I hate the government of the United States at all levels. And when I say I hate it, I mean I hate it. It is fundamentally broken from the top nearly all the way to the bottom. There is absolutely no accountability, and no incentive for accountability. For one prime example thereof, look no further than your real-estate taxes. How hard would you have to work to even determine an actual reachable person with some responsibility for any itemized charge listed there, let alone get contact information for that person? When nobody’s accountable, it makes it really easy to not have to be responsible for overspending. Lets get some accountability back into this country. It needs to either start at the community/county level, or be mandated from the top.
March 27, 2011
November 26, 2010
11/19 – 11/26
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
— Isaac Newton
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Cb6PdHF16c0/story01.htm http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html#comment-98834842
Alternative to the 200 line kernel patch
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2010/11/15/why-credit-money-fails/
Podcasts of seminars, might be interesting. Steve Keen
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Created.htm
Related to http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jDQ_bhAIjng/story01.htm and possibly http://www.itworld.com/internet/128312/senator-threatens-block-online-copyright-bill
(Oregon senator stops Internet censorship bill)
http://www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf
Economics in One Lesson
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20023341-245.html
Moxie Marlinspike detained by feds, laptop/phones searched, encryption passwords requested
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html?nc=96
Schneier recap on the backscatter scanners
Feynman’s book ‘Lectures on Computation’
http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8
http://www.ifcomp.org/comp10/if.html
Interactive fiction games
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html
Information theory and coding theory book.
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1883268&cid=34342566
Good comment regarding games, cognitive theory, and rewards.
http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=epp
Cooperative commons networks (detecting selfish behavior)
October 22, 2010
10/22
http://links.techwebnewsletters.com/ctt?kn=96&m=35908418&r=MTI2ODcwMDQyMQS2&b=0&j=ODQ3NDMyOTQS1&mt=1&rt=0
IW Information Mandate article.
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.”
— Abraham Lincoln
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesimpledollar/~3/6krXi1HfYHc/
Once-a-month cooking
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
This looks useful. Also http://tiddlyspot.com,
http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/#mGSD, and http://tbgtd.tiddlyspot.com/#desk.
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/
Google Command Line
“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.”
— Milton Friedman
April 7, 2010
April 2, 2010
March 5, 2010
3/5
http://www.fordhamprep.org/gcurran/sho/sho/lessons/lesson34.htm Neat info site with periodic table and chem. Information.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge313.html Predictions and thoughts from David Gelernter who, apparently, predicted the Internet and cloud computing. Interesting reading.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory Sweet.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2009ltr.pdf Buffett’s annual letter
February 18, 2010
2/18
“I used to think it would take a global financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one,” said G. William Hoagland, who was a fiscal policy adviser to Senate Republican leaders and a witness to past bipartisan budget summits. “These days I wonder if this country is even governable.”