tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post7885469106796906580..comments2024-03-28T06:28:37.721-05:00Comments on Althouse: Beating out "1984" as the #1 best-selling book at Amazon — it's Milo Yiannopoulos.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91351113098059067612017-02-05T14:20:41.350-06:002017-02-05T14:20:41.350-06:00I always felt that "1984" was the beginn...I always felt that "1984" was the beginning of my awakening as a conservative! So I'm thrilled that both are at the top of the list! -- JessicaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13412297105776906040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5135237956621537422017-02-05T07:15:32.113-06:002017-02-05T07:15:32.113-06:00Martin said...
Just as I now buy Georgia Pacific ...Martin said...<br /><br />Just as I now buy Georgia Pacific paper products (a Koch company) whenever I can, since in 2015 or early 2016 some a-holes started organizing a boycott of everything Koch.<br /><br /><br />Interesting, that might have moved me a year or two ago but now that they tried to shaft Trump I don't think I care a button for the Koch brothers' fortunes.Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14745301999508541032017-02-05T00:17:49.591-06:002017-02-05T00:17:49.591-06:00I ordered it the day after I heard that some peopl...I ordered it the day after I heard that some people were organizing a boycott of the publisher (Simon & Schuster, iirc), by way of helping S&S find its backbone.<br /><br />Just as I now buy Georgia Pacific paper products (a Koch company) whenever I can, since in 2015 or early 2016 some a-holes started organizing a boycott of everything Koch.<br /><br />I would rather we separate commercial transactions from politics except in the most egregious cases (like, South African apartheid in the 1990s), but if this is how the game is to be played, so be it.<br /><br />Fortunately, most movies and television are utter crap, so it's not hard to boycott Hollywood when they start telling me what I should do, politically.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13617687006180956861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84103626234110008592017-02-04T23:15:37.797-06:002017-02-04T23:15:37.797-06:00"is it possible that many people will actuall... "is it possible that many people will actually read "1984" and learn something useful about where the source of totalitarian impulses these days?"<br /><br />Yeah. The massive bureaucratic state is the oppressor in "1984, " not "Big Brother." It's not even clear in "1984" if "Big Brother" is actually a living person or if he is a character wholly invented by the Party, so the masses have a concrete symbol, a face to love and worship. The faceless, remorseless government and government flunkies like O'Brien are the true villains of "1984."<br /><br />And the leftists buying "1984" clamor for ever-expanding government. exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03996979470278945904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56940677042611567562017-02-04T22:25:12.706-06:002017-02-04T22:25:12.706-06:00concentrate fires.concentrate fires.Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42612345816961616192017-02-04T22:19:23.799-06:002017-02-04T22:19:23.799-06:00Look on the bright side. Since losing Once... we c...Look on the bright side. Since losing Once... we can concentrate our fire!Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66892885868145121472017-02-04T22:12:40.689-06:002017-02-04T22:12:40.689-06:00The economic sclerosis described above cannot happ...The economic sclerosis described above cannot happen without Leviathan. Breaking Leviathan is not a vendetta against government, but a cry for freedom on all the fronts that are foreclosed as government is captured and/or rents itself to the highest bidders.<br /><br />All of the innovations that never happen, all the human capital sacrificed to the state, all the lives snuffed out and the millions more condemned to meet existence -- all of this is caused by Leviathan.<br /><br />We live in a country with an economic system like that of Europe in the 1400s but without a New World to which people can flee.<br /><br />And Leftists cheer the enslavement at every turn.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42883027601270797732017-02-04T21:51:51.747-06:002017-02-04T21:51:51.747-06:00Achilles:
You are correct sir!
(BTW I am not yet a...Achilles:<br />You are correct sir!<br />(BTW I am not yet all crazy, just 2 IPAs over the line sweet Jesus)<br />Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59406554494832418552017-02-04T21:45:39.567-06:002017-02-04T21:45:39.567-06:00Jon Ericson said...
Well, we have trolls, (which s...Jon Ericson said...<br /><b>Well, we have trolls, (which should be ignored), and then we have seemingly drug-induced, permanent agitators, insulting, swearing, and taking ludicrous positions, and defending them. <br /><br />What to do?<br /><br />At least Once... onced his last.</b><br /><br />This blog would be a boring echo chamber without the trolls. Don't get all crazy. There are a lot of boring echo chamber comment areas. Don't turn this in to one. No I don't think Once Written added anything useful to this blog. He was a stupid one trick troll. Most of the others try at least. <br /><br />The only litmus test I would apply is that any intelligent person should condemn the violence currently residing on the left. If LyinPB and the other people can't even do that then they will never win another national election again. It is on them to fix that. Achilleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04109507896997459818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44155827213679399052017-02-04T21:39:48.516-06:002017-02-04T21:39:48.516-06:00buwaya said...
