Comments for Creative Destruction http://blog.creativedestruction.com CrossFit, Finance, Economics, Aviation, Space, and Brooklyn Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on “Guns” by Jake Witmer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/01/30/guns/#comment-476 Jake Witmer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:44:08 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=400#comment-476 @Brian: All are for both. Also, firearms have a military utility of probably 5-10 more years at most. After that, I guess it'll mostly be robots and robots+venom/poison. If the private citizens who figure this out first are libertarians, then perhaps a mass murdering regime can be avoided. @Brian: All are for both.

Also, firearms have a military utility of probably 5-10 more years at most. After that, I guess it’ll mostly be robots and robots+venom/poison. If the private citizens who figure this out first are libertarians, then perhaps a mass murdering regime can be avoided.

]]> Comment on “Export Jobs, Not Crypto” by Jake Witmer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/04/07/export-jobs-not-crypto/#comment-475 Jake Witmer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:43 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=584#comment-475 My basic point is that the same things that led the companies to be awarded and accept the TARP funds, the regulatory state, will undo the companies, and drive out quality workers. Of course, this will be inconsistent and will cause pain for a lot of good people in the interim, but maybe that pain will cause some of those good people to examine the causes of their pain. My basic point is that the same things that led the companies to be awarded and accept the TARP funds, the regulatory state, will undo the companies, and drive out quality workers. Of course, this will be inconsistent and will cause pain for a lot of good people in the interim, but maybe that pain will cause some of those good people to examine the causes of their pain.

]]> Comment on “Export Jobs, Not Crypto” by Jake Witmer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/04/07/export-jobs-not-crypto/#comment-474 Jake Witmer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:29:37 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=584#comment-474 Time to start over with makin' free countries. This one didn't have great enough safeguards built in to force it to follow its Constitution. The prosecutors have had their way with it, and it needs to be restructured, this time, more explicitly. I think you'd be a good guy to have on board as one of the new founding fathers. Of course, we've got our work cut out for ourselves until the restructuring, because it's a long battle to get to that point. I'd like to know what pro-freedom books you've read, and read lately. Ever read "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross? If not, I'd put it high on your list. http://www.john-ross.net Peace (through superior firepower) Jake Time to start over with makin’ free countries. This one didn’t have great enough safeguards built in to force it to follow its Constitution. The prosecutors have had their way with it, and it needs to be restructured, this time, more explicitly.

I think you’d be a good guy to have on board as one of the new founding fathers.

Of course, we’ve got our work cut out for ourselves until the restructuring, because it’s a long battle to get to that point. I’d like to know what pro-freedom books you’ve read, and read lately. Ever read “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross? If not, I’d put it high on your list. http://www.john-ross.net

Peace (through superior firepower)

Jake

]]> Comment on The difference between Big Government and Big Business by GeoffWhite http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2010/02/03/the-difference-between-big-government-and-big-business/#comment-466 GeoffWhite Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:12:08 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=1034#comment-466 Slight Edit... Big Business: people who really don’t even know me or really care if I live or die work hard to create value for themselves Big Government: people who claim to care about me are clueless how to create value for anyone Slight Edit…

Big Business: people who really don’t even know me or really care if I live or die work hard to create value for themselves

Big Government: people who claim to care about me are clueless how to create value for anyone

]]> Comment on Valentine’s Day by Thuon Chen http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2010/02/14/valentines-day/#comment-465 Thuon Chen Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:27:01 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=1049#comment-465 I have a theory that this behavior is motivated by pain avoidance, as inanimate objects can't hurt or reject you. I have a theory that this behavior is motivated by pain avoidance, as inanimate objects can’t hurt or reject you.

]]> Comment on Anguilla by Sameer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2010/01/19/anguilla/#comment-451 Sameer Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:51:40 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=1024#comment-451 loved it! thanks for the hospitality! loved it! thanks for the hospitality!

]]> Comment on Anguilla by rah http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2010/01/19/anguilla/#comment-450 rah Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:40:42 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=1024#comment-450 Hope you had fun! Cheers, RAH Hope you had fun!

