How many of the 100 essential skills for geeks do you know how to do?
At a quick glance I have about 45 out of 100. You?
At a quick glance I have about 45 out of 100. You?
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
The Rule of Law
We have all heard the phrase "Rule of Law". What does it mean, how does it work? For a short lesson on the rule of law, look here.
Stew's View: Rawls' method is more comprehensive (as opposed to the formulation by A.V. Dicey), but the use of item 6 (added by Mr. Solum) ought not be necessary. The better application of Rawls' framework is that it universally applies to all participants (including government).
Stew's View: Rawls' method is more comprehensive (as opposed to the formulation by A.V. Dicey), but the use of item 6 (added by Mr. Solum) ought not be necessary. The better application of Rawls' framework is that it universally applies to all participants (including government).
Monday, April 27, 2009
Learn about TARP
Here is an article from Powerline about the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
The moneyline:
Read the whole thing. $3 Trillion will not be the end number of this program, it will be higher.
Stew's View: It will not make a difference that TARP has been illegally expanded, since the US Supreme Court has been limiting the ability of taxpayers to bring suit against the government. This leads to a harm without a remedy and the timeline difference between TARP disbursement and the glacial pace of lawsuits means the money will be long gone before any action is taken. The only action that could have prevented this is to not do it in the first place.
The moneyline:
The Inspector General's report documents the stunning and at least partly illegal expansion of TARP from the $700 billion originally allocated by Congress to what is now a $3 trillion complex of programs.
Read the whole thing. $3 Trillion will not be the end number of this program, it will be higher.
Stew's View: It will not make a difference that TARP has been illegally expanded, since the US Supreme Court has been limiting the ability of taxpayers to bring suit against the government. This leads to a harm without a remedy and the timeline difference between TARP disbursement and the glacial pace of lawsuits means the money will be long gone before any action is taken. The only action that could have prevented this is to not do it in the first place.
From Twitter
RT @snowed_in: Tomorrow's headline: "Obama: We Inherited this swine flu"
My reply:
@michellemalkin RT Tommorrows Headline: already happened look here http://www.thenation.com/bl...
Michelle picked up on it here:
But of course: Lib blames GOP 4 swine flu 'cuz some opposed pandemic funding in porkulus. http://bit.ly/Kmky0 v(ia @instugator)
She has posted it here.
You go Michelle!
My reply:
@michellemalkin RT Tommorrows Headline: already happened look here http://www.thenation.com/bl...
Michelle picked up on it here:
But of course: Lib blames GOP 4 swine flu 'cuz some opposed pandemic funding in porkulus. http://bit.ly/Kmky0 v(ia @instugator)
She has posted it here.
You go Michelle!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Two Tales of Bows
Take a look at these two very different takes of the bow that President Obama (Mr. Gibbs protests notwithstanding) offered to the Saudi Monarch.
The Time Magazine article is here.
The Pajamas Media article is here.
My take:
Time loses. Mr. Macleod violates topicality in the first paragraph, rendering everything he says after that point moot. In the second sentence, Mr. MacLeod says, "Despite the continuing outrage of conservatives and Arab-bashers..." This ad hominem lede attempts to shift the argument away from the propriety of the bow itself.
Read both articles and then judge for yourself the merits of their respective arguments.
The Time Magazine article is here.
The Pajamas Media article is here.
My take:
Time loses. Mr. Macleod violates topicality in the first paragraph, rendering everything he says after that point moot. In the second sentence, Mr. MacLeod says, "Despite the continuing outrage of conservatives and Arab-bashers..." This ad hominem lede attempts to shift the argument away from the propriety of the bow itself.
Read both articles and then judge for yourself the merits of their respective arguments.
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