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April 24, 2010 at 7:40 am
dave
so he wants a wartime, or greater, level of response and mobilization to an energy crisis. well, war like responses are reserved for war. he even uses war effort data to support his case. i guess cause that’s the only kind of data out there that has any chance of supporting the stories that he wants to tell himself. anyhoo, what are wars fought over other than resources? what’s energy supply other than a resourse? so, i guess he’ll get his wish. there will be a massively mobilized wartime like response to the energy shortage. it’ll be, already is in fact, war. pray for plauge.
http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-does-surplus-resilience.html
April 24, 2010 at 7:58 am
dave
i guess that some guys get mezmorized by some set of numbers and graphs and shit, in much the same way that i might get mezmorized by a set of round buttucks and a well oiled, tightly puckered, asshole. i guess.
April 24, 2010 at 8:00 am
dave
there’s a fetish for everybody; i always say.
April 24, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Bunn Bunn
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS
Yeah, it’s pretty well established, and supported by this sort of data, that poor countries (categorized as such based on GDP) divert an inordinately high percentage of their productivity to trying to feed themselves.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
“GDP at purchaser’s prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources.”
Okay SS, maybe you can crank out some more plots but refine the model slightly… you know, back out some of these excluded things, and add in some overlooked others, such as how many hours per day the people in that country watch television, divided by the mean indebtedness or anus inner diameter, whichever is greater, of the 18-35 demographic who make contributions to the GDP of their country of birth excluding those counted by one or more biological parent or legal guardian in a timely submitted 2010 U.S. Cencus Form. Just gotta hunt down whoever has all this data, preferably in a format that conveniently imports into my table generating software program!
Of course a bigger and more serious question is how much will the value of all these (non-agricultural) things that contribute to GDP adjust downward or upward if circumstances suddenly or dramatically change?
Maybe part of what SS is trying to say is that rich countries will continue to get richer, that is, until they’ve depleted their resources and the resources available to them, or their problems may begin sooner if, for example, some bigger, hungrier, luckier, and/or better-armed mob shows up… or, for whatever reason, when the will to survive is simply no longer there.
April 26, 2010 at 11:16 am
dave
haha, hierarchies are no more or less emergent than flocks or schools, or hurricans for that matter. fucking monkeys also want to tell stories about how special they are.
April 26, 2010 at 11:17 am
dave
fucking monkeys always…
April 26, 2010 at 11:24 am
dave
if monkeys were molecules in a hurrican, there would be a group of molecules telling stories about how they were in control of the hurrican. other molecules would believe them, untill they found them themselves dumped into the mississippi river. of course there they’d encounter other molecules with stories about how they knew the intent of the river. “just follow me” they’d say.
April 26, 2010 at 11:25 am
dave
fucking monkeys are stupid as shit, no foolin’.
April 26, 2010 at 11:27 am
dave
girl monkeys are good to fuck and suck and lick and generally have fun with though. it’s not my fault.
April 26, 2010 at 11:28 am
dave
sometimes they shit out baby monkeys. that can be good or bad, depending on your mood, i guess.
April 26, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Saint Bif
Flank left in your Bauer’s? Talking to your Bauer Supremes? I had a pair when they were kangaroo hide. They don’t make’em like that anymore.
BTW, my favorite hockey player is Satan.
(Miroslav Satan – Boston Bruins.)
But what I really want to talk about is shale gas. Development of the Marcellus should proceed with haste. The deeper Utica should be explored. I’ve looked long and hard and I just don’t see the concern with these frac operations. That’s not to say there aren’t concerns with surface operations, wastewater spills, or frac trucks tearing up local roads, and there is produced brine, but this is ALL manageable. Well construction can be done to case off any aquifer resource concerns, but the gas bearing zones normally occur many thousands of feet below these water resources anyway. Communication of frac fluids with aquifers should be a very unusaul occurence, and if it occured it would be a well construction snafu not a frac problem, so this is manageable and doable. May God and directional drilling techniques save us all. Now get to work boys. Yes sir.
Interestingly, shale gas has changed the landscape for the moment and dashed Putin dreams of gas tyranny on Europe. Heh heh, Ukraine will not freeze to death anytime soon it looks like.
