Why on earth would one think that we could create an aristocratic society where everyone is an aristocrat? It’s a contradiction in terms.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 14:13:00 UTC
Why on earth would one think that we could create an aristocratic society where everyone is an aristocrat? It’s a contradiction in terms.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 14:13:00 UTC
“Down on the street, I interpret a lot of what Krugman says, to mean “make it/manufacture it/produce it it doesn’t matter if you can sell it for a profit or sell it at all, hell stash it in a warehouse until the aliens come, the idea of production is to transfer money to employees, not to sell things and make profit”. Shiit straight out of the old Soviet Union.”
-George White
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 13:14:00 UTC
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods.”
HEROISM
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 10:22:00 UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/technology/faa-nears-new-rules-on-devices.html?smid=fb-shareNO MORE BAN ON ELECTRONICS DURING TAKEOFF AND LANDING
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 08:31:00 UTC
(Silly) NEW GLASSES
Picked up my new computer-reading glasses. Round lenses. I love them.
Veronika says I look like an old professor. Sigh.
I don’t mind the professor part. But the “old” thing hurts a bit. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 08:14:00 UTC
WHY ISN’T REDISTRIBUTION SIMPLY CANNIBALISM?
Interesting.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 07:54:00 UTC
A MAN’S NEEDS
Ran across a kindred spirit over late breakfast. He has the same ‘gear’.
iPhone
Macbook Air
Jeans, Collared Shirt, V-neck sweater.
Leather Jacket.
Backpack.
Motorcycle or Roadster
Cash and Card
Manners, ethics, morals and a smile.
Basic understanding of money, history, science and logic.
Friends and Friends with Benefits
(prescriptions, toiletries, and of course, the proverbial towel)
Doesn’t take much really.
Possessions are both a prison, and the means by which the state controls you.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 06:51:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 05:15:00 UTC
TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
It’s a genetic benefit that’s gone too far. But I still cannot find similar work on it’s mirror effect: solipsism.
“Autism is an interesting phenomenon. Two books that I recommend on this subject are Thomas Sowell’s Late-Talking Children and Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy. To grossly oversimplify, it appears that clinical autism results from the same gene complexes that, in their less extreme form, result in introversion, a fascination with structure, and spatial reasoning skills. A genetic propensity for autism, like sickle-cell anemia, confers benefits to mild cases despite being maladaptive in its extreme form. Schizophrenia and Manic-Depression have been similarly linked to superior cognitive abilities, and it stands to reason that genes for any mental illness with a genetic component must confer some benefit, whether we understand it or not.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 01:04:00 UTC
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36242.htm
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-24 15:17:00 UTC