Arghhh!
TECH: TECHNORATTI still thinks my content is ‘old”
Friday, October 6, 2006Arghhh!
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LIBERTY: Attention KMart shoppers, the Drug Was has failed!
Friday, October 6, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory121.html
The Drug War’s Immorality and Abject Failure
by Anthony Gregory
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If the idea is to create a drug-free America, then we can safely say that after hundreds of billions of dollars spent, millions of arrests, and decades of escalating police and military efforts, the war on drugs is a complete failure.
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When you consider all the costs of the drug war, imho one can’t possibly come to any conclusion that the actual direct and indirect costs far exceed the the benefits of that war.
If we could predict that drug abuse kills X people and the drug war kills Y people, then we could make a case that if Y is greater than X, should end the drug war?
The interesting part is that if you get a drug warrior on the record, they won’t admit that. “If saves just one person, it’s worth it.”
My gripe is that the whole drug paradigm, (i.e., that I have to go to a modern day medicine man / witch doctor, bribe them to give me a piece of state approved paper, then take that receipt has to be taken to a state approved building, where a bureaucrat checks with an state regulated insurance company to see how much I’ll pay, and then if I am lucky I’ll get what I need.
How about everyone buzzes off?
I’ll figure out what I need. And, I’ll go to Walmart and buy what I need. The State can just butt out. If I harm myself, then it’s my problem.
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LIBERTY: Economics in five points clumped into one sentence
Friday, October 6, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/peterson7.html
Economics In One Lesson: With Apologies To Henry Hazlitt
by William H. Peterson
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I close listing those five scarcity-coping tickers in my one lesson in economics as: 1. the law of self-interest, 2. the law of scarcity, 3. the law of opportunity cost, 4. the law of trade mutuality, and that miscoping 5. Gresham’s law on inflation.
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You have to love it. But what about the “broken window”? maybe that was number 6. And, it just didn’t fit.
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MONEY: My car purchase plan
Friday, October 6, 2006A relative recently bought a car. I reprise my method for getting the down payment for the next one.
(1) Recognize that a car has a certain life in time and mileage. I like to figure 80k miles and six years. After that point, and sometimes even before, big repair bills can creep in. Note the numbers used in this example are all predicated on these two assumptions.
(2) Ensure that you are not using the car faster than the 80k miles suggests. If that’s true (i.e., that you are using more miles that will not make the car last), then you need to refigure.
(3) Take 3 year financing. Note if you can’t afford the three year payments, then you can’t afford the deal. Revisit the whole decision.
(4) Now envision that you are going to make those payments for six years. The first three years you’ll be paying the financer; the second three years you’ll be paying yourself into a designated savings account. At the end of the six years, you will then have three year’s payments in the bank for your next car.
(5) Specifically, if you are paying 350$ per month, then you’ll pay off your loan in three years. And, if you stay with the program, then at the end of six years you will have 3 times 12 times 350$ or 12600$ for your next car. The theory is that with your six year old car and ~12k$, you’ll be in good shape to get a new car. If you run this program religiously after the second or third time, then you won’t need financing.
(6) After six years, you go into what I call the “bonus period”. Keep paying into the bank. Every month you can make that old car last is another month towards your next car free and clear.
(7) Clearly care and maintenance is critical for getting the most out of what is probably your second most expensive purchase. (House being number 1)
(8) Cars are a necessity. Some argue that buying used cars is a cheaper alternative. I think that buy and run until the wheels fall off is the better strategy. Leasing is advanced as an alternative for those who keep cars three years or less and have low mileage. I think that cars can be the way to the poor house or an intelligent strategy to get to wealth. Cars are NOT an investment, but they don’t have to be a drain.
IMHO
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GUNS: One legislator gets it right.
Friday, October 6, 2006http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-05-arming-teachers_x.htm?csp=34
Wisconsin lawmaker urges arming teachers
Updated 10/5/2006 9:36 PM ET
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state lawmaker, worried about a recent string of deadly school shootings, suggested arming teachers, principals and other school personnel as a safety measure and a deterrent.