Cheers,
RAH

]]> Comment on Cloud Factory Mixes – Mix Tape Project by Sameer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2010/01/04/cloud-factory-mixes-mix-tape-project/#comment-446 Sameer Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:06:20 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=1014#comment-446 I am not intimately familiar with all of these, so by listing my favorites I may be skipping some that are better but here are my favs: Daniel V Joe Rice Forest & Ki Scott also has some Ernie Deaks that will be up shortly, not to be missed. I am not intimately familiar with all of these, so by listing my favorites I may be skipping some that are better but here are my favs:

Daniel V
Joe Rice
Forest & Ki

Scott also has some Ernie Deaks that will be up shortly, not to be missed.

]]> Comment on Cloud Factory Mixes – Mix Tape Project by Jake Witmer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2010/01/04/cloud-factory-mixes-mix-tape-project/#comment-445 Jake Witmer Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:42:15 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=1014#comment-445 I like some of these. No time to listen to them all. What's your favorite? (I like most of the music you mention in your info, so your assessment will save me some time playing them all.) I like some of these. No time to listen to them all. What’s your favorite? (I like most of the music you mention in your info, so your assessment will save me some time playing them all.)

]]> Comment on “liberty dollars are stupid” by Jake Witmer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2008/08/12/liberty-dollars-are-stupid/#comment-444 Jake Witmer Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:32:36 +0000 http://creativedestructionblog.wordpress.com/?p=39#comment-444 The idea was to try to push the serfs toward the idea of trying to spend (circulate) liberty dollars. However, I agree with you: bad money drives out good (which is then saved, and used as an investment). It would have been better to simply put "one ounce silver, .999 fine" and leave off the dollar amounts. However, if that were the case, it would be harder to get the cash register folks to pocket the dollars, and put their own FRNs in the cash register when you wanted to make a purchase. (The psychology of the public must be taken into account when designing an alternate currency.) Bernard Von Nothaus (couldn't have chosen a better name! Preferably something that sounds a little more like "Nuthouse" for when you're describing the foreign concept of sound money to the uninitiated) was actually smart enough to understand that the general public is venal and uninformed, and that you had to focus their attention on the dollar symbol on the coin, in order for their minds to not return to the minimal knowledge of bimetallism they learned in high school (or in college, if they attended Libertyville, HS). Hopefully, you have a lot of one ounce silver and gold coins, no matter their markings. I personally prefer the Free Lakota Bank style, myself, or the ones from the Wyoming Free State Project. http://www.freestatewyoming.org I would continue pontificating on the manner, but I need to get back to editing video, for my homeboy, Joe Kennedy. (I was pleased to see that Harvey Silverglate, author of "The Shadow University" contributed to his campaign. TSU is the masterpiece book on the erosion of free speech in the US due to the legal precedent influence of government-financed college campuses gradually becoming the testing ground for further and further speech restrictions.) Peace, Jake The idea was to try to push the serfs toward the idea of trying to spend (circulate) liberty dollars. However, I agree with you: bad money drives out good (which is then saved, and used as an investment).

It would have been better to simply put “one ounce silver, .999 fine” and leave off the dollar amounts. However, if that were the case, it would be harder to get the cash register folks to pocket the dollars, and put their own FRNs in the cash register when you wanted to make a purchase. (The psychology of the public must be taken into account when designing an alternate currency.)

Bernard Von Nothaus (couldn’t have chosen a better name! Preferably something that sounds a little more like “Nuthouse” for when you’re describing the foreign concept of sound money to the uninitiated) was actually smart enough to understand that the general public is venal and uninformed, and that you had to focus their attention on the dollar symbol on the coin, in order for their minds to not return to the minimal knowledge of bimetallism they learned in high school (or in college, if they attended Libertyville, HS).

Hopefully, you have a lot of one ounce silver and gold coins, no matter their markings. I personally prefer the Free Lakota Bank style, myself, or the ones from the Wyoming Free State Project.
http://www.freestatewyoming.org

I would continue pontificating on the manner, but I need to get back to editing video, for my homeboy, Joe Kennedy. (I was pleased to see that Harvey Silverglate, author of “The Shadow University” contributed to his campaign. TSU is the masterpiece book on the erosion of free speech in the US due to the legal precedent influence of government-financed college campuses gradually becoming the testing ground for further and further speech restrictions.)

Peace,

Jake

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