http://www.petabit.net/blog Thoughts from the self-esteemed Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:03:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Veteran Matthis Chiroux of the "Hempstead 15" recounts his experience Wednesday, Oct. 15th, 2008, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War and supporters gathered near the Hempstead, N.Y., train station to march on the final presidential debate at Hofstra University. Our intent was made clear in a letter to Bob Schieffer, the ... http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/267/hooves-of-fury-stampede-veteransus-constitution-oct-15 Source. The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis By SCOTT REYNOLDS NELSON As a historian who works on the 19th century, I have been reading my newspaper with a considerable sense of dread. While many commentators on the recent mortgage and banking crisis have drawn parallels to ... http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/262/the-real-great-depression Click on the graph below to save the movie locally for viewing. It's 700MB and I'm on a measly T1 so be nice and download it locally. graph source. [ad] http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/250/the-real-reason-for-global-warming Here's a list of things I want which violate the mantra that is the of the hippie I want a Porsche, nothing new just one that's in the sub $10,000 range so I can save up cash and have my preemptive mid-life crisis fun car to woo all the burner girls ... http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/238/news-flash-im-not-a-hippie Well I've done it again. I've moved. I must be a masochist because I went from first floor to 4th floor. Here's a picture of our living room. Notice the glory that is a faux rustic fireplace. Complete with all the expensive gas bills to make you ... http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/104/the-pantheon-penthouse Edit: For typo, USBDialup is now Instinct. This isn't a beginners guide so you need to install ppp and such on your own. I was going through a lot of craziness setting up my Sprint Instinct to use as a modem, but I figured it out tonight. First, make sure your ... http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/43/use-your-sprint-instinct-as-a-modem-in-ubuntu-hardy-with-usb I got this article from http://www.321gold.com/fed/greenspan/1966.html and I would like to share it with you. by Alan Greenspan [written in 1966] This article originally appeared in a newsletter: The Objectivist published in 1966 and was reprinted in Ayn Rand's Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Buy the book - clickAn almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold ... http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/42/gold-and-economic-freedom Maybe next time you'll think twice about objectifying subjective truths. You can't measure humanity in numbers, only results of actions.  I'm 35% uncertain in this. http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/41/id-like-to-dedicate-this-to-the-paranoid-post-cold-war-ideas-that-taught-my-generation-to-trust-absolutely-no-one http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/40/mccains-on-the-epic-fail-train Global economics are both complicated, obfuscated and convoluted. It has become hard to understand why countries and companies continue to gain from these complicated alliances. Well I have a simple way of explaining this. It all boils down to the lowest common denominator: the USA. And ... http://www.petabit.net/blog/archives/39/simplifying-american-economics