2001 to 2007, 3M-4M Units per year. (Steady)
2009 increases to 5.6M units.
2010 maintains 5.6M units.
2012 spikes to 8.6 million units.
2013 a record 10.8 million units.
In other words, the consumption of guns has tripled under Obama.
(ATF Data)
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-09 13:38:00 UTC
—“good jokes offend someone”–Taleb
Jokes : the production of chemical reward for unexpected free associations.
Hierarchy:
1-Jokes that improve relations reduce separateness between group members.
2-Jokes that bind members and increase separateness between group members and non members.
3-Jokes that bind members and increase relative status increase trust.
Jokes are gifts of chemical exchanges of rewards for increasing group cohesion.
So technically speaking, Nassim is correct. Good jokes – that is jokes that offend others and increase binding among group members – are more valuable and therefore better than those that do not.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 04:45:00 UTC
GHANA AS A INSTRUCTION ON THE VIRTUES OF UNIVERSAL LOVE
I have learned more that is more important to my understanding of the virtues of christianity by listening in on the debate among the Ghanians than I have from any other formal research. If I compare that to the debate in Islamic, Russian and Sinic societies, it is light years of difference. The debate is hindu society is interesting, and I see them beginning to catch up in small clusters. And I expect it to spread virulently in the educated classes. But there is a great difference between the vast size and power of the hindu empire, and the challenges facing Ghanians and Ukrainians who have vast evils on their borders, and institutionalized corruption that they must struggle against.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 02:48:00 UTC
http://t.co/8tv9Z0GtKuObvious.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-07 17:47:00 UTC
https://www.astonmartin.com/en/live/news/2015/03/03/aston-martin-dbx-concept-challenges-conventionDAMN. ASTON MARTIN DID IT.
The car industry is slow. And really, not very good at design. Cars should be designed by crowdsource whenever possible.
A few years ago, a small company crowdsourced the design of a rally car. And it looks like a Camaro.
Now if we can get the existing Camaro in AWD, a 2″ Lift, and Oversized Tires, the car gods will have spoken.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-07 03:34:00 UTC
[T]he USA’s budget consists roughly of 1/3 defense, 1/3 mandatory payments (Social Security and Medicaid) and 1/3 discretionary payments (everything else).
We finance 1/3 (the military), and inflate it away. The world pays for our military through indirect taxation on the price of oil bought in dollars. This was the invention that the Nixon administration achieved with the Petro-Dollar and it was how we were able to run up the credit to defeat world communism under Reagan.
So technically speaking, 1/2 is discretionary, 1/2 is for redistribution, and the remainder – the military – is effectively free.
Possessing this knowledge radically alters your perception of the world.
It is why Iran wants nuclear weapons – to control oil, and to create a bourse, and to capture that ability to tax currency for itself.
Sophisticated people in the world are not stupid, nor necessarily selfish. They merely take advantage of stupid people.
[T]he USA’s budget consists roughly of 1/3 defense, 1/3 mandatory payments (Social Security and Medicaid) and 1/3 discretionary payments (everything else).
We finance 1/3 (the military), and inflate it away. The world pays for our military through indirect taxation on the price of oil bought in dollars. This was the invention that the Nixon administration achieved with the Petro-Dollar and it was how we were able to run up the credit to defeat world communism under Reagan.
So technically speaking, 1/2 is discretionary, 1/2 is for redistribution, and the remainder – the military – is effectively free.
Possessing this knowledge radically alters your perception of the world.
It is why Iran wants nuclear weapons – to control oil, and to create a bourse, and to capture that ability to tax currency for itself.
Sophisticated people in the world are not stupid, nor necessarily selfish. They merely take advantage of stupid people.
(Taking on this project is one of those things I want to do. But it’s a timing problem. Crossed fingers for the future.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-04 11:34:00 UTC
http://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-to-work-for-putins-internet-troll-army-1695391818WORKING FOR RUSSIA’S TROLL ARMY
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-03 16:29:00 UTC
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-houseTHE WELL PAID ARMY OF RUSSIAN TROLLS
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-03 15:56:00 UTC