Are gender and class specific games with disparate powers bad lessons in society? Should games like chess be banned?
Now Weber was a very learned and intelligent scholar. After all, he gave us the true definition of government, namely, a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. It is a definition as full and accurate as it is sadistically useful for torturing our mild social democratic friends in Sweden or Massachusetts, who like to believe that the government is a festival of kindly collectivism, sort of like a loving family.--McCloskey, on Max Weber
Who is...John Jay?
A
poet said he was opposed to any competitions in poetry because
memorizing is "repressive" and competition was foreign and destructive
to art.
Do you think it is possible for us to produce the culture we want as opposed to the culture that grows naturally from us?
Do you think it is possible for us to produce the culture we want as opposed to the culture that grows naturally from us?
[N]o
one should expect that governments will behave simply as social
agencies whose sole or primary purpose is to maximize welfare. Research
during the past decade … has confirmed lay suspicions that politicians
maximize their own objectives, including power, income, ideology, and
patronage subject to the “constraints” imposed by elections. For the
most part, politicians are interested in externalities for their own
sake as much as alcoholics are interested in the profitability of
breweries. --Rowley
If the constants were created at the Big Bang, is it possible there are different constants?
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites. … Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. --Burke
Clinton's new spy novel has been bought to film. The politicians and the entertainers--two peas, one pod.
A rule for lawyers is never ask a question in court that you do not know the answer to. So it is with economics and politics; we avoid questions with challenging answers.
Just to show the Left has always been crazy: After the Russians decided to resume nuclear testing in 1961, J.K. Galbraith wrote a review for JFK alleging that, should nuclear war develop, allowing private industry to develop domestic shelters would favor the safety of Republicans.
25% of American jobs require a government license.
The North Koreans are great with their attacks. Trump is a "dotard," Hillary Clinton was described in 2009 as "by no means intelligent" and a "funny lady". "Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"
When Obama was president they said this:
They added that Obama "does not even have the basic appearances of a human being" and, in a particularly vile statement, called him: "a wicked black monkey."
Maybe we shouldn't encourage them.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/reward-limits.html
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This academic sounding separation is becoming more important and
practical. Most jobs in the United States up until the last decades have
been algorithmic.
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The
"Last shall be first and the first last" gospel, a saying implying a
Topsy-turvy reward system which actually means that all will be rewarded
the same. It is an insightful look into the specie where people are
unhappy at the rewards others are receiving. Jealousy means to desire
another's attainment, but envy is more complex: it is sadness at the attainment of another.
The slavery question in the world and in the U.S. deserves more attention from clear thinking people. Patrick Henry, in a correspondence with an abolitionist Quaker named Pleasence, wrote that while he felt slavery an evil, he, himself, bought slaves.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who were to serve on the court until death or retirement. That day, President Washington nominated John Jay to preside as chief justice, and John Rutledge, William Cushing, John Blair, Robert Harrison, and James Wilson to be associate justices.
Whether as a tourist, guest worker, or refugee, the vast majority of all admissions to the United States have been legal from 2003 through 2015. A mere 0.3 percent of all entries to the United States during that time were illegal. Illegal entries peaked in 2004 at 0.42 percent of all entries. The last year for which data is available, 2015, provides evidence that illegal entries are falling as 99.81 percent of all admissions were legal while only 0.19 percent were illegal. 99.7% success is pretty high success for anybody, let alone the government. And the cost of attacking that marginal 0.3% does not look like a good investment.
Scientists have built an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates. It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus -- making it harder for HIV to resist its effects. The work is a collaboration between the US National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi. This study, reported on BBC, had only 24 primate subjects.
The International Trade Commission in a unanimous decision ruled that the companies SolarWorld Americans and Suniva were struggling financially not because of their own poor management, but because they couldn't compete with cheap panels from countries like China, Mexico, and South Korea. Suniva is suggesting import duties of 40 cents a watt for solar cells, and a floor price of 78 cents a watt for panels. (Right now, the average floor price, worldwide, for panels is about 32 cents.) The Solar Energy Industries Association warned that implementing these suggestions could end up doubling the price of solar, thus destroying demand and causing Americans to lose their jobs.
This is too hard for these people.
Rates of workplace violence in health care and social assistance settings are five to 12 times higher than the estimated rates for workers overall, according to a Government Accountability Office report from last year. This is from an article trying to emphasize the violence against nurses although the specific incidence was surprisingly vague.
5% of homes are responsible for 50% of flood insurance claims. One home in Houston has been rebuilt 16 times in the last 18 years.
And, on the topic of allocations, Katy, Texas, is building a $72 million football stadium for its high school.
The slavery question in the world and in the U.S. deserves more attention from clear thinking people. Patrick Henry, in a correspondence with an abolitionist Quaker named Pleasence, wrote that while he felt slavery an evil, he, himself, bought slaves.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who were to serve on the court until death or retirement. That day, President Washington nominated John Jay to preside as chief justice, and John Rutledge, William Cushing, John Blair, Robert Harrison, and James Wilson to be associate justices.
