A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for.-- Grace Hopper, computer scientist and U.S. Rear Admiral
My weight is where I wanted to be.
The Pirates have turned a corner in incompetence.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump and is reportedly mulling another run for governor of Utah. Huntsman's resignation is effective Oct. 3, he said in his letter to Trump. The 59-year-old Huntsman is a former Utah governor who left that job in 2009 to serve as ambassador to China.
A great line from David Freidman: The U.S. government does not exist; there is no benevolent elderly gentleman watching over us. What we call “government action” is not the act of a person but the outcome of a political marketplace. In that market as in others, rational individuals act to pursue their own ends – under a set of rules rather different from the rules governing the private market.
Karl Marx wrote that “there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”
The electrical engineering literature tells us that because of the intermittent nature of wind and sunlight, the reliability of the power grid would be reduced substantially, threatening frequent and widespread blackouts. Would that be acceptable for the American economy, or would we need the installation of substantial fossil-fuel backup electricity to stabilize the grid?
Previous experiments have shown that rumination leads to worse choices in poker (hence why expert players strive for a detached, emotionally distanced attitude), and that greater emotional awareness and regulation can improve performance on the stock market.
Two of the world’s largest auto makers, GM and VW, say they see no future for hybrid vehicles in their U.S. lineups. Their view contrasts with Toyota and Ford, which are working on full electrics but also expanding their U.S. hybrid offerings.
(wsj)
California has required that presidential candidates provide their tax returns before they can get on the ballot. This raises some serious questions. Does the California legislature and governor not know that the state can not overwrite the constitutional requirements for presidency? Do they think the state can legislate national policy? Do they not know of the First Amendment? Or are they just insincere?
The Pursuit of...
Why would someone look at the United States and decide that the American experiment is a bad idea? Because we stupidly blew up Libya? No, it's because of a basic and fundamental problem with freedom: Liberty doesn't work for everybody.
Even if the economy creates cars and phones and good cable shows, some people are not happy and successful. Just watch 90 Day Fiancé: Some people simply can not manage their lives. Now, you would expect that, given that obvious state of affairs, the society would try like crazy to create an educational system that would help people manage their lives better but that has not happened. Instead we have an educational system fraught with conflict and despair trying to tear down the building rather than repair the floor.
Why is this? Because the people in power have recognized the only way to improve things is to give up their power in favor of the institutions that have been the infrastructure for the world since man became a hunter gather and they are unwilling to do that.
The tsunami of the Enlightenment has spread into hidden corners, none more obscure or worrisome than its attack upon tradition and institutions as these allowed people a framework in which to think for themselves. Without them, they have to decide everything.
My weight is where I wanted to be.
The Pirates have turned a corner in incompetence.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump and is reportedly mulling another run for governor of Utah. Huntsman's resignation is effective Oct. 3, he said in his letter to Trump. The 59-year-old Huntsman is a former Utah governor who left that job in 2009 to serve as ambassador to China.
MSNBC analyst Frank Figliuzzi drew a numerical connection on Monday between neo-Naziism and the Trump administration's decision to fly flags at half-mast until Aug. 8 in honor of the victims of a pair of mass shootings. "The president said that we will fly our flags at half mast, until August 8. That’s 8/8. Now, I’m not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them the numbers 8-8 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.’ So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8.
"No one is thinking about this," he added.
Frightening. But what is really frightening this that this guy Figliuzzi is a former FBI assistant director.
"No one is thinking about this," he added.
Frightening. But what is really frightening this that this guy Figliuzzi is a former FBI assistant director.
A great line from David Freidman: The U.S. government does not exist; there is no benevolent elderly gentleman watching over us. What we call “government action” is not the act of a person but the outcome of a political marketplace. In that market as in others, rational individuals act to pursue their own ends – under a set of rules rather different from the rules governing the private market.
Karl Marx wrote that “there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”
The electrical engineering literature tells us that because of the intermittent nature of wind and sunlight, the reliability of the power grid would be reduced substantially, threatening frequent and widespread blackouts. Would that be acceptable for the American economy, or would we need the installation of substantial fossil-fuel backup electricity to stabilize the grid?
Previous experiments have shown that rumination leads to worse choices in poker (hence why expert players strive for a detached, emotionally distanced attitude), and that greater emotional awareness and regulation can improve performance on the stock market.
Two of the world’s largest auto makers, GM and VW, say they see no future for hybrid vehicles in their U.S. lineups. Their view contrasts with Toyota and Ford, which are working on full electrics but also expanding their U.S. hybrid offerings.
(wsj)
California has required that presidential candidates provide their tax returns before they can get on the ballot. This raises some serious questions. Does the California legislature and governor not know that the state can not overwrite the constitutional requirements for presidency? Do they think the state can legislate national policy? Do they not know of the First Amendment? Or are they just insincere?
On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine, Kursk, suffered two explosions spaced shortly apart in the front hull of the submarine and it plunged toward the bottom of the Barents sea. The Kursk was 500 feet long and weighed 24,000 tons. It had two nuclear reactors and could reach speeds of 28 knots. It was the largest attack submarine in the world, approximately three times the size of the largest subs in the United States Navy. With the fate of the 118 Russian soldiers onboard the Kursk unknown, several nations offered to contribute to the rescue effort, but the Russian government refused any assistance.
The Pursuit of...
Why would someone look at the United States and decide that the American experiment is a bad idea? Because we stupidly blew up Libya? No, it's because of a basic and fundamental problem with freedom: Liberty doesn't work for everybody.
Even if the economy creates cars and phones and good cable shows, some people are not happy and successful. Just watch 90 Day Fiancé: Some people simply can not manage their lives. Now, you would expect that, given that obvious state of affairs, the society would try like crazy to create an educational system that would help people manage their lives better but that has not happened. Instead we have an educational system fraught with conflict and despair trying to tear down the building rather than repair the floor.
Why is this? Because the people in power have recognized the only way to improve things is to give up their power in favor of the institutions that have been the infrastructure for the world since man became a hunter gather and they are unwilling to do that.
The tsunami of the Enlightenment has spread into hidden corners, none more obscure or worrisome than its attack upon tradition and institutions as these allowed people a framework in which to think for themselves. Without them, they have to decide everything.
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