Just a brief post to see if we can stir up any comments. I’ve been struck by how much of the Republican primary has centered around Mitt Romney’s tax bill (as Mike pointed out). It is interesting to note “conservatives” turning on one another regarding someone’s taxes being too low, which goes against the de [...]
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What’s Wrong With 15%?
Posted in Economics, Unintended Consequences, tagged 15%, Mitt Romey, Taxes on January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Why They Can’t Stop The Leaks
Posted in Culture, Politics, Technology, Unintended Consequences, tagged CIA, cryptome, cypherpunks, john young, julian assange, Soros, WikiLeaks on December 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The revolution began in the late 1970’s but the first shot was fired in 1992 when a group of civil libertarian cryptologists, known as the Cypherpunks, started a mailing list. By 1997, there were thousands of subscribers who discussed politics, privacy, cryptography, philosophy, and wrote code. While the net was still in its infancy, these [...]
Yeah, But How Did You Find Out?
Posted in Culture, Politics, Technology, Unintended Consequences, tagged Google Earth, government employees, GPS, privacy concerns, waste on August 2, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Just read this report about a town in New York using Google Earth to locate homes with pools that may not be licensed: A town on New York’s Long Island is using Google Earth to find backyard pools that don’t have the proper permits. The town of Riverhead has used the satellite image service to [...]
Random Musings
Posted in Culture, Miscellany, Sports, Unintended Consequences, tagged 405, Chelsea FC, Oregon, UAW on May 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Just a few things popping through my mind last couple of days. Been seeing a lot of UAW workers striking on Cherry Ave. near my house. Can’t help but see it as bad form to be striking while so many are without jobs and hungry for work. The other day on my way home there [...]
I’m looking for some common ground…
Posted in Environment, Unintended Consequences on May 15, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I am absolutely seething about the oil leak in the Gulf. I don’t know if the gravity of this situation has sunk in with people. I also don’t have the time right now to research and explain the ecological consequences, but I would assume that I’m addressing a smart enough audience that I don’t need [...]
Unintended Consequences – II
Posted in Unintended Consequences, tagged farm subsidies, foreign aid, Haiti on March 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have added a new category to CAI’s “cloud” of topics that are search-able on the right side of the blog here. It is labeled Unintended Consequences. I have written a post specifically about this before, and mentioned it at other times, but I realize that I notice this pattern quite often and so thought [...]
Fair Trade… For Our Conscience Or Their Benefit?
Posted in Belief, Culture, Economics, Unintended Consequences, tagged Cardus, coffee, fair trade, Hernando de Soto, Robert Joustra on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever talked with people about fair trade, the idea of branding certain commodities that have passed muster as delivering a fair and decent price to its third-world producers? I have, and they are usually boisterously supportive of it, or at least passively not opposed to it on the grounds of why not? I [...]
Unintended Consequence
Posted in Economics, Environment, Unintended Consequences, tagged CSULB, environmentalists, fish, Long Beach, oil companies, Oil rigs, reefs on June 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Normally when I say those two words it is when discussing some governmental policy that has consequences unintended from the original idea. For a broad example take an idea like welfare – intended to help people who are in dire straits and need a life line – but which many times appears to cause people [...]
Savings That Can Kill?
Posted in Economics, Environment, Unintended Consequences, tagged CAFE, foreign oil, fuel consumption, Obama, pollution, SMART car on May 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There has been much in the news lately over the Obama administrations proposed changes to CAFE legislation, raising the mpg standards on autos to 35 mpg from the current 27.5 mpg. This provokes an interesting dilemma though. The main way to reduce fuel consumption in autos is by making them lighter, and thus smaller. I’m [...]
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