(old found draft post)CyberWar – Ref Links

Apr 26, 2009 @ 12:05
I will return to the topic of CyberWar sometime in the near future.
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(old found draft post)Pro-Entrepreneurial Public Policy Suggestions

Dec 24, 2008 @ 16:29
I should come back to gathering these.
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Dump Sox
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081222/1647513199.shtml
Tort Refrom
IP reform
Radical transparency
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081113/0321092822.shtml
OpenAuction
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080820/0110372037.shtml

(old found draft post) Hands off my 401k

Oct 25, 2008 @ 8:35
This must have been inspired by some Obama advisers who wanted to get rid of 401ks. Their plan was to force the same contributions and give Americans something like a 2% return off it. This would have effectively decreased the wealth of Americans as more money would need to be saved [...]

Blog Link: “PALEO-FUTURE”

The tagline is A look into the future that never was.
It looks interesting.
http://www.paleofuture.com/

Link – “The Megamerge Dissolution Solution” – Great article on USAv3 (aka USAv2 + Mexico)

Read it here.
It is long and fun to read. More importantly, it comes more ground with how a USAv3 would look and makes it quite exciting!
Here are Three excerpts:
Never fear, a satisfying, comprehensive solution is within reach: the Megamerge Dissolution Solution. Simply dissolve the border along with the failed Mexican government, and megamerge the two [...]

Anna Schwartz on the current economic mess (On the Bailout)

Wisdom from an old Monetarist:
The credit crunch, which is the recession’s actual cause, comes only from a lack of trust, argues Schwartz. Lenders aren’t lending because they don’t know who is solvent, and they can’t know who is solvent because portfolios remain full of mortgage-backed securities and other toxic assets.
To rekindle the credit market, the [...]

Is this a Joke? – “President Obama will convene his first Cabinet meeting this morning and order his department chiefs to immediately cut a combined $100 million from their budgets”

Its a token amount at best.
Anybody serious about cuts should answer these 6 questions.
1) Name one Cabinet Department should be abolished (1/2 credit for abolishing a sub-department or turning a cabinet department into a smaller sub-department.
2) Name one transfer payment that should be ended.
3) Name five cabinet Assistant Secretaries or Undersecretaries to abolish.
4) Name [...]

I Hate the US IncomeTax System

I finished my taxes at 2am this morning.
I hate the system.
Its not just that different rules seem to apply to elites getting high government office, the system itself wasteful in operation, and has been twisted to support the legal graft done by elites and lawmakers.
The US needs a better system.
I wrote once:
There are two big [...]

“All charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens to be dropped”

There is something seriously wrong going on in the USA…the Elites seem to really have another system of justice.

WTF is going on?

Fakery: “Sen. Russ Feingold and Rep. Paul Ryan officially unveiled their proposal for a line-item veto…”

From JSOnline.com:

Sen. Russ Feingold and Rep. Paul Ryan officially unveiled their proposal for a line-item veto that would allow the president to trim earmarks from spending bills.
How brave and courageous of them…except, its a fake out.
A line-item veto is not constitutional.
Authority for a President to have a line-item veto can only come from [...]

Entrepanuerial Solutions to the Bailout (On the Baliout aka The Great Looting)

How about new banks?
Let Wal-Mart get into banking like they hinted at a few years ago. I could give a fuck if current bankers and their lackeys in congress are opposes. Wal-Mart would have a customer focus and would optimize.
Hey, I’d even let the US Postal Service get back into banking. Let them open a [...]

Out-of-the-Box thinking on Pension and Social Security reform

From that Instapundit guy:

But even much more modest progress–extending healthy middle age from 60 to, say, 80–would permit significant shifts in retirement ages and allow for a longevity dividend that could go a long way toward preventing the looming pension meltdown. Greater progress might make the problem go away entirely. So perhaps it would make [...]

“More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks…is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys”

Disgusting. The budget and the stimulus are a joke.

“If you aren’t upset over putting tax cheats in charge of taxes, what does upset you?”

Good question.
The Bailout is a clusterfuck. And its getting worse.

Anybody read anything from Bobbit recently on the “Market-State”?

