Author: Simon

The book discussed: The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine H/T Reason

I hope Zero Hedge will excuse me for republishing this post. This is what the American economy has to look forward to. Except it is happening now. SNAP (mentioned below) is Food Stamps. From a Zero Hedge reader: My company, based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees. The…

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus

The above is a diagram of the best way to build software vs the way HealthCare.gov was actually done. Note that the requirements have yet to be fully defined (don’t believe what the chart says in this case – I assume it was prettied up for consumption by government managers). There is no way they…

Report Alleges Unemployment Rate Was ‘Faked’ Ahead Of 2012 Election H/T Zero Hedge

I came across this from Chateau Heartiste. Liberals are more likely to kill a white person than a black person to save 100 people. So it’s not that liberals are more moral than conservatives, it’s that they’re “differently moral”. I suppose if you like living with people you can trust, you’d want to stay the…

Kurt Schlichter is not blaming libertarians and Libertarians for Ken Cuccinelli’s loss in Virginia. Much. We usually think of a libertarian as a committed anti-statist who favors very limited government operating within strict parameters that maximize individual liberty. Some libertarians fit that mold. Others just want to take bong hits and pretend to be edgy…

At 1 hour 20 minutes in they talk about the pharmaceutical industry vs marijuana. You can find out more about endocannabinoid/cannabis medical science at Rockford For Safe Access.

The National Review article discussed. H/T Libertarian Republican Also this from Libertarian Republican

You can’t eliminate behavioral sink behavior unless you eliminate behavior sinks. That means for one drug “addiction”. Addiction in a behavioral sink The abortion/gestation question comes to mind. Many [female rats] were unable to carry pregnancy to full term or to survive delivery of their litters if they did. An even greater number, after successfully…

What This Morning’s Obamacare Announcement Means. Update: “We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law.” “I completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of Americans.” “It is a complex process.” “I was not informed directly [How about indirectly?!] that the Web site would not be working. . . . I don’t think…

Nice to see a government employee admit it.

The Threepenny Opera Some history: Berlin – Metropolis of Vice: Part 1 Berlin – Metropolis of Vice: Part 2 Weimar Culture What people leave out of the Weimar experience and IMO its foundation is the lack of men – killed in the war. We are doing something similar with our divorce laws. And our drug…

A list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies: Evergreen Solar ($25 million)* SpectraWatt ($500,000)* Solyndra ($535 million)* Beacon Power ($43 million)* Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million) SunPower ($1.2 billion) First Solar ($1.46 billion) Babcock and Brown ($178 million) EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)* Amonix ($5.9 million) Fisker Automotive ($529 million) Abound Solar ($400 million)* A123 Systems…

The operation described on the chalkboard (about 12 minutes in) where they “add” letters together is known these days as the XOR operation. Here is the mathematics of the XOR. The teleprinter code used in those days was the baudot code. Modern computers use the ASCII code. The good stuff (for me) starts at 43…

More at The Unstoppable Plastic Gun. The IRS also wants Wilson to explain in detail his issues and dealings with ITAR. Exactly as the post-Marxist philosophers taught him, he has willingly thrown himself into the maw of a totalizing system that wants to see, know, measure, shape, and protect every aspect of human existence. And…

One Party Ruins Detroit. Both narratives ignore the Chrysler in the room–how Detroit got to where it is today. If the “ruin porn” industry renders pity without judgement, the acts of Dan Gilbert and others, as well-intended as they obviously are, seek a future for Detroit without acknowledging its past or present. Not once in…

Green economics will lead to poverty. While the shale boom in the US has lowered electricity bills for consumers, Europeans are struggling to keep up with rising energy costs, in large part due to ambitious emissions targets set by the EU. In Germany, known for both its aggressive push towards renewables and the storied competitiveness…

More on the UnAffordable Care Act System. A clear illustration of the GIGO concept: It’s not a system that any engineer would recognize as being a system. The number of pages of regulations alone presently exceeds 20,000. There are way too many business rules to implement, test, and operate. With the business rules still being…