Quotations with links

"Without the proletarian Bad Cop of the USSR, the proletarian Good Cop of Social Democracy is doomed."--JVS

"A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect of its economy--a country that switched to Japanese cars the moment they were more reliable, and to Chinese T-shirts the moment they were five cents cheaper--has loyally stuck with a health-care system that leaves its citizenry pulling out their teeth with pliers."--Malcolm Gladwell

"I think it's pretty healthy to be somewhat skeptical of government power, but only because it's healthy to be somewhat skeptical of the power of any person, institution, or organization which has it in significant amounts."--Sportin' Life

"'Terrorism' has become a proprietary brand and the US government holds the copyright."--War in Context

"Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false."--Dale Carrico

"We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies."--John Perry Barlow, quoted by Cedwyn

"...the official definition of recession has become delinked from peoples' actual experience. Right now, we're in an economy with deteriorating employment and incomes, collapsing home prices, and business retrenchment. Is it also an economy in recession? Who cares?"--Paul Krugman, quoted by Jay Stevens

"On the other hand, as tens of millions of Chinese and Indians annually join Americans and Europeans in wanting their steaks and wines - and perhaps a bit of $4 gasohol from food crops to get them to the supermarket and back - the orders of magnitude start agreeing. What we are looking at is not an example of government meddling ruining a free market, as this is generally characterized. What we are seeing is a fundamental principal [sic] of any market at work - when you don't have money, no one wants to sell you shit."--the editors of The Poor Man

Quotations with links

"As you no doubt remember, Cingular was co-owned by BellSouth and SBC, which had been Southwestern Bell and Ameritech, which before that had been Illinois Bell, Wisconsin Bell, Michigan Bell, Ohio Bell, and Indiana Bell. ... A couple of years ago Cingular bought AT&T Wireless and renamed it Cingular, but then SBC bought AT&T and changed its own name to AT&T. Then that new AT&T bought BellSouth, changing its name to AT&T, making it only logical to change Cingular into AT&T."--Stephen Colbert, quoted by Onnesha Roychoudhuri

"And like those vassals of old, we accept to be fleeced time and again for the betterment of those who already have more than plenty - piously accepting the lie that if the rich get richer, everybody else will benefit somehow in such prosperity."--Mentarch, a. k. a. Pierre

"If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God."--Desmond Tutu, quoted by Elizabeth Schmitz

"If someone doesn't have a job, they can't pay their insurance. If they can't pay their insurance, they lose their ability to register the car and their right to drive. If you can't drive, in most places in the U.S., you're really screwed in finding a job, because the public transit systems here generally suck."--Skippus

"Any time believing a certain way is important, in my opinion, you're dealing with brainwashing. And if it's so important that, unless you have the correct beliefs, you're going to hell, the stakes are raised considerably and the brainwashing is commensurably increased."--John E. Lawrence

"Even the name 'rational choice' seems to have been run through a machine to soften the harshness of this science. When we realize that gamesmanship is still such a great part of game theory, by whatever name, then such choices may not seem so rational."--WillSea

"I've said more than once that America's most profound strategic casualty in the woebegone war on terror has been its information environment."--Jeff Huber

"I've come to believe that January 2009 will resemble not so much a new beginning as it will a giant hangover, an empty wallet, and angry creditors not far behind."--Mori Dinauer

"The cost in IMMOBILITY of our emphasis on personal (auto)mobility is rarely figured into calculations about standard of living/quality of life, maybe because the immobilized constituencies are so invisible in our society."--Rachel May

"but this returns to the power problem: you have to have power to have a voice and in order to get power, your voice must be inline with all of the other powerful voices."--Danah Boyd

What's happening to my language?

I thought the past tense of "lead" was spelled "led." In my recent offline reading of online content, I've noticed a tendency toward uses of "led" in this context being outnumbered by uses of "lead" by, let's say, ten to one. Now I even see the "lead" spelling used utterly consistently (as if by editorial policy) at Progressive Historians, a website purporting to include folks with Ph.D.'s among its contributors.

This being said, the article linked from the above paragraph makes it plain that the Canadian government lead [sic] by S. J. Harper makes good on the promises implied by taking the "P" out of "PC." It's reminiscent of the purge of the moderates from the GOP in connection with the so-called Reagan Revolution.

