I got my paycheck receipt today. Unfortunately, it was for just a day, rather than the months pay I was expecting. I called HR and was assured that it was for the last month, and I that was to get this months payment tomorrow. After remembering that I began my job on [...]
The Internet has often been compared to Americas expanding western frontier during the 19th century. Like all frontiers, it has the potential to create enormous wealth through the exploitation of new technologies by the cowboys of the digital domain. The creation of a global communication network has attracted millions of entrepreneurs who are [...]
My Internet connection has been mostly down the last four days, thanks to Cox Internet. I tried to do some off-line activities on my computer like finishing some unfinished essays and doing some coding, but even that seemed futile offline. After looking at a blank screen for a few hours, I resumed reading [...]
Thanks to Google and MSN for recognizing me as the 3rd most Greedy American. If I could go choose to be known by any one moniker, it would be as a greedy American. But this got me to thinking: who are the real greedy Americans? (And how can I capitalize on my [...]
SMU shuts down race-based bake sale.
The Texas A&M chapter of the YCT is planning the same thing in November.
This year’s Open House didn’t yield any great photos, but here is a decent one:
For more, go here.
From Mises.org: Isabel Blew Fallacy Ashore. The Fallacy of the Broken Window is one of many great examples from Henry Hazlitt’s awesome book Economics in One Lesson.
Also: check out the latest Cox and Forkum.
There is a new statue in the business school called “life rhythm.” I pity the poor bastard whose “life rhythm” is described by this junk heap. This is what they picked to represent business? I can think of some superior alternatives
A few interesting stories: Jeff Jacoby says that The War On America Did Not Begin On Sept 11th, Victor Hanson writes that “These Are Historic Times,” and Arthur C Clarke’s dream of a space elevator may be becoming a reality, although the weight of government involvement may ground this project before this elevator goes anywhere.
This is getting ridiculous: The Beatles Sue Apple Computers Over iPod, iTunes
The purpose of trademark law is to prevent a business from mooching of anothers success by falsely representing it. Unfortunately, thats exactly what Apple Corps is using it for in this case.
Saudi Arabia’s religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the “Jewish” toy already banned in the kingdom are offensive to Islam.
For more on the story, see Cox and Forkum.
Arafat threatens to commit suicide if he is expelled from Israel. Oh, the horror! Don’t do it Arafat the thousands of innocent people you murdered will never get over it!
A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows.
Hey, California, you’re overcharging people on taxes—where is their settlement?
Microsoft comments:
“Microsoft has offered great products at competitive prices and we believe we would have prevailed [...]
“Click It or Ticket” represents another bold step along the road to serfdom. History knows of no totalitarianism agenda where noble goals weren’t used as justification. Nazis used “for the good of the German Volk” and the Soviets used “for the good of the proletariat” as their justification. Health and safety have become the American [...]
Tim sent me a link to Skype, a new P2P telephony application from the makers of Kazaa. I was skeptical at first, but a test call changed that. It’s encrypted, reaches callers behind firewalls and NAT’s, has very high quality, and is extremely simple to use. The only downside is that it [...]
I’m playing with the VB.Net-based DotNetNuke portal. Although its very new, the superiority of the .Net platform is allowing it to rapidly catch up with mature LAMP-based portals. It really gives a whole new meaning to RAD development. (Btw, did you know that you can run .Net on Linux/Apache using Mono and [...]
That is the slogan of the eco-terrorists group known as ELF. In the last few years, these home-made terrorists have not only been causing untold millions of dollars in damage, but have also been committing murder for crimes against nature. Ted Kacynskis revolution against the industrial system is just one example of [...]
An MSNBC story reports on RIAA’s suit against 261 music pirates:
The stories of the RIAA 261 are emerging across the country. Many defendants say they are surprised by the suits, that they were unaware that such song swapping could be illegal, or that they were ignorant of the activities of others using their computers, such [...]