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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:31:49 -0700

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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:21:24 -0800

MSI CES 2009 pre-show press conference - X-Slim 320 laptop articles

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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:31:08 -0700

http://www.vealetruth.com/
rebump

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Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:05:21 -0700

http://www.rundonotwalk.blogspot.com

Consume Jake's thought provoking writings...

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:29:45 -0700

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:43:50 -0700

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/19/chevy-volt-plug-in-hybrid-priced-at-40-000/

looks nice... but what about the new Japanese hydrogen powered car ... let's drop everything hybrid and lets work on the hydro car.

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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:02:01 -0700

http://mises.org/story/2809
The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited
Well, how do we look at all this? Do we say that David Rockefeller's prodigious efforts on behalf of certain statist public policies are merely a reflection of unfocused altruism? Or is there pursuit of economic interest involved? Was Jimmy Carter named a member of the Trilateral Commission as soon as it was founded because Rockefeller and the others wanted to hear the wisdom of an obscure Georgia governor? Or was he plucked out of obscurity and made President by their support? Was J. Paul Austin, head of Coca-Cola, an early supporter of Jimmy Carter merely out of concern for the common good? Were all the Trilateralists and Rockefeller Foundation and Coca-Cola people chosen by Carter simply because he felt that they were the ablest possible people for the job? If so, it's a coincidence that boggles the mind. Or are there more sinister political-economic interests involved? I submit that the na�fs who stubbornly refuse to examine the interplay of political and economic interest in government are tossing away an essential tool for analyzing the world in which we live.Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was dean of the Austrian School.

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Tue, 27 May 2008 20:13:04 -0700

Reminds me of the chapter about the Amish in the book entitled All I Really need to know i learned in kindergarten. pg 72 (chapter title = vacuums)
"The Amish believe that those things that do not serve the family, the community, or the individual well should be avoided. Noisy engines seperate people and make it ard for them to sing together while they work, and even harder to think when they work alone. Hand tools are cheap, easy to repair, and give the user good exercise. Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
"When my firend's life gets to be too much of an air raid and he needs sanity, he remembers the Amish. He goes out into his yard with his hand tools for an afternood of seeking wisdom in simplicity. A noisy machine won't help when his soul feels empty. In his middle years he has acquired the wisdom of choosing appropriate technology. Pushing leaves with mechanical air is not the as hearing the wind blow through the trees.

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Tue, 27 May 2008 00:39:58 -0700

the quote i was looking for:
"I was once a doubter whether the labor of the cultivator aided by the creative powers of the earth itself would not produce more value than that of the manufacturer alone and unassisted by the dead subject on which he acted. In other words, whether the more we could bring into action of the energies of our boundless territory in addition to the labor of our citizens, the more would be our gain? But the inventions of later times, by labor-saving machines do as much now for the manufacturer as the earth for the cultivator. Experience, too, has proved that mine was but half the question. The other half is whether dollars and cents are to be weighed in the scale against real independence? The whole question then is solved, at least as far as respects our wants." --Thomas Jefferson to William Sampson, 1817. FE 10:73

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Tue, 27 May 2008 00:37:32 -0700

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1320.htm

"Agriculture... is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1787. ME 6:277

"The pursuits of agriculture [are] the surest road to affluence and best preservative of morals." --Thomas Jefferson to John Blair, 1787. ME 6:272

"An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings, whether moral or political, than a lazy lounger, valuing himself on his family, too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor which is the sacred fund of the helpless poor." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786. ME 17:91

"Agriculture... is the first in utility, and ought to be the first in respect." --Thomas Jefferson to David Williams, 1803. ME 10:429

"The United States... will be more virtuous, more free and more happy employed in agriculture than as carriers or manufacturers. It is a truth, and a precious one for them, if they could be persuaded of it." --Thomas Jefferson to M. de Warville, 1786. ME 5:402

"To remove as much as possible the occasions of making war, it might be better for us to abandon the ocean altogether, that being the element whereon we shall be principally exposed to jostle with other nations; to leave to others to bring what we shall want and to carry what we can spare. This would make us invulnerable to Europe by offering none of our property to their prize, and would turn all our citizens to the cultivation of the earth... It might be time enough to seek employment for them at sea when the land no longer offers it." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XXII, 1782. ME 2:241

"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442