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  • ( law of customer service: it is better to fail with a customer and fix it than

    ( law of customer service: it is better to fail with a customer and fix it than it is to never fail. )


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-22 12:21:00 UTC

  • (the cops raided and took down my favorite torrent site – run by a proper ukrain

    (the cops raided and took down my favorite torrent site – run by a proper ukrainian guy who unfortunately made the mistake of using the same ip address to buy from itunes that he used to log into his servers. And they nabbed him in poland.

    Now, over here, pretty much everything is available online – and almost nothing in reality. So it’s not exactly an impediment to getting ahold of my favorite tv shows. (Mr Robot. Preacher.)

    But once again I’m thinking – why do we not limit copyright protection to charging money for it? I mean, creative commons is the best ip innovation since copyright was invented.

    But why do we give special license to hollywood when they are nothing more than agents of cultural marxism?

    You wanna defund the state? Defund the media.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-22 12:20:00 UTC

  • OK So I want to work more today. I really do. But …. the grey matter isn’t the

    OK So I want to work more today. I really do. But …. the grey matter isn’t there to work with. It’s just not.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-22 12:20:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM’S ADAPTATION TO PEACE AND WAR (important for new rig

    ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM’S ADAPTATION TO PEACE AND WAR

    (important for new right and alt-right)

    PEACE (disperse efforts – exchange and production )

    – Liberty (rule of law, natural law, universal standing and application)

    – Universalism

    – Marke Competition: Competition (reproduction, production), Commons Production (monopoly or market)

    – Insurance: Militia, Emergency Services, Hospital (care)

    – Voluntary organization of most.

    —VERSUS—

    WAR (concentrate efforts – force and destruction )

    – Illiberty (command)

    – Nationalism (genetic and cultural warfare)

    – Fascism ( economic, and legal warfare)

    – War (physical warfare)

    – Involuntary organization of most.

    THERE ARE NO STEADY STATES – We “FLEX” between liberty and fascism because we shift between peace and war.

    (Recent related posts on the temporary utility of Fascism as an extension of warfare into economic activity)

    WHAT DOES FASCISM MEAN?

    https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10154357209457264

    FASCISM’S PLACE IN THE GREAT GAME OF ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS

    https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10154366459612264


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-22 02:58:00 UTC

  • KAPLAN ON GEO STRATEGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yME6vWgVhQMROBERT KAPLAN ON GEO STRATEGY


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-22 02:35:00 UTC

  • WE ARE THE NEW RIGHT

    WE ARE THE NEW RIGHT


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-22 02:04:00 UTC

  • LIBERTINES AND SJW’S ALIKE Apparently, the technique of using cap-headlines on p

    LIBERTINES AND SJW’S ALIKE

    Apparently, the technique of using cap-headlines on posts is offensive to Rothbardians, who need a safe place – right next to the Social Justice Warriors – that is free of ratio-scientific argument, and where they can desperately cling to their collective suspension of disbelief free of threats that would contradict their self-worth-sustaining variation of right-Marxist ideology.

    Let me help you: incentives. While neither a commune without property or a Private Voluntary Society with property is possible for the same reasons: incentives. And why? Because with or without property (a) neither can hold territory from competitors, and so must be held as a ‘ghetto’ by a political entity that can, and (b) communes that depend on normative and institutional communism (rothbardian institutional communism), and communes that depend on normative, institutional, and propertied communism (marxist total communism), both lack sufficient incentives to survive competition from non-communist political orders.

    Why? Because private, common, normative, institutional, and territorial property is a competitive advantage.

    Rothbardianism is just normative and institutional communism, as a proposed subsitute for total communism.

    private property, shareholder property, common property, normative property, institutional property, territorial property: all groups need them to resist competition from other groups.

    There is no free ride, and no discount available on the range of capital one must protect in order to create liberty.

    We must protect ALL Property in ALL forms from parasitism and free riding if we are to create a polity capable of both the incentives to attract, and incentives to retain a population

    The age of wandering shepherds and merchants ended. We call those people vagrants, unassimilated immigrant underclasses, gypsies, diasporic financiers and traders: a spectrum of free riders (parasites) And they exist only with permission of the hosts that DO pay the high costs of protecting private, shareholder, common, normative, institutional, and territorial property.

