“Greenspan said he was ‘partially wrong’ in opposing regulation of derivatives and acknowledged that financial institutions didn’t protect shareholders and investments as well as he expected.”
Read more in this excellent Daily Kos piece.
Communists excuse the failures of communism by claiming that “true” communism has never existed, as if that isn’t strong evidence that their ideal [...]
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Objectivist and market fundamentalist Greenspan admits to being wrong
Posted in Miscellaneous on 26 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another great production by Rx2008
Posted in Miscellaneous on 22 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t seen his other productions, please do. Start here and here and here.
Lulz
Posted in Miscellaneous on 6 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Update: confirmed hoax. Still funny, though.
Internet content filtering and the wisdom of crowds
Posted in Internet, Miscellaneous on 21 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
A self-described mother of five posted an article on Linux.com about a new content filtering add-on for Firefox called Glubble. Like NetNanny, Dansguardian, and all the rest, it relies on white lists and black lists of key words. This approach has its cumbersome limitations. My anonymous suggestion in the comments (which you should recognize after [...]