Whether as a tourist, guest worker, or refugee, the vast majority of all admissions to the United States have been legal from 2003 through 2015. A mere 0.3 percent of all entries to the United States during that time were illegal. Illegal entries peaked in 2004 at 0.42 percent of all entries. The last year for which data is available, 2015, provides evidence that illegal entries are falling as 99.81 percent of all admissions were legal while only 0.19 percent were illegal. 99.7% success is pretty high success for anybody, let alone the government. And the cost of attacking that marginal 0.3% does not look like a good investment.
Scientists have built an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates. It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus -- making it harder for HIV to resist its effects. The work is a collaboration between the US National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi. This study, reported on BBC, had only 24 primate subjects.
The International Trade Commission in a unanimous decision ruled that the companies SolarWorld Americans and Suniva were struggling financially not because of their own poor management, but because they couldn't compete with cheap panels from countries like China, Mexico, and South Korea. Suniva is suggesting import duties of 40 cents a watt for solar cells, and a floor price of 78 cents a watt for panels. (Right now, the average floor price, worldwide, for panels is about 32 cents.) The Solar Energy Industries Association warned that implementing these suggestions could end up doubling the price of solar, thus destroying demand and causing Americans to lose their jobs.
This is too hard for these people.
Rates of workplace violence in health care and social assistance settings are five to 12 times higher than the estimated rates for workers overall, according to a Government Accountability Office report from last year. This is from an article trying to emphasize the violence against nurses although the specific incidence was surprisingly vague.
5% of homes are responsible for 50% of flood insurance claims. One home in Houston has been rebuilt 16 times in the last 18 years.
And, on the topic of allocations, Katy, Texas, is building a $72 million football stadium for its high school.
Anyone
interested in the conflict between causation and correlation need look
no further than the death rates in states due to opioid overdose. They
have a recognizable pattern; they are all states with declining 20th
Century industries.
An
article recently blamed the recent outbreak of anti-Columbus rhetoric
on a return to the old English-Dutch anti-Spanish, anti-Catholic
nationalism and bigotry. Delicious.
First Things, a religious journal founded on very conservative principles has had a stroke and turned Left.
From a letter on the Internet:
"When I go to Walmart no one on the staff “takes a knee” before stocking a shelf or selling a product.
Neither does this happen at Home Depot or McDonald’s or anywhere else that I spend my money. Of course, none of these businesses pipe the national anthem into their stores.
My entertainment dollar is no different than my grocery dollar.
If the fans object to being asked to sacrifice their leisure time with political issues or to the players “taking a knee”, then maybe the sports venues should simply stop playing the national anthem rather than ask the players to choke down their voicing of their conscience."
I do not think these people understand how dangerous it is for them to politicize sports. The politicization of the movie entertainment industry has done serious damage to it--from Fonda to the awards ceremonies. People want diversion/escape from these very things. Integrating politics into diversions will make people seek diversion elsewhere. Nobody's margins are infinite; the decrease in interest will be damaging.
First Things, a religious journal founded on very conservative principles has had a stroke and turned Left.
From a letter on the Internet:
"When I go to Walmart no one on the staff “takes a knee” before stocking a shelf or selling a product.
Neither does this happen at Home Depot or McDonald’s or anywhere else that I spend my money. Of course, none of these businesses pipe the national anthem into their stores.
My entertainment dollar is no different than my grocery dollar.
If the fans object to being asked to sacrifice their leisure time with political issues or to the players “taking a knee”, then maybe the sports venues should simply stop playing the national anthem rather than ask the players to choke down their voicing of their conscience."
I do not think these people understand how dangerous it is for them to politicize sports. The politicization of the movie entertainment industry has done serious damage to it--from Fonda to the awards ceremonies. People want diversion/escape from these very things. Integrating politics into diversions will make people seek diversion elsewhere. Nobody's margins are infinite; the decrease in interest will be damaging.
According to an article in Reason, too much debt slows economic growth, reducing living standards.
The
sheer size of the existing debt is deeply worrying to economists on
both the left and the right, who agree that when debt reaches 90 percent
of GDP for five years in a row it means painfully slow growth, creating
what's called a "debt overhang."
A group of progressive economists affiliated with the University of Massachusetts predicted in 2013 that a debt burden at that level would result in an annual growth rate of just 2.2 percent, which means economic stagnation and anemic job growth.
Our debt been at more than 100 percent of GDP for years now. Periods of slow growth associated with debt overhangs almost always last more than a decade and sometimes stretch out over a quarter century. That means that in 25 years, the overall economy will be about 75 percent the size it would have been if the government had only gotten the debt in check.
A group of progressive economists affiliated with the University of Massachusetts predicted in 2013 that a debt burden at that level would result in an annual growth rate of just 2.2 percent, which means economic stagnation and anemic job growth.
Our debt been at more than 100 percent of GDP for years now. Periods of slow growth associated with debt overhangs almost always last more than a decade and sometimes stretch out over a quarter century. That means that in 25 years, the overall economy will be about 75 percent the size it would have been if the government had only gotten the debt in check.
AAAAAAaaaaaannnnnnnnddddddd.......a map of hedge fund success--or lack thereof:
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