February 2011
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January 2011
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We’re not addressing the deep, systemic issues.
“Clean Energy” is not an energy production issue at all. It’s an energy usage issue. The model that is employed everyday, the basic foundation of how…
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Tunis, Egypt, and Yemen are caught in protests. Three relatively stable governments are now rocked with countrywide protests all having occurred within a short enough time frame to warrant more careful consideration.
I cannot speak much on Tunis, but Egypt has been a long time ally of the US in a region marked by violence, terrorism and ignorant hatred towards “The West.” Reports of...
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We’re not very good at asking the important questions.
Throughout the health care debate, the questions “why have costs gone up?” was rarely asked, and answered even less.
When “why” questions are…
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– Ianthorn
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I’ve noticed that people are getting a little, shall we say, territorial about their work being reposted elsewhere on the internet with or without proper acknowledgement.
Here’s the thing:
The internet is a public forum, once something goes public it can be used and reused over and over and over again. You can’t afford the lawyers right...
I know all you internet artsy types love Vimeo because of it’s high quality video hosting, but I’ve yet to have a video not sputter out and die on my computer. HD, not HD, full screen, not full screen.
So to all you hipsters who think you’re faux 8mm film grain videos are cool:
QUIT BEING ELITIST AND DEAL WITH THE SAME YOUTUBE GARBAGE WE ALL HAVE DO!
To the legitimate...
lanthorn asked: i'll pull a wayne brady even if things stay in my hand
ricepaddymoto:
We’re selling an original 70s AMA Z1 Superbike. Own a piece of racing history.
I wonder if our attempts to smooth over the rough bits in history (and the inverse, to over emphasize them) is actually dangerous. Imagine if we admitted that our forefathers owned slaves, but then we realized how wrong that was. Or that individuals made anti-semitic comments, but society has progressed forward since then.
Except it hasn’t, we keep trying to hide things, and they just keep...
Private Versus Public →
A good friend of mine pointed out recently, that there has to be a preservation of private property rights in any discussion.
The issue is ownership.
If everyone “owns” something, then no one…
“One would hope that Goldman Sachs knows better than to inflate Facebook’s...”
– The Street
Because Goldman Sachs has never engaged in that kind of behavior before…
