A great post from the Mises institute on how one person who loves freedom and opposes coercion in all forms takes a stand against an oppressive, coercive state.
http://mises.org/daily/4481
Monday, June 21, 2010
Don't talk to the Police.
Their job is to arrest you and get evidence for conviction, not help you out.
DaveHitt.com summarizes all the reasons I will never talk to cops on one page, check it out.
http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/never-talk-to-the-police/
DaveHitt.com summarizes all the reasons I will never talk to cops on one page, check it out.
http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/never-talk-to-the-police/
Saturday, June 12, 2010
CATO's Alan Reynolds doesn't account for temporary Census numbers.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11886
He writes
" This year, by contrast, civilian employment has increased by more than 1.6 million jobs, according to the BLS Current Population Survey of households. True, the Current Employment Survey of employers shows a smaller gain of 982,000 in nonfarm jobs over the past five months, nearly half of which were government jobs. But that still leaves private employment up by 495,000 or roughly 100,000 a month. "
What he fails to account for are is the fact that the Census Inflates Payrolls according to CNN. For the most part CATO is spot on, but in this case, Alan's missed the boat. The fact is, the majority of the gains in employment are temporary census workers, who have already been laid off by the time of this writing, who were paid in additional, non productive, government dollars. This further increases inflation as the treasury credits the accounts of all these workers for a couple months, and then kicks them to the curb to immediately spend all of the money they earned, keeping what's left of our little bubble going until reelection, at which point it doesn't matter.
Believe the Double Dippers. We're not out of the woods yet. Now is the time to be skeptical and financially responsible. We're being fed a load of bull, but it's OK to spit out the funnel.
He writes
" This year, by contrast, civilian employment has increased by more than 1.6 million jobs, according to the BLS Current Population Survey of households. True, the Current Employment Survey of employers shows a smaller gain of 982,000 in nonfarm jobs over the past five months, nearly half of which were government jobs. But that still leaves private employment up by 495,000 or roughly 100,000 a month. "
What he fails to account for are is the fact that the Census Inflates Payrolls according to CNN. For the most part CATO is spot on, but in this case, Alan's missed the boat. The fact is, the majority of the gains in employment are temporary census workers, who have already been laid off by the time of this writing, who were paid in additional, non productive, government dollars. This further increases inflation as the treasury credits the accounts of all these workers for a couple months, and then kicks them to the curb to immediately spend all of the money they earned, keeping what's left of our little bubble going until reelection, at which point it doesn't matter.
Believe the Double Dippers. We're not out of the woods yet. Now is the time to be skeptical and financially responsible. We're being fed a load of bull, but it's OK to spit out the funnel.
CARPE DIEM: New Research on College Teaching Evaluations
CARPE DIEM: New Research on College Teaching Evaluations
I've been debating with the UO about the waste of time that are University course evaluations, turns out I was right, for the wrong reasons.
I've been debating with the UO about the waste of time that are University course evaluations, turns out I was right, for the wrong reasons.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Fractals-Neat
Just a cool video that zooms in on itself for a long time. After you watch it, when you look at things they get all wavy.
http://thinkorthwim.com/2010/02/12/mathematical-porn
http://thinkorthwim.com/2010/02/12/mathematical-porn
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