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Seems that one fellow understands that it’s a dangerous world out there. And, we don’t live in FantasyLand, where passing a law changes the laws of physics, or even influences human behavior. I trust that good human beings can be trusted to go armed and know when to fight and when to run.
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TECH: GOTMYPC developed a “brain freeze”
Friday, October 6, 2006Recently my GOTOMYPC installation at home developed dementia. It refused to acknowledge me remotely or in person. It kept sending me to time out asserting that I got the password wrong.
(I use ROBOFORM so I never forget passwords! And, every password is unique and complex and long. There are only a few online baking passwords that are true passwords. That is a shared secret. Not even ROBOFORM knows them. I’m a programmer. I know what can be done. I trust NO ONE that completely. Note to Pete: The online baking passwords, the ROBOFORM password, and other key passwords are in my safe. And, I told you where I have hidden the combination to that. See I trust NOBODY. Not even Pete, completely. Hope he can clean up my mess when I die. I’ll just have to be extra nice to him while I’m alive. Maybe he won’t say those special Irish prayers [aka bad words] after I’m dead.)
Any way, I asked for supprt and after a half a day I got a canned answer. I sent them a snotty gram in reply. (It was late and I was tired.) And, they responded saying “call them”. (Yeah, right. Like I am up for a good session of “please listen carefully because our menus have recently changed”. Running a restaurant? call ’em what?) So I “pressed 1” and went to bed.
This morning it magically works.
Hmmm, I am sure that the support folks did something. This doesn’t inspire confidence in its security, its availability, or its usefulness.
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TECH: AOLDIGITS a free local phone number that can go to voice mail?
Friday, October 6, 2006http://www.aimphoneline.com/index.adp?promo=778972&page=welcomeAIM PHONELINE
A personal, local free phone number you can give out to anyone — complete with always-on voicemail!
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Why Do I Need Another Phone Number?
Everyone worries about giving out their home or mobile number. Now you can give out your AIM Digits instead.
How Does It Work?
AIM Digits are part of the FREE AIM® Phoneline service. AIM Phoneline gives you a free, local telephone number that comes with always-on voicemail, delivered right to your e-mail box. On top of that, when you’re online, it lets you screen and answer calls, using your PC microphone and speakers.* It’s a completely free Internet Phone Service.
How Do I Get My AIM Digits?
It’s easy. Just register for the free AIM Phoneline service.
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Huh. Free! Local! Hmmm?
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LIBERTY: Interesting how they only “banned” where they didn’t get a cut!
Thursday, October 5, 2006http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff110.html
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| How dumb can Congress get? Pretty dumb. But Congress is not that dumb. Congress slickly made sure it left internet betting on horse racing alone. It didn’t touch lotteries or domestic casinos. It effectively protected certain forms of domestic gambling while outlawing others forms and foreign competition. Professional football, basketball, and baseball all supported the legislation. The NFL Fantasy game isn’t touched. So what really is the agenda? Looks like some old friends: votes, money, and power. Under “power” I classify all those who sincerely believe in legislating morality as they see it. |
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We often say that gubamint is hypocritical. Here’s a classic example. I bet if internet gambling was kicking in 50% of its earnigns to the fed and state then there would be an exception carved out for them as well.
Under the heading of laughing at big gubamint, they cetainly provide enough material!
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MONEY: What can a senior citizen plan on?
Thursday, October 5, 2006http://www.womenspersonalfinance.net/2006/09/46_things_i_wis.html
Women’s Personal Finance.net: 46 Things I Wish My Mom Taught Me About Money
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Don’t Count on Social Security. By the time the tail-end of the baby-boomers retire in about 25 years (the last of this generation was born in 1968), there isn’t a very good chance that social security will be paying out as much as we have paid in. A solid back-up plan, like a tax-deferred IRA or 401K will help to keep you from living in a shelter.
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Not a lot of gubamint promises that one can count on. I’m not so sure that the money itself will be the same. Inflation kills senior citizens. It literally eviscerates their savings, their pensions, and their Social Security checks. Don’t make me laugh about the SSI cost of living adjustments. The gubamint has figured how not to trigger those protections.
