Let’s examine this hypothetical:
UN: Syria, you had better stop being naughty or Kofi-claus will leave you nothing but Oil for Food kickbacks in your stocking!
France: Umm le yeah, let’s not threaten them with sanctions because that might hurt our arms exports… I mean um… it would hurt their feelings.
UN: Oh alright fine.
What you have just […]
Archive for October, 2005
Listen Up Syria… or ELSE!
Published by October 31st, 2005 in Politics, International Affairs, Policy and Africa. 5 CommentsHuman behavior is economic behavior. Such a statement makes me a proponent of “imperialist” economics, whose greatest marshal is held to be Gary Becker himself. Yet the claim remains that human behavior is economic. A simple demonstration of the claim is that, supposing a person has a goal he seeks and actively tries to obtain, […]
I am busy working on a secret project, which is why I haven’t posted in a while. I just wanted to throw some important news out there.
Blizzard announced some of the details regarding the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion pack today. The expansion will add an Auction House to every major city. Currently there […]
Joe Wilson is a FRAUD, Part III
Published by October 27th, 2005 in International Affairs and Africa. 10 CommentsOf course, if you are to read about this whole supposed Leak scandal, all you’ll read is the names Rove, Libby, Wilson. You’ll barely ever read something about Plame, or the many facets of this manufactured issue. In fact, it is a non-starter, and has failed to resonate with the people. That doesn’t stop the […]
Joe Wilson is a FRAUD, Part II
Published by October 27th, 2005 in International Affairs and Africa. 2 CommentsNothing, however rational-sounding, I mentioned in the first post stopped Ambassador Joseph Wilson from trying to cast doubt on his own work– and on the Bush administration’s rationale for war in Iraq.
Powerline has an outstanding post on this subject:
Wilson has been lying about the contents of his own report to the CIA!:
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Joe Wilson is a FRAUD, Part I
Published by October 27th, 2005 in International Affairs and Africa. 15 CommentsI’m going to be as clear on the subject as I can. No dodging this issue. Joseph Wilson is a partisan hack and a complete lying fraud. The fact that people, even liberals, put stock in him continues to shock me. Are liberals so desperate that they will follow around this charlatan who plays games […]
Russia: A Country on the Brink?
Published by October 26th, 2005 in International Affairs and Old Europe. 4 CommentsHelicopters hovering overhead. Masked gunmen carjacking civilians. Bodies lying in the street. Some horrible war in the third world, you say? More like an increasingly common event in the Russian Caucasus. With President Putin coming under fire from the international community for his domestic policies, one must wonder: is Russia […]
As legend has it, there exists a tuft of black hair in some kind of circular form on the small of many an Asian woman’s back. Some say it’s a blue patch on the butt. This is called the “Mongolian Patch” and can be seen by a mere tug up on the back of an […]
Who did you learn Macro from?
Published by October 24th, 2005 in Economics, Politics and Policy. 1 CommentLearning Macroeconomics is just one of those things…. But at least now all of us at UF can say the [future] Federal Reserve Chairman taught us macro (albeit through his textbook…): President Bush announced his nomination of Ben Bernanke to replace long time Fed chairman Alan Greenspan this afternoon.
Castronova’s Latest
Published by October 24th, 2005 in Technology & Innovation and Entertainment & Culture. 17 CommentsToday I got an email on the Synthetic Worlds listserv run out of Indiana University by Dr. Castronova. He writes of a major shift in his time, away from creating “a large-scale, commercial-grade synthetic world at a university campus” for many reasons– and mentions that his book Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online […]
Virtual Worlds and Politics, Intro
Published by October 23rd, 2005 in Economics, Technology & Innovation and Entertainment & Culture. 6 CommentsWe have discussed how virtual worlds may serve as the perfect laboratory, with controlled settings of all kinds, for economics. There can be little doubt that studies of these worlds have yielded and will continue to yield intellectual fruit. One thing that hasn’t really been mentioned so far is political systems though, and I think […]
The Fast, Blazing Internet (F.B.I.) is watching
Published by October 23rd, 2005 in Technology & Innovation, Policy and Education. 0 CommentsIn an echo of Not Tom’s Orwellian Printer Beware, the New York Times reports that the federal government has vastly expanded the scope of federal wiretap legislation. In what is described as “the mother of all unfunded mandates,” the Federal Communications Commission, responding to a request by the F.B.I. has ordered “hundreds of universities, […]
As many of you know, the Friends of the Library (FOL) book sale began today. I went a little over an hour after they opened—it was busy, to say the least. Most of the book prices are between 25 cents and 1 dollar. There are over 300,000 books on sale, and the prices are often […]
I’m sure that many already got the news from the Independent Florida Alligator (a fine publication, I might add), but for those who haven’t, apparently color printers from some major manufacturers automatically and secretly code certain tracking information, including the date, time, and serial number of the printer, onto each printed page. The coding is […]
Just FYI:
There’s a terrific blog called Truck and Barter (now linked to the side). They happened to mention us in a post today, but that’s not why I’m writing. I’m writing to tell you they have some very interesting posts, especially about the running Virtual Worlds topic– like this post, which is but one […]
