( might have to do more testing but apparently Absolut vodka doesn’t set off sulfite problems. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-01 08:33:00 UTC
( might have to do more testing but apparently Absolut vodka doesn’t set off sulfite problems. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-01 08:33:00 UTC
Actually. Wanna do the world violent good? Spend a year researching some scumbag in your free time, and figuring out how to end his reign of scumbagism. And do something about it either above board or below.
Even if you did only one scumbag every two or three years, over the course of your lifetime you would change the world dramatically for the better.
Get your testosterone and anger out in sports or the gym. Never discuss your hobby.
Every man a warrior. Every man a Sheriff. Every man a Judge.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-01 04:48:00 UTC
Q&A: “CAN I BECOME A ‘MR WOLF?” JAMES BOND DOESN”T EXIST EITHER
—“in the movie Pulp Fiction there is a character played by Harvey Keitel who is referred to as the Wolf. Excepting the blatantly illegal stuff, how would a guy go about making himself this “fountain of utility” to men of sufficient power who require such an option?”—
These men exist in law, public relations, finance, business, and politics. In business there is an entire class of CEO’s who ‘turnaround’ (clean up and sell) failed businesses. There are PR people who help actors and public people recover their images. In ever sector there are ‘cleaners’. We had a guy in my company that recovered blown customers who were mad at us. Some project managers specialize in project recovery. Some technologists in technology recovery. Some engineers who rescue ships. Some doctors who specialize in trauma.
Where these people do not really exist, just like ‘hit men’ do not exist, is in the lower classes, where such things are to reality what myths are to reality: illustrations that we learn from.
The evidence is in that the government doesn’t use spies it uses special forces to kill people. That there are no ‘cleaners’ in crime other than borderline lawyers. That there are few if any ‘hit men’,. Those that do exist are very rare, lead very bad lives, and are not someone you can seek to become. And moreover that the men who do usually kill are merely throwaways, and usually the dumbest guy that they can find, who they have the least regret in offing in order to preserve silence.
The reason is that such people would be caught unless they were employed by an organization with sufficient work for them. And organizations of any scale have been under assault by the FBI since the 1930’s and particularly since the 1960’s.
And moreover the economics prohibit it. Underground activity suppresses the option of scale by reputation. Above ground activity facilitates scale by reputation. Anonymity requires rather small organizations free of ‘leaking’. This means that a ‘market’ for services like those of ‘the cleaner’ do not exist. In fact, if we look at the data, the series CSI has done more to educate criminals in how to operate cleanly than any individual ever has.
There is a longstanding tradition in hollywood to place middle class characters in lower class roles, and equally to place lower class characters in upper middle or upper class roles. This technique is always an interesting device for creating mythical characters.
So, the way to do this is to literally study any area of inquiry and to learn to specialize in recovering failures rather than creating innovations.
The Pinkerton organization does the closest to this kind of work on a professional and above board basis. They both act as corporate spies and they prevent corporate spying. (I have used them in the distant past both to conduct ‘research’ – espionage – and to prevent it. And it’s very common in R&D and legal organizations to do so.)
Now, as a confession, I have taken down organizations run by:
a) Elliot and Robert Koenig (racketerring), b) Stephen Golub (wire fraud), c) Wayne Seminoff (tax evasion), and now d) Rothbardianism(deception) (all jewish names you might note) for illegal or immoral activity. And there was a time that I considered making a career out of it because it suited my autistic hyper moralism and subconscious need for revenge. And that was why I joined the Justice department for a very short time.
But I decided that I would rather not spend my life around bad people because it tended to make me angry, and I don’t particularly like hanging around scumbags and getting angry about it.
So such things CAN be done. They are just not done at low levels of sophistication. they are done at high levels of sophistication.
Reading a few rudimentary books on the ACTUAL operation of the law is pretty useful. After that you study how to recover projects that have failed. then just a little accounting. And then how to win friends and influence people.
Then the trick is going and looking for the dirt. If you start looking for dirty people in this world it won’t take you that long to find them. 🙂
Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-01 04:42:00 UTC
I need jack daniels. maybe vodka (Absolut). thank god there are good people here who will share hugs in an hour lol.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-31 16:20:00 UTC
Q&A: “CURT: HOW ARE WE NOT WEALTHIER THAN CAVE MEN?”
