Slashdot | "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFOSource: yro.slashdot.org"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO -- article related to Privacy, Security, and Transportation. Let's see, a quick word association game: incomprehensible, inexcusable, unfathomable, unimaginable. Feel free to break out your own thesaurus of outrage and incredulity. How could such a contract EVER be granted without complete NSA level compliance? How!? http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/indus00001.cfm
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Slashdot | "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO
Slashdot | "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFOSource: yro.slashdot.org"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO -- article related to Privacy, Security, and Transportation. Let's see, a quick word association game: incomprehensible, inexcusable, unfathomable, unimaginable. Feel free to break out your own thesaurus of outrage and incredulity. How could such a contract EVER be granted without complete NSA level compliance? How!? http://www.nsa.gov/ia/Industry/crypto_suite_b.cfm
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Create USEFUL Ammo-bots
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Boston Dynamics: The Leader in Lifelike Human Simulation, has done it with BigDog. I don't know what all that weird noise is about, but sure it will be addressed in production models. It HAS to be silent to be of any use in the field, right?
Some browser will need to double click on the video to start.
The performance on ice, cinder block piles, and when kicked over is beyond impressive.
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AT&T;bans users from wireless P2P sharing - FierceWireless
AT&T;bans users from wireless P2P sharing - FierceWirelessSource: http://www.fiercewireless.comIn a letter to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, AT&T;revealed that it doesn't allow its wireless subscribers to use file-sharing applications and will terminate service to anyone who tries. The Read more... On the day after the FCC emphatically ruled against Comcast's blocking of such traffic, AT&T;claims it is above that very law. AT&T;pretends that data is somehow different when it's traveling in a radio packet as opposed to an optical packet. As it has done for more than a decade, the market continues to DEMAND massive symmetric bandwidth while suppliers continue to manipulate the market with artificial shortages by refusing to meet that demand with sufficient SUPPLY.Two years ago, the claim was bandwidth glut; today, the cry is bandwidth scarcity. So which is it? If carriers failed to see the present inevitable demand, that's THEIR MARKET FAILURE; if they saw the demand coming and intentionally caused scarcity, that is THEIR MARKET MANIPULATION.In an open market, either failure should lead to rapid incumbent subscriber attrition at the hands of hungry, innovative competitors, right? But then, Capitalism 2.0 has never be about authentically open and transparent markets, has it?
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Toyota tests Segway-like stand-up-and-ride machine
Toyota tests Segway-like stand-up-and-ride machineSource: http://www.physorg.comPhysOrg.com: (AP) -- Toyota has developed a motorized stand-up-and-ride Segway lookalike designed to help people scoot around at malls and airports. The Segway is interesting because it fills a practical niche for green local transportation; however, what possible point can be served by a machine that moves no faster than you can WALK? If one is sufficiently healthy to STAND on this device, I'd argue that walking is vastly more healthy and practical. Perhaps someone can help me to understand the point of a device like the Toyota Winglet.
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Rumors Abound About 'Potential for Life' on Mars | Wired Science from Wired.com
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Rumors Abound About 'Potential for Life' on Mars | Wired Science from Wired.comSource: blog.wired.comRumors are flying this weekend that Mars Phoenix has made a major discovery relating to the potential for life on Mars. Wired.com reached Sam Kounaves, the mission's wet chemistry lab Nice. A TWITTER as final authoritative arbiter of fact.
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Current state of eWork
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oDesk and Elance are cited as examples. Either way, u r pwnd. What business is it of the client's if you outsource a product or service they hired you to deliver? If the deliverable meets and exceeds all mutually agreed upon quality standards and is delivered within time and budget, you have fulfilled your every obligation.eWork norms are in the process of being established. YOU have a choice as to how you participate and what you help to become normalized, so think of the kind of workplace you are creating for your children. You are not a powerless inconsequential cog, you are a VOTE, and votes ultimately decide all collective outcomes; at least in any environment even remotely resembling a democratic atmosphere.
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silverton posted a blog entry on stumbleupon
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Okay, so SU is reporting "http error 301" on a page that is obviously responding because I just clicked the thumbs up in shameless self-promotion. So I will have to create a manual post.
