by Didact | Dec 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
FrancisBegbie had a request regarding my recent post about the manner in which economies conduct seppuku: Economics is pretty simple in a lot of ways, and cannot be modelled with bullshit models. I’ve taken looks at some of them econometrics models and...
by Didact | Nov 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
A woman in charge moves from Boeing to Deutsche Bank: Boeing Co. promoted Ted Colbert to chief information officer and vice president of information technology. He will replace Kim Hammonds, who is moving to Deutsche Bank AG later this month. Mr. Colbert is...
by Didact | Nov 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
That’s what Obamacare has been so far: Health insurance companies have already notified at least 3.5 million Americans that their plans are being cancelled as a result of Obamacare. That number, reported Monday by the Associated Press, is the latest data...
by Didact | Nov 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yeah, right. “Sustainable”, my tightly sculpted @$$… Singapore has invested heavily in public housing, transport infrastructure and training its citizen workforce to raise manpower productivity in recent years. These efforts are complemented by...
by Didact | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am admittedly quite late to this story, but then I have rather better things to do than worry about who’s starring in the latest godawful stupid idea from a Hollywood studio system that has very clearly run out of ideas: Charlie Hunnam, the erstwhile star of...
by Didact | Oct 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Quick! Someone patent this before the Cambodians do! Yes, that is exactly what it looks like- a one-handed fried breaded chicken nugget meal/drink combo. I am, frankly, astonished that some land whale in ‘Murica hasn’t figured this out already, and made a...
by Didact | Sep 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
There are times when I feel like the gene pool desperately needs a lifeguard. And then idiots like this one come along, and I realise that we might just be OK after all: A meteorologist who has covered weather for the Wall Street Journal tweeted that he has decided...
by Didact | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Normally I would never, ever, ever comment upon the Twilight saga. This is for two reasons. One, I have never read any of the books or watched any of the movies. This is because I have a brain and I would very much like to retain use of it, thank you very much. Two, I...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
“But honestly, Miss, the computer model told me to say it!!!”: The Mail on Sunday has obtained the final draft of a report to be published later this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ultimate watchdog whose massive,...
by Didact | Sep 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Steve Sailer posted an interesting except from a book written by a former Lehman Bros. executive regarding the way diversity was forced down the throats of employees at that firm- right around the time that the housing bubble was clearly becoming a huge problem: One...
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