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  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    David Byrne: “Do you really think people are going to keep putting time and effort into this, if no one is making any money?” Which about sums it up. If writing becomes a folk art, with writers funded only by...
  • Commented on Baboon Fart Odyssey
    LOL!...
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    Nah, in the beginning was the loom....
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    iOS, I suppose, is evangelical protestantism, and Plan 9 is the Society of Friends?...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    What is it with libertarians? We live in a world in unregulated trading has crashed the global economy and still you ask for more data and more experiments. It is like climate denialism. Enough, already. Keynesian economics has passed numerous...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    Lose money fast! Buy Bitcoin! (And exclamation points.)...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    This post has gone viral, you know. And, I finally got around to croaking out some thoughts on the matter. They're up on my own blog, but here's a copy for you-all. It's troll's gold—a curse to the holder, and...
  • Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
    Croak!...
  • Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
    I cannot imagine anything more plain than that we need better rulers and leaders. This reality feeds all manner of insane politics. "Accelerationism is the notion that rather than halting the onslaught of capital, it is best to exacerbate its...
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    Heritage is a radical-right organization; you don't seem to be aware of it. Statistics presented in a way favorable to their politics is a normal part of their output....
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    The statistical method appears to be chosen to lead to an invalid conclusion: that there are more children of "rich" families than "poor" families in the military. This doesn't tally with my experience, and the questionable statistics strongly suggest that,...
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    It's income quintiles •by neighborhoods*--check out the original article. There are probably, literally, 100 times more poor neighborhoods than rich. The count of neighborhoods is, for some reason, inexplicable I'm sure, omitted from the original article. "Figures don't lie, but...
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    "using DoD data from 2007, 11% of recruits came from the poorest 20% of US neighborhoods. 25% came from the richest 20% of US neighborhoods." There are many more poor neighborhoods than rich. Therefore many more people from poor families...
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    I was in a very odd state of mind when I read this. When the cascade of thoughts it provoked finished, I found myself thinking, "He wants to be Norman Arminger. Or maybe they do." I think part of the...
  • Commented on The regular holy war ...
    I have this feeling we're all going to be using Chromium in another five years. http://www.jamierubin.net/2013/03/24/writing-with-the-google-chromebook/ Oh the humanity!...
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    "Oh, them, they haven't been briefed yet."--Henry Kissenger, after getting more security clearances. "Your point of view is that of an outside observer fed information from a press whose goal is to keep your attention long enough for you to...
  • Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
    This is, of course, a conservative argument and conservatives--real conservatives, not authoritarians who call themselves conservatives to expand their personal or class power--ought to pay attention. I don't see how any society can hold together without commitments on the part...
  • Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
    I'm going to cast this argument in somewhat different language. Let us say, rather, that in order to recreate a class system, a huge amount of effort has been spent to destroy the honor and loyalty of vast majority of...
  • Commented on Marking time, more thoughts
    Teh Google is not your friend in this subject, but the US Bureau of Labor Statistics is: Economic statistics for the USA: Emp/pop: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 In fact, it is not falling, but it is also not rising. Various measures of unemployment:...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    I think maybe Edward Snowden has something to say on this: “I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.” So does the monarchy perhaps turn cipherpunk? Or...
  • Commented on A Bad Dream
    I wrote up my thoughts on this in the USA 2.5 years ago, here: http://adviceunasked.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-poltical-parties-outcome.html Currently, I would say that the USA is governed by a coalition of conservative Democrats and Wall Street Republicans. It is very strong, but it...
  • Commented on How I feel this morning
    It seems likely that Google is shutting this down in an effort to push RSS traffic to Google Plus. But G+ doesn't do at all the same thing--broadly, to function as a newspaper on a table. I'm very struck by...
  • Commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
    Conflict in the Middle East and Central Asia, of course. Lots of food for corvids. Croak!...
  • Commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
    Surely universal surveillance is on the agenda: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy More climate disasters seem likely. Maybe more thoughts, later....
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