http://mattbruenig.com/2012/07/21/us-wealth-mobility-in-one-chart/Hat tip to Dave Quick.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 01:15:00 UTC
http://mattbruenig.com/2012/07/21/us-wealth-mobility-in-one-chart/Hat tip to Dave Quick.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 01:15:00 UTC
JUST ROADSTERS – NO PRETENDERS
Just because you have two seats and a convertible top does not make you a roadster. A roadster is a four wheeled motorcycle. They are not overly powerful. They are not overly fast. They just FEEL fast and powerful because they’re small and light and you feel connected to both the car and the road. With the top down you are part of the great outdoors. And you FEEL it.
The list of available roadsters is:
ALFA ROMEO SPIDER
BMW Z4/Z8
FIAT BARCHETTA
GTM SPYDER
HONDA S2000
MAZDA MIATA
MG TF
PANOZ ESPERANTE
PORSCHE BOXSTER
GM SKY/SOLSTICE
TOYOTA MR2
TVR TAMORA/TUSCAN
WISEMANN RX
The Panoz, TVR and Wisemann are all cars I’d love to own. Although you dont really own great sports cars. You get lucky enough to hold onto a bit of automotive history for a few years before passing it on to someone else. Sort of like a the Stanley Cup or something. 🙂
CUTS:
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I cut the following because they may be sports cars, but they are not roadsters. You cannot take a coupe, give it a soft top, and call it a roadster. It’s a pretender.
CONVERTIBLE SPORTS CARS
AUDI TT
NISSAN Z
MERCEDES SL
LEXUS LFA
SPYKER SWB
ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE
CHEVROLET CORVETTE
DODGE VIPER
AUDI A8
TRACK CARS
SMART ROADSTER
TESLA ROADSTER
LOTUS ELISE
VAUXHALL VX220
YES! ROADSTERTRACK CARS
SMART ROADSTER
TESLA ROADSTER
LOTUS ELISE
VAUXHALL VX220
YES! ROADSTER
ANYTHING WITH EXTERIOR FRONT WHEELS.
MORGAN
CATERHAM
ALLARD
ATOM
BROOKE
WESTFIELD
VARIOUS SUPERCARS (ALL)
If you have a supercar it’s not a roadster. Its a sports car or an imitation race car. Although any number of ferraris I’m sure could make the cut.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 19:14:00 UTC
THE ONLY WAY TO KILL IDEOLOGY: IT”S REPRODUCTION SILLY
To demonstrate that all ideologies are justifications for attempts to acquire power that supports one’s reproductive strategy.
This is an intentionally loaded overstatement, perhaps, But it brings home the point that people vote by race, gender and class. They support their reproductive strategy.
Well, there is more to it you say.
Um. Not really. Not in the aggregate. Ideology is necessary only because of democracy. If instead, we had monarchies, and rigid property rights, then people would not have access to political power, and instead would be limited to economic power. And economic power can only be obtained through satisfying the wants of others – or by corporatism or alliance with the state.
Monarchy denies people access to power. Democracy simply is communism by slower means.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 16:09:00 UTC
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3082/why-do-humans-have-so-little-body-hairWHY DO HUMANS HAVE LITTLE BODY HAIR?
Because we can outrun every other animal on earth. And doing all that running requires a lot of heat dissipation. Humans just run prey until they are exhausted and kill them when it’s easy. Combine that with spears and not many creatures have a lot of chance. And besides. We spread with fish first and foremost. So take your fish oil. 🙂
(I can’t comment on Cecil’s site directly because Ukrainian IP’s are justifiably banned from commenting on a lot of blogs.) 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 10:48:00 UTC
CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : MASCULINE FEMININE RELATIONS
Ukrainian woman are probably the most prized in the world. Part of it’s genetics, and part of it’s culture, but the most important part is the female self image.
They see being feminine is power. Pretty much all of them. I won’t go into depth on the topic right now. I’m still working at understanding the behavior here. But it has a lot to do with the fact that women do not perceive themselves as weak. And because of this, there isn’t the same stratification by appearance and class that exists in the states and canada. It’s fascinating.
In mating rituals, I’ve had a few interesting observations so far.
1) In the states a marriage is a business partnership that hopefully has some sentimental content. This is partly an effect of our high trust society. We have been dating outside the family in northern europe for a thousand years. And the transient society and the melting pot, as well as the sexual liberation have changed the ritual into one that filters relationships over time, while preserving the option to exit easily.