Quotations with links

"They have to flatten the economy for the world to be flat."--antu

"The trouble with the American Left is that it's American."--ddjango

"I have no problem with spy cameras or those who watch them. They have provided me an excellent opportunity to keep up my marksmanship skills."--anon.

"If a cis woman's life is completely opaque to me as a trans woman, then I fail to see how a cis woman could possibly understand my life."--Lisa Harney

"In Westernspeak, the West nuking other countries does not qualify as the use of weapons of mass destruction."--Paul Craig Roberts

"But wait you say, who cares about 'idealism' and 'litmus tests', you'll vote for any democrat just so long as they can beat the repugs? (go blue team go! We'll win the meaningless trophy of hollow authority this year!)"--R. Mildred

"You know those 'Reagan Democrats' we keep being told we have to move to the right to get back? Well, like Digby says, They Aren't Democrats."--Avedon Carol

"Sounds like the people at the DOJ didn't get past the first chapter in their economics textbooks, to the part where it explains how barriers to entry are one of the primary impediments to a healthy market."--David Alpert

"What's all the fuss about this 'digital rights management' stuff? It's about copyright holders making you into the 'adversary', and trying to control your use of products even after you've bought them, through technological means -- backed up by laws and 'inter-industry negotiations':"--Seth David Schoen

"This video supports my long-held belief that political figures should be allowed in the media only when the clips are a minimum of five or ten minutes, unedited. Soundbites would be outlawed."--Michael J.

"For Facebook or equivalent to really monetize beyond CPM (which has already proven to be weak) it will end up being an online equivalent to Amway and then people will quickly see that being pestered by tons of 'friendly' sales people is not a good bargain for having some basic communicaton tools."--Bernard Lunn

"Why give away our secrets? Because if they stay secrets, we're fucked."--CrimethInc

"If I felt that someone else was mapping my conversions and the relationships they represented - and wasn't prepared to have the same done to them, I would soon stop talking."--Euan Semple

"What sesame street teaches is how to watch sesame street."--Juliet Schor

"The second workshop on status was structured as a game where we were given gems that we had to trade to work our way up the status latter. It quickly became clear that some were born wealthier than others. I was a member of the poverty class. Realizing we would never win by getting money and realizing that whenever a member of our group did well, they were shipped off to another group, our group decided to aim for bottom, maximize happiness and conversation, and laugh at the other groups going crazy. The wealthier classes were much more invested in succeeding and one of the members from the upper-middle class nearly went ballistic over how the game was rigged and she wasn't able to win. Gotta love a room full of Type A personalities. Anyhow, this provoked a fun conversation and my table got to talking about the status structures of badges (not unlike those at tech companies where there are permanents and contractors and temps and whatnot)."--Danah Boyd

Quotations with links

"The use of clustering parallels the rise of the relatively homogeneous suburbs. Government policies that created tight communities of like-minded people suddenly made it possible to corral voters who for all practical purposes resembled sheep in statistical holding pens. They could then be led to large concrete boxes that painlessly relieved them of their votes and allowed them to emerge as transformed as if from a shearing. In essence the suburbanization with its geographic sorting of races, income levels and tastes intersected with the rise of the computers that make cluster analysis possible."--Ralph Brauer

"In order to be a 'support-based hierarchy' (which still seems like an oxymoron to me), wouldn't the one who commands everyone else from the top of the hierarchy be the one who supports the most--not the one who is most supported?"--Jef Godesky

"We need more viable political viewpoints in the debate than merely “I’m for big biz and weathy” vs “I’m for big biz and wealthy but the poor folks don’t have to starve”."--REkzkaRZ

"Right now, our choices are Right Wing and Supersized Right Wing with Extra Fries, and they only have to compete with each other. Any third party trying to move in on their territory can currently be banished by invoking the spectres of Ross Perot and Ralph Nader."--Max Kaehn

"If we have learned anything in the last few years, it is that the economy is no longer an effective measure of human well-being."--Barbara Ehrenreich

Quotations with links

"Economic Democracy is not just about capital that is technically owned by workers, it is not a form of worker capitalism over another group of workers."--Tom Vouloumanos

"The only thing it takes to make a person disabled, after all, is a social expectation that some other kind of person is normal."--abfh

"Taxes and unions got us out of the depression. Redistribution of income. Taxes on the rich, the money used to build infrastructure and provide good jobs, and unions to force the corporations to give raises and benefits. In a consumer economy you want more money in the hands of the consumers - not the rich. DUH!"--Dave Johnson

