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  • I admit. And proud of it. Atheneum. Boston MFA. MOMA

    http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/12-stories-of-sex-in-museums.htmlGuilty, I admit. And proud of it. Atheneum. Boston MFA. MOMA.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 23:30:00 UTC

  • “Most small businesses are pass-through businesses. A pass-through business is a

    –“Most small businesses are pass-through businesses. A pass-through business is a type of business where the owner pay the tax on his or her individual income tax return. According to 2011 Census data, pass-through businesses employ 55.3 percent of the private sector work force of 119 million people. This represents approximately 65.8 million workers and business owners.

    Employment by pass-through businesses varies by state. However, pass-through businesses employ most of the private sector workforce in 48 states. In eight states, pass-through businesses account for more than 60 percent of employment. Pass-through businesses employ 67.9 percent of the private work force in Montana, 64.7 percent in South Dakota, and 64 percent in Idaho.

    Hawaii (48 percent) and Delaware (49.5 percent) are the only states where corporations employ more workers than pass-through businesses.”–


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 17:23:00 UTC

  • I’ve been frequently chastised for being an aristocratic relic. But I can’t in m

    I’ve been frequently chastised for being an aristocratic relic. But I can’t in my life recall being called peasant before. lol


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 16:14:00 UTC

  • is a political pejorative applied to any economic policy that someone doesn’t li

    http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-austerity-in-economics-and-economic-policy/answer/Erik-Fair?srid=u4Qv&share=1—“Austerity” is a political pejorative applied to any economic policy that someone doesn’t like, e.g. anything that reduces Social Welfare payments which a government cannot afford, or that results in more competition for cosseted political groups like Labor Unions.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 14:54:00 UTC

  • IS PHILOSOPHY EMPTY? (from elsewhere) I can answer this question I think, as wel

    IS PHILOSOPHY EMPTY?

    (from elsewhere)

    I can answer this question I think, as well or better than anyone living.

    1) Rationalism and justification were dead ends. Theory and criticism have replaced rationalism and justification. We can justify contract, and therefore moral action, but we cannot justify truth. We can construct proofs of internal consistency, but never justification.

    2) As far as I know the analytic method survives as a form of well-structuring criticism, but the promise of analytic philosophy was a dead end: it’s entirely tautological.

    3) We can theorize by whatever means we choose, from unstructured free association to formal deduction. But theories must survive criticism. Philosophy remains an exceptional vehicle for theorizing while reducing errors. Therefore as a means of criticism philosophy is not empty.

    4) While, in philosophy, we have constructed:

    (a) the logic of identity

    (b) the logic of naming (including counting)

    (c) the logic of ratios (mathematics)

    (d) the logic of causality (physics)

    (e) the logic of language (‘logic as we use it’);

    we failed to complete:

    (f) the logic of existence (operationalism/operatio­nism/intuitionism/action­/e-prime)

    (g) the logic of cooperation (morality)

    (h) that truth must be testimonial (performed), and that all other use of analogy to testimonial truth, is an a subset of testimonial truth, limited to properties of the logic we use for criticism (a thru g).

    As far ask I know (and I work on this problem) can be completed since at present I am fairly confident that the logics of existence and cooperation, and the definition of truth have been solved. This means that philosophy is not empty, just that it took us a very long time to grasp its function as critical: most likely because moral argument is justificationary, and truth and morality are very different things. 🙂

    – Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 12:58:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere)(libertine idiots) HHH; Listen “Doolittle” (or whatever your rea

    (from elsewhere)(libertine idiots)

    HHH;

    Listen “Doolittle” (or whatever your real name is), I suggest you listen to your superiors. I have learned nothing from your insipid comments. Know your place in line peasant.

    Curt Doolittle:

    lol. You will find no Libertarian philosopher able to debate me. Hans included. (I know this.) I have no superiors in political philosophy. I desperately seek mere equals. It’s my real name. And my family has been in the lesser aristocracy for recorded northern European history back to the eleventh century.

    And yes I am taunting you for your insipid criticism.

    Curt Doolittle

    BTW: Hoppe never advocates violence. Ever. He recommends nothing more radical than homeowner’s agreements commonly do, but that such prohibitions are unlimited: any reason for ostracization at all. He states that if people must be physically removed from an area, that this is also a choice. Removal, ostracization, and boycott are not the same as causing physical harm or depriving one of property or engaging in fraud, or any other form of parasitism. It prevents individuals from gaining the benefit of participation in a partnership(contract) without paying the requisite behavioral costs of membership in that partnership (contract).