Here, Men court women they don’t date them. It’s a pursuit. The depth of this isn’t really something I understood. Men chase women here and women decide. But men don’t sort of idly date a bunch of women. I mean, I’m exaggerating this a bit for effect but it’s the only way I can articulate it right now. Over time I’ll get better at it. Subtlety isn’t appreciated. It’s weakness. I guess that’s the best way I can manage to describe it. (I know that there is a book somewhere on how people think in the east. I have to find it. I’ve heard it mentioned but not it’s title or author yet.)
2) Women are much more mature at a much earlier age. (perhaps that’s true for both genders) But it’s much more obvious that women are at least ten years ahead of their western counterparts.
4) there is a shortage of men, and a shortage of economically productive men. But unlike in the states where a) you have a state that can be used to expropriate money from a man if you’re a woman and b) where there is a shortage of unproductive men in the lower classes, but lower class women can still earn enough to support themselves, women are still accountable for their mating decisions here. Which is something I don’t like about the western way of doing things. And the shortage of men increases the natural problem of fewer desirable men than desirable women in any given population. So the women work harder at it because a) they see it as power and b) they have greater competition.
3) The ‘Crazy’ factor that seems so prevalent in the west doesn’t see to exist here in anywhere near the same proportions. This is the part I find really fascinating. I want to understand it. It has something to do with the feeling of individual power instead of externally recognized status, and something to do with the fact that it is absolutely acceptable for a woman to vent emotions here ‘so that she can have a rational conversation’. And this is only possible because there is an agreement between men and women that this is how the world SHOULD operate and MUST operate.
4) I didn’t see it at first but the culture of white lies is absolutely insane. You literally cannot believe anything anyone says. Asia has the same problem. It prevents a high trust society from forming. And when you lived under governments that force you to lie, and force you into black markets, then of course you get certain norms. And these people have those norms.
Anyway. This is probably too amateurish a bit of opining. But I’d rather form my own opinions and then read the opinion of an authority. That way I can understand myself and my misjudgments better, than I would read an authority and see everything through that person’s lens, assuming that I possessed the same level of insight.
That would be unscientific. lol
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 10:34:00 UTC
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
–William Makepeace Thackeray
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 03:09:00 UTC
I thought I was done with owning exotics.
I was wrong. Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 02:39:00 UTC
http://s154.beta.photobucket.com/user/JDeHanes7/media/feministchick.jpg.htmlORIGINS OF THE COLLEGE LIBERAL CHICK MEME
(For the similarly curious. Cross Posted from Capitalism)
“The earliest known use of the original image was in a Blogspot[1] post where the woman is described as a “stupid hippie feminist grunge chick” on March 9th, 2007. According to the Photobucket[16] page where it was originally hosted, the photo may have been taken on October 1st, 2005. The first Quickmeme[2] submission was uploaded with the caption “’I’m against discrimination of any type’ / listens to rap music with lyrics about abusing women”[3] on December 23rd, 2011.”
PHOTOBUCKET
http://s154.beta.photobucket.com/user/JDeHanes7/media/feministchick.jpg.html
(I can’t see any way to confirm that this is the original)
FIRST BLOG
(has been deleted by Blogspot so I can’t confirm its use)
SOURCE
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/college-liberal
That’s all I can find….
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-05 12:37:00 UTC
http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/familism-in-the-u-s-whites-by-region/YES, NEW ENGLANDERS AND SOUTHERNERS ARE MORE FAMILIAL THAN NEW YORKERS AND WEST COASTERS.
As if any of us from the east needed confirmation.
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-05 11:51:00 UTC
I LOVE STARTUP MODE
Seriously. Why does anyone do anything other than start a business? 🙂 Sure. It’s manic. It’s chaos. The future is uncertain. It’s terribly risky. But it’s also under your control. It is what you make it.
I think this is actually business number nine, not number eight for me. I forgot one. The biggest mistake I made in the last decade (aside from divorcing my amazing wife) was in not leaving my last company when I first resigned in 2009. I could have done another business by now, and gotten it to maturity. And I would have been much happier in startup mode, than I was arguing with an investor who cost us half our revenues.
Well, that said. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to work with friends and this amazing talent that I’ve been lucky enough to find.
Enough celebration. Time for sleep. It was a long day. (Although I managed to get to the bakery for croissants this afternoon!)
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-04 17:21:00 UTC