Adumbration

Several thoughts come to mind with the story depicted by the images here about this natural gas deposit that has been burning in the former Soviet Union since 1971.  Perhaps the most concise would be simply that the roads to hell are paved with good… more »

In short, we don’t need “government policies that boost them along”. more »

The discussion from the first of these is from a very different business perspective;  I had previously seen Johanna Blakeley give a TED talk.  See also my fb posts from 4/18/2010 at 9:03 am for more on this. Fashion and Intellectual Property (6/14/20… more »

Not every scarce thing is valuable to lots of people, or even to a few people. Setting aside lifeboat situations and the like, our individual time in this life is unique in being both extremely scarce and generally non-transferable.  This note aims to r… more »

Along the way to dispute the identity of money and wealth, I said that money developed from commodities that held intrinsic (albeit subjective) value and had those other characteristics, ... more »

I will attempt to refute the notions of money as wealth, and capitalism as a system of conquest, in this exposition that analogizes the ingredients of a soup for the complementary factors of production.   I attempted this draft in e-prime. Wealth makes… more »

Interesting. <BEGIN RANT> Taibbi describes many events of the preceding months, weeks, and days that showed BS was closer and closer to the brink.  Given what was apparently known, quite broadly in that industry, about the fragile state of Bear… more »

See this snopes article for the background, which references the original column in World Net Daily by Craig R Smith. As for the content... It is certainly true that we have electricity to light our evenings, and clean water to drink, a huge variety o… more »

Here's a related article from 2001 Scientific American that has been floating around the office recently. Today I finally took the time to read it, and find the content quite similar to the 2004 article referenced below (flood is inevitable, wetlands r… more »

The desire for control of nation states is a reasonable terrorist motivation;  power lust has motivated so many criminals to government in the past. more »