April 26, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Saint Bif
Umm. By ‘God’ I mean carboniferous geological endowment. :)
April 26, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Saint Bif
HUH???? I love Flunk and like this tune. I just don’t how on earth it could have been used in a documentary about the USS Nimitz.
April 26, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Saint Bif
If I was on a carrier I’d probably listen to Megadeath or the sound of my head beating against a bulkhead until unconscious. Unless I was a pilot. Then I’d listen to Patti Smith and Pink Floyd probably. Maybe some Crazy Horse.
April 26, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Saint Bif
“…divided by the mean indebtedness or anus inner diameter, whichever is greater”
Verification could prove difficult, even hazardous!
April 26, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Saint Bif
the “bigger, hungrier, luckier, and/or better-armed mob shows up.”
If the fuckers are armed and lucky we’ve got problems, big time.
I know what you’re saying though.
April 27, 2010 at 5:29 am
dave
damn, bif channeling boone pickens, who woulda ever thunk that?
April 27, 2010 at 5:40 am
dave
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/15/15climatewire-coal-chiefs-go-on-offensive-as-pickens-pushe-62650.html
April 27, 2010 at 9:52 am
Dr. Doom
Did someone say “carboniferous”? I’m currently out here in the wilds of northern New Mexico looking a strata preserved from that period, but they still call it Mississippian and Pennsylvanian here. Nice rocks, lots of cool marine fossils in them, mostly clams, crinoids (animals that look like plants) and a few brachiopods and trilobites. Probably was a vast shallow sea, with no proto-coal swamps in sight. Wonder where our ancestors were hanging in those days, and if even then they were telling each other stories about how they were “in control”.
April 27, 2010 at 11:47 pm
JR
“fucking monkeys always…”
@Dave-
Dude, I’m trying to draw intelligent Dutch hookers tot the site
This really doesn’t help. Can you pull your literary WTF together.
Please.
Please.
I’m pulling my shit together as gushers cover my eyes.
April 27, 2010 at 11:53 pm
JR
Whatever. I don’t care. When you’ve come this far you’ve dealt with German cunts. And Russians. It doesn’t matter. They have no idea what Love is. Moldovans are Robots. Perfectly programmed, too.
My Reccomendation is HBO’s Cathouse Season 2. You can definitely jerk off to this with no regrets. Get a big washcloth ready. You are gonna shoot stuff willy-nilly. Wide range. I’m jus sayin. Personal experience. Yours may not be as intense.
April 28, 2010 at 12:39 am
JR
No. She’s a stupid cunt. I keep telling her she can score. She’s a whore.
I love Katya. But she is dumber than a brick. I am photographing all these exchganges.
She will be my wife someday. If we have children, I will have to show them the evidences.
Katya. Don’t do this to us.Smarten up. You have kids now.
April 28, 2010 at 7:42 am
dave
yeah, i don’t know, but i try to stick to korean or philloppena whores. caucasian whores tend to have a bad attitude in my experience; like they’re doing me a fucking favor something.
April 28, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Bunn Bunn
Geez… maybe there is something to that jobs that Americans won’t do mantra. I blame it all on television.
April 28, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Bunn Bunn
“You have kids now.”
Do you mean:
(a) Don’t wait any longer to have kids;
(b) I thought this itch of yours had already been scratched; or
(c) Why me, why us, and what have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this?
April 28, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Dr. Doom
Guy admits to friends that his blond statuesque girlfriend is “dumb as a brick”.
I would like $0.10 (ten cents) for every time that admonition has been made. Why, I’d be richer than that Blankfein crook featured on CNN these days.
April 28, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Dr. Doom
Edit: “dumber than a brick”. As if there were a few relatively smart bricks….
April 28, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Saint Bif
Springtime in northern New Mexico sounds nice Doom.
April 29, 2010 at 12:45 am
Dr. Doom
It was great Bif. Interesting season, like a teenager, not quite winter, not summer either, a wild mix of both. One can sense that the plants are just budding and not over-committing to foliage yet, might get a freeze tonight or tomorrow there.