The article skewers the mainstream media, the New York Times in this case, for once again pandering in stereotypes that continue to drive wedges between the generations and foster debilitating ageism.
See Memos From the Desk of Captain Obvious.
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Okay, so SU is reporting "http error 301" on a page that is obviously responding because I just clicked the thumbs up in shameless self-promotion. So I will have to create a manual post.
The article skewers the mainstream media, the New York Times in this case, for once again pandering in stereotypes that continue to drive wedges between the generations and foster debilitating ageism.
See Memos From the Desk of Captain Obvious.
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Packets of Consciousness » Debunking the New Living Room Literacy Stereotype
Packets of Consciousness » Debunking the New Living Room Literacy StereotypeSource: silverton.palo-alto.ca.usDemographically, we look very much like the scene depicted in this story. Two young adults, and we ourselves are in our late 40’s and early 50’s. Inspired by NYT article linked by G. Dvorsky. While I seem to have to peddle twice as fast to keep up with the kids on the fast bikes, sometimes they slow down and let me tag along; which is pretty cool of them since they don't really have to do that.
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An anthropological introduction to YouTube
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Why economic theory is out of whack - being-human - 19 July 2008 - New Scientist
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Why economic theory is out of whack - being-human - 19 July 2008 - New ScientistSource: http://www.newscientist.comIf you want to get to the root of the credit crunch you need to look at how traders think, says Mark Buchanan More data-driven support for the timeliness and urgency of architecting Capitalism 3.0 in a publicly coherent manner that will be received as definitive and applied by the public at large, moving forward.
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Editorial: Economic theory just isn't up to scratch - opinion - 16 July 2008 - New Scientist
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Editorial: Economic theory just isn't up to scratch - opinion - 16 July 2008 - New ScientistSource: http://www.newscientist.comTraditional economic models did not foresee the deepening financial crisis in the US – it's time for a root-and-branch rethink of economic theory Full article requires very worthwhile subscription and goes to greater depth substantiating many of the claims I've been making on this site. In short: version 2.0 is broken and it is indeed time for a major overhaul.
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The Pornography of Power: Lust for Empire Has Weakened America | War on Iraq | AlterNet
The Pornography of Power: Lust for Empire Has Weakened America | War on Iraq | AlterNetSource: http://www.alternet.orgSupport AlterNet Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation. From the article: "After all, Nixon believed in a guaranteed annual income for everyone. Imagine if Clinton had done that instead of wiping out welfare."So there have been people on BOTH sides of the aisle fighting for Capitalism 3.0 for quite some time. Unlike some of the more innovative enterprises of which I've been fortunate to be a part, this is an enterprise whose development has been long and Whose Time Has Come.
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The Pornography of Power: Lust for Empire Has Weakened America | War on Iraq | AlterNet
The Pornography of Power: Lust for Empire Has Weakened America | War on Iraq | AlterNetSource: http://www.alternet.orgSupport AlterNet Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation. Quote: "After all, Nixon believed in a guaranteed annual income for everyone. Imagine if Clinton had done that instead of wiping out welfare."So there have been people on BOTH side of the aisle fighting for Capitalism 3.0 for a long time. Unlike several the innovative ventures I've been a part of, this is a venture whose development and gestation have been long and Whose Time Has Come.
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Eleven reasons America is the new top socialist economy - MarketWatch
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Eleven reasons America is the new top socialist economy - MarketWatchSource: http://www.marketwatch.comWelcome to the conservative’s worse nightmare: The law of unintended consequences. Why? Nobody wants to admit it, folks, but the conservatives’ grand ideology is backfiring, actually turning the world’s greatest capitalistic democracy into the world’s newest socialist economy. For the benefit of those who suggest I've been overstating the case. Yet another eye witness takes the oath and takes the stand. Capitalism 2.0 has FAILED COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY. So what are we going to DO about it?We won't need a relapse to Great Society thinking because we can BUILD a great society with Open and Transparent Markets rather than Free-For-All, Winner-Take-All Markets. It doesn't have to be all about this red-baiting hyperbolic hysteria.
