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Odd specialty
Whoda thunk it? One industrial designer specialized in weird super-streamlined trucks. This Vintage.es article shows a weird 1936 armored car, with an elevated cupola for a tailgunner, designed by Everett Miller. The article mentions that Miller also did the Gilmore fuel oil neon truck and the Arrowhead Spring Water teardrop car. The latter reminds me…
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It’s all crime
I’ve said something like this before in connection with ‘corporate personhood’. For some reason the topic sharpened up this morning, helped by familiarity with the new research on brain networks. Natural Law is innate. It’s built into our brains. We have specific feature detectors for unfair practices or deceptive language. We don’t know the difference…
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Usual subjects
Random thought on the usual subjects. The Nash Metropolitan was the first offshoring in the US auto industry. Most US makers had branches in Canada and Euro countries from the start. The branches functioned in different ways: some made their own cars, some made identical US models, most made variations or descendants of US cars.…
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Not a good idea
Some commentators are taking the Carney victory as a time to start agitating for independence for the prairie provinces. Bad idea. When you’re the mouse fighting a hostile psychopathic cat, you need all the force you can muster. Workers vs corporations are the easiest example. One worker at a time has no chance of gaining…
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Carney wins.
GOOD. I’m happy. At this point the networks are certain that Carney’s party will have the plurality in parliament, which lets them form a government. The predictors aren’t certain of an absolute majority yet. If the total of seats crosses the absolute threshold, there won’t be any need for coalitions. Later, they’re sure it’s only…
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Why businesses should NEVER…
It’s the oldest and most universal rule in selling and business. NEVER NEVER NEVER get into politics unless you’re a politician. NEVER NEVER NEVER get into religion unless you’re a preacher. If you’re selling anything else, cars or food or software, STRICTLY AVOID all political and religious teams. Don’t let anyone even SUSPECT that you’re…
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Farmers are about to be replaced!!!
All those outdated old-fashioned farmers who are still doing it the stupid way, planting seeds in soil and harvesting the crops, had better watch out! Their hopelessly obsolete methods are about to be overturned by: The Most Holy And Noble Innovator ***C*R*A*I*G***W*R*I*G*H*T*** After successfully overturning a thousand years of obsolete fiat banking and replacing all…
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How they did it
I always enjoy seeing how a task is really done. Usually the real thing is a whole lot harder than it looks from the outside. Sometimes it’s easier. This new upload at American Radio Library is a revealing look behind the scenes of talk radio. It’s a user manual for a Telos Talk Radio Call…
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Rang several bells
This little item reprinted on substack caught my attention. It’s a filler, the sort of thing I used to enjoy in newspapers. Frankfort also rang a bell. It’s straight north of Manhattan, not far from the north end of Tuttle Creek Lake. I don’t think I’ve ever been there, but I used to see the…
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Name change they didn’t fight for
Totally random thought. The feminists of the 60s and 70s agitated for all sorts of name modifications. The only change that stuck was a less automatic adoption of the husband’s surname after marriage. The other tricks like Friedperson or Watchild never caught on. Feminists never fought for the “right” to be Junior or III or…
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Maybe interesting?
The Spokane newspaper is turning itself into a nonprofit, operated by a foundation that is basically its editor. For more than a century the Cowles family owned the newspaper, downtown, and the “city” “government”. The nonprofit is supposedly divorced from Cowles. If this article can be believed, the nonprofit is a business, not a charity.…
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Elbows up in Europe
The Ankler reporting on Euro show biz: = = = = = START ANKLER: Now that we’ve had close to a month to digest Donald Trump’s America-first trade policies, I’m beginning to hear more about the projected impact on the industry, and producers’ “sharp elbows” strategy. “Buy fewer Teslas and U.S. shows, and more Peugeots…
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The correct history
This article fills in the CORRECT history of the 1700s, when the NYC robber barons rebelled against British rule and asserted the theoretical “right” of robber barons to take everything. Canada remained with the crown and parliament, and retained the old experimentally determined EQUIPOISE between government and citizens. Our textbooks and media never told us…
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Headline is enough
Intel to cut jobs and spending after getting 7.9 billion in federal grants The world is divided binarily into exactly two categories. God and not God. God is the CEO. All money MUST go to God. No money may ever leak out to meat objects who are not God. And they wonder why we don’t…
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102.38 acres, do you solemnly swear?
I won’t be able to fully break out of anxiety from the jury shit until I receive a formal notice that I’m done. When the freed people got out of the box, the officials told all of us that we are DONE, so I’m intellectually sure, but not emotionally. After 2020 I no longer believe…
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