Thursday, February 28, 2013
Jdilla changed my life
Friday, November 2, 2007
Ahhh Damn that Ben
Everyday the dollar falls to new lows, Gold is at 800+ an ounce and Oil approaching $100 a barrel, but government data reported the lowest inflation in the last half century, try more like 10-12%? I am not sure how they cooked the books on that one, but hats off to you, you managed to once again fool the sheep.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Poll Shows Paul Ahead of Clinton in Key Demographic
Don't want to live in a socialist society controlled by Hillary and her universal health care, The latest Rasmussen Report makes it clear that the only true anti-war candidate and the only republican candidate that can beat her is Ron Paul Link
Senior Fiat
What is a fiat money system and what can it do for you? Well investopedia put it this way.
"Money that a government has declared to be legal tender, despite the fact that it has no intrinsic value and is not backed by reserves. Historically, most currencies were based on physical commodities such as gold or silver, but fiat money is based solely on faith."
Currency based solely on faith; so one would assume that if people are kind enough play along and accept the dollar as a legal currency, Then the government would do it's best to make sure the dollar would keep it's value.
Well in a Utopian society that would be the case, but one just needs to look at the news today and read the headlines .
The dollar fell to another new low against the euro
Warren Buffett said he expected the dollar to weaken further
Why is this happening? Well first a little history
The US used to be on the Gold standard, this basically meant the gold was legal currency, and any notes the government printed was backed by gold reserves. At any time the holder of the note could in theory exchange it for it's weight in gold. The main purpose of this was to limit government spending, it could only spend what it had. The founding fathers knew of the dangers of a fiat currency. The founding fathers experienced the damage it caused . Most of the revolutionary war was financed by worthless currency called "Continentals". hence the phrase "Not worth a Continental". They were so concerned that they included the following in the Constitution.
Article 1 section 10 clearly states
"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
So clearly the system we have in place today violates the constitution, Why do we allow this? Next post what led to our current system, why our dollar is inflating and what might happen down the road.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
War Criminal
Ubuntu (Ooo. Boon. Too)
The new version of Ubuntu comes with compiz fusion seen above. This is the future, Vista, OS X Leopard eat your heart out. Now the cool thing is there are a number of ways you can try out Linux without losing your windows installation. First you would need to download the ubuntu iso image here.
Just burn the image to a cd and boot off it. It will load a working version into your RAM without installing a thing. If you like what you see you can install it and dual boot windows or Ubuntu.
The second way is to use VMware this is basically a program That allows you to use a second OS running on top of windows\Linux. You can download Vmware here
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Support the FAIR USE Act of 2007
Support the FAIR USE Act of 2007
Reps. Rick Boucher and John Doolittle's FAIR USE Act would remove some of the entertainment industry's most draconian anti-innovation weapons and chip away at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) broad restrictions on fair use. Use the form below and tell Congress to help restore balance in copyright now.
Technology companies play a game of Russian roulette whenever they create products with both infringing and non-infringing uses. Current "secondary liability" standards don't provide enough certainty, and if innovators guess wrong, they can be hit with statutory damages as high as $30,000 per work infringed. When it comes to mass-market products like the iPod or TiVo, damages could run into the trillions of dollars -- more than enough to bankrupt anyone from the smallest start-ups to the biggest companies. Unlike in other areas, the private assets of corporate officers, directors and investors are not shielded from liability in copyright cases.
The FAIR USE Act would limit the availability of statutory damages for secondary liability and allow innovators to make more reasonable business decisions about manageable levels of legal risk. Meanwhile, copyright owners could still get injunctions and actual damages for harm suffered, putting them in no worse a position than civil litigants in most other areas.
The bill would also codify the Supreme Court's "Betamax doctrine" as it pertains to hardware devices, making clear that manufacturers cannot be held liable based on the design of technologies with substantial non-infringing uses.
Finally, the bill would loosen the grip of the DMCA, which restricts circumvention of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions even for lawful uses. The FAIR Use Act adds 12 exemptions, including the ability to circumvent for classic fair use purposes like news reporting, research, commentary, and criticism.
Broader DMCA and copyright reform remains absolutely necessary, but, if passed, this bill would be a big first step in the right direction. Take action to support it now.
Link
Friday, February 16, 2007
5,000 U.S. Troops Still There by December 2006!
Talk about missing the mark, Newly released or should i saw obtained by the freedom of information act. The government planed to only have 5,000 troops in Iraq by December of last year, Here are some of the highlights.
- A provisional government would be in place by 'D-Day ( Looks like someone didn't study there history)
- the post-hostilities phase would be a matter of mere 'months ( still going strong)
- November 2001, President Bush asked Rumsfeld about the status of plans for war with Iraq. He asked for an updated approach, but did not want to attract attention ( hum wonder why could it be he should have been going after Bin Laden instead of Saddam?)
- In the end, Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Prime Minister Tony Blair persuaded President Bush that the U.S. needed to go to the U.N. to try to legitimize the invasion ( Bush didn't even want to go to the UN, No wonder he gave a half assed effort)
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Any doubts about the housing bubble.
If there is any doubts that housing is on the way down. Nothing is more simple the a chart. from thebubblebuster.com link