So planning is a challenge!
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TECH: What is the value of social networks?
Thursday, October 5, 2006http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/32293870/social_networking_silver_bullet.php
Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet
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Today, social networks are enormously popular. The benefits can be seen at the multiplier level – people mentor each other through the formation of communities; and they network and inspire each other by example and input. Social networks protect people from the vastness of cyberspace and offer tools to find each other, organize and share information, or just keep in touch with friends.
Social networking sites have proliferated in the span of the past year. While I don’t have actual numbers, Wiikipedia tells us that there are at least two hundred social networks, with scores of new ones appearing each day. While some of these services focus on teens, others target individual professionals and some aim at organizations like businesses and graduate schools.
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Interesting summary.
I’m not sure what the values are. To me, the value is very very murky. I’m just not sure there is ANY value. Other than a yellow pages type place to befound.
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TECH: Vista ain’t immune to old problems
Thursday, October 5, 2006I understand that the old w95 bug is back in vista. A forged packet basically asking the new stack about itself with its own address causes the meltdown of the ip stack. I love it. It was a problem in w95 and fixed. Vista brags it has a completely rewritten ip stack and “recoded” the old error.
IMHO to rewrite an ip stack from scratch and make the exact same error has a zero probability. SO being the old skeptic I am, I don’t believe that it’s been rewritten!
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MONEY: Lies told to … … any sucker!
Wednesday, October 4, 2006http://www.paintercreativity.com/articles/top-10-lies.html
Top 10 Lies told to Naive Artists and Designers
Mark W. Lewis
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5 “Well, the job isn’t CANCELLED, just delayed. Keep the account open and we’ll continue in a month or two.”
Ummm, probably not. If something is hot, then not, it could be dead. It would be a mistake to *not* bill for work performed at this point and then let the chips fall where they may! Call in two months and someone else may be in that job. And guess what? They don’t know you at all…..
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That happened to me once when I was consulting. And, I wasn’t even a Native Artist!
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JOBSEARCH: Maybe recruiters might become “housebroken”
Wednesday, October 4, 2006http://execunet.blogspot.com/2006/10/breaking-news-from-about-time.html
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Breaking News From The About Time Department
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Over the same period of time as we have talked with recruiters about their feelings about candidates and shared the candidate’s feelings with them, with few exceptions, their responses range from “Yeah, I know and I don’t blame them” to “If I had the time I would try to do something about it, but I just don’t” to “tell ’em to grow up, my obligation is to the client.”
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Well, it (a change in recruiter behavior) would be an interesting “climate change”.
Some might know that I keep a “special list” for those that don’t play well with others. I always urge, “don’t get mad; get even!” as a response. Maybe it’s my mutli-decade experience of being “in”, “out”, uncermoniously tossed on my ear once, and treated “interestingly” over many “transitions”, but I’ll bet on the continuation of bad manners.
I think it is MOST amusing when a hunter, who slighted me two decades ago, has the chutzpa to yell when I won’t “work with him”. He was literally speechless when I described our last interaction for him. (I’m not only as hefty as an elephant, but I have a “trunk” of text files that are totally indexed by Google Desktop.) Perhaps, if more people refuse to be treated badly, we can collectively like a guild enforce a better standard of conduct.
As we come into the “gray-if-not working-it’s-retirement/vacation” (i.e., retirees who work for “fun”, not money) of the workforce, I think getting and keeping talent will be harder and more competitive. I think that there may even a cyclical rotation back to the old days of manners out of necessity. Further, as talent becomes more valuable, the value equation may shift. Envision a hunter who knows that seeker, with a highly desired skill, who might be “dislodged”, would then “broker” that knowledge to “thirsty” organizations. It might for by money, pride, or opportunity. No one will care why; it’ll just be about getting the talent on the team. Then you’ll see the climate change.
