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Should We Be Recycling Paper or Building Battlestar Galactica? – Art Carden – Mises Institute

Art Carde posits that, if we really cared about our great great…grandchildren, we would be better off spending our resources building ships to pread us throughout the galaxy.
If environmental stewardship obligates us to be mindful of future generations in making our day-to-day decisions, what should we do? Should we be recycling paper and preventing people [...]

Don’t Go For The Bananas

This story was part of a class I’m taking from my employer. I thought it was funny and a great lesson for lots of businesses.
The story goes that a certain number of monkeys are placed in a large cage. From the ceiling of the cage hangs a bunch of bananas with a stepladder underneath. Being [...]

Annals of Democracy: The vote

The New Yorker has a very interesting article about the history of voting methods.
By Brian Stanaland
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. – Ronald Reagan

WTF, Over?

This story out of NC is funny. Thing is, WTF did not originate in the “Internet era.” I joined the Army in January 1989. The first thing a Drill Sargent yelled at us when we got to Fort Jackson was “WTF are you doing still on my bus?!?!” And I know it wasn’t a new [...]

chmod calculator

So there’s something up with this script not wanting to run on the blog. The chmod calculator can be found http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/chmodcal.shtml
I’m about to show Valerie just how big of a geek she’s marrying Sunday.
Below is an app to figure out the correct chmod values. If you know what that is then this will make [...]

NASA – Media Telecon: Bizarre Star

NASA – Media Telecon: Bizarre Star
More comments later.
By Brian Stanaland
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. – Ronald Reagan

Novell’s new spot

By Brian Stanaland
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. – Ronald Reagan