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Emerging Markets Infrastructure Is Booming - Seeking Alpha
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Emerging Markets Infrastructure Is Booming - Seeking AlphaSource: seekingalpha.comIn order to sustain economic growth, increases of infrastructure spending are critical for the emerging economies as their populations continue to expand and urbanize. In America, we are going to have to learn to be team players. We are simply no long the sole dynamo of economic growth. As I've been suggesting, we do not have, nor have we ever had "unfettered free market capitalism" nor do we want or need it. What HAS worked, and what we CAN improve upon are the concepts of "Fair, Open, and Transparent Markets." Open and Transparent nearly automatically improve Fairness and certainly encourage healthy COMPETITION and ACCOUNTABILITY. So you can knock off the red-baiting for those few who have suggest that to me offline. It is long past time to get off the Kudlow kool-aid and the Hannity humbuggery and put our alleged superior silicon valley intelligences to work solving the real challenge of innovating revolutionary RESOURCE MANAGEMENT paradigms that maximize the sphere of capital effectiveness like never before in history. Capitalism 2.0 has long BRAGGED that it's primary drivers are human GREED and FEAR. We can and should do better.
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Hold off on WiMAX investments, Gartner cautions - Network World
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Hold off on WiMAX investments, Gartner cautions - Network WorldSource: http://www.networkworld.comBusinesses should hold off on investing in WiMAX until the technology is more widely deployed across the United States and until vendors produce more dual-mode cellular/WiMAX handsets. Here we go AGAIN. All this noise to "hold off" on advancing yet another proven technology until the technology advances. Brilliant. Nice way to keep hobbling U.S. markets so we continue falling generations behind the rest of the world's pace of extending Ethernet everywhere. After all, we wouldn't want to finally achieve the operational, maintenance, and perpetual scalable upgrade cost efficiencies of a single unified network platform for all voice, video, and data. No, that would not do at all, would it? Let's keep wasting time, money, and quality with as many unnecessary network translations as possible. Long live MPLS!
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No IPOs in 2Q08, I told you so | Venture Capital, Angel Investing | The Venture Company
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No IPOs in 2Q08, I told you so | Venture Capital, Angel Investing | The Venture CompanySource: http://www.venturecompany.comThe Venture Company helps companies and investors innovate In case some of my other friends may have missed it a few weeks back, I'm far from the only one suggesting that the old VC model is broken. More importantly, I'm not the only one suggesting plausible SOLUTIONS and EXPERIMENTS rather than just griping. This is good. Very good. Now we need more. Lots more.
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ycombinator.com
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ycombinator.comSource: ycombinator.comWhen we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we're hoping to see. In the past we've never said publicly what they are. If we say we're looking for x, we'll get applications proposing x, certainly. ... At least 30 immediately viable Capitalism 3.0 experiments here; yet, we all keep whistling right past the graveyard. The market is still BROKEN, friends, and it will stay broken until we fix it ... or at least kludge a hack that will hold for another 50 years like the last one (New Deal). Of course, if we in the top percentiles have the cash to ride the storm out, we can always just keep saying, "ain't my problem," right? Except, that makes US THE PROBLEM. Seemingly productive dysfunction ain't always fun to come to terms with, but in the end, it's better for us if we face up to it, get the help we need, and make the challenging and adaptive choices to move forward.
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World Affairs Journal - Falling Upwards: Declinism, The Box Set
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World Affairs Journal - Falling Upwards: Declinism, The Box SetSource: http://www.worldaffairsjour...Summer 2008 (Full) CAPACITY FOR REINVENTION. This has traditionally been American competitive advantage number 0, underlying all else. Are we still willing to adapt, evolve, and explosively expand capital to heretofore unrealized potential?"In the end, then, this country’s structural advantages matter much more than economic cycles, trade imbalances, or surging and receding tides of anti-Americanism. These advantages include America’s size, wealth, human and material resources, military strength, competitiveness, and liberal political and economic traditions, but also a remarkable flexibility, dynamism, and capacity for reinvention."
