought $819,500 for past infringement and proposed a $1.14 million deal for future use of the tattoos.”—- To avoid this shakedown, players are now being told to get licenses from artists before getting tattooed.

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    (FB 1546009856 Timestamp) THE DIVERGENCE OF ADVANCED NATIONS (TODD: –“I am a demographer”–, Which I hope illustrates my constant point that ‘demographics is everything’. ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yz4zUGlhK8

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    (FB 1546008419 Timestamp) THE COLD WAR AND POST-COLD WAR ERAS IN TWO ARTICLES – LITTLE IDEAS HAVE VAST CONSEQUENCES —“The Cold War was bookended by two articles: “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” (based on the “Long Telegram” ) in 1947 and the “Clash of Civilisations” in 1993. Both articles were published in the journal Foreign Affairs.”— THE SOURCES OF SOVIET CONDUCT http://www.historyguide.org/Europe/Kennan.html THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS 1) Summary https://www.beyondintractability.org/bksum/huntington-clash 2) Original Article (~28pp) The only copy of the original Foreign Affairs article that I can find is on Scribd, so publisher must be working hard to keep it off the internet. I’ll update this with 3) Book In our library.

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    (FB 1546007061 Timestamp) EMMANUEL TODD IN DEPTH: MARRIAGE DIFFERENCES MATTER – PERHAPS MOST OF ALL. https://www.samizdata.net/2013/11/first-thoughts-on-america-3-0-the-emmanuel-todd-connection/

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    (FB 1546014034 Timestamp) IP ABUSE OF THE DAY Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos by Alex Tabarrok —“NYTimes: Any creative illustration “fixed in a tangible medium” is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone’s skin. What many people don’t realize, legal experts said, is that the copyright is inherently owned by the tattoo artist, not the person with the tattoos.”— Some tattoo artists have sold their rights to firms which are now suing video game producers who depict the tattoos on the players likenesses: –“The company Solid Oak Sketches obtained the copyrights for five tattoos on three basketball players — including the portrait and area code on Mr. James — before suing in 2016 because they were used in the NBA 2K series. …Before filing its lawsuit, Solid Oak sought $819,500 for past infringement and proposed a $1.14 million deal for future use of the tattoos.”—- To avoid this shakedown, players are now being told to get licenses from artists before getting tattooed.

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    (FB 1546009856 Timestamp) THE DIVERGENCE OF ADVANCED NATIONS (TODD: –“I am a demographer”–, Which I hope illustrates my constant point that ‘demographics is everything’. ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yz4zUGlhK8

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    (FB 1546061288 Timestamp) JOHN MARK DOES THE USUAL EXCEPTIONAL JOB I had a sort of cringe reaction when someone forwarded this to me. But was pretty pleased overall. John is exactly the kind of front man we’ve been looking for.

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    (FB 1546037448 Timestamp) —“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, A religion without priests. A government without politicians. A market without ‘journalists’.