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You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel
Commodity speculators are driving grain prices higher and globalists are not about to let a crises go to waste. Via Spiegel Online:
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that someone who buys a life insurance policy is ultimately supporting speculation in wheat or cocoa?
Braun: That needs to be qualified. In a crisis like the current one, speculative behavior pervades the entire population. The millions of mothers who are now keeping 20 kilograms instead of 5 kilograms of rice in their pantries are also speculators, in a sense, because they are essentially stockpiling. Speculators involved in real grain trading fulfill an important function, because their activities signal to the market whether a given commodity is scarce and expensive or cheap and therefore available in abundance. The speculation driven by financial markets is different, because it has decoupled itself from the real market and is distorting prices.
There are several macroeconomic issues at play that investors (speculators) are factoring in. It appears that institutional investors are looking at the sideways movement in the stock market and the war on capitalism taking place in western economies and shifting their money to commodities, driving prices up. Also, the declines in value (inflation) of reserve currencies are driving prices up as well.
I have a new computer for the most part and need to do a few more adjustment (nothing big, they can wait for the weekend). I’ve made the switchover to Ubuntu and so far so good. I need to do a little more customization to my set up, but everything is working great.
And now that I’m back up and running here are a few quick hits:
Rolling shutter is a method of image acquisition in which each frame is recorded not from a snapshot of a single point in time, but rather by scanning across the frame either vertically or horizontally. In other words, not all parts of the image are recorded at exactly the same time.
Voter Fraud Alert: ACORN Members Plead Guilty, Funny Business in Texas
This is really cool: a reciprocating laser cutter
Indicators like the “yield curve” are only valuable when you first understand its components in terms of real world human activity. You need to know why certain data correlates and why those correlations might fail. Economics is not physics. It is a science of deduction.
The economy is not, as Keynesians believe, a mechanistic construct that can be manipulated by adjusting their mathematical formulae. Because humans are not machines, you “cannot quantify human action.”Empirical data is only good for finding deductive reasons that explain the correlations and failures in terms of real human action. So unlike physics, there are no empirical constants in economics. In fact, to provide any worthwhile meaning, your correlation has to fail at least once.
Cruiser cam catches 100 mph crash (extra big tip O’ the hat to Lee):
Very cool!
BTW- Terry Bozzio is one excellent drummer.
Via The BBC:
Chris Yurista, a DJ from Washington, DC, cites this trend in digital music as one reason he was able to hand over the keys to his basement apartment over a year ago.
“It’s always nice to have a personal sense of home, but that aside – the internet has replaced my need for an address,” the 27-year-old said.
Since boxing up his physical possessions and getting rid of his home, Mr Yurista has taken to the streets with a backpack full of designer clothing, a laptop, an external hard drive, a small piano keyboard and a bicycle – an armful of goods that totals over $3,000 (£1,890) in value.
The American University graduate, who spends much of his time basking in the glow emanating from his Macbook, earns a significant income at his full-time job as a travel agent and believes his new life on the digital grid is less cluttered than his old life on the physical one.
“I don’t feel a void living the way I’m living because I’ve figured out a way to use digital technology to my advantage,” Mr Yurista explained.
Mr Yurista feels by digitising his life, he no longer has to worry about dusting, organising and cleaning his possessions. And he says his new intangible goods can continue to live on indefinitely with little maintenance.
“Things like records snap and wear down over time. It’s upsetting. MP3s don’t,” he said.
Chris Yurista Mr Yurista feels his digital possessions can now live on indefinitely with little maintenance
The DJ has now substituted his bed for friends’ couches, paper bills for online banking, and a record collection containing nearly 2,000 albums for an external hard drive with DJ software and nearly 13,000 MP3s.
I wonder what Mr. Yurista will do if all his friends (whose couches he sleeps on) decide to embrace his ‘minimalist’ lifestyle as well? I guess it wouldn’t be so cool or trendy then.
For some reason I can hear Mt. Yurista saying “all I need is my laptop, my back pack, this paddle-ball game. No more… And this chair”:
So much for the tolerant ,left…
A worker at the EPA, Blaine Collison, tried to have a “greenservation” with a citizen who discarded a cigarette butt on the streets of DC:
I was commuting home on my bike – my colleagues and I appreciate EPA’s bike facilities every single day that we use them – and I followed a car down 17th Street, across the National Mall. The passenger stuck his hand out of the window and I could see a nearly-finished cigarette. I got a bad feeling about what was going to happen: Sure enough, the passenger dropped his butt onto the street right between the Monument and World War II Memorial.
