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I find that teams work best when you have a bunch of different specialties, a clear focus, kept small and strong leadership to prevent slugs from hiding: http://takimag.com/article/teamwork_is_overrated_gavin_mcinnes/page_2#axzz2nNbgiHsP I find that they don't work when you have a large team of peop...

A flat line:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-1 ... t-it-seems

I don't think Pelosi or the rest of congress has any idea of the amount of "suck" out here in the real world:
http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/pelosi-on- ... -the-suck/
There is a limit to how much suckage can be endured and we are getting there real fast.

Worse, the club of rome model doesn't ignore technology, it gets it backwards assuming adverse impact as a product of economic output times technology. In reality technology represents more options, allowing better efficiency and use of otherwise useless resources, delivering more prosperity for th...

Just because it's cool:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/mit-bi ... -that.html

The problem with the Club of Rome and it's "Limits To Growth" models is that the models treat people as static objects incapable of making changes and coming up with new technologies and ideas. Like all Progressives they ignore the flow of creativity and imagination that is the path of human history...

So why did I have to go to the Daily Mail to find out about this?:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ments.html
And why are the people in charge dithering? Do they really want to see the country burn, literally?

Be a good citizen, the government wants your money:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/mass-a ... l-and.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-0 ... ddle-class
To give to the grasshoppers amongst us.

A little video of people in CT making stuff, with music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehkopSMnRY

Uses a welder and welding wire:
http://www.ibtimes.com/3d-printing-meta ... 00-1492114

Diogenes, Just because he's propagandizing on this stuff doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong. The more I look into the people who originally set up the drug laws in the first place, the loonier they get. Now Msimon might be obsessing about the pot thing. But the people who put the laws in place wer...

I don't think we have begun to see the damage that the ACA will do. It's going to be all bad and the ramifications are just beginning to be felt. This is what happens when a group of people handwave something into existing and don't care about the consequences when they do it.

Reposted from: http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=108339#p108339 D, I was wondering. At the same time China was going opium mad opiates (including heroin after it was invented) were freely available in the US. Could you explain why our use rates never approached China's? Links if you h...

This is amazing. http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11/30/home-video-woman-gathers-family-to-push-obamacare-at-thanksgiving-gets-laughed-at-88078 An Obama drone doing her duty. Notice how she lies to set it up. And gets laughed at. I can't believe it. She actually tried to do the talking points and si...

Interesting article from David Brin on losing am important skillset. BASIC programming, in more ways than one.
http://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/
In this day and age simple coding is an essential skill.