howardmackinnon.com http://www.howardmackinnon.com/blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:22:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Obama’s Spending Spree When Obama took office the US national debt was already a staggering $10.88 trillion. After just 3 years of a fiscally reckless President and an equally reckless Congress, the US national debt has grown to $15.36 trillion. The increase in the debt of $4.47 trillion under Obama is greater than the total debt amassed throughout [...]

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]]> http://www.howardmackinnon.com/blog/181/obamas-spending-spree/ Marketplace Hatchet Job: Yellow Journalism Marketplace is a show produced by a state-owned TV network that owes its existence to massive subsidies of money stolen (taxed) from people who would otherwise not watch it and to regulations designed to crush and eliminate its competition in the “marketplace”. Therefore it comes as no surprise that this show would stoop to crass [...]

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]]> http://www.howardmackinnon.com/blog/179/marketplace-hatchet-job-yellow-journalism/ Some thoughts and links about Bitcoin Bitcoin is a new digital currency with a twist. The twist is that there is no central authority, no bank, etc. It is based on peer-to-peer networking just like bittorrent. The advantage is that just as governments have been unable to shut down bittorrent, they have no way of identifying, freezing or stealing bitcoin accounts [...]

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]]> http://www.howardmackinnon.com/blog/176/some-thoughts-and-links-about-bitcoin/ Death There’s a few things I’m fairly certain about. I believe I have an accurate, though imprecise, appreciation for the degree of uncertainty we have to deal with. (So I’m fairly certain about uncertainty.) The claim to possess absolute knowledge is a fairy tale. The claim, “I am absolutely certain that this (any) statement is true” [...]

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