tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81621052011-10-27T23:51:24.215-07:00Thoughts of a Freelance TheoristShannon Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912483436448082527noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162105.post-1098981648683911692004-10-28T09:37:00.000-07:002004-10-28T09:40:48.683-07:00

Tutorial Vouchers I really like the idea of a voucher based funded school system. I think that long term it offers the best chance of providing high quality education to an increasingly diverse population. However, transitioning from the current governmental management to private management is a major hurdle. Voucher schools must be able to offer all the same opportunities as the currently

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Via Instapundit comes a link to a post on NRO's The Corner which ask whether Kerry's Cold War era policy stances really tell us anything about how he would fight terrorism. I think Kerry's Cold War era policy stances are fair game because they reveal his fundamental model of foreign relations so starkly. People make decisions based not on the merits of individual cases but by running the facts

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A lot of people engage in ethnocentric projection by talking about "The Iraqi Insurgency." A lot the commentary makes it appear that the insurgents are all part of the same group with the same goals. That is not the case. Like most 3rd-world peoples, the people of Iraq identify weakly with the nation state in which they live. Their primary loyalties lay with family, clan, ethnic group and

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Via Instapundit come this story about the people of Fallujah and other people in the Sunni triangle beginning to turn on the foreigner fighters who are actually causing most of the bloodshed. This is a reoccurring pattern in Iraq and happened most recently in An-Najaf with Al-Sadar's "militia.' It may be just an accidental strategy on our part but allowing this or that group of insurgents to

Shannon Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912483436448082527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162105.post-1097556087909850492004-10-12T12:01:00.000-07:002004-10-11T21:41:27.910-07:00

(While googling to research this essay, I learned that Christopher Reeves had died so perhaps it was somehow fated to be written this day.) I went to see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow this weekend. It's a great romp if you're the kind of person who like retro golden-era style science fiction pulp adventures that features amphibious P-40's Warhawks. Before the movie, the theater showed "

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The McGuffin-Delusion arises when someone argues that an instance of technology represents the source of a problem and not the individual who controls the technology. I think it shows up in a lot of technology related political discussions. I named it after Alfred Hitchock's description of his plot device, a McGuffin, that every character in the story searches for believing it will solve their

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I didn't watch the vice presidential debate. I have taken to reading such things online by preference but in thinking about the two men involved I am struck by what an odd choice Cheney was for vice president. I think this says something about the way that Bush views the Presidency. Historically, VPs are chosen primarily for political reasons. Usually, they balance the ticket regionally or are

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Such strange things you encounter while surfing. So, there's blogger who has dubbed Kerry "Senator von Munchausen" due to Kerry's Christmas-in-Cambodia story and now he his trying to fact check a story Kerry told Field and Stream about hunting deer on Cape Cod. Kerry claims to have come-this-close to bagging a 16-point buck out on the cape. The blogger is dubious so he's turning the distributed

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[For a more updated take see "Sarin, Sarout" on ChicagoBoyz]In Lord of Rings, the plot revolves around an attempt by all parties to control Sauron's ring of power. The ring is an item unique in all the world. Whomever controls that one item rules the world. This plot device of unique item is fairly common in literature and movies. Hitchcock called it a McGuffin. Every character has to be looking

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Last month Time magazine did an article suddenly discovering that the U.S./Mexico boarder is a sieve that lets millions of people and tons of drugs pass across it every year. In an age of terrorism, this looks like a disaster waiting to happen. If migrant workers and drug runners can cross the border then obviously terrorist can do so just as easily. A look at the empirical evidence, however,

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During the Vietnam war, one the most emotional wrenching parts of military service was watching the vilification of service people by the anti-war movement back home. It really seemed to effect the service people of that era profoundly that some segments of the population back home questioned their collective and individual morality. In looking at the postings and emails from service people in

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Gen-X'ers complain that we can't get away from Vietnam. A war that ended 30 years ago still dogs us shaping our debates about fighting an entirely different war. But that is how every war is fought. The ghost of the wars that a generation of leaders fought in as youths still haunt them when become the nation's elders. Vietnam still haunts us because it was the war of the youth of the baby-boomers

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Peoples political ideas spring from an underlying coherent model of reality. Understanding that model is key to predicting their future behavior. In last night's debate Kerry revealed a key component of his world-model. From the Debate transcript: And part of that leadership is sending the right message to places like North Korea. Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of

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A lot of pundits have been saying that Kerry must present a clear plan for how he would "win" in Iraq or at least provide for an "exit" strategy. If he can't do that then he is through say the pundits. Well, Kerry is throughly screwed because he can't offer a plan to "win" in Iraq. On the other hand neither can Bush. Nobody can provide a clear plan for "winning" in Iraq because the conflict

Shannon Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912483436448082527noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162105.post-1096566085210309612004-09-30T10:40:00.000-07:002004-09-30T10:41:25.210-07:00

Mickey Klause is a centrist Democrat, a good reporter, a good writer and an all around smart guy which is why his posting today on the Check 21 law is so revealing of a generalized Leftist mindset. The Check 21 law frees banks from the requirement to keep paper checks in existence after they have been scanned and inputed into an electronic format. The law makes the electronic format the legal

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Objective Media? Before the 1920's, the idea of an "objective" or "non-partisan" media did not exist. The previous 100 years had seen the reign of the newspaper as the primary news medium and newspapers of that era never portrayed themselves as objective or non-partisan. Newspapers evolved from the pamphleteers who consider themselves polemist. Their goal was to propagandize for their side.