This does not happen anymore.
My ...buwaya said...<br /><br /><b>This does not happen anymore.<br /><br />My son and I were in San Jose last week, passing that pile that Adobe built. Its still there, and still has its name on it, and a stupid little virtue-signalling windmill on top. Adobe and so many others should simply not exist anymore.</b><br /><br />The SalesForce effect. Schlerotic. GoogleAppleMSoftSalesForce hoover up all of the little players. Everyone's business plan is to build their app and get bought out.<br /><br />People think the Singe Page App is disruptive! technology now. The tech industry is due for a declogging of the arteries.Achilleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04109507896997459818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17169256404667900692017-02-04T21:39:06.661-06:002017-02-04T21:39:06.661-06:00In a similar "leftists don't understand t...In a similar "leftists don't understand the consequences of their actions" dynamic ... <br /><br />If all the silly Trump hysteria leads idiots to recommend that people read "1984" because they fear dictatorship suddenly, is it possible that many people will actually read "1984" and learn something useful about where the source of totalitarian impulses these days? That would be pretty ironic. fivewheelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00511002180195360137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23592957773258686542017-02-04T21:31:15.058-06:002017-02-04T21:31:15.058-06:00The Lying Peanut Butter NYT Ombudsman is a case in...The Lying Peanut Butter NYT Ombudsman is a case in point.<br />We call him Pee-Wee for obvious reasons.<br />I don't think that the mental diarrhea that he flushes onto this forum needs to be left unchallenged.Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13555992523467066072017-02-04T21:22:54.934-06:002017-02-04T21:22:54.934-06:00GFather,
Why don't you save this thread by dr...GFather,<br /><br />Why don't you save this thread by dropping your intelligent comment re Milo?<br /><br />You're already on such a roll. That pissing and moaning about other comments lacking intelligence was really intelligent. I'm thinking anything less than a 180 couldn't have composed that, but what do I know, I was tested at 69.<br /><br />So, re your intelligence re Milo............Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60309166592015539542017-02-04T21:20:37.388-06:002017-02-04T21:20:37.388-06:00Well, we have trolls, (which should be ignored), a...Well, we have trolls, (which should be ignored), and then we have seemingly drug-induced, permanent agitators, insulting, swearing, and taking ludicrous positions, and defending them. <br /><br />What to do?<br /><br />At least Once... onced his last.Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15980410047161492442017-02-04T21:10:57.435-06:002017-02-04T21:10:57.435-06:00I wish you'd stop feeding the trolls. There a...I wish you'd stop feeding the trolls. There are usually intelligent comments on this blog, but it gets hard to find them with all the BS floating around.The Godfatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10575359417766667457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61045188121797539872017-02-04T20:48:13.451-06:002017-02-04T20:48:13.451-06:00DEC.
Wow, memories.
Sometime in the 80s I was trac...DEC.<br />Wow, memories.<br />Sometime in the 80s I was tracking DEC stock at around 94, when it dipped to 88 for no reason I could see. So I bought a few shares. Moved nicely to 106 where I sold.<br />It then proceeded to go to 199 while I cursed.<br />But soon it turned down and went all the way to 0.<br />From this I divined Drinkwater's First Law of Investing: "Never complain about taking a profit."Fred Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01619653106362906811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41514242313846557222017-02-04T20:38:32.414-06:002017-02-04T20:38:32.414-06:00"When I came to this magic valley, yea these ..."When I came to this magic valley, yea these decades ago, "<br /><br />Have you ever read Jack London's two dog novels, "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang?" They were about that valley, and of course Alaska.<br /><br />I had some English friends (as opposed to British) visiting about ten years ago and took them on a tour of California. One place we went was Jack London's ranch, now a state park, near Sonoma. They had never heard of him. My son took us all to a tavern where he had hung out and which had survived the 1906 earthquake. I gave a couple of his books.<br /><br />We returned the visit <a href="http://abriefhistory.org/?page_id=5582" rel="nofollow"> in 2015. </a><br /><br />The English all seem to be moving to the south coast if they can afford the housing prices. Avoiding Londonstan.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5916289955199470892017-02-04T20:01:34.022-06:002017-02-04T20:01:34.022-06:00Thats not even my tech tree.