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You WILL Provide A Mug Shot
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Like it or not. On Slate.com: Lately, the Internet has been trying—politely—to find out what I look like. Gmail suggested that I upload a photo "that everyone will see when you email them." My new Apple computer asked whether it could take a webcam shot for iChat. And Facebook was so annoyed with my question mark icon (where a photo would normally be) that it found a photo of me that someone else had tagged, surrounded my head with a red square, and asked whether it might make a good profile picture. The text-y era of the nobody-knows-you're-a-dog Internet is ending. You either have a head shot or you're invisible.The more you think about Web head shots, the more loaded a social artifact they become. Scholars have begun to examine "impression management" online.No kidding? You mean, Online Identity Management became a science after all. Gee, never saw that one coming, did we? Slate goes on to summarize:So it seems that you, Internet person, are left with two options: Just pick a photo and go for it, or go the arty/ironic route. It's not as if you can stay hidden forever. Eventually someone will upload you to Flickr or tag you in a wedding pic wearing an unflattering, unchosen color.And where exactly do they derive the right to TAG YOU? It doesn't matter, does it? It's way beyond that. Welcome to the Transparent Society. Game over. Blog obviated. Another Quixotic battle reaches its inevitable outcome. Don't worry, it's now the age of Wind Energy, so plenty of new windmills to tilt upon!Onward.
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Buckminster Fuller Clip
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Buckminster Fuller ClipSource: http://www.youtube.comBucky laying out his outlook of what can be achieved in the future, in just a few words, too bad so much time has passed and we have not made any progress to come even close to what he says. And it can all be done by 1985 ... folks, we're 25 years behind. No excuse. No excuse whatsoever. It's time to upgrade to Capitalism 3.0 or better ...
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Boston Fed Tackles Foreclosure Crisis at Gillette Stadium
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Boston Fed Tackles Foreclosure Crisis at Gillette StadiumSource: blogs.wsj.comThe Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is trying to tackle the mortgage crisis by taking the problem to the field. Is that Ben Bernanke or Hank Paulson under there? (Getty Images)The Boston Fed is planning ... Time to finally throw the few remaining traces of false modesty aside and literally filling STADIUMS with F'd wage slaves. F for "foreclosed" of course. Nice work, free and unfettered market. Oh yes, you're such an objective and efficient meritocracy. Yes, of course you are.
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Boston Fed Tackles Foreclosure Crisis at Gillette Stadium
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Boston Fed Tackles Foreclosure Crisis at Gillette StadiumSource: blogs.wsj.comThe Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is trying to tackle the mortgage crisis by taking the problem to the field. Is that Ben Bernanke or Hank Paulson under there? (Getty Images)The Boston Fed is planning ... Time to finally throw the final remains of false modesty aside and literally filling STADIUMS with foreclosures. Nice work, free and unfettered market. Oh yes, you're such an efficient meritocracy. Nice work.
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62 y.o. Heavy Metal Monk
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Yeah, so like F.U. you whiney little snot-nosed, weenie-pierced, punk-ass 18 to 34 y.o. worshipping society ... we can do WHATEVER WE WANT at ANY AGE we want.
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How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?
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How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?Source: http://www.techcrunch.comIs someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? I've spoken with one executive who says he uses ... As J. Hughes and IEET have been anticipating for years, Let the Enhancement Wars begin.
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online.wsj.com
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online.wsj.comSource: online.wsj.comA four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck. Just wondering why Greg Ip's fantastic content isn't available for "Seen This" to Facebook ... instead, there's an obscure +MySpace link located a the very bottom of the story. Are WSJ's new owners making it intentionally difficult for Mr. Ip to gain wider visibility because they don't appreciate his all too rare and rigorous journalistic integrity? Just try finding a way to add his insights to any of the Journal's new whiz-bang readers or My Online Journal. Nope, can't do it. Welcome to the Murdoch Street Journal.