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So I'm flipping channels last night and catch a picture of Kerry on the News. The guy has a tan like an Oompa Loompa. I point this out to my teenage daughter who says, "Tan in a bottle. It's to dark, to even and to orange to be natural." I scoffed at the idea but not because I know anything about chemical tans but because I didn't think Kerry would be so dumb as to dye himself. The potential

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Over at the The Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr asked three questions for bloggers who support the war and ask them to post their answers and send him links. His questions are in italics below followed by my answers. This is a big subject and I have tried to be brief so the usual caveats about generalizations apply. I may also tweak and update this as the day goes on. First, assuming that you

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To hear the media tell it, Iraq is disintegrating. Violence is widespread and progress made since the fall of Saddam has stagnated or even reversed. Others, like Iraqi bloggers or returning US military tell a different story. I decided to try to map the violence in the country to try to get an visual idea how widespread the violence was. I wanted to see how much of the country of Iraq was

Shannon Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912483436448082527noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162105.post-1095998975874799002004-09-23T23:06:00.000-07:002004-09-23T21:11:15.420-07:00

Britney Spears vs. The Terrorist! How do you hide, obscure or otherwise manipulate the availability of information in the Internet age? If you don’t want somebody to know something, how do you stop them? In the past, one could just physically secure the information and watch the bottlenecks that occurred at the physically large facilities used for mass dissemination. That won’t work anymore.

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Via Instapundit comes a link to a post on Balkinization that proposes to create “A new crime of “reckless sexual conduct…”. Basically, the idea is to prevent date rape and STD’s by making it a crime not to use a condom during a one-night stand. There are lot of practical and moral objections to such a law. I don’t think it has the hope of seeing the light of day but it is still a good example

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Both Instapundit and Best of the Web reference this NY Times poll showing Kerry losing ground among women. They seem to think it's the "Security Moms" factor that is causing Kerry trouble. Kerry's life history isn't one that a lot of women would find attractive. Kerry married his first wife, a billionaire heiress, divorced her, had their marriage annulled in the Catholic Church, ran through

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Another consequence of Rathergate could be the end of the era of the interviewed expert. Heretofore, major media got to decide which experts got to chime in on any particular story. 10 years ago only the opinions of experts selected by CBS and other major media organizations would have been heard. Today, any expert, in any field, can chime in on any story. The legacy media has long leant

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(I originally wrote this in the comments to this posting over at Chicago Boyz) One of the most eye opening books I ever read was a collection of news stories and editorials spanning the years 1938-1948. The hostility and suspicion directed against Roosevelt before the war was absolutely stunning. The terror and calling for head lopping in early stages of the war were also a big surprise for me

Shannon Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912483436448082527noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162105.post-1095868043612290142004-09-22T10:45:00.000-07:002004-09-22T08:47:23.613-07:00

What a free-market is free-of is violence. Individuals make economic decisions based on the advantage it brings them not out of fear of being hurt or killed by another human. We usually think of the violence as arising from the implicit threat of violence lying behind all government laws but a free-market can also be destroyed by individual-to-individual violence on many different scales. Once

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It is easy to think that you can own property anonymously. The presumption that “possession is nine tenths of the law” means that anything in your possession is presumed your property unless somebody can present positive evidence it is not. Most of us cannot easily prove we legally own most our possessions and the law in general does not require us to. As long as an item is on our person or

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What didn't I think of this? Also, how the flashlight got it's name.

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Reportedly, CBS will announce today that they concede the infamous Bush AWOL documents are forgeries. Once that happens, the story will then become the providence of the documents. Many believe that CBS has been slow to declare documents forgeries because then they would be obligated to say who they got them from. Speculation is rife CBS does not want to reveal the source because it is a high

Shannon Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912483436448082527noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162105.post-1095614686512944542004-09-19T12:23:00.000-07:002004-09-19T10:24:46.513-07:00

I think that Bush has a significant advantage over his opponents in the AWOL story. He knows what really happened. Everybody else is just guessing, but Bush knows. This gives him an enormous strategic advantage. His opponents don’t really know what happened so they expend a great deal of resources chasing mirages and basing strategy on them. It is not just that Bush was involved with the

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"Four memos to fool them all, four memos to blind them. Four memos to bring Bush down and Rather will provide them!"--ech Eye sea

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From watching the news one could safely assume that Iraq is a nation up in arms and that the situation is spiraling out of control. One could assume from continuing Coalition causalities that opposition to the Coalition is widespread and popular. How can we test that idea? Well, we could try a few back-of-the-envelope type calculations to try to get at least a sense of the magnitude of the