I have not been able to find anything too recent (post financial meltdown) from him on the Market-State concept. I should dig up my state notes and post them. I wasn’t sold on the Market-State model and have some alternatives that are (or may be) evolving.

Washington Math Sucks: $30,000 (On the Bailout)

$275 Billion / 9 million = $30,000 (rounded down)
I am a sucker. Partially I rent becuase I didn’t buy becuase I didn’t want to buy into a bubble.
$30k is essentially being given to those that bought houses they couldn’t afford with the money taken from those who did not behave that way.
WTF is going on [...]

“Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, told Press Wednesday that the Fairness Doctrine is needed not to remove any conservative voices, but to ensure that there are a few liberal shows on the air.”

When I hear stuff like this, I wonder why is NPR (the dominate FM talk radio network that is Liberal/Leftist mostly – and on the public dole) ignored? How about Wisconsin Public Radio? It is liberal to leftist and I presume the other state Public Radios are as well.
I presume since NPR and the others [...]

Good features for any “Stimulus” (On the Bailout)

This makes sense to me:
Minnick is a member of the Blue Dog caucus of occasionally conservative Democcrats. His START plan is a $170 billion “bare bones” pure stimulus approach that would put $100 billion immediately into the pockets of low- and middle-income Americans, then use the other $70 billion for basic infrastructure projects that create [...]

The PurpleStimulus or Let Banks Fail…but fast and other goodies (“On The Bailout” Series)

This started out as a comment at TDAXP [1].
Here is what the USAGOV should do (not what they plan to do [2]) – and it should be done quickly and without mercy:
1) Have Bank regulators set the appropriate capitalization level for the bank
2) Assuming level not met, declare bank insolvent.
3) Wipe the shareholders (common and [...]

The US case for radical energy use efficiency and for switching to alternative energy sources

I have been looking to blog on this for sometime, but it came out in a comment at TDAXP:
The best case for the US to move to radical energy use efficiency and to switch a lot more to alternative energy (while sharing or selling the techniques and technology to the rest of the world to [...]

“…the Milwaukee Police Department will get the new uniform style it wants, but it could come at a significant price…a 33% premium” (Fixing Milwaukee)

The Milwaukee Police are rightfully switching to modern uniforms:

Graphic from JSOnlinehttp://media.jsonline.com/images/199*359/uniforms_122608.jpg
Nothing is done simply by Milwaukee’s inept municipal bureaucrats though:
The only supplier that made City Hall’s first cut, Goldfish Uniforms, submitted the highest-cost bid by $340,000, a 33% premium compared with one of its main competitors, city records show.
Goldfish, for example, would charge the city [...]

The Folly of Keynesian/Stimulus Thinking or David Manley is My New Hero (on the Bailout #33)

Here is what David Manley, my new Economic Hero, wrote in a comment on ManSizedTarget:
My foolproof ten point plan to end the recession:
1) Boost infrastructure spending and reduce the cost of consumer goods by building a 6-lane highway across the Pacific Ocean to China
2) Lower the interest rate to negative 101% – people will be [...]

“The city’s Department of Public Works has been asked to patrol the lot to keep out illegal parkers, said Cecilia Gilbert, a spokeswoman for the city agency.” (Fixing Milwaukee Series)

Some special event visitors had a negative experience with downtown Milwaukee parking:
Jim Kirk was searching for a place to park around 7 p.m. Sunday near the Bradley Center when three men braving the evening wind and rain ushered him into a gravel lot at 324 W. Juneau Ave.
One man collected the cash – $10 – [...]

These “industries” are need of entrepreneurs with radical innovations

Just a few stray thoughts…
Housing – 30% of income for Housing? Jeez.
Personal Transportation – Where is my $5k car?
K12 Education – Too much money, too little results, little customization, wasted human and material capital. There has to be better ways.
Post-K12 Education – Cost are out of control, benefits are overstated. There has to be better [...]

Attention USGOV: Please Don’t Build Schools as part of a “Stimulus”

Too much of the capital the US K12 education system is tied up in the buildings and the maintaining of the buildings.
A future K12 system has to be freed of that focus.
Update: TDAXP linked to this post.