I like From a Distance. I think it sounds something like Pink Floyd, early 1970s, before Dark Side… I don’t know, sometime around Meddle? Bob seems to be the resident music critic, maybe he knows better. Perhaps as a product of the 1970s I think the song needs a guitar solo. Without some demonstration of musicianship, it just “seems to keep going.” Show your chops.
My eight year old liked the I Walk A Little video. He thinks the singer looks younger in this video, and he likes seeing people do flips. The reason I invited him into my office to watch the videos was to show him the mustache. Earlier today he told me that he wants a goatee when he’s older, not an imperial. I was impressed, he really did say “a goatee, not an imperial” so I asked him what he thought of the singer’s facial hair. He reiterated that he wants a goatee, not an imperial.
This non-producer thought the production of both videos was pretty damn good.
Ancaps often declare, "All rights are property rights." I was thinking about this the other day, in the context of running into libertarians online who insisted that libertarianism supports "the freedom of movement," and realized that this principle actually entails that people without property have no rights at all, let alone any right to "freedom of movement." Of course, immediately, any ancap readers still left here are going to say, "Wait a second! Everyone owns his own body! And so everyone at least has the right to not have his body interfered with." Well, that is true... except that in ancapistan, one has no right to any place to put that body, except if one owns property, or has the permission of at least one property owner to place that body on her land. So, if one is landless and penniless, one had sure better hope that there are kindly disposed property owners aligned in a corridor from wherever one happens to be to wherever the...
In this paper , Hoppe, Hülsmann, and Block (HHB) make their ethical case against fractional reserve banking (FRB) based on the fact that "two individual owners cannot be the exclusive owner of one and the same thing at the same time." They then posit that since fractional reserve bank notes creates multiple titles or claims to the "same" gold, they are inherently fraudulent. In analyzing this claim, the first thing we will have to do is to turn it into a remotely sensible claim. No one who deposits money at a bank thinks they are entitled to the same money back. What they want, when they go to get their money out, is the same amount of money back. What a gold-backed fractional reserve note comprises is a claim to a certain amount of gold, not certain particular pieces of gold. I hope that change to their argument is uncontroversial! So their complaint comes down to this: if a bank issues pieces of paper that allow the bearer to claim a certain amount of gold...
I guess no one heeded your warning, Gene.
ReplyDeleteI guess no one heeded your warning, Gene.
ReplyDeleteI like From a Distance. I think it sounds something like Pink Floyd, early 1970s, before Dark Side… I don’t know, sometime around Meddle? Bob seems to be the resident music critic, maybe he knows better. Perhaps as a product of the 1970s I think the song needs a guitar solo. Without some demonstration of musicianship, it just “seems to keep going.” Show your chops.
ReplyDeleteMy eight year old liked the I Walk A Little video. He thinks the singer looks younger in this video, and he likes seeing people do flips. The reason I invited him into my office to watch the videos was to show him the mustache. Earlier today he told me that he wants a goatee when he’s older, not an imperial. I was impressed, he really did say “a goatee, not an imperial” so I asked him what he thought of the singer’s facial hair. He reiterated that he wants a goatee, not an imperial.
This non-producer thought the production of both videos was pretty damn good.
Mrs. Hymn, they were all so stunned (except for Woody) that they could not comment.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty #@!!&^%**@! impressive, even if I got no audio even at max volume.
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