Category Archives: Economics

Internet Spaceships Bring The Aid

“All this means that in a very real sense, the industrial barons of EVE who made their fortunes mining virtual asteroids and moons are turning their virtual wealth into physical life-saving supplies in Haiti.
Truly, we live in strange times.”
via EVE ISK for Haiti..

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PBS Frontline – Poisoned Waters

FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn.   It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!

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The real scandal at AIG

The real scandal at AIG is the not the bonuses. It’s the payments to counterparties.

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Linkdump!

Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com. – Iceland joins the Dutch in the great crazes of all time.
New accounting rules for the Federal Budget.
Band of Brothers, one of the EVE mega-alliances, ceases to be. Heavily infiltrated, their forums cloned by the Goons, BoB chose to make their forums public.
Vegas is running out of water, [...]

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Link dump!

Warning, this one is going to be large and varied, folks.

Fighting for the right to clone – It’s rough out there, in the science world.  Hopefully America becomes much more science friendly, soon.
Do not fuck with Chinese shipping – Let this be a warning to you, pirates.
Worthwhile reading – On self defense ammo.
Fresh tomatoes and [...]

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Bush lame duck is the most delicious kind…

I hate to link to op-eds… I especially hate to do so with hyper opinionated rags. *cough NYT cough* But here it is. Accurate as hell, and documented. As Eron has said many times… McCain is a gray wearing a human suit. Think Edgar in MiB.

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Fantastic article from Outside…

“Raising the Dead”
Now, with less spoilers. This is an amazing article, very well worth the read. Many people have some issues with the intro paragraph, so ignore that if you choose. Also, this dive is on youtube, but I won’t link directly, for reasons that should become self-evident.
Along the same vein, if [...]

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China’s oil woes.

Is W waging economic war on the Chinese with his wars in the Middle East? Much, much craftier than I would give him credit for.

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Some fantastic OP-ED.

From various sources, but mostly Dolphin.
- Can Americans handle the truth?
- Abuse of executive orders is not enough. Now we can ignore all process? Grr.
- You bet I’m bitter. Sign me up. Bitter as hell here.
- Savages in Caves.  Perhaps we overestimate al Queda?
- NearlyFreeSpeech.net.  Web hosting in terms of pennies.
- [...]

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Dark, cold winters in the middle of the Atlantic…

High divorce rate, high birth rate, and lots of women working outside the home. Welcome to Iceland, the happiest country on Earth. Dual Iceland/New Zealand citizenship? Hmm.

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Name change. Link dump.

Well, we’ll be changing to tasteslikeangry.com soon enough.
Really. A bit stronger of a brand…
Sweet Home Alabama – Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir. Soundtrack for tonight.
Worldwide Telescope – (Save As) Something so damn awesome, and they can’t deliver a better speech than this?
Work/Life Balance – An architect’s space.
Food Wars -Especially grim considering [...]

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“Near Panic”

The Fed’s chairman testifies before Congress. Falling dollar, trade deficit, mortgage crisis, oh my!

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Oil discovery rocks Brazil

Interesting reading, kids. Brazil may be catapulting ahead in world oil production soon.

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Everything I want to do is illegal.

Great article on American farm life via Reddit. More information on the author.
Related: Everywhere I turn, from all sides of the political spectrum, people are pissed off with their government – liberal and conservative alike. My wife and I differ. I think it’s going to take revolution to change things… She [...]

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Fed bends rules to help two big banks

Read up from CNN…   Someone is taking big bets on a big market loss.   Thoughts?

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Link Dump.

The Octapult – Fantastic kinetic sculpture made mostly of wood. 8 synchronized, 160 shot per minute catapults.
Perry Farrell’s bud turned slaver catcher? – Party skills? What? Depressing article.
Yes, Virginia, AT&T is the evil empire – AT&T Long Lines Building in NYC.
Early Start? – A drummer starts at two… Think of all [...]

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It’s true – the US only exports hate.

No, actually, it isn’t.   Twice as much per GDP.   Huh.

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The end of credit card fraud?

Credit cards, public key crypto, flexible screens, and lithum batteries meet.   Fraud-proof, for a while?

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R10. TDI.

Quiet, cause it’s not wasting energy making noise.   Did we mention biodiesel?

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Low-flow waterwheel.

For small, small streams.   Check out the figures…   What’s the rep of the Daily Mail again?

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One word, bitches… “Bechtel!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel
Fuck YEAH!..   I would hire them!   Look at that darned pedigree!

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Black economy prefers Euros.

“Finally, in the past two years, euros have also become easier to carry, store, and hide than dollars. Generally, the largest denomination of U.S. currency readily available is the $100 bill. But in the past two years, the European Central Bank has started to print 200-euro and 500-euro bills. These larger bills thus allow for [...]

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