"Republicans only want schools to graduate young people ready to work, not to think critically and they have so denigrated public education for so long that it could be decades before the system recovers."--Charles 2

"But something's worth saying plainly that gets downplayed by Wall Street and other neo-liberal free-trade fans: Just as water seeks its own level, Indian foundry workers and other semi-skilled professions will enjoy a slow increase in wages and opportunities over the next 40 or so years as they approach some kind of parity with the West. We, on the other hand, will have to see a more precipitous drop in living standards in order to contribute to that journey to equilibrium point. When we get there, here will feel more like India than India will seem more like us."--fouro

Class meme

via seeking academia

Bold the statements that are true. Seen it everywhere.... Though this list is not all encompassing, it is still relevant

1. Father went to college (one semester)
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 (no really long-term lessons)
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child (dad's an amateur artist)
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
25. You had your own room as a child (2-kid, 2-bedroom house, but part of childhood spent in makeshift bedroom in basement due to incompatibilities)
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course (high school curriculum, of course, was teaching to the test)
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school (at times I had garbage picked TV's that worked)
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 (still an air travel virgin at age 42)
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family (mom involved us kids in family bookkeeping, we were aware of all the bills)

12/34

Quotations with links

"Before we turn all of America into a gated community, with a 700 mile steel fence running along the southern border, we should consider the mixed history of exclusionary walls."--Barbara Ehrenreich

"...anarchists reject both privatisation and nationalisation."--Anarcho

"Tired of Poll-Driven News Coverage of Elections, Instead of Issue-Driven News Coverage? Lie to a Pollster."--Rex Frankel

"So, when my sweetie tells the Big Phone Company that his [sic] going to the Big Cable Company for Internet service, I just had to laugh. (Behind his back, of course. He's pretty irritated.) I wish him luck on that one."--Happy Chyck

"As far as state welfare goes, anarchists do not place it high on the list of things we are struggling against (once the welfare state for the rich has been abolished, then, perhaps, we will reconsider that)."--from the Anarchist FAQ

"I'll believe 'transhumanists' who claim to advocate consensual therapeutic multiculture as I do when more of them show anything like real concern about the ways in which savagely unequal distributions of authority, resources, reliable information, and legal redress duress the actually existing scene of consent in the present."--Dale Carrico

"In recent years, 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' have usually meant meeting the GOP halfway, regardless of how far right it veers, with agreement an end in itself."--Reg

"The poor are made to feel guilty and ashamed of their poverty, their illness and their unemployment, when they should be angry."--Dave Pollard

"Shopping malls are full of security cameras, but many have signs at the entrance telling customers that no photography or video recording is allowed."--David Brin

"The quadrennial political puppet show, highlighting not opposition but its appearance, is essential to keeping the captive-taking war machine running and to inoculating the American people from the viral knowledge that they themselves were first to be captured."--James Carroll

"Thus, 'economic freedom' would mean freedom from the economy--from being controlled by economic forces and relationships."--Herbert Marcuse, quoted by Jack Saturday

Quotations with links

"... a long time ago I decided that there is no privacy in anything digital (which is both a beautiful and a terrifying thing, depending on how much you know about technology). Knowing a bit myself, but not quite enough, I've decided to try and flood the network with as much information about myself as possible in the naive and desperate hope that by creating more positive and truthful information I can counter whatever lies may someday be advanced against what I'm really up to."--Chris Messina quoted by Brian C. Russell

"To the non-expert there seems to be an alarming freeness among economists to rather arbitrarily hold some things to be totally fixed and others to be totally elastic while a willingness to overlook that a lot of life is sticky, and no place more perhaps than in price."--Bruce Webb

"9/11--the bad cop's best friend (and it turns out there are a lot of bad cops.)"--Randolph Fritz

"Of course Aristide has been 'polarizing'. That is like saying that two men kissing on the quad at Oral Roberts University is polarizing. If you don't want to be polarizing figure in Haiti, just accept the continued super-exploitation of 95 percent of the population with equanimity. Despite being a priest, Aristide would have none of that.
"--Louis Proyect

"With all that we have learned, we should be helping our heterosexual brothers and sisters out of their state-defined prisons, not volunteering to join them there."--Jane Rule, quoted by Women's Space