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The Big Picture | Idiots Fiddle While Rome Burns
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The Big Picture | Idiots Fiddle While Rome BurnsSource: bigpicture.typepad.comThe collection of ne'er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh, let's just be blunt and call them what they are -- total Idiots -- expands into an ever larger circle. Think I've been exaggerating? This morning, Dennis Gartman is calling it "Republican Socialism." Barry Ritholtz is more my style: Utter "Orwellian Ideological Idiocy." And why do we figure it's happening boys and girls? As I've been explaining to anyone who cares to hear the unvarnished truth: RESOURCE SKEWS attributable to EXTENDED MARKET FAILURES. In other words, the 90% Wage Slave, 9% Middle Managers, and 1% Wealth Hoarder ratio is simply not functional or sustainable. The battleground is for the minds and votes of the Middle Managers (VC's, VP's,and the like; Palo Alto wannabes who can't afford Atherton or the Hills) who aspire to fractions of hoarded resources in the 0.001 percentile but whose own prospects for such are indeed dwindling. In the end, the Top 1% disdain the next 9% as much as they do the bottom 90%: your fate is tied to those of us BELOW you, far moreso than those you envy ABOVE who have no intention of letting you into their club, EVER. Do we still not see that?
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Dave Johnson: Capitalism 3.0 - A New Way To Think About What We Own
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Dave Johnson: Capitalism 3.0 - A New Way To Think About What We OwnSource: http://www.huffingtonpost.comI've just finished a very interesting book, Capitalism 3.0, A Guide To Reclaiming The Commons, by Peter Barnes. The book talks about ways we can restructure our laws and rules of ownership to cover who ... Is Capitalism 3.0 an idea whose time has come? This HuffPost is from 2006 and may have simply been a couple of years ahead of its time. We do all realize that the U.S. has essentially NATIONALIZED the entire "free market" banking system, right? If Hugo Chavez or Dmitry Medvedev did the exact same thing, the capito-fascists would be calling for Cold War 2.0 and arming the nukes. We do all realize that this is precisely where we are right now, right? So, if you've been waiting for the house of cards to collapse, this is indeed it, comrades. The question is, what will we DO about it, if anything?Personally, I'd like to see a Capitalism 3.0 Unconference. What exactly that means; who are the right participants; are questions which I cannot possibly fully define on my own.
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Download / Buy | Capitalism 3.0
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Download / Buy | Capitalism 3.0Source: http://www.capitalism3.comRecapturing the commons is going to be one of the century’s biggest battles. Peter Barnes makes the case for the commons in a straightforward and unsentimental way. An indispensable book on a critical topic. Obviously, I'm not walking point on this terminology. I'm not sure if Peter Barnes means the same thing I've been thinking about, but glad to find a body of work already out there and look forward to learning more and refining my own proposed experiments.
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http://www.nasa.govSource: http://www.nasa.gov NASA's first test flight for the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system is launching in 2009. The test flight, called Ares I-X, will bring NASA one step closer to its exploration goals -- to return to the moon for more ambitious exploration of the lunar surface and to travel to Mars and destinations beyond.
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http://www.nasa.govSource: http://www.nasa.gov Perfect time for my educator friends to set sites on the Class of 2010, right? Go for it!
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Treasury Bailout of GSEs: Laissez-Faire In Serious Jeopardy - Seeking Alpha
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Treasury Bailout of GSEs: Laissez-Faire In Serious Jeopardy - Seeking AlphaSource: seekingalpha.comThe Treasury announced a bailout package for the GSEs Sunday evening. The proposal contains three pieces. The Treasury will seek to increase the nominal line of credit to the agencies (I believe a little ... As I've been discussing with everyone from friends and colleagues to anonymous airline seat partners, Massive Market Failure has perpetuated Unsustainable Resource Skews, effectively obviating most of the widespread freedoms that Capitalism 1.0 was purported to enable. The vaunted Productivity Dividends have accrued ONLY to capital; and that's simply not the deal we signed up for with the Industrial Revolution. If you think dropping money from helicopters can't become an annual or semi-annual operational necessity due to this global institutional ignorance, you simply haven't been paying attention. It's long past time for all us allegedly smart people in the valley to open the door to creative solutions; if we don't, I guarantee that taxes and money from helicopters will more than do it for us, robbing us of one of a very few windows of opportunity we will ever have for exercising autonomy in charting adaptive trajectories fo post-information-age, post-scarcity economics.
