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where privacy is reduced rather than increased but i do think technology will eventually allow the establishment of algorithms and methods that will only capture those who are engaging in criminal activity yes i think the government will eventually have the ability to know that someone is sexually molesting a child in their basement and convict that person on the basis of that knowledge yet still not know that you and your spouse like to use a few s m toys in your bedroom the government will eventually be able to know that someone is constructing a bomb to explode in a jewish daycare center without knowing that you are sitting around with your friends complaining about the president s new tax policy i think this technology will grow out of technology and techniques used to identify insurgents hiding in a crowd of non combatant civilians it is a targeting problem really and targeting problems are insanely difficult to solve but not impossible eventually we will be able to solve them will we it depends will you agree to allowing the government the ability to stop another terrorist attack if it means there is a potential but extreme unlikelihood you could be seen sitting on your toilet will you agree to allowing the government the ability to catch a rapist if it means you might have to answer a question about a joke you made about killing the president why or why not don t base your objection on the case of mistakes in judgement on the part of the government because the assumption is that the algorithms have been tweaked to avoid false positives what i m getting at is are you going to allow the government to stop criminal activity even if it means your own criminal activity will be stopped because that will call into question all sorts of laws won t it technology will force almost all our laws to be re written with a great deal more precision or else we ll end up with an even greater disparity in law enforcement than we already do i e tax laws don t apply to the democratic party politicians who pass them 1 comment filed under badly thought out rants leadership parenting me philosophy politics rant social issues two kinds of people april 9 2009 10 08 am wrong i am not happy barack obama is our president and i think he s made numerous blunders mistakes errors and bad decisions that make our nation less safe less strong less free and less content but it does bother me that other than one reference right at the beginning to president obama s title this article refers to him as mr obama thereafter as best i understand it that s flat out wrong and disrespectful to the office 8 comments filed under badly thought out rants politics rant march 18 2009 9 27 pm president obama s administration is fumbling the ball this is turning out to be the most inept administration as far back as i can think of evidence 1 changing the rules based on populist outrage is wrong and stupid evidence 2 depending on acorn for anything is wrong and stupid evidence 3 why are progressive values more important to export than democracy and liberty evidence 4 less than a week after screwing up russian in a lame attempt to backstab the former president george w bush s administration on a reset button the state dept screws up the president of brazil s name evidence 5 after making campaign accusations that president bush wasn t taking care of veterans president obama wants to make veterans pay for their own treatment evidence 6 national debt hits record 11 trillion nearly conservative estimate may be far more than 2 trillion is just for bailouts that president obama asked for evidence 7 bailout money tends to go to those who contributed most to president obama s campaign result losing the populace and maybe even the base the worst part this is all just off the top of my head and all within this week 1 comment filed under badly thought out rants economics leadership parenting link of admiration philosophy politics rant snark social issues two kinds of people march 10 2009 8 26 pm political economic philosophy i ve thought for some time that i cannot accept some of the main premises of libertarianism that s in other posts and a summation can wait for another day obviously i think there are also some parts of the republican platform that i can t get behind either and i especially dislike some non official policy positions taken by some republicans like corruption and pork and moderate social positions i m into inherited and demonstrated wisdom for those types of things but here s the point that may end up causing a split between me and other republicans and conservatives i don t know how it will turn out i am growing to dislike capitalism now to clarify that doesn t mean i like communism or socialism mercantilism doesn t float my boat either not even in a rising tide heh i am however a great proponent of mostly free markets and despite what people may tell you that s not the same thing at all at least from my perspective just like government is there and should be restricted to those things we cannot do ourselves like national defense and resolving disputes between states our economic system is there and should be restricted to doing the things that can t be done on an individual basis for instance in communism everybody works together the profits are pooled and everyone unselfishly takes just what they need the leftover goes to maintain infrastructure buy new cows etc in socialism everyone works their own job in their own place but taxes take most of what you earn leaving you just a tiny bit of discretionary income 5 10 and the taxes go to pay to maintain infrastructure cover health care costs etc in capitalism everyone works and freely chooses which things to purchase with their high discretionary income left after taxes and due to the nature of financial pyramids individuals at the top of the pyramids accumulate capital that can be used for various projects like opening a hospital starting a sports team or league making a toll road starting a computer business the fact that these ventures will hopefully garner even more cash for the top guy is immaterial he ll spend it on other things or invest in other companies which will help grow the economy and provide cheap goods to people it really is a win win situation for the most part he who risks dares and has ability can establish a new pyramid for themselves or rise to the top of an existing pyramid and be financially secure while increasing the standard of living for all who purchase his products or services from that point of view the government is just another less efficient capitalist i think that is accurate but i don t think it is the best economic system too often the guy at the top didn t risk anything too often they only risk other people s money too often someone near the bottom of the pyramids can t start on or even find the beginning of the path to rise to the top despite intelligence ability drive and daring too often getting in first is enough to get rich building a better mousetrap will eventually result in wealth but sometimes it takes too long or sometimes a large corporation steals the idea before you can benefit from it sometimes socialist tendencies by governments at various levels betray the capitalist principles and then blame capitalism for the problems that result like i said i don t think capitalism is the best economic system it works well most of the time because it utilizes the free market not because