"Just look at average nation-to-nation trade talks. 'Cooperate to remain competitive' 'Remain competitive in a cooperative manner' ???? That's not going to work. Smashmouth competition is really not conducive to loving cooperation."--Wingnut - MaStars

"I'm paraphrasing Bruce Sterling here, but if you give a totalitarian government a hammer, they'll beat you on the head with it. If you distribute hammers to the population of a relatively free society, they'll build houses. Modern information technologies are the hammers and we all have them (the digital divide notwithstanding) and so does the government. We need to be realistic about that and get on with the house-building."--Bill Simmon

"A rough definition of money is 'the ability to make other people work'."--Borisas Cimbleris

"Another thing that the 'local God' learned to teach his disciples... is to 'frown-down-upon' layers BELOW any given layer... and think of those lower layers... as 'lessers' and 'servants to your layer'. And... KEEP LAYERS BELOW YOURS BROKE AND SCRAMBLING FOR BUX... (good for dutifulness) and... MAKE THEM BLAME/FIGHT-WITH EACH OTHER ON THEIR OWN LAYER over the problem(s). "--Wingnut - MaStars

"The relationship between God and humanity is that of omniscient father and obedient child. Those personalities who broke out of that and displayed intellectual curiosity (Eve) or a certain brassy chutzpah (Lucifer) which I think of as indispensable qualities of a revolutionary (to say nothing of a sense of humor), certainly did not advance very far in God's system."--Stacia

"It's hard to understand all this right-wing fury at the friggin' CIA, for god's sake. But throughout history, insane evil leaders have spent most of their time being insanely angry at the people who share the same evil goals but want to go about it in a more rational manner."--Jonathan Schwarz

Quotations with links

"The narrowminded variety of libertarians, who can see only one threat to markets and freedom - bureaucrats. Ignoring all of human history, this oversimplifying silliness has rendered libertarianism a joke, in the one country where it had a chance."--David Brin

"People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause."--..::*Sunnely*::..

"Thus, the academe becomes the ideological home for the rationalizations and analyses for the 'free markets,' 'free trade,' and 'deregulation and privatization' which are relentlessly hammered home by the U.P. School of Economics. But our neo-liberal friends neglect to tell us that their prescription is based on freedom for business but discrimination against and repression for the laboring poor."--Roland G. Simbulan

"I've heard more than one activist posit that technology is a creature of the capitalist state. Bullshit. That's like saying reading, writing and basic mathematics are tools of the state and we should reject them."--antisocialite

"The dominance of players like Google is not a fact of nature, but a design decision, so this investigation into the realism of distributed alternatives is very important."--Michel Bauwens

"In particular I direct your attention to the latter parts of the letter where [Samuel] Konkin explicitly claims that there is nothing at all wrong with torture, cops, jails, chains, whips, etc. He says that, as Anarchists, people like myself should have no problem with such things per se, but should object to them only when people are jailed, whipped etc., by some state or government."--Fred Woodworth

"Think of Kerry denying he supported gay marriage -- and recognize that the same sort of people who thought that would win him support are now inside the control room at ClintonHQ"--Lawrence Lessig

"Today, institutionalized education is nothing more than an occupational army standing in a country formerly called education, and its main order is to prevent that something happens. It does not create something, it does not even try to teach anything. It only >shows the instruments< of today's society, the crude and cruel rules of sheer competition, and exterminates any spaces and processes that could get out of control, that could create something dangerous."--Christoph Spehr

"There is no liberty where the outcome is already determined; under such a presumptive and authoritarian logic, security always trumps freedom."--Michael

"As a practice, detournement reflected a contradiction between the recognition that fighting on the same terrain as the enemy is a seductive but inevitable trap, and the desire to occupy the buildings of power under a new name. This contradiction crystallized in the hijacking metaphor: detourne was a verb commonly used to describe the hijacking of a plane."--Joanne Richardson

"What we need to make clear is: in the war between [the] US and Islamists, between the two poles of terrorism, we do not need to support either. We must condemn both. We should form a third pole, a third voice to oppose both."--Azar Majedi

"Progressives have ceded the physical world to 'markets' and technocratic experts--never a good strategy. Technology has become a democracy-free zone."--Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

"There's nothing like having a good repository, and keeping a good lookout, not waiting at home for things to fall into the lap, but prowling about like a wolf for the prey."--Jeremy Belknap

