naked capitalism

attempter says:

Those pictures are great.

It reminds me of the coolest wildlife sequence I ever saw. A red-tailed hawk grabbed a mockingbird in midflight. (This started about ten feet above my head; the hawk must’ve been perched right above me in the small tree I was sitting under, and I never knew he was there.)

But the hawk only managed a flap or two to regather his purchase on the air when a crow divebombed him.

The hawk panicked, released the mockingbird (who flew off), and went over and perched on a fence to collect himself. But nothing doing. The crow buzzed him again, driving him off to another point on the fence. Then to another tree. Then to another tree. This went on down a line of trees.

I watched this for maybe ten minutes. The last I saw of them there was one dot that kept diving at a second dot, which would then try to move further away.

I wish I had pictures of that.

Jim S says:

re: Bruce Krasting’s post, I’m afraid I’m not grasping the health care bill. What I’m getting out of it is that it’s reducing average individual costs by increasing the size of the insurance pool, the additional total cost being underwritten by the taxpayer in general and by individual payers such as Bruce in specific. Total costs also increase because a greater spread of risk will be insured (if pre-existing conditions must now be insured, what categories of risk will be excluded?). Is this anywhere close to understanding the fiscal premise of the law?

Jim

kevinearick says:

what was the federal deficit in January? …

The Craving for Identification vs Open Source

The nexus replicates lab rats into a majority to identify the thinking remainder, because it cannot think for itself. Show it nothing, tell it nothing, give it nothing. It is a thief by nature. Let it steal the old processes that you are no longer using. The result is the output gap. Adjust it as necessary, to allow efficient consumption or to catalyzing effective production.

But beware. The nexus understands relativity as a stand-alone concept; that’s how it controls the perception of the distance to the maturity wall, through the self-fulfilling prophesy of its history. Otherwise, it is a rock, which has its uses. The trick to being more patient than the rock is to be a frequency shape-shifter. Be different kinds of rocks. It’s a psychological problem, what yours appears to depend upon.

Spending 20 hours a week being a lab rat is in everyone’s interest. There are 168 hours in a week, and you can change cages if you get bored. The better you understand the system, the more roles you can play, the more you will see, the more you can participate, the greater your returns.

Your value system is your own. Your returns will increase to the extent you “migrate” across the system, and will decrease to the extent you replicate your value system. The nexus vortex is an algebraic reduction of such values over time. There is nothing personal about it. Its operators get paid to match its frequency, in monopoly money.

Kids are like aliens. To the extent replicative force is applied, an equal and opposing force develops. To the extent the nexus hunts them, their numbers dwindle, and the length of the lever increases.

Enterprise System History

We had a system where the big bosses came out of the ivy league and the rest came up from the factory floor, which was better because the latter understood that they were being promoted because they could not do the work, but were good at the support functions. Once the university system was replicated into a diploma mill, the bosses were all conditioned to supervise compliance in an “education” vacuum, and then sent over to be bosses, resulting in nexus cancer.

The bottom line is that the work has to get done, the boss has to be told how to think and simultaneously has to believe he or she is doing the directing. The holdup is that the bosses now really believe the mythology, that they are directing the economy, because they are in the driver’s seat, as the economy drives straight downhill, under drive-by wire limitation.

Of course the HS dropout rate is escalating. The kids appear to be rocks. There is nothing real about Washington D.C. It’s a center of gravity.

Hiring authority transferred from the line supervisor to the multi-national HR function, individuals with restaurant management degrees hired to direct development, and the chosen all going into finance were all pretty good clues to where this was all headed: the pot and the kettle taking turns calling each other black while zombies watched on tv and the real economy cratered.