Probably not luck -- he bought the ranch as a campaign prop before his first run for Texas governor Please post where we can read on this. This sounds like more liberal bs. --Karma Gi
That's a luxury you have of being single, noumenon. Try living in a small house or apartment if you have children, and I assure you, the children will be removed. That's what's nice about being single. I can live my values by turning my air conditioning off in the summer without imposing them on anybod
bush is anti environment. his ranch is Geo thermally heated and cooled. he got lucky and his house was built over a hot spring. Probably not luck -- he bought the ranch as a campaign prop before his first run for Texas governor, so it was probably selected partially on its fuzzy wuzzy factor. I'm actua
This is just another version of the "Why don't liberals start more charities?" post. Next: Why don't all Christians move to Iraq? Don't they [i]truly believe[/i] Christ told them to spread the good news to all those who don't believe? Maybe those people decided to start charities and now they don't have time to cut their emissions. I personally went the last five years without a car, live in a 273-square foot apartment, don't watch
Surprised there aren't more comments on this one because I thought it was more interesting than most. Seemed like it ended up being about a lot more than what you sat down to write about. It's very personal and introspective. It's interesting how many of the things you are attributing to the Celexa I had no problem thinking were part of your permanent personality. I didn't notice the change in you, didn't know you were a save-half-your-income perso
Gah. I'm still not kissing cacto's aussie ass on main street because the challenge was issued to him, not Noumenon. So there's nothing to gain by my continuing to bid on a donkey on Australian E-Bay?
I guess that last thing I said is really just about the nature of money. Like how the money I'm saving for retirement today is somehow going to mean that I "deserve" to be taken care of by people who weren't even born when I did the work to make the money. It's actually how you got the money that makes you deserving, not what you spend it on.
I usually fill the contrarian role on this blog, but I have to say that Brad's scenario leads where he wants it to -- don't buy everybody the drug. To give it to every American would cost $3 trillion a month. It's impossible and there's no way "productive" extended lifespans could make up the cost. I suspect the extra value of one year of life is not as high as $120,000, based on economic studies. A market solution would let peop
I thought the point of the hypothetical was that the medicine was perfect yet perfectly unaffordable. So that would be $10,000 per month, per person, for the rest of their elongated lifespan. In that case, every year you extend my life would cost society $90,000. One reason you might consider buying it is that technology might move on even farther. If you pay for this pill for everyone for ten years, they may come up with a new pill that's
And cacto? When you can show me a single government beauracracy which uses less than 10% of its revenue to cover administrative costs I'll kiss your aussie ass on main street. The Social Security administration, which admittedly has the easiest job of any bureaucracy out there, spends 0.6% of payouts on
I just spent like five minutes trying to remember my password, when the real problem was the box was asking for my e-mail address and not my username. Now I have no time to reply to anything. Except... why I did not adopt the welfare mentality that has all but crippled my family. Have you ev
No more complaining about the budget deficit for me! I'm going to start a charity! "Give some money for the government, ma'am?" Your example at the end provides the way to undermine your idea. I would hope everyone who's interested in thinking and not just sneering realizes the "chicken-hawk" idea is stupid. It's ad hominem and it denies civilians a voice in policy. Moreover, if we tried to fight a war based on voluntary contribu
I meant the New York Times article Guy was referring to, trying to create a distinction between "Al Qaeda" and "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia." Do you mind if I ask for a little bit of your personal history? The reason why I wonder is that your link to the Sudanese Thinker blog makes me think you have more of a connection to that part of the world than just studying there.
Mississippopotamia!
If I were going to link to one Michael Totten "the surge is working" article, I'd link to his The Battle of Ramadi . It just basically shows "we are winning" instead of having the Lt. Colonel tell us. I also think Silverman's Stalingrad comparison is a little disrespectful. I was a little chastened that my media sources didn't deliver me this good news from Iraq. It <a
You know, I think you can be a troll on your own blog. Scott Adams at the Dilbert blog says things purposely to get his commenters riled up. And he'll post stuff like, "the first person to respond to my 'evolution has errors' post by saying 'science corrects its own errors, that's what makes it great!' has no free will." He knows what buttons he's pushing with his posts and if he enjoys the feeling of control that gives him over his commenters, that
so now draginol you are a troll because you are against the left idiots. On this board, being against the left idiots doesn't make you a troll. On the left idiots' board, it might. Depends on whether your posts have the potential to become a legitimate discussion, or whether you're just disrupting the
We see that whether it's global warming or Bush. I mean, for example, if Bush is really the most evil person in the world, worse than Hitler, than how can these people sit back and do nothing but complain on a website? If I thought my government had been taken over but an evil fascist dictator, I'd be organizing armed resistance
Sexy car. I may come over to your house and steal it from you. I learned how to do this in Grand Theft Auto , and I know you won't mind because it will just repop in your driveway a few hours later.
I'm a twenty-hours-a-week type fanatic for these kind of games, but I have never bought an expansion pack for any Civ-type game. I just play the original version for years upon years. So I'm a lot more likely to buy your fantasy strategy game than a GC2 expansion. (I hope the fantasy strategy game is like Master of Magic -- that would be so awesome!) Maybe if you could make your game like Magic:the Gathering where it would still be GC2, but
This does kind of contradict Scott Adams (of Dilbert) career advice. Link Since he advocates finding two different fields and becoming above average in both of them, and it's not likely you'll love both. Maybe both advices are good: do what you love, unless you don't love anything, then pick two things you don't love, because you won't have to compete against man
I tried searching for graphs of the average temperature over the last ten years, but I realized I was far too uninformed to do so when I clicked on a graph that had "ion concentration" on the axes. I realized I was just looking for confirmation bias by clicking on any chart that turned upwards. He should have linked to the data he was using, if it's so good. The media is always publishing charts that look like this <a href="http://www.freedo
Can Jetski be a hobby? That could be major fun at the lake house. Anyway, if you don't get enough excitement out of bee raising you can always try bee training . If not a full-fledged conquer the world effort you could at least give them some military discipline like this: Link
My father, who lives in Ukraine, had this to say about the map comparing that country's GDP to Idaho: I've always wondered about economic reporting, and now I'm sure of it. Idahoans may have more SUV's and larger houses, but there's no way I'd believe that in actual physical property each family there has as much as 32
I am totally bookmarking the working paper from that tax the rich article. That kind of data on government spending is almost impossible to find on the Net. Their main point is dead on, too -- you totally ought to consider government spending whenever you consider taxes. First, like they say, because stuff like the EITC and tax breaks blur the line between spending and taxation. Second, because the government doesn't actually keep the money it taxe
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