I have used the prod...Thats not even my tech tree.<br /><br />I have used the products of the valley, (we were Vaxen, once, and elsewhere HP9000/HPUX as anyone with instruments was, and Solaris, etc, I know a lot about things getting obsolete) but been in entirely parallel industries. The closest I've been to the Silicon Valley industry-industry was in manufacturing satellites. <br /><br />Every tech tree is stuck, paralyzed, or crawling slowly compared to @1985. <br /><br />Long term you will see ongoing consolidation and concentration in the US economy over the last 20 years, with growth in revenues and employment going to large companies. This is a clear sign of decadence, of creative failure. There are several articles about exactly this in for instance the Harvard Business Review. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-357888403537976692017-02-04T20:00:09.636-06:002017-02-04T20:00:09.636-06:00> which may be far more high tech in fact than ...> which may be far more high tech in fact than the Bay Area virtual-only ones,<br /><br />Or as I put it: f$cking with mother nature vs diddling bits.chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15164145672293455823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37397816572579365092017-02-04T19:39:38.987-06:002017-02-04T19:39:38.987-06:00Buw,
There's a bit of a jump ball for VR/AR. ...Buw,<br /><br />There's a bit of a jump ball for VR/AR. Who knows, maybe the kids will pick the winner w/ the Spectacles being the foot in the door that matters. [OTOH, the next iPhone may be poised to dominate. Not to mention the real cool stuff still needs more power than phones currently contain. And, non-dorks may not want this stuff, anyway.]<br /><br />Anywho, you're too close to a particular vantage re a particular tree, or two, in the forest. We still, more or less, have Standard Oil and Ma Bell, your fussing w/ what you perceive as unsatisfactory tech turnover seems a bit hysterical, imho.Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38778960984676362812017-02-04T19:31:29.736-06:002017-02-04T19:31:29.736-06:00Lyin: "What ya gonna do when the DJT budget b...Lyin: "What ya gonna do when the DJT budget blows the budget apart?"<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />How much additional debt in just the last 8 years? NOW you are concerned about the budget?!<br /><br />Hilarious.<br /><br />Carry on!Dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079148433908004715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78943777732441129752017-02-04T19:31:16.926-06:002017-02-04T19:31:16.926-06:00A lot of outfits were important. Even critical.
De...A lot of outfits were important. Even critical.<br />Dead now.<br />Remember DEC ? Huge lot of critical stuff ran on DEC, and the codebase was enormous. Irreplaceable. <br />And Lotus. Long ago ubiquitous in a way Adobe never was. <br />And Sun<br />And SCO<br />And etc ad infinitum. <br />They dont die, anymore. Nor is there much if anything really new, not in many years. Why is that? <br />The game is broken. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22814436390861847552017-02-04T19:23:51.661-06:002017-02-04T19:23:51.661-06:00Seeing R,
What ya gonna do when the DJT budget bl...Seeing R,<br /><br />What ya gonna do when the DJT budget blows the budget apart?<br /><br />Cheer?<br /><br /><br />Carry on.Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79014625427381701302017-02-04T19:21:40.984-06:002017-02-04T19:21:40.984-06:00Peter Thiel has often spoken of this stagnation.
...Peter Thiel has often spoken of this stagnation.<br /><br />While also looking into having blood transfusions from young men and moving to the popular plan-B, i.e. New Zealand.<br /><br /><br />BTW, re Adobe, ask Doc Mike's daughter about that. Adobe is important. They're like Autodesk that dominates CAD. Sure, there's BricsCAD, which does sorta the same thing for a lot less. And, some companies will do the stuff that matters in some Autodesk thing, but they'll also do a so-called quick and "pretty" (w/ shitty rendering) 3D model in something like SketchUp.<br /><br />Anywho, I guess it's ok to hate the game, don't don't hate the player.<br /><br />Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63833970214585626432017-02-04T19:16:44.658-06:002017-02-04T19:16:44.658-06:00Bwaaaa, PB doesn't think we know about the Deb...Bwaaaa, PB doesn't think we know about the Debt Star?<br /><br /><br /><br />LolololSeeing Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338495289040972548noreply@blogger.com