Month: April 2003
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Class Essay: The mind and the senses: essential components for all knowledge.
The mind and the senses: essential components for all knowledge. April 7, 2003 (Note: the empiricism mentioned in this essay in not the same as Locke’s empiricism. The differences are recognized as “possible pitfalls” in the essay.) 1. I believe that out of the three positions studied in class, the empiricist position comes closest…
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Open-Source Socialism?
When I first announced ObjectivismOnline, I got an email from a college CS major who warned me against using Open Source software because (a) the leader of the movement is a dirty marxist, and (b) free software in general is anti-profit, and this anti-capitalism. After doing some (very little) research, I indeed found out that…
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Statist Economics 101
Check out the latest from Capitalism Magazine: The UN’s Power Path: Restricting Freedom Under the Mantra of "Sustainable Development" It’s a revealing look at UN’s Sustainable Development program, which is the "best policy model for developing nations" according to my "economic development" professor. The UN makes no secret of its plans for a world-wide regime…
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I really should have posted
I really should have posted this two days ago, but oh well: ‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADINGAlso, giant squid, anyone?
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My first movie blog…
This movie from FreedomAds.com reminded me of a quote by Ludwig von Mises:“All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.”
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Funny Stuff
Check out some of the great comics at the Cox and Forkum blog. I wish I wasn’t such a poor college student, or I might actually get their new book.
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Blogshares: The Blogger Stock Exchage!
Cool idea, huh?* *(Disclaimer: Clicking on this link may or may not affect the valuation of this stock. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Fund unit values and investment returns will fluctuate. The indicated rate(s) of return is (are) the historical annual compounded total return(s) assuming the investment strategy recommended by the asset allocation…