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USAID: "Transparency" in Action 🔗

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If by transparent you mean transparently in favor of tyranny.

The "Moonlight Fire" Case 🔗

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Some serious corruption going on here.

Private Property and WMDs 🔗

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Attractive Nuisance doctrine is really all that's needed. It's the same with PWR nuke plants; the "what happens when it goes wrong" is so bad as to imply easement upon all it's neighbors. The practical cost to really doing it is to be far, far away from others.

Bigelow Aerospace inflatable module has made it into orbit 🔗

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A huge step. Excellent news.

Stockman on China: The red depression is here 🔗

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China's crack-up will dwarf all priors.

Valeant: in default 🔗

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How the sleazy have fallen

Major OPEC plotting 🔗

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If you are going to buy oil, now would be the time. This during a breaking secret bailout of oil firms.

The ghost army of WWII 🔗

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Interesting to note that the Germans used force chaffing too, but not to this degree, and mostly when on the defense.

Labor Union 360 head spinning in CA 🔗

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Los Angeles city council will hear a proposal on Tuesday to exempt union members from a $15 an hour minimum wage that the unions themselves have spent years fighting for.

ESR on the TPP 🔗

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Nails it. My thoughts exactly.

Commie tries to "understand libertarians", exposes the fundamental error in his thinking 🔗

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Nature is coercive? Ha. Childish anthropomorphizing of the inanimate. Rothbard was right in calling it "Egalitarianism as a revolt against nature". Scarcity exists, and will persist. Get over it, and worry about things you can change.

Other ancillary errors: forgetting that a person's body is their property, and assuming all private property relationships are coercive state created arrangements.

400 "Democracy Spring" Protesters arrested on Capitol Hill 🔗

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Hmm... This seems to have been the immediate goal of the protest. Seems backed by the "usual suspects."

S300s installed by Ukraine near Russian Crimea 🔗

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The continuing buildup by the Kiev regime suggests they aren't done yet, despite being morally and financially bankrupt.

Newest Icelandic Banking scheme properly called a scam 🔗

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...Just like all fractional reserve arrangements. This one is more green-backer in nature though, so even worse than the usual variant.

GPU Optimized Databases: about to be a big deal 🔗

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Yep. Queries are easily parallelizable across multiply striped disks, and it makes sense to use thousands of cores to compile your views. It's probably a good time to invest in nVidia.

Feds: Kops can pull you over for any reason 🔗

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As if that wasn't already the case. More like just codifying what already is de-facto law.

Better Facial Syncing on modeled faces in Real Time 🔗

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Could be useful in multiplayer gaming, though some other applications are obvious.

Bernanke: Fire up the Chopper 🔗

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Pretty much the only thing this PHD Moron knows how to say.

CFR's global monetary policy tracker 🔗

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Who's got low rates, e.g. on toilet paper watch.

Acetominophen: damages the brain 🔗

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So let's put it in all the psych drugs!

Filter the salt out of water? 🔗

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Lifesaving tech if true. Gravity desalination would be a huge boon to humanity.

Lackland AFB Shooter: Former FIB Agent 🔗

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Shocked, simply shocked

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised though... 🔗

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When judges order their bailiffs to taze defendants for bogus reasons and then get away with it, only having to issue an "I'm Sorry" letter.

20 to Life for stealing $31 in Candy Bars 🔗

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Uh... pretty sure that's a tort, not a crime.

The Pareto Pyramid 🔗

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Economic inequality has not meaningfully increased since at least 1897 -- the year that Vilfredo Pareto published his discovery: about 20% of the people in every European nation he studied owned about 80% of the wealth.

Propaganda about it has though.

USAID: "Transparency" in Action 🔗 v0 v1 1460535048

The "Moonlight Fire" Case 🔗 v0 v1 1460534790

Private Property and WMDs 🔗 v0 v1 1460491509

Bigelow Aerospace inflatable module has made it into orbit 🔗 v0 v1 1460491022

Stockman on China: The red depression is here 🔗 v0 v1 1460490914

Valeant: in default 🔗 v0 v1 1460487485

Major OPEC plotting 🔗 v0 v1 1460487447

The ghost army of WWII 🔗 v0 v1 1460483911

Labor Union 360 head spinning in CA 🔗 v0 v1 1460483281

ESR on the TPP 🔗 v0 v1 1460458710

Commie tries to "understand libertarians", exposes the fundamental error in his thinking 🔗 v0 v1 1460450424

400 "Democracy Spring" Protesters arrested on Capitol Hill 🔗 v0 v1 1460450321

S300s installed by Ukraine near Russian Crimea 🔗 v0 v1 1460450014

Newest Icelandic Banking scheme properly called a scam 🔗 v0 v1 1460449637

GPU Optimized Databases: about to be a big deal 🔗 v0 v1 1460449089

Feds: Kops can pull you over for any reason 🔗 v0 v1 1460449073

Better Facial Syncing on modeled faces in Real Time 🔗 v0 v1 1460448957

Bernanke: Fire up the Chopper 🔗 v0 v1 1460448386

CFR's global monetary policy tracker 🔗 v0 v1 1460448139

Acetominophen: damages the brain 🔗 v0 v1 1460364677

Filter the salt out of water? 🔗 v0 v1 1460364517

Lackland AFB Shooter: Former FIB Agent 🔗 v0 v1 1460362860

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised though... 🔗 v0 v1 1460362675

20 to Life for stealing $31 in Candy Bars 🔗 v0 v1 1460362506

The Pareto Pyramid 🔗 v0 v1 1460361959