END THE FED Atlanta LIVE Webcast

Tune in on Saturday, November 22, 2008 between 12:00 Noon and 2:00 PM for live video from the END THE FED rally at 1000 Peacthree Street in Midtown Atlanta.

I will be streaming live video from my iPhone using Qik. You can watch here.

This technology is still in early development, the video may freeze or cut off for several minutes at a time. Just reload the page if the uplink is interrupted.

And I will likely have to go off air for periods of time to conserve battery life. That way I can get a sampling of different points in time in the rally.

The video will be recorded and available at the same page once the event is over.

Please comment on your viewing experience. Thank you.

We will be rallying at the corner of 10th & Peacthree.

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Opinion: No More Bailouts

America was built on capitalism. The free market is the driving force behind our prosperity.

In the past couple months, government officials and corporate executives have been working together to use taxpayer money to bail out companies that are "too large to fail." What this amounts to is corporate welfare.

The argument in favor of these bailouts is that we need to keep these corporations afloat to prevent even more economic woes. Well, we gave $700 billion to the banks, and did they create more loans? No, they either sat on it, bought up smaller banks, or rewarded executive management. Now GM and Ford have their hands out.

My thoughts on this are in line with Ron Paul's. If a corporation is going bankrupt due to poor management or poor sales, it needs to fail. It is no longer relevant to our economy.
Instead of keeping people employed to create obsolete products (e.g. GM & Ford manufacturing gas-guzzling SUVs and pickups), put them to work in new companies that will produce hybrids and electrics. Keeping out of date companies afloat only postpones the inevitable.

Propping up bad business models does not make any sense. What is a company's incentive to perform if they can bank on the government helping them out if they screw up?

Furthermore, the Federal Reserve is chief cause of this mess in the first place. Business cycles are not some sort of natural occurrence. They are directed by the Fed which through artificially low interest rates and easy credit encourages businesses to make bad decisions. Then, every few years, the Fed raises interest rates back up, credit dries up, businesses fail, and we get recessions.

What this amounts to is central planning, which is not that different that communism. Communists believe a central authority knows best of how much of each item to produce, be it cars, corn, or coal. Nobody, no matter how intelligent, can know the desires and demands of 300 million American citizens. That is why we have the free market.

Feel free to comment.

Bankers 1, Hackers 1

Cyber-Hackers Break Into IMF Computer System

Live video feed from END THE FED – Atlanta

For those of you who can't make it, I will be providing a LIVE FEED from the END THE FED Rally in Atlanta on Saturday, November 22, 12:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern Time. (There will be rallies in 38 cities nationwide.)

I have just discovered an application for jailbroken iPhones called Qik.

This allows me to STREAM LIVE VIDEO from my iPhone to the web. Since I have a holster, I can clip it onto my belt or the top front collar of my shirt for first-person perspective.

Once again, I will be broadcasting LIVE from the END THE FED rally at 1000 Peachtree Street in midtown Atlanta. Check back soon for the link to the stream.

But don't just sit at home and watch. Get out of the house and stand up for freedom!

Worth 1,000 Words

LOL@McCain

If you got several minutes of spare time and want a good laugh...

LOL@McCain

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And this is simply unbelievable.

Palin is so dumb...

It's Time to Wake Up

Sometimes the truth hurts.

Thesis

The following is my thesis for a research paper in one of my classes at Georgia Tech, "Innovation in America." The paper will be done by early December.

Our world is rapidly approaching the greatest paradigm shift in human history. We are on the precipice of a quantum leap in human awareness. Technological progress has been improving at an ever-increasing rate since man crafted the first stone tools. We presently find ourselves in a world of unprecedented, accelerating change. The Internet, born less than a fraction of a second ago on the clock of evolutionary time, has already revolutionized our lives. For the first time in the history of this planet, the earth’s parts are being connected together and linked up to a “global brain,” an intelligence greater than anything we have ever known. The union of human consciousness with artificial intelligence will create a civilization so far advanced as to be completely alien to our current selves.

The pace of change has now become so swift that our aging governmental, corporate, and financial institutions can no longer adapt; they are inherently oriented toward the status quo, thus impeding progress. The current economic crisis we are experiencing is the first sign of a breakdown in the world’s monetary-based production systems. The static, bureaucratic organizations running the show are simply incompatible with this rate of change. A new order will soon emerge to replace these obsolete systems. We now have the technological means to produce an overabundance of food, housing, and other goods using automated machines in place of human labor. Once scarcity is eliminated and the earth’s resources are intelligently managed–instead of foolishly fought over–there will be no basis for wars, poverty, or servitude. People will then have the freedom to explore, learn, and create as their heart demands. We are entering an era of unbounded innovation.

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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)


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Voting: An Exercise in Futility

This recent, brief article from The Onion is just plain awesome.

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Struggling Lower-Class Still Unsure How Best To Fuck Selves With Vote

WASHINGTON—As election day nears, millions of the nation's poorest voters have reportedly yet to settle on the most profound and enduring way to completely fuck themselves over when they head to the polls this year.

"On the one hand, I'm pretty sure Barack Obama will undermine my best interests by maintaining the same centrist, pro-corporate policies of previous Democratic administrations," said Jim Estey, 34, a recently laid-off assembly-line worker. "Conversely, I agree with McCain and Palin on abortion, which might just balance out the fact that they'll further marginalize people like me by supporting deregulation and slashing social programs. So it's pretty much a toss-up at this point."

Though such behavior appears to directly undermine their own well-being, lower-income voters have historically supported candidates determined to screw them six ways to Sunday, including Bill Clinton, who incarcerated them in record numbers and cut the welfare benefits many depended on for day-to-day sustenance, and George W. Bush, who widened the gap between them and the rich and sent thousands of them to die in Iraq. This year's election is reportedly unique in that the nation's poor must not only weigh how deeply and painfully their chosen candidate will penetrate their rectums, but must also consider unforeseen outside circumstances—such as economic collapse and terrorism—that might allow the next president to bend them over and brutally rape them in ways they never thought possible.

The latest polls indicate that a majority of lower-class citizens might choose not to vote at all Nov. 4, preferring instead to leave the details of how they get fucked to the moneyed classes.

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Simcity

So I'm looking at the new Google Earth app for iPhone and I realize, hey, that looks exactly like SimCity.

I remember when I was a kid, about 10 or 11, playing Simcity 2000, and thinking the city I made was so cool, and I wished I could live in it.

Now I look at Google Earth's satellite view of Atlanta and realize I'm living in that city.


Scene from Simcity 5


Viewing Atlanta in Google Earth for iPhone

Pointless Polls

Look at this recent poll found on the front page of Drudge. It's pretty self-explanatory (at least in one sense): roughly half of people are voting for one guy, and roughly half for the other, and for some reason we make a big deal out of the marginal difference.

The election is never split 40/60 or 30/70. Why? Because both candidates are the same. You could just have everyone flip a coin and you'd end up with the same pattern, roughly half for this guy and half for that guy.

I'm not quite sure how to say it; it just looks silly to me. All these polls, every day, about who's ahead by so many percent, or behind so many percent. Can't we find something more productive to do than constantly bicker about who the next president's gonna be?

Mindless Robots

This is what happens when you allow yourself to be brainwashed by religion, television, nationalism, and other forms of propaganda. The mind closes shut, critical thinking stops, and you become...well, just click play.

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