Well, yet again the government thinks that it can fix all its problems by giving people the illusion that they have more money. Thanks for the loan I’ll have to pay back in my taxes (or, worse, they will just inflate the currency to pay it out)! I think I might just mattress (yes, I’m using that as a verb) the money, or spend it on things one might need if we go into a depression, like long shelf-life food [...]
Back in my college days, Gabe and I were pretty good buddies. DeathNET was going strong, and we were having fun running it. You heard the legend of his downloading of 1.3TB of data, which got his internet disconnected in his dorm room. As a result of this, Gabe decided he was out to get the DCC, our computing department, which is portrayed as the Evil Department of Computing Syndicate in the following short I helped film: As you can [...]
This is awesome – I’m pretty sure it’s accurate as well. While Obama’s side might look “fair” to many people, I think it will encourage the affluent to leave the country or move their businesses offshore, as well as their investments. It is a plan that will force our exports to decrease and our imports to necessarily increase since there will be less domestic industry. It is Rand’s nightmare realized. This will lead to a dramatic cost of living increase, [...]
As Tucker Carlson said during tonight’s opening, many libertarians differ on certain issues. And with Jesse Ventura announcing his possible 2012 run for president, I’d like to see an internet-powered survey of all the members of the Campaign for Liberty. Perhaps in the next four years, we can prepare a few candidates that represent our disjunct views on libertarian values. I would like to see a site evolve where I can put in my views on tens to hundreds of [...]
I have recently been reading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, and in Chapter 11, Section 2, I found an interesting analysis of tariffs and how they actually hurt everyone except the special interest producer. In his hypothetical example, the consumers pay more for the products, there is less export of American currency to foreign countries, and therefore less export from America, and he even goes on in the following sections about wages decreasing as an effect of tariffs. [...]
One of the things I’m always hearing is how if you are allowed to have a gun in your car, road rage will involve a lot more shootings. I’ve never really believed it, and I decided to see how much the Google News Archives show for this type of story. There are around 40,000 stories that contain “road rage gun,” some of which can be seen here. I saw some interesting trends: There are three incidents on the linked page [...]
I ordered a first edition (1944 Doubleday) of John T. Flynn’s As We Go Marching, which is an interesting book I’m half-way through. I found a curious letter inside from one Andrew W. Wilson…
Oh man, what a day. I attended quite a few talks, grabbed a lot of swag, and entered a few contests. I ended up buying the Arduino Starter Kit from MAKE so I can do some awesome embedded Ruby like I saw at FOSCON. It looks really fun – I can’t wait to try it out. The talks I attended were half-way decent, but I learned a lot more on the first day. Hadoop and EC2 A good overview of [...]
Ayn Rand brings up an interesting point about Robin Hood in Atlas Shrugged. She argues that Robin Hood is remembered for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor based on need, and that this is not the correct way to think about the tale. Robin Hood indeed did rob from the rich and gave to the poor, but not because the poor simply needed money, but because the money had been stolen from them by the rulers. This [...]
As I’ve been reading various books, an idea keeps popping up. Suddenly radio playlists, MTV, and A&R guys aren’t the all-powerful gatekeepers anymore. At long last the music industry is becoming a democracy. In our governmental systems, we elect representatives to make decisions for us, sending them to Washington to write bills, oppose bills, pass bills, or veto bills. We ideally find candidates who will make similar decisions to those we ourselves would make. We elect them in a process [...]
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