I’ve seen this plenty of times before, but lately I’ve grown tired of resigned acceptance. I caught up to the car at the next light and had a conversation that went like this:
Hi. You dropped your cigarette on the street.
What? No.
Yes, you did.
No.
You dropped it right there on 17th Street at the light. By the World War II Memorial.
So what?
Well…why? That’s not where it goes.
What?!?
That’s not where it goes. No one wants your trash on our streets. Why’d you put it there? Why not just put it in the trash?
That’s where I [colorful adverb] put it!
Yeah, but why? It’s just going to go into the [Potomac] river.
‘Cause that’s where I [repeated colorful adverb] put it!
But no one wants your trash on the street.
Well, clean up the [adjective form of the previously-used colorful adverb] street!
It would be easier to do that if you wouldn’t drop cigarette butts on it.
The light changed and the exchange ended. No one had called each other a name or made a threat, but it also didn’t seem like anyone had made any progress.
One of EPA Administrator Jackson’s key strategic priorities is “Expanding the Conversation”; bringing into the environmental protection process people and stakeholders that have not traditionally been part of it. I’m pretty sure that I had a conversation tonight with one of those folks. Not dropping trash on the street is more basic even than Environmentalism 101. And this was the National Mall. It’s sacred American public space. That we need to have a conversation at this level…
I’m still frustrated and amazed by this. But tomorrow, I’m going to try a little harder. And I’m going to reach out a little further.
Isn’t that great. An EPA bureaucrat will chase you down and confront you about ‘pollution.’
The EPA worker’s actions are strangely reminiscent of this jewel from the 2008 campaign:
Effective 2011, if a state wants to wants to construct a new Coal fired power plant, their plans must include mitigation of CO2 emissions to address the global warming fraud. Via the EPA:
The Clean Air Act requires states to develop EPA-approved implementation plans that include requirements for issuing air permits. When federal permitting requirements change, as they did after EPA finalized the GHG Tailoring Rule, states may need to modify these plans.
In the first rule, EPA is proposing to require permitting programs in 13 states to make changes to their implementation plans to ensure that GHG emissions will be covered. All other states that implement an EPA-approved air permitting program must review their existing permitting authority and inform EPA if their programs do not address GHG emissions.
Because some states may not be able to develop and submit revisions to their plans before the Tailoring Rule becomes effective in 2011, in the second rule, EPA is proposing a federal implementation plan, which would allow EPA to issue permits for large GHG emitters located in these states. This would be a temporary measure that is in place until the state can revise its own plan and resume responsibility for GHG permitting.
This is is the implementation by fiat of the fatally flawed Progressive Federalism concept where the Federal Government establishes regulatory floors rather than having states regulate themselves, and it will not work.
And we all know that this is going to cause more economic distress. Via Alan Caruba @ Warning Signs:
What it doesn’t say is that this power to regulate that does not exist in the present Clean Air Act.
It will cause electricity costs to skyrocket along with gasoline and all other oil derivatives. It will utterly wreck the U.S. economy that is already in dire straits.
If an invading nation had imposed these kinds of restrictions on Americans, we would be in the streets with guns and any other means to fight them.
There is NO global warming. Carbon dioxide plays NO role in this non-event.
This is regulation by deception, by lies, by the arrogance of environmentalists who view the human race as a cancer on the planet.
Thank you Richard Nixon for giving us the EPA:
Having been Jimmy Carter’s pollster, Pat Caddell would know a thing or two about voter ‘tidal waves.’
h/t: Lee
Stay with it… The song starts out a bit slow, but it picks up.
SFpark works by collecting and distributing real-time information about where parking is available so drivers can quickly find open spaces.
To help achieve the right level of parking availability, SFpark will periodically adjust meter pricing up and down to match demand. Demand-responsive pricing encourages drivers to park in underused areas and garages, reducing demand in overused areas. With SFpark, real-time data and demand-responsive pricing work together to readjust parking patterns in the City so that parking is easier to find.
You know, this whole free market / supply and demand thing could really catch on.
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