…never dies. It’s unfortunately a basic feature of human nature that requires logic to overcome, and it’s a battle for every generation.
Category Archives: Business
Space Tourism
Modern rocket engines are much safer than the historical examples he cites (e.g., XCOR has never had a hard start, let alone an explosion), and it makes no sense that a single accident would end the industry, any more than deaths on Everest stop people from climbing.
In Praise Of Entrepreneurs
Over at Pajamas Media, I have some thoughts this morning on Steve Jobs and people who really change the world.
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The business of Apple was business, not politics.
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Did Jobs die from quackery?
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Here’s the WSJ obit.
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More thoughts from Lileks.
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Michael Malone remembers Steve Jobs.
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How his philosophy changed technology.
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The Onion says we’re doomed.
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Rob Long: The right kind of tyrant.
The Wall Street Protesters’ Demands
A response.
This is the sort of thing I was referring to when I said that Democrats and the left are anti-economics.
A Letter To The Marching Morons
From David Freddoso:
Those people you left stuck in traffic have a hard time paying their bills and rents and health insurance and mortgages. They worry about things like finding decent schools for their children to attend and making sure they don’t get fired at work, and fixing leaking roofs and chimneys.
You know what they don’t worry about, ever? Smashing patriarchy and capitalism.
So when your organizers go on television and say things like, “It’s revolution, not reform!” and they’re not joking, those words might give some of these narrow-minded people an unpleasant, October 1917 kind of feeling.
Read all.
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The pathology of capitalism, new and improved with trutherism.
Who Is More Anti-Science?
Republicans, or Democrats?
My biggest problem with Democrats is that they’re anti-economics, with devastating results over the past decades.
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Speaking of Republicans being anti-science, I don’t agree with Herman Cain that being gay is “a choice.” Being straight was never a “choice” for me.
The Era Of Free Stuff
…is over.
I think this is a good thing. A lot of people hate a la carte pricing, but when you bundle things, there are no signals as to what the real demand for various goods and services are. Also, I don’t like subsidizing other people for stuff that I don’t need.
Quitting The Euro
Thoughts from Daniel Hannan.
Innovation Starvation
Some interesting thoughts from Neil Stephenson. I think he’s a little to sanguine about the prospects for using ETs, though.
More Shuttlyndra Thoughts
…over at Open Market.
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Mike Griffin inadvertently explains why we don’t need a heavy-lift vehicle.