There is another possible reaction to being treated badly, and that is when seekers stop seeking the “corporate job”, and become one man consulting shops. Then, the hunters will starve. And, the corporations will be paying a lot more for skilled help. It really rebalances the playing field between those that do (need) and those that manage (get big bucks). Having been introduced to McKay’s 66 in my “self-improvement” phase, I’m ready to “sell” how this process will match supply and demand. It will take completely new paradigms, infrastructure, hardware, and software.
If that happens there will be lots of surplus hunters, corporate HR types, and “executives”. A ton of much happier and better compensated workers productively employed with a lot less downtime and inefficient “interviewing”.
While I’d rather see more surplus lawyers and politicians, it will be interesting times.
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LIBERTY: Eminent domain is socialism for the rich
Wednesday, October 4, 2006http://www.townhall.com/columnists
/ThomasSowell/2006/10/03/socialism_for_the_rich
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The rich have learned to adapt socialist policies to their own benefit. For example, the city of Riviera Beach, Florida, is planning to demolish a working class neighborhood under its power of eminent domain, in order to prepare the way for a marina for yachts, luxury condominiums and an upscale shopping district.
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Economist Sowell makes the interesting point that the gubamint’s decision to take property operates differently on the poor than on the rich. The rich can fight the “wrong” kind of eminent domain (i.e., that which takes what they want) and reward the politicians who propose “open space” (i.e., make my stuff worth more) or “redevelopment” (i.e., build me a marina or golf course at the expense of others). The poor have to just fold their tent and move along, unless they can interest a champion.
So much for the Fifth Amendment and its requirement for “just compensation” for “public use”.
Arghhh!
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JOBSEARCH: LinkedIn’s invitation options
Wednesday, October 4, 2006Since I have loaded my Outlook address book into LinkedIn, I have turned to being more selective of the invitations I will consider. It might be that LinkedIn isn’t “valuable”. Any way, if you want to send me an invite, then you have to let me know you’re doing it. I’ll put you in my LinkedIn Other folder and it will allow you to send an invite. I’m down to my last 500 invites so I’m saving them. :-)
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TECH: Don’t deal with Lycos
Wednesday, October 4, 2006… they are as hard to cancel as AOL!!
Please once they start billing your credit card you can’t get rid of them.
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JOBSEARCH: A good read and chock full of nuggets
Wednesday, October 4, 2006http://careerandleadership.com/
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In this issues, we are very pleased to include an article submitted by Dr. David Salter who brings a thoughtful and new perspective about information technology and education. Networking expert Russ Kovar writes about the importance of networking in his article “People Know People”. Vikram Rajan makes another appearance with his article about press releases in our Leadership section. Robin Cook’s piece explains the nine shared characteristics of innovative organizations in the Work Life section. Also in the Work Life section is a compelling article about getting organized by Carla Thorpe. Writer Megan Byrd has contributed another insightful Book Review.
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Re: getting organized
My Mom used to say ” A place for everything; everything in its place”. That’s why I plog. Get all my thoughts in one place. ;-)
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JOBSEARCH: You’re only as good as your last paycheck you cashed.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006An employed-eee is merely a consultant with restricted choice of where and on what they will work on tomorrow.
TECH: EVERNOTE a free tool to capture “stuff” … free!
Wednesday, October 4, 2006***Begin Quote***
easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!
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Can’t beat the price and works neatly.
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LIBERTY: Habeas corpus well deserves its other traditional name: the Great Writ.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/liberty-and-habeas-corpus-i.html
A GREAT post on Habeas Corpus. A must read for every liberty lover!
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GUNS: The “liberals” are whining for more restrictions
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/10/shot-through-heart_02.html#comments
Sorry, but the answer is not to create more potential victims.
The world’s, by its very nature, is a dangerous place. Two-legged and four-legged varmints abound. Maybe if schools were NOT a “gun free zone”, then the staff would have a fighting chance to keep their charges safe.
Everyone predicted that Florida would become the OK corral at every traffic accident. It didn’t BECAUSE those that are armed are law abiding.