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."--Thomas Huxley

"If people who hold views that the candidate doesn't agree with, and they give to us, that's their loss."--a spokesperson for the Ron Paul campaign

"If all have plenty, then interaction can be of a solely noneconomic nature, and economics as a science is mere stupidity."--trhurler

"It is likely that genetic engineering will remain unpopular and controversial so long as it remains a centralized activity in the hands of large corporations."--Freeman Dyson

"the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution 'fail' while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to 'succeed' if that requires them to lose power within the institution."--Jon Schwartz, quoted by Woody

Web "to do" list

A file in which I accumulate links and searches to check out next time I manage to get my hands on a public access computer...

as

"asperger technical"

tvo autism

biz

10 stupid mistakes of newly self-employed

blog

free blogspot templates

blogdigger local

free blogspot templates

comp

how flash memory works

debian grimoire

dissent

"404 willis"

lansing infoshop

radgeek

gaba

antiauthoritarian

tiny revolution

earth

autumn ridge detention dam

econ

futurist economics

trade & inequality

edu

feral scholar

capital & universities (pdf)

fash

un chapeau sur ma tête

finance

insurance tips

predatory lending association

folkx

joe vialls

patrick flanagan

thomas mulholland

tovarishch tony

penguin of doom

onion volcano

john robb

joanne richardson

junnever

food

eating less meat

hasty pastry

gt

female brains in male bodies

hood

work & finding a job

using nurudin jauhari's degree

(expletive deleted) no-compete clauses

info

gapminder

open content

open knowledge initiative

sheeple beware

avoiding data centralization

p2p in a nutshell

how buying a sell phone works

how municipal wi-fi works

disrespect copyrights!

the neurocommons

public knowledge

michigan community information corps

"privacy is dead" dvd

"cypherpunks anti license"

electro hippies collective

transparency@sunclipse

lex

solove on exhibitionist law

collateral sanctions

med

longevity medicine=basic healthcare

music

guide to buying riaa-free cd's

f*ck guitar center

binary detroit

net

peek-a-booty

mg2

nethack

barney the dinosaur

spellbook of create familiar

opinion

strange death of liberal america

evil liberal propaganda network

sick of survival

mutualist

why capitalism & democracy don't mix

antifa portal

alan de smet's quotebag

call me lefty

paranoia

sousveillance

surveillance

privacy redefined

war on photography

national security archive

philanthropy

give one get one

physics

everett vindicated

politics

notes on 21st century socialism

"pendulum swing"

retire joe knollenberg

to err is truman

feinstein the new lieberman

social democracy in benin

2 party system=criminal conspiracy

communalism

"interstitial strategy"

psych

decognition

radio

sirius vs. xm

how hd radio works

progressive talk in san diego

realestate

san francisco community land trust

religion

atheist experience

challenge religion

pietism not simple anti-sacerdotalism

lalon phokir

bible@wikiality

sf

nesci community

earth hits wiki

soc

cooperation eventually trumps conflict

design your own utopia

are you a sheeple?

stigma net

endarkenment

don't call me generation x

space

chronos

ephemeris 1.0

o'neill colonies

tech

product hacking

new tech benefit only rich & powerful?

timmins technologies

tv

dvd recorder

neuros osd

war

information about the private army

wmd

doomsday weapon

nuking nukes

wymyn

why i am a feminist

Quotations with links

"In order to get a walkable community you need density, and in order to get more density you need a regional mass transit system. It just boggles my mind that an area this size doesn't have mass transit."--Jana Ecker

"The only college degrees worth having are in the 'thousand year old professions' such as law, architecture, civil engineering, medicine."--John Lawrence

"Politicians, industrial managers, academic administrators, and other leaders often say that innovation is critical to the future of civilization, our country, their company, etc. But in practice, these same people often act as if innovation is an evil that must be suppressed, or at least tightly controlled."--Ronald B. Standler

(ideology: where you no longer have ideas but the ideas have you).--precari-punx

"When someone acts as a Roman in Rome, it doesn't promote Rome. It promotes itself."--Sharon Golan

Web "to do" list

A file in which I accumulate links and searches to check out next time I manage to get my hands on a public access computer...

arts

strictly no photography

house of doom

as

don't cure autism now!

