"I
have no child for whom I could wish to make a provision-no family to
build in greatness upon my Country's ruins." --Washington
I am mystified by our anxiety over Nazis. Maybe Nazism is caused by the Zika virus.
And Nazis remind us of White Walkers in GoT so.....GoT's 8th season will each be shorter than “Game of Thrones” seasons were in the past — the final season will be only six episodes. It’s also expected that Season 8, like Season 7, will begin in late summer in order to allow for an increased amount of time filming in the snow.
And White Walkers remind us of the United States War Against the Dead. There were several demonstrations against statues of dead people over the weekend.
--Taibbi
There are more passive ETFs than stocks. Vanguard has just launched an ETF of their ETFs. Read that again.
A college student is in class about 15 hours a week. Do they study another 25 to work 40 hours a week like their parents who are paying for it?
Here is an interesting take on the Iran Sanctions: As with many of the U.S. sanctions, the overall effect on the Iranian economy is to weaken portions of that economy that are outside the regime and to strengthen the regime's influence over other parts, including the economic activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
What is...the Mills and Factory Act?
On a well ordered society, by Hayek: "A Great Society has nothing to do with, and is in fact irreconcilable with ‘solidarity’ in the true sense of unitedness in the pursuit of known common goals. If we all occasionally feel that it is a good thing to have a common purpose with our fellows, and enjoy a sense of elation when we can act as members of a group aiming at common ends, this is an instinct which we have inherited from tribal society and which no doubt often still stands us in good stead whenever it is important that in a small group we should act in concert to meet a sudden emergency. It shows itself conspicuously when sometimes even the outbreak of war is felt as satisfying a craving for such a common purpose; and it manifests itself most clearly in modern times in the two greatest threats to a free civilization: nationalism and socialism.
Most of the knowledge on which we rely in the pursuit of our ends is the unintended by-product of others exploring the world in different directions from those we pursue ourselves because they are impelled by different aims; it would never have become available to us if only those ends were pursued which we regarded as desirable. To make it a condition for the membership of a society that one approved of, and deliberately supported, the concrete ends which one’s fellow members serve, would eliminate the chief factor which makes for the advancement of such a society."
This is no better shown than by science which advances in crab steps.
A Bay Area startup that promised to give music lovers state-of-the-art wireless earphones is instead closing its doors, becoming the latest in a string of crowd-funded companies to take customers' money and shut down without shipping a product. San Francisco-based Kanoa ran out of capital and shut down this week, leaving in the lurch scores of customers who paid $150 or more to pre-order high-tech earphones they never received.
"...it cannot be shown with purely conceptual analysis that markets do not handle externalities: any such assertion necessitates an assumption that the government can do better. That this assumption is valid cannot be proved analytically, and it follows that market failure is an essentially normative judgment.--Dahlman
On August 28, 1941, SS General Franz Jaeckeln marched more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews to bomb craters at Kamenets Podolsk, ordered them to undress, and riddled them with machine-gun fire.
According to New York Magazine, the Russian subdivision of Burger King has launched its own cryptocurrency, the Whoppercoin. Reports suggest that the Whoppercoin will be accepted as payment at Burger Kings across Russia... Burger King has reportedly issued one billion Whoppercoin tokens to date, though it is possible that there will be more to come.
Very exciting but I don't see how much it differs from airline miles or green stamps.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/08/cab-thoughts-82113.html
I am mystified by our anxiety over Nazis. Maybe Nazism is caused by the Zika virus.
And Nazis remind us of White Walkers in GoT so.....GoT's 8th season will each be shorter than “Game of Thrones” seasons were in the past — the final season will be only six episodes. It’s also expected that Season 8, like Season 7, will begin in late summer in order to allow for an increased amount of time filming in the snow.
And White Walkers remind us of the United States War Against the Dead. There were several demonstrations against statues of dead people over the weekend.
--Taibbi
There are more passive ETFs than stocks. Vanguard has just launched an ETF of their ETFs. Read that again.
A college student is in class about 15 hours a week. Do they study another 25 to work 40 hours a week like their parents who are paying for it?
Here is an interesting take on the Iran Sanctions: As with many of the U.S. sanctions, the overall effect on the Iranian economy is to weaken portions of that economy that are outside the regime and to strengthen the regime's influence over other parts, including the economic activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
What is...the Mills and Factory Act?
On a well ordered society, by Hayek: "A Great Society has nothing to do with, and is in fact irreconcilable with ‘solidarity’ in the true sense of unitedness in the pursuit of known common goals. If we all occasionally feel that it is a good thing to have a common purpose with our fellows, and enjoy a sense of elation when we can act as members of a group aiming at common ends, this is an instinct which we have inherited from tribal society and which no doubt often still stands us in good stead whenever it is important that in a small group we should act in concert to meet a sudden emergency. It shows itself conspicuously when sometimes even the outbreak of war is felt as satisfying a craving for such a common purpose; and it manifests itself most clearly in modern times in the two greatest threats to a free civilization: nationalism and socialism.
Most of the knowledge on which we rely in the pursuit of our ends is the unintended by-product of others exploring the world in different directions from those we pursue ourselves because they are impelled by different aims; it would never have become available to us if only those ends were pursued which we regarded as desirable. To make it a condition for the membership of a society that one approved of, and deliberately supported, the concrete ends which one’s fellow members serve, would eliminate the chief factor which makes for the advancement of such a society."