I know I can’t convince you, and other nice people, that you are living in Fantasy Land if you think that by passing more laws and regulations and rules you can keep these things from happening.
Maybe I CAN convince you that what you are doing is depriving yourself of the protection of your fellow law abiding citizens and residents, who would choose to arm themselves for their protection, and that of society. See part of the benefit of unrestricted concealed carry is that the bad guys don’t know which of the good guys are sheep and which are the sheepdogs. Fatal to the bad guy if he guesses wrong!
Envision if that teacher, who had to run to call police, was “packing heat”. I don’t fault her at all. Only an idiot would try to take on an armed madman with her bare hands. Like the hijacked airline passengers. But if armed, look how the situation would have changed. While the varmint was busy boarding up the doors, would anyone have minded if she had put five in his back? If she was even charged, then I’d like to be on that jury. I’d convict the prosecutor who charged her. Five little girls would be alive and one madman dead. Hard to envision a worse outcome than the one we have now.
The “gun free schools zone” merely ensures that the madman will have no armed opposition to worry about until the police get there.
Why make it easy for them?
After all who are the police anyway? They are nothing more than the agents of the citizens. If we can empower the police to defend us, why should we defend ourselves?
Do you think that teachers, principle, and school custodians can’t tell the difference between bad guys and their students?
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JOBSEARCH: LINKEDIN’s value
Tuesday, October 3, 2006Posted by: “George”
Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:34 am (PST)
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I don’t know about other users, but I am finding diminishing returns
on LinkedIn.
I have used it for over a year for networking and business development
as a consultant and executive coach. But more and more I am getting
stuff from recruiters looking for me to do their job for them.
Whats the next big thing?
Has LinkedIn outlived its usefulness?
What other networking and business development tools are people using now?
There also seem to be more executives who – it appears – have someone
put their profile in LinkedIn – but never use the tool or respond to
invitations. Whats the point of that? Another sign of its diminishing
value.
George F Franks III
Franks Consulting Group
Web site: http://franksconsultinggroup.com
E-zine: http://careerandleadership.com
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This is an interesting observation.
For each person that I link to, after two weeks, I send them a chatty little email. So far I have ZERO responses.
So LinkedIn isn’t networking. And, it may be of ZERO use other than a glorified yellow pages of people.
Hmmm!?!
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LIBERTY: Strategy For Smaller Government
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://freetalklive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Strategy_For_Smaller_Government
Strategy For Smaller Government
1. Political Party
Join the big L Libertarian party and work to get enough people elected. (Seen how well that has worked over the last 30 years!)
2. Issue Oriented Group
Join Advocates for Smaller Government and push an agenda. (Carla has had some modest success in MA.)
3. Free State Project
Move to NH and revolt. (Seems to be working. But, it’s definitely not easy. For me, probably won’t happen.)
4. Lauren C’s in their face activism
Just refuse to cooperate at all. Worked for Gandhi and MLK. (I’m not so sure I’m brave enough to pull that off!)
5. Dave’s individual silent signs
Seems to annoy them. Probably will wind up in arrests.
6. Get people to laugh at Big Gubamint foolishness.
Try to make fun of big gubamint. See Penn & Teller on HBO. See how fast the Spanish American War Telephone tax was repealed. (Big Gubamint can stand being laughed at!)
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LIBERTY: Gubamint makes losers of us all
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_275204901.html
Published: October 02, 2006 08:49 pm
DAY 3: Stabilizing neighborhoods
Millions of public dollars will be spent in the next three years on Niagara Falls housing
By Denise Jewell
Niagara Gazette
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Public officials are also working on housing plans that would address the lack of private-sector investment into building new housing in Niagara Falls.
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While the HOPE VI project has been hailed by advocates as a key to revitalizing public housing, local landlords have expressed concerned that the proposal will negatively impact private rental units by pulling tenants into newer public housing.
“We’re putting up units at $200,000 for poor people and you wonder what’s wrong?” asked Ken Hamilton, a Niagara Falls citizen who has spoken out against the project. “If there’s a glut, why extend the glut?”