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The Democratic Party has been losing political power slowly but surely for the last 30 years. Arguably they have not won a straight out Presidential election since 1964. Carter won because of Watergate, Clinton won because of Perot. In the Congress, Governorships and elsewhere there has been a steady and constant erosion of power as they have lost election after election. Democrats convince

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(Note: Reason seems to be having server problems, again) Over on Hit and Run, Nick Gillespie points to an article on Slate about Lewis H. Lapham defense of his analysis of the Republican convension he wrote and published before the convention occurred. One bit drew my attention: "The paranoid-reductionist formula goes like this: People connected by money, greed, and ideology are building

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From a Bloom County comic strip I found while researching another matter. It originally ran in '82 or '83. Image hosting by ImageShack Berkeley Breathed intellectual property rights grossly violated (cross posted at Chicago Boyz)

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Tradition says that, “Ignorance is bliss.” Will Rogers said, “Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” So how come everybody isn’t happy? Perhaps our unhappiness springs from the corollary to Rogers observation, “Everybody is knowledgeable, only on different subjects.” Perhaps, the more we know about a subject the more it’s real world state discomforts us but I recall a study

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At its heart, terrorism is theater. Each act of terrorism has an intended audience. Most acts of terrorism have at least two audiences. The terrorist who struts bloodily across the boards plays not only to the greater world out in the stands but to his own local community who watch from the wings. In many cases, the audience in the wings is the most important one to the terrorist long-term

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I started this blog 25hrs ago and heres a few things I have learned in the interval. (In no particular order) The rest of the blogsphere may not need professional editors but I sure as hell do. Most people seem to assume your wearing pants. Apparently, having a memorable name really helps people keep track of you in cyberspace. You can't have to many blogs. I got invited to post on the

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This post over at Slashdot highlights the problems that small software publishers have with the piracy of their products. One publisher was so frustrated he programmed his product to delete the home directory of the user if the product was activated with an illegitimate serial number but even this “nuclear” option did not work. The small publishers lament that only a big publisher like Microsoft

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Over at Chicago Boyz, Ken argues that it is counterproductive to disarm passengers since weapons will help them resist a hijacking better. I'm a big fan of personal weapons but in this case I respectfully disagree. One problem is that since hijackings are extremely rare events letting passengers carry serious weapons like tasers, pepper spray, knives or even guns will be statistically more

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A lot of people seem to confused about about whether I am male or female. What is the gender of of someone who claims to be named "Shannon"? The name can be either. It's derived from the old Gaelic and means "Wise One" or "old wise man" depending on whom you ask. The "Love" is most likely and Anglicization of the German Luft meaning "air" or the French "loup" meaning wolf but it might just be

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The Internet lets one do all kinds of interesting experiments with identity. It’s easy to create an Internet persona totally different from one’s true self and see how other’s react to it. Many people believe that people of their particular political persuasion are the rational, polite open-minded people whereas their political opponents are the irrational, rude close-minded bigots. They

Shannon Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912483436448082527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162105.post-1095124652694356732004-09-13T20:31:00.000-07:002004-09-13T18:17:32.693-07:00

Reason Hit and Run poster "J" noted my comment and posted a link to a PDF paper on using shrike predation to measure the adaptive function of the spikes on the heads of "Horny Toads" This prompted me to reply: That paper is pretty nifty and yes I did mean "Texas Horned Lizard." Evolutionary biology is one of the most difficult fields. It's very easy to get sloppy. This was a very clever idea

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Over at Reason's Hit and Run Blog they have christened the CBS scandal Cover Your AssGate after the "CYA" at the top of one memo's. This reminds me of a story: Once I was complaining to a co-worker about political correctness and I pointed out that recently on a nature show they had featured the Texas Horned Toad. I complained that everybody knew it was actually called a "Horny Toad" and that

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Since I am getting large amounts of unanticipated traffic I have decided to offer up for internet auction the location of a vast horde of nazi gold that I inherited from my great uncle Farnworth "The Squeaker" Love (don't ask about the nickname). I have the latitude and longitude down to the second and references to nearby landmarks. This pile of gold is so large you can find it easy. Want proof

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Jumpin Jeebus! Back in Feburary of this year Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame made mention of a post I did on another blog. I wrote him about it and he suggested I start a blog. After much procrastination I complied just today. I just sent him a mail within the past hour telling him I started my blog. He published a notice on of my blog on Instapundit.. Now I will get hammered! I've got

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Major Media Parasites? , One of the best objections to the conclusion of my previous post about media secrecy is that the blogsphere is dependent on mainstream media for raw material on which the blogsphere comments. In this view, the blogsphere is like a biological parasite on major media. It can only critique the stories and information that major media provides. It can't generate it's own

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RatherGate has revealed an ugly truth of old media: It needs secrecy to succeed economically. It must have access to sources of information that no one else does. Secret sources are to old media what physical assets are to smokestack industries. Media makes its living by revealing what it knows but once a story is in the public domain it ceases to be an economic asset to the organization that

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