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SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public DisclosureThe law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from "surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities." Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot.CBO: Deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levelsIn related news, 2+2=4, up is up, down is down, and you can't spend yourself into prosperity--no ...

"When Ideas Have Sex" with Matt Ridley (TED conference)
This is a great talk about the evolution of technology in civilization.


This interview was with Reason Magazine:
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(Ignore Glenn Beck at the beginning if you need to)
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What is Sleep?
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Travel back with me if you will to a glorious time a year of greatness the taxes were low the drugs were good and the woman didn't give ya AIDS even if you put it in their butt. Surely the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty six was a year to best all years besides for 1985 which really was a kickass year in and of itself. Just ask William Gibson. Also I been shat out my mams hairy vagina that year so in a sense 1985 really was the crest of the wave as far as I'm concerned. But 1986 did had its moments, one of which will go down in history because Urotsukidoji was released that year ...

Hank: what is hate? Cpt. F: that's just how it doCpt. F: That reminds me of the old stileproject game "JUNGLE COCK"Cpt. F: it was an RPG where you had tons of items, but the answer to every situation was to use the jungle cockCpt. F: "the door is locked, what it do?"Hank: hahaharCpt. F: "use key or JUNGLE COCK"Hank: JUNGLE COCKHank: the old internets sucked yet ruledCpt. F: ayeHank: new internets are 99.999999999999999999999997% gayCpt. F: yeah but a frilllion times biggerCpt. F: and scary tooCpt. F: I refuse to go to /b/ anymoar as I'm afraid of law enfoarcementHank: you fool, you aren't ...

This is basically what I said in my healthcare article--not a new argument, but new to most people for some reason.

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Speaker Pelosi weighs in on economic policy. In short unemployment checks create jobs, fast.



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Chapter 6--Hisma Desert, southern Jordan – 1957A man stood naked in the sands, his skin badly damaged from the sun. He looked up at woman in a long dress standing above him on a dune. Her headscarf was undone and her long hair whipped about her face. “I never thought you’d take it this far!” he called with failing breath over the gritty winds. She said nothing. Behind her eyes burned a hot hate. She lifted up the shovel on which her right hand had rested and threw it at the man. It landed at his side, the blade grazing his ankle painfully. The man looked up at the woman again ...

"We are a group of professionals. We treat each other with respect and we have a great working relationship. Personal relationships are not ... an issue," said a serious-faced NASA Commander Alan Poindexter. "We don't have them and we won't."

Seriously.

Today's entry is in regards to the G20 protests turning violent.It comes from what is quite possibly a source of banal commentary equal to YouTroll itself, Yahoo News comments. This comment section was particularly putrid with unabashed antisemitism, racism, and mindless anti-"Corporatism" (which ironically is pro-corporatist) in other words the usual stink of modern Anarchism. I decided to pick an argument I got involved in:**[Note, Yahoo comments are wonky and display with newest comment first instead of oldest in the various sub threads. I moved the comments about to put them in ...

The Mac Pro (not to be confused with the similarly-named "Macbook Pro") is probably the one Apple product that you haven't heard of, as they haven't released a commercial overhyping it in about four years.Like the Macbook Pro is supposedly just a Macbook with better specs, the Mac Pro is supposed to be an Apple desktop with better upgradability and specs than the Mac Mini or iMac. In those respects, the Mac Pro is still better. However, Apple has been steadily reducing the frequency at which it updates the Mac Pro, which has lead the products current irrelevance.Unfortunately, even as the ...

Chapter 4---Halfway across town, a man pulled up to the Circle K in an old black Buick and got out of the car. His lean legs carried him into the store, where he very purposefully picked out a bag of Doritos ‘Spicier Nacho’ flavor chips, a big Snickers, and a gallon of water. He strode up to the counter and paid for these items, along with two packs of Camel Wides. One of these he slipped in the side pocket of his jacket, the other he opened. He pinched a cigarette out and lit it before he had reached the store’s doorway. Once outside, the man looked around in every direction. He ...

Chapter 3--Sue woke up with a nasty pain in her left deltoid and a foul mood in her heart. “Oh great,” she thought carelessly, “I’m probably having a heart attack or something.” She didn’t want to get out of bed, so she laid there until the last possible second that would avoid tardiness to her first meeting. Then, she laboriously raised herself and padded into the kitchen to make some coffee. The black sludge from her French press tasted like ‘Raid’ and she wished she’d bought better coffee. What, she mused, is the point of having a fancy French press if you’re drinking ...

So you know that whole First Amendment thing where it says that Congress "shall make no law" abridging the freedom of speech? Like, the one that's designed to protect citizen interests against the interests of the government? Well, it seems that a Federal appeals court doesn't think that stuff is very important, compared to the concerns of well-funded lobbyists from the RIAA and other publishing industries. In fact, the court specifically says that the reasoning behind its decision is that there is a "substantial or important government interest" in violating the First Amendment. The ...

In the end, Hape’s presentation won Danny over. After some price haggling (Hape, as was his wont, budged only two percent, saying that “cost is through the roof on carbon fiber”), it was agreed that Danny’s Sports Authorities would carry the presented Head product, minus most of the apparel, which Hape conceded after Danny showed him a spreadsheet indicating that 70% of the previous year’s line had been sold at clearance prices due to lack of demand. Hape printed out the contract that they had edited together on Hape’s computer, and Danny signed it. Danny had made no ...

Though I am one of the very most far-gone of the music freak species, I very rarely write music reviews. This is mainly because music moves me on a very id-type level, a visceral nad mojo vibration thing that is very difficult to put into words.When I put on some records, I just get totally enveloped by their atmosphere. I’m one of those people who will listen to a new LP on repeat for a few hours and just stare at the cover art, consumed by the environment that the record creates. You can probably tell by my references to ‘records’ and ‘LPs’ that I’m from a generation, probably ...

Hape cracked open his portfolio to reveal a sleek laptop, which he opened to Danny’s dismay and started the presentation. This was his ace in the hole. He’d helped put this thing together, and it not only briskly revealed the technological superiority of the FlexTelligence E line, but broke the news that Head had bought no less than three super-high-profile endorsers away from rivals : Gil Fisher, Ainsley Chong, and the apparently unbeatable Ricky Phil Stiller. Stiller was widely expected to sweep the Grand Slam this year on the strength of his terrifying serve and shrewdly evil ...

Now that Greenspan is no longer working for the government, he's once again turned into a capitalist.In a rant he recently wrote for the WSJ, he said “The United States, and most of the rest of the developed world, is in need of a tectonic shift in fiscal policy ... Incremental change will not be adequate.”He went on to say that “Perceptions of a large U.S. borrowing capacity are misleading,” and current long-term bond yields are masking America’s debt problem. “Long-term rate increases can emerge with unexpected suddenness,” such as the 4 percentage point surge over four ...