http://david614.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:34:09 -0800 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/shultz-said.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/shultz-said.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/shultz-said.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:34:09 -0800 George Schultz would have opposed the 700 billion bail outs for financial firms last year. The basic principle he puts up against that is that when you have skin in the game, you take care of the money you manage. In the past year, this has cert... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/shultz-said.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123ddca2cf2860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/rare-earth.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/rare-earth.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/rare-earth.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:37:22 -0800 Rare Earth minerals are a key element in many new green technologies. They are used in the batteries of hybrid automobiles (up to a Kilo per vehicle) and in magnets used in wind mills, for example. 50% of the world's deposits are in China. China... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/rare-earth.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123ddde9d49860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/nasheed.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/nasheed.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/nasheed.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:35:46 -0800 Here, below, is perhaps the best nasheed that I have heard so far. While I'll always be an opponent of religion at large - and especially its worst consequences, I can appreciate the beauty in a song such as this and feel the emotional serenity a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/nasheed.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123dddd8797860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/irans-bomb.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/irans-bomb.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/irans-bomb.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:19:02 -0800 I just watched a 1 hour interview with Turkey's PM Erdogan so I'd like to talk about that in particular and you will see why its relevant. Like China, they have large commercial interests in Iran and are not ready to jeopardize that. On top ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/irans-bomb.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123f1864950860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/reactions-to-obamas-afpak-strategy.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/reactions-to-obamas-afpak-strategy.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/reactions-to-obamas-afpak-strategy.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:45:46 -0800 Although the solution is going the right way, it lacks creativity and seems to fail to recognize the fundamental issue that you cannot establish a balance of force between regional agents by fighting the war on one side while taking all of it's w... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/reactions-to-obamas-afpak-strategy.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123ddd9cfe8860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-personification-of-lifeless-entities-and-non-human-animals.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-personification-of-lifeless-entities-and-non-human-animals.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-personification-of-lifeless-entities-and-non-human-animals.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:53:42 -0800 Take the following sentence: China doesn't care about anything in the world right now but it's own economic growth. China is used as an argument for the word care. The question is, doesn't care and similar words only apply to people? We do this ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-personification-of-lifeless-entities-and-non-human-animals.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123ddd92da1860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/common-sense.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/common-sense.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/common-sense.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:57:37 -0800 There are multiple positions in different disciplines that call themselves the "common sense" position on a problem or in a field. For ex. in foreign policy advocacy and in moral philosophy. I would like to take some time to look at what they al... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/common-sense.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123ddecc7c2860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-elimination-of-thinking.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-elimination-of-thinking.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-elimination-of-thinking.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:38:23 -0800 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125947451116668259.html The Swiss project to ban minarets raises the question if we should target religious groups to diminish and eventually eradicate religion as it exists today in our societies. I can't conf... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://david614.vox.com/library/post/the-elimination-of-thinking.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b0123ddec685d860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/term-defining.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/term-defining.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/term-defining.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:49:05 -0800 [Unrevised] Above all other constraints about what Obama should do, 2 should prolly stand at the top and then all the parameters coming later can modify that original state. 1st : do things right. listen to your international partners and w... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b01240b7d7f4b860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://david614.vox.com/library/post/universal-values.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(David) http://david614.vox.com/library/post/universal-values.html?_c=feed-rss http://david614.vox.com/library/post/universal-values.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:41:29 -0800 I am usually someone who is anti-progress when looking at the sequence of historical events. IE, I do not think that as a whole, human culture progresses in a moral way. I'm not saying that it is constantly deteriorating either; I'm saying that p... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e72c07dbe2b01240b7d0211860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>