autscape

bio

"cdesign proponentsists"

blog

blogger templates

google webmaster tools

comp

read this to learn c

"command line" ephemeris

dissent

disloyal opposition

"counter institution"

antiinstitutionalism

"anti institutionalism"

freeculture

@h+

econ

tragedy of the anticommons

totac@26econ

totac@p2p

anticommons theory & practice

edu

raduniv

finance

cash now illegal

folkx

nick denardis

alison hymes

brooke

gis

geourl

hood

want a job? submit your dna

education, careers, jobs, employment

info

kommunikationsguerilla

information liberation

how stuff works

libris

book fair deemed security threat

net

download tor

download torpark

truly free account

xerobank browser

cyberspace as place

nethack

hell hound

beartrap

opinion

sheeple

politics

pick any two

More quotations with links

"For the transhumanist movement to grow and become a serious challenge to their opposites, the bio-Luddites, they will need to distance themselves from their elitist anarcho-capitalist roots and clarify commitments to liberal democratic institutions, values and public policies."--James Hughes Ph.D.

"In Greek 'necessity'- anangke, serves also as the word for 'force,' 'constraint,' 'compulsion,' 'violence,' and 'duress.'"--Earl Shorris quoted by Jack Saturday

"Although their effect is similar, the economic laws which come into operation in an exchange economy such as capitalism are not natural laws, since they arise out of a specific set of social relationships existing between human beings."--Alan Johnstone

"Sure we need to survive, but let's acknowledge the desperation under this drive to take everything we do, are or think and try to get cash for it. It reminds me of a young child who shows her father a drawing. He playfully offers her a dollar for it and 15 minutes later she comes back with 5 more. What got lost there in between the first spontaneous artwork and the 5 subsequent calculated ones?"--szoutewelle

"Although some might disagree with me, I think the biopunk movement is pro-clone. Anything to change the way humans breed is a Good Thing. It gets us out of the mommy-daddy-baby continuum."--Annalee Newitz

"There is no third party payment scheme that allows me to ignore the fact that your time is 'worth' over twenty times per hour more than what I earn when I am working in the employ of others."--Roger N. Meyer

"I remember reading up on Carlyle in the months following 911. It was the firm that both the Bushes and bin Ladens held stock in. The private ownership dynamic certainly has had negative consequences for the public."--Bretton Jones

web "to do" list

as

hooked on stimming!

positive stims

stim list

autism, genius and greatness

bio

clone rights united front

ribofunk

free alba!

techsploitation

econ

what is preferensism?

new rules

edu

covert curriculum

10 reasons not to go to college

finance

cdo

siv

food

premier bacon

gt

forcing boys to be boys

gender shock

hood

precari-punx

creativity in science and engineering

personnel looks at all the trivial surface stuff

info

what is datablogging?

john tropea on datablogging

underground systems

lex

"reparative therapy"=child abuse (pdf)

med

drug induced movement disorders

opinion

mensa calgary

paranoia

absolute tyranny

philosophy

berube on nanosocialism

viridian design

politics

impact of authoritarian conservatism, part 3

queer

gay today

calculated compassion

square pegs

transit

transportation riders united

The aristocracy of push

The market economy is a tool which the more assertive use quite effectively to extract both producer and consumer surplus from the less assertive. The market economy is thus a meritocracy of assertiveness. That it is probably also a meritocracy of other things seems plausible, but this is of little consolation when there are few help wanted ads in fields other than sales or collections. The fact that well over 90% of openings are unadvertised is of little consolation when you don't have a (expletive deleted) "network."

According to the (expletive deleted) economics textbooks, extraction of surplus from producers or consumers is associated with incomplete information, price discrimination and market power (monopoly and monopsony). It seems obvious to me that pure assertiveness can also accomplish this result, quite independently of the competitive or informational condition of an industry. After all, everyone knows that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

web "to do" list

as

autism asperger neuroleptic antipsychotic

bio

free our genetic data!

bodyhacking

biz

why i don't like marketing

dissent

the anarchist commune

un yomango argentino

econ

wages, prices and money in a post-capitalist economy

hazel henderson

the visible hand

you don't have to fuck people over to survive

why no precarity discourse in usa?

folkx

apunk

t3knomanser

nathan whitmore

john lawrence

mad hatter

gt

straight guy to wed

school to work

info

hack this site!

datablogging

open mind common sense

lex

"substantiated consent"

opinion

newrab

fancy pants words page

eclectic page

incognitum x

paranoia

worst case scenario

politics

politics in the zeros

politics of transhumanism

transit

sustainable detroit transportation