    Misrepresenting Hoppe is easy. Most criticisms of hist work are nonsensical or trivial errors in understanding the properties of his terminology.

    Rather than such trivialities, his errors are limited to fairly deep philosophical problems caused by (a) his justificationary dependence upon kantian apriorism, and his failure to convert his arguments from aprioristic, justificationary and rationalist, to theoretical, critical and scientific; and (b) his failure to identify that property is a positive assertion of a negative prohibition (parasitism) necessary for the rational choice of cooperation over predation – and that the creative application of philosophy he is most proud of (argumentation) is a mere legalism (justifcation), not one of rational choice (incentives). That this is a contradiction seems to have escaped him. He assumes too much of man. The only means by which we can eliminate the state is to eliminate demand for the state. To eliminate demand for the state, the common law must provide means of resolving conflict arising from all forms of parasitism that humans seek to retaliate against. By adopting argumentation and intersubjectively verifiable property, he justifies levantine low trust ethics which demonstrably increase demand for the state. Instead, to eliminate demand for the state, requires a the total prohibition on the imposition of costs (parasitism) and the alleviation of all means of conflict over which we retaliate. This produces the high trust society, the civic society, and the maximum possible economic velocity for any polity because it disallows all possible parasitism whether private or public. Hayek didn’t quite figure it out, even if he understood that the organic common law and a constitution enumerating property rights, was necessary for the construction of liberty.

    Cheers.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 12:26:00 UTC

  • SMALL VARIATIONS IN IQ MATTER —“A decrease in the average IQ of just under 5 p

    SMALL VARIATIONS IN IQ MATTER

    —“A decrease in the average IQ of just under 5 points doubles the number of retardates (IQ less than 70), and cuts in half the number of gifted (IQ over 130). Furthermore, Herrnstein and Murray found that when they moved the average IQ down statistically by just 3 points, from 100 to 97, all social problems were exacerbated: the number of women chronically dependent on welfare increased by 7%; illegitimacy increased by 8%; men interviewed in jail increased by 12%; and the number of permanent high school dropouts increased by nearly 15%.”—

    Dysgenia matters. Liberty requires ability.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 00:44:00 UTC

  • I SAID: THE BLOCKCHAIN IS A GREAT REGISTRY OF PROPERTY. (and divisible shares ar

    http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/shocard-is-a-digital-identity-card-on-the-blockchain/LIKE I SAID: THE BLOCKCHAIN IS A GREAT REGISTRY OF PROPERTY.

    (and divisible shares are limited in their use as currency)


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-05 23:45:00 UTC

  • OBVIOUS DEPARTMENT: SALESFORCE

    OBVIOUS DEPARTMENT: SALESFORCE

    http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-might-want-salesforce-2015-5


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-05 16:52:00 UTC

  • General George Doolittle, b. June 14, 1759, Wallingford, Conn., where his parent

    General George Doolittle, b. June 14, 1759, Wallingford, Conn., where his parents resided for a few years and then ret. to Middletown. He m. 1783, Grace Wetmore, b. Dec. 3, 1766, Middletown, Conn., dau of Capt. Amos Wetmore and Rachel Parsons.

    George Doolittle, at the age of seventeen enlisted , 1776, as a private in Capt. Churchill’s Co., Col. Comfort Sage’s Reg., Gen. Wadsworth’s Brigade, raised in June to reinforce Gen. Washington at N.Y., and which retreated Sept. 15, from the city; time expired Dec. 25, 1776. On Jan. 1, 1777, he enlisted in the company of Capt. David Humphrey, under Col. Return Jonathan Meigs; enlisted again April 7, 1777, for six weeks’ service at Peekskill. On May 1, 1778, he enlisted “for the war” in the 6th Reg. Conn. Line (Regulars), Col. Meigs, and served till 1783.

    In 1786 he followed his father-in-law to Whitestown and at the first town meeting, Apr. 7, 1789, he was chosen commissioner of highways. For many years he was supervisor. On Apr. 1, 1793, a meeting was held to organize a religious society and he was named on the committee. In 1800 the first brigade of militia of all the new part of New York was organized and he was commissioned Brigadier General, though others in that settlement had been commissioned officers in the Rev. Army. he was a mem. of the N.Y. Legislature, and served in the War of 1812. He was a ruling elder in the Presby. ch. He was stricken in the night with apoplexy and died Feb. 21, 1825. The widow d. Aug. 27, 1836. There were twelve children.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-05 14:10:00 UTC