—“we are not wealthier than cave men, we have made all goods and services infinitely cheaper through cooperation in a division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy.”—
—“I obviously understand how a division of labor leads to higher productivity and more opportunities experienced by people, but I would think that’d still make each of us wealthier than cavemen.”—
Rhetorical device to draw attention to the fact that our only existential wealth is time. And through cooperation we have radically increased the purchasing power of time, by radically increasing our productivity through a division of knowledge and labor.
This statement illustrates better than any other that I have found, that we cannot increase the inventory of time (much), but we can dramatically increase the caloric transformation of the universe for our benefit by working in complex cooperative arrangements.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-31 16:18:00 UTC
Q&A: —“Curt, what are commons in the framework of propertarianism? How are they constructed, and what advantages do they confer?”—
Property: that which I bear costs to obtain without imposing cost upon that which others have born costs to obtain.
Shareholder Property: That which I have born cost to obtain an interest in without imposing costs upon that which others have born costs to obtain an interest, but which I may not privatize, wherein the property ownership is articulated, and non-transferrable without group permission.
Common property: That which I have born cost to obtain an interest in without imposing costs upon that which others have born costs to obtain an interest, but which I may not privatize, wherein the property ownership is weakly articulated and is transferrable through reproduction to one’s offspring and mates.
Property en toto: referring to that which people demonstrate acting to obtain without imposing costs upon that which others have acted to obtain, and for which they demonstrate retaliation for imposition of costs upon. This includes but is not limited to: life, kin, mates, physical, normative, traditional, and institutional assets.
Positive/Negative Costs: While some physical assets are purchased through direct payment (positive costs), some assets are purchased through indirect payment that we call ‘restraint’ or ‘deprivation’ or ‘forgone opportunity for consumption’ (negative costs).
Homesteading of Opportunities produced by the commons is permissible (competition), but transfer of assets already homesteaded requires productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of imposition of costs upon the property en toto of others by externality.
THE LOGICAL INVERSION
As people congregate and develop normative institutions they are able to develop increasingly dense common property which in turn produces lower cost opportunities.
“we are not wealthier than cave men, we have made all goods and services infinitely cheaper through cooperation in a division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor and advocacy.”
Hence collections of people create discounts on opportunities (time) which are then open to identification (experimentation) and homesteading (transformation), into private property, which may then be consumed, inventoried, or invested in the commons.
Getting one’s head around the fact that we improve rates of everything in time, and that we cannot know truth only falsehoods, and that we pay for commons both directly via payment or indirectly by forgone opportunities is a sort of inversion of the way we look at history. So it may seem counter intuitive at first until we grasp that time is our only existential asset and that the division of labor eliminates switching costs in exchange for increased productivity. And that the principle value of population density is the cheapness with which opportunities are constructed. And that the principle value of property rights is to reduce transaction costs in the process of production that we call cooperation in a division of labor.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-31 12:54:00 UTC
EXAMPLES?
—Curt, can you give me some examples of immoral behaviors that would be permitted under rothbardianism that would be suppressed under propertarianism?—
Great question.
The classical example is blackmail – which while voluntary (a) is not productive, (b) incentivizes retaliation, and (c) constitutes a conspiracy against others or the commons.
In order for cooperation to be rational it must consist of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer of property en toto, free of imposition of costs against property en toto by externality. Blackmail is objectively immoral (a disincentive to cooperation, and a privatization – theft – of the commons of ‘cooperation’). We don’t tend to think of the stock of trust as an asset but it is one of our most influential in the production of economic velocity and therefore prosperity.
Cheers
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-31 07:14:00 UTC
DIVORCED TODAY
Apparently I am now divorced from my marriage of convenience and am again a free agent.
Cost in America? 5 million.
Cost in Ukraine? 5 hundred.
And you wonder why I hate American government?
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-31 04:27:00 UTC
What are your thoughts on this (when you have time)?
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-30 20:47:00 UTC
—“Man must make money. Woman must be beautiful.”– Ukrainian proverb.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-30 15:59:00 UTC