it is the best in and of itself the most important part of any economic system is the number of transactions the more transactions the more wealth the more transactions the more wealth the better everyone s standard of living is think of it this way you have a person living alone on the slopes of a mountain he has to do everything for himself he has to make shelter make clothes and shoes make hunting weapons hunt gather wood for warmth clean the dead game cook and maintain his dwelling oh and create his own art and recreation that s too much for one person to do he ll have a poor quality life just from trying to do too much much less because he can t be good at everything and must accept sub par results in many areas now put two people together one can do all the hunting farming and construction the other can do all the cooking cleaning and home maintenance the first doesn t have to take time out from hunting to clean up the house the second doesn t have to stop maintaining the house and making clothes shoes to find food to cook and eat they are immediately wealthier by sharing effort and concentrating somewhat on talents now add 10 people to the little community now one can make great shoes one can make warm clothing one can get all the firewood two or three can cook two or three can hunt one can make all the tools they are all now much more wealthy than any 2 or 3 could be and far more wealthy than one alone they benefit from economies of scale i m not sure where the upper boundary of cost benefit lies more people means crime and free riders along with better division of effort and better economies of scale and here s another example go drive for 3 4 hours on an interstate count how many convenience stores fast food restaurants full service restaurants and hotels you see they didn t have convenience stores 30 years ago towns and cities could only support 2 3 fast food restaurants per major exit and you could go 200 miles between seeing fast food restaurants heck not every exit even had a gas station you don t see that nowadays in most of the us outside of montana wyoming and maybe north dakota the small city of 90k people i live in has an inestimable amount of restaurants i could take a stab at guessing there are 100 but that is probably a low number i don t think we have 200 but i wouldn t be surprised if we did that doesn t include fast food restaurants i would be willing to bet money that there is at least one full service restaurant for every 900 people in my town a decade ago it was probably more like one restaurant for every 1200 people 30 years ago i d bet it was one for every 2000 or more people what happened are we that much richer than before well yes and no we aren t richer because people are spending more money eating out due to convenience and people run up their credit cards to include for eating out but we are richer too people can spend more money eating out without diminishing their quality of life and a town that once could support less than 50 restaurants now has more than 100 without an equal growth in population because there are more restaurants there are more jobs from cooks and waiters to a higher demand for produce and meat that keeps more farms and ranches profitable a recession and or depression occurs when people stop spending money as much when people stop spending money there s less to go around a 20 bill circulates through a town through mutual transactions it pays for a meal and the restaurant owner uses it to buy shoes and the shoe store owner uses it to pay a salesman s salary and the salesman uses it to buy a cd and music store owner uses it to buy beer and the liquore store owner uses it to buy flute lessons for his kid and the music teacher uses it to put gas in his car and the convenience store owner uses it to see the dentist but if the first person doesn t eat out everyone in the chain is 20 poorer no that s why they do stimulus spending it s an ineffective and bass ackwards way to do it of course talking down the economy like president obama and his subordinates are doing does far more damage than stimulus spending can help and stimulus spending has to be paid for by taxes which mean you really aren t stimulating anything i thought up all this on my own so it is sloppy since i thought up all this i ve seen articles about this they refer to it as money velocity now i know no one stole the idea from me i know that professional economic theorists are way ahead of me and i just thought in a similar manner just far less rigorously thus there are probably significant problems with what i wrote but the point is i am beginning to think that capitalism is just the most effective so far way we ve found to encourage money velocity to stay high i just think re arranging the economy to encourage more transactions is a better way to go on your 3 4 hour trip drive through the city center of a town that has been around for 100 years notice the city hall square they couldn t afford that 150 years ago and we couldn t afford to build those sorts of grand buildings now so why could a small town afford to do that in the 1900s part of the answer is works projects but not all of it i m convinced it was due to transactional effects the more money that was in circulation the more small towns and society could afford to do things like that like i ve said on the one had we are richer in the us than we were 30 years ago but in other ways we are poorer and i think that we are richer due to more transactions per capita but poorer because the government takes too much in taxes to do its thing and then because people have to forgo savings and often drive up personal debt to maintain the transactional mass money velocity the federal government wants to raise taxes to re build our infrastructure i put it to you that we can t afford to re build our infrastructure because our taxes are already too high i don t think anyone in the us should pay more than 20 of their income in taxes at all levels combined if we did that we d see an economic boom like you wouldn t believe i think i just made a case for a 17 flat tax or perhaps even better transitioning away from income and payroll taxes to a national sales tax okay i ve run out of steam you can critique this now i don t pretend it is anything close to perfection but it does encapsulate the direction of my thinking right now just don t assume that i will automatically accept criticism just because you say i m wrong make a case and we can discuss leave a comment filed under badly thought out rants economics me philosophy politics march 10 2009 5 56 pm north and south dakota north and south carolina west virginia what does that say about us as a nation we can build the world s greatest economy develop mass production techniques that bring cheap goods within the grasp of all people establish and maintain centers of higher learning that are the envy of the world harness the ingenuity and desire of all races across the globe to create a free and egalitarian society but we can only think of 47 names for states leave a comment filed under badly thought out rants humor snark march 6 2009 8 44 pm if you wanted to destroy the a nation from within how would you go about it wouldn t you start with the economy wouldn t you continue with upending all sorts of social conventions wouldn t you enact initiatives that would make your more radical supporters happy and eager for more wouldn t you make all sorts of harmless sounding promises in your ...