The story of how the Vietnamese fell into the nail industry is one of pure chance — of how 20 women who fled their war-torn country happened to meet a Hollywood starlet with beautiful nails. The women were former teachers, business owners and government officials who came to America in 1975 after the fall of [...]
Read more →http://www.swivel.com/ – this is just really really cool and really really useful. I’m already a big fan, and I only just found it.
Read more →http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michealene-cristini-risley/jp-morgan-chase-fear-tact_b_95654.html This is why you need CheapID to authenticate your identity, without disclosing it. And, for special bonus points, proposal for warehousing the DNA data of newborns in America. Because that’ll never be abused.
Read more →Lichtenstein Monaco San Marino and best of all Mount Athos which is a sovereign monastry
Read more →http://www.worldometers.info/ – general stats http://www.stopthehunger.com/ – hunger specific stats very good
Read more →For a long time, I’ve been joking with people about Guptastan – the state which is in the box. It only recently occurred to me that people don’t realize that I’m absolutely serious about starting a new nation state within three or four years if conditions are historically right. This is not a joke. It’s [...]
Read more →I think I stumbled on something today, in a discussion with Arto. Here’s the idea. The right to free speech has some natural limits – the classic statement of this being “shouting fire in a crowded theater” – a phrase with a very interesting history. Similarly, very few people think that the right to bear [...]
Read more →http://www.stanley2002.org/CSII.htm . Very good reading so far. It’s stuff like this that could get me re-invested in the political process. Should that happen… hide.
Read more →This phrase, “unequal distribution of abundance” I use to refer to the phenomenon of people starving to death or dying of easily curable diseases in affluent societies. I consider it a profound “bug” – apriori evidence that somebody’s natural rights to life, liberty and property have been violated.
Read more →http://bendiken.net/2008/04/26/zero-sum-delusion is Arto’s post on capitalism. My issues with capitalism as it is typically formed by Libertarians are three fold. 1> Natural monopolies, like railways, networks, and irrigation and other river activities. 2> Creation of property rights over things like land by the State. 3> Limited liability as a subsidy to investors by the State. [...]
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