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Ahh, why isn’t there any private sector investment?
For the same reason that there aren’t any parochial schools being built, you can’t compete with he gubamint “giving away” free or below cost stuff!
There is a reason why the free market allocates resources so efficiently and that mechanism is prices. High prices signal entrepreneurs that there is a potential profit. That signal communicates that there is an unmet need that someone is willing to pay to have satisfied.
Milton Freedman did a great exposition on the pencil. No one had to be told to make it. The marketplace energized a whole bunch of greedy people to get together and work cooperatively to satisfy his basic human need for a pencil. It was not a committee. It was not the gubamint. And, it wasn’t funded using “public money”.
So here we have the gubamint manipulating its citizens.
When it puts its “proverbial thumb” on the marketplace scale, it makes everything worse. By depressing the value of a rental property, it signals the marketplace to produce less housing in that area. To invest less money. That there are fewer human needs in that area. Perversely, it makes the problem worse.
And, the media and the intellectuals just don’t get it.
In a marketplace, all needs are addressed. In a gubmint solution, only some needs are met and it’s at a fantastic cost. I bet if we had a forensic accountant look into it, we’d find that the ~200k per unit would translate into ~600k being stolen from taxpayers. And, what about the silent cost of this “housing project” to those silent victims of gubamint taxation? maybe they were ready to buy their first house, but the gubamint taxes took it away from them and gave it to those “poor people” over there.
See that’s what gubamint does, it makes losers of us all!
Note: It’s interesting that the news site bans certain ips from commenting. Oh well, not that they’d listen much.
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INTERESTING: Fire alarm tone not as effective as Mom
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9410
New Breed of ‘Mom’ Alarms
Posted on Monday, October 02 @ 23:43:28 CDT
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The recorded sound of a parent’s voice urging their child to wake up and get out of bed is a better smoke alarm than conventional tone alarms, a study shows.
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Hmmm, sounds like a great idea. I could have my Mom record a wake up message to get me out of bed and off to work. Instead of my daily “fire drill”?
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GUNS: Tragedy would have been stopped if schools NOT gun free
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/15663292.htm
Death toll in Lancaster Co. Amish school shooting rises to 5
MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
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NICKEL MINES, Pa. – Two more children died Tuesday morning of wounds from the shootings at an Amish schoolhouse, raising the death toll to five girls plus the gunman who apparently was spurred by a two-decade-old grudge.
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There is no doubt that this is a tragedy. Young girls cut down by a madman.
But, just as the antidote for bad speech is more free speech, the antidote for this is not more victim disarmament.
I don’t understand the “gun free school zones” legislation. Do politicians think that they actually DO something by passing a law? They should realize that only law abiding people obey laws. The lawless just go on their merry way and take advantage of the opportunities that we give them.
In Israel, schools are NOT gun free zones. And, they are trouble free. Grandparents guard schools and school trips. Teachers, and the average citizen, are more than likely “packing heat”. The terrorists have a problem because there are no target rich zones where guns are absent.
The world is a dangerous place. No amount of wishful thinking or inane laws is going to make it any less dangerous. My grandmother traveled the Oregon trail and she had “her” long gun hung on the mantle until she died. She was no “victim”. I’m not sure that she ever used it, wish I had asked, but, even in her old age, she was not someone to be “crossed”. Read her bible and prayed, but she was armed. I know she would have protected any child. Let’s give women an “equalizer”.
Envision the scenario where a nut job KNOWS that there is a good chance that, in his killing spree, he may run into an armed citizen. Bet that dampens his ardor for blood just a little. Imagine he invades the school, and instead of the teacher running to call police, she whips out a “girlie gun” like a 380 and puts a full clip into him. Or, as he is ushering out the pregnant lady, she grabs him close and dispatches him with three to the gut a la the French Resistance of WW2. Or, the teacher’s aide, or anyone else, does their civic duty. See if there is no restriction, he has to rethink his plan.
Just as no American airline passenger is going to allow a hijacker to take over a plane, we should be armed to take care of two legged, and four legged, varmints.
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