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Dr. Albert Bartlett (Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, University of Colorado):

Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?

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This is amazingly stupid. I really want to support unions, but organized labor seems to go out of its way to show that the downside outweighs the upside ( Read more... )

You don't see a lot of Akbar photoshops around these days. It's too bad.


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25 in a row. Doubt I'll ever beat that.

Econ Talk is still ruling.

Every night after I'm done working, reading, etc. I play tetris and listen to podcasts ( Read more... )

For a number of years the MTS and Shaw USENET servers have been pretty useless (and the MTS server is now defunct). I don't remember how I initially did, but finding http://www.eternal-september.org/ was a happy occasion ( Read more... )

Amazing! http://firstpersontetris.com/

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Only one carry on? No electronics for the first hour of flight? I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first class and giving them free drinks.

Oh, Schneier.