This is no better shown than by science which advances in crab steps.
A Bay Area startup that promised to give music lovers state-of-the-art wireless earphones is instead closing its doors, becoming the latest in a string of crowd-funded companies to take customers' money and shut down without shipping a product. San Francisco-based Kanoa ran out of capital and shut down this week, leaving in the lurch scores of customers who paid $150 or more to pre-order high-tech earphones they never received.
"...it cannot be shown with purely conceptual analysis that markets do not handle externalities: any such assertion necessitates an assumption that the government can do better. That this assumption is valid cannot be proved analytically, and it follows that market failure is an essentially normative judgment.--Dahlman
On August 28, 1941, SS General Franz Jaeckeln marched more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews to bomb craters at Kamenets Podolsk, ordered them to undress, and riddled them with machine-gun fire.
According to New York Magazine, the Russian subdivision of Burger King has launched its own cryptocurrency, the Whoppercoin. Reports suggest that the Whoppercoin will be accepted as payment at Burger Kings across Russia... Burger King has reportedly issued one billion Whoppercoin tokens to date, though it is possible that there will be more to come.
Very exciting but I don't see how much it differs from airline miles or green stamps.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/08/cab-thoughts-82113.html
steeleydock.blogspot.com
The big thieves hang the little ones. -Czech proverb A National
Institute of Occupational Safety and Health study took 111 samples a...
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Colin Mcgregor invented a style/event and pushed it through personality, ferocity and promotion to a boxing match with one of history's greatest boxers. He got beat but he was not really a boxer so there is no real defeat. And he walks away with $100 million. He is athletics' Kim Kardashian.
New York’s 46 Success Academy schools are non-profit, public schools. They are Charter Schools. Students are selected by lottery — not aptitude. With 46 schools and 15,500 students this year, the Success Academy network is now the size of the state’s 7th largest school district. On this year’s state exams, 95% of Success students passed math and 84% passed [English] — making Success #1 for student achievement in New York State. Citywide, just 29% of the kids of color (and 61% of the white kids) passed the English test — versus 83% of the kids of color at Success Academy schools. In math, the results were even a little more dramatic.
"No more Trump,
No more wall,
No more USA at all!"
No more USA? This was the chant of masked men and women at the University of Berkley, armed with clubs, attacking people and fighting with police. These guys with intense hatred of the country lie under the radar and the rocks until a new pseudo-cause arises. The presumed cause is never the same--war, racism, equality, diversity, Wall Street--but the underlying cause is always the same: disruption of the country with some vague restructuring. The subjects here are many (if things are so bad, why are you here when there are so many options? what are your replacement plans? why the masks? are these just people with bad medical histories?...the list is endless) They got little coverage--I think because they reflect so badly on the Left--but they will have their own gravity, attracting society's loose ends and will grow like a kidney stone. This will not play well in communities with real jobs and responsibilities. It is amazing the Left survives these self-inflicted wounds. Or is the Left the new zombie?
“There are certain harms that are nonactionable and offense is one of them. If I say something that you find duly offensive, you may protest, you may speak—but what you may not do is to sue me in order to silence me, or to get compensation from me.” Counterspeech is “the appropriate ‘remedy’ under these circumstances; suppressing speech is not.”--Richard Epstein
An
anti-bullfighting activist jumped into the arena in Carcassone,
southern France, on Sunday and was promptly attacked by one of the
animals he wants to protect, local police said.
The
Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice
Department on Aug. 17 related to work the firm completed between 2012
and 2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank.
Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well. (Wash Ex)
These people are on their own side first.
I watched Maria Sharapova win her first match in the U.S. Open. It is hard to like the dopers but, for some reason, there is something positive about her. Really quite an achievement, regardless. I hope my blanket dismissal of people like this is not like the Left's blanket dismissal of people with faults.
The film and novel titled The Year of Living Dangerously
was inspired by a major 1964 speech by Indonesian Founding Father
Sukarno and was drawn from Italian leader Mussolini’s slogan “Live
Dangerously,” which was originally penned by 19th-century Germany
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Two
protesters, a man and a woman, were in the audience before managing to
make their way into the main ring during the "novillada", a series of
fights involving young bulls.
One bull charged at the man who, according to police a received "a long but not deep" injury from its horns.
The protester, in his 30s, "was very lucky" that he was not properly gored and was only lightly injured, another source said.
He was taken to Carcassone hospital for examinations. His female companion was not inured and was arrested by police. (Yahoo)
Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well. (Wash Ex)
These people are on their own side first.
I watched Maria Sharapova win her first match in the U.S. Open. It is hard to like the dopers but, for some reason, there is something positive about her. Really quite an achievement, regardless. I hope my blanket dismissal of people like this is not like the Left's blanket dismissal of people with faults.
Nazis are everywhere.
In 1833, the Mills and Factory Act was passed in England. This was one of a series of Acts passed in the 19th century to improve the "Health and Morals" of child laborers, but it was the first effective legislation in that it empowered national inspectors with unlimited, unannounced entry to the factories. The improved regulations -- no one under 9 employed, a 48-hour week for children aged 9-12, a 68-hour week for teenagers, some minimum provisions for education and health, etc. -- were largely the result of testimony given by young workers to a Parliamentary committee investigating violations of earlier Acts. (king)
AAAaaaaaannnnndddd.....a graph:
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