    Humans organize. That the kind of people attracted to rothbardianism are those who are less desirable to organize with is the explanation of why they find the idea of an ‘organization’ which asks no common costs of its members. That does not mean these same people can form a polity capable of competitive survival even by incentives to join and stay. It is still preferable to live in a city or the country instead of (costly) suburbia – which is why people do it.

    Now, we can construct a contractual society on the anglo model, which creates a market for relationships, a market for private property, a market for shareholder property, a market for commons, and a market for warriors to defend the commons, all within a monopoly we call natural law.

    And in this system all property is private. But one cannot escape paying for the construction and maintenance of that society even if that society is constructed for the thorough suppression of free riding on material goods and services.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-21 23:12:00 UTC

  • At the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a total population of nearly 29

    —At the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a total population of nearly 290 million, and a Gross National Product estimated at about $2.5 trillion. At that time, the United States had a total population of nearly 250 million, with a Gross Domestic Product of about $5.2 trillion. That is, the population of the United States was smaller than that of the Soviet Union, with an economy that was more than twice that of the Soviet Union. A quarter of a century later, Russia’s population is about 140 million, with a GDP of about $1.3 trillion, while the population of the United States is over 300 million, with a GDP of $13 trillion. Today, the population of the United States is twice that of Russia, and the US economy is ten times as large.—

    Now, right now, as far as I know it’s still over 2T. so a lot can happen in a short time. But the author’s point is that projecting power as a great power is freaking expensive, and requries a large population, and the russian economy doesn’t have it.

    It’s pretty hard really to form a power block with <1B people now.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-21 13:23:00 UTC

  • WHY WILL FIAT CURRENCY ALWAYS EXIST? The truth is that fiat currency is such an

    WHY WILL FIAT CURRENCY ALWAYS EXIST?

    The truth is that fiat currency is such an advantage that a people cannot compete without it.

    Competing currencies and commodities exist but they are not anywhere near as price stabilized as fiat money CAN be.

    So we are always going to have it. Probably digital will replace it and it will have to because the abuse of it has gotten out of hand.

    What real purpose does government debt serve over simply printing money and paying with it?

    You pay the price of interest in order to delay the equlibrial neutrality of money working through the economy.

    In other words, the faster new money moves the faster prices in the existing cycle of production adjust.

    Fast adjustment is bad if it interferes with production ( planning ) cycles.

    So instead we pay interest and sell government debt so that we inflate away the interest at about the same rate that prices adjust in the economy.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-21 13:07:00 UTC

  • MUST BE A FULL MOON. (I have a handful of windows open all asking about relation

    MUST BE A FULL MOON.

    (I have a handful of windows open all asking about relationship advice.)

    COST

    Men are emotinally expensive for women, just like women are economically expensive for men.

    CHOICES

    Women are not ‘looser’ than they were in the past, only than in the recent past. What they are is more economically indpendent and men are less valuable to them. Moreover we are now forming relationships largely on shared entertainment interests rather than shared economic necessity. So men are less valuable. So what has occurred is that both sexes are using current economic conditions (that are changing rapidly) to be more selective if they have options, and more impulsive if they don’t.

    JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU

    She’s just not that into you. He’s just not that into you.

    Gender doesn’t matter. It works the same, both ways.

    You can try as hard as you want. But once you figure out that he or she is not as into you as you are into him or her, you’ve found a pretty serious problem.

    Because it will only get worse. Relationships wax and wane. And unless there is enough attraction, the weak parts create easy points of failure. And the person with the lowest interest is the one who will break.

    Both women and men excel at wishful thinking.

    But you can’t wish people to feel other than they do.

    And if you must work hard for their attention, over time, then you will get less and less of it. Not only because they will be less responsive to your desires, but because you will be less willing to work for that attention.

    It is what it is.

    Relationships are only useful for very short romance, or very long security. The middle ground is always disappointing.

    Find someone you want to be with for the long haul.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-21 12:37:00 UTC