- It’s been a while since we’ve had a really good monkeywrench post. Bear Bussjaeger provides one involving “malicious compliance” with tyrannical gun laws. Nice one, Bear.
- Appalachiastan: a culture of resistance (by John Meyers via Bill Buppert).
- If candidates took advice from Bastiat …
- Plato got it wrong. A brilliant takedown of “experts,” elitists, and others who pretend they can manage society by John Michael Greer (aka Archdruid), via Borepatch.
- Could recession really lead to economic revolution? Farhad Manjoo thinks so. I dunno, but it’s an interesting think piece, anyhow.
- David Koch, dead today at age 79; his legacy is complex and misunderstood.
- Rescuing a relic: when is an old gun too far gone to save?
- Canines give their arguments for why there should be a take your dog to work day. 🙂
In the 6th paragraph of Bussjaeger’s article he seems to be advocating for a police state, undermining an otherwise good piece.
Funny you should mention…I just had a hellaciously deformed gun refinished into a serviceable piece. http://www.commanderzero.com/?p=6513
Legacy guns: I was near-70 when my father died. My son lives in Germany. So, most of those guns went to people who I knew would use and appreciate them. I’m fortunate in having a close–and younger–friend who can deal with my own conglomeration of guns.
Restoration: I have a 1903 vintage Colt SAA Frontier .44-40. The external finish is maybe 13%, but it’s mechanically excellent. Grumble: Make it nearly new? Leave it alone as a shooter? Ah, decisions. 🙂
“Myself,” WTF are you talking about?
Bear, I’s was wondering the same thing.
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If the funding model for your journalism/analysis/commentary/advocacy work is someone else’s advertising expense, they will push continually for more information and tracking of the buyers.
You aren’t a programmer; or rich enough to be an angel investor, or a venture capitalist fund manager. However, you are culturally positioned in the freedom movement to produce, in a Hollywood sense, a new funding company. You are a party trusted to mediate between the big funders, small funders, programmers, and users.
Wouldn’t that more interesting than trying to earn a sales commission for not-really-being-a-salesman?
Anonymous — How does that work? Why do the parties you name need a writer between them? How interested would the feds and state authorities be in the arrangements? Very, I fear. And how does becoming a financial advisor/mediator move me toward the steady, unspeculative $250-$400 a month I need to keep the blog going and keep Ava in the kibble to which she has become accustomed?
Why do the parties you name need a writer between them?
You aren’t “a writer”. That makes you sound as dull as an airport rental car, able to be completely described with one word like “compact”. Instead, you are a very specific writer, with a very specific and unusual set of values, and name recognition. The parties would trust, not “a writer”, but you, personally, to deal fairly with them and to not sell out if a tech giant offers a buyout.
How interested would the feds and state authorities be in the arrangements? Very, I fear.
Yawn. The SEC no longer regulates investment in small speculative companies. Nowadays people do the equivalent of selling stock in a speculative small software company by posting their sales pitch on Kickstarter or similar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding
And how does becoming a financial advisor/mediator move me toward the steady, unspeculative $250-$400 a month I need to keep the blog going and keep Ava in the kibble to which she has become accustomed?
Project management and user interface design is work, for which you should collect pay from the crowdfunding site after your product ships. Start small. Design a plugin for firefox that operates the gpg program to encrypt email, and can be used correctly after 15 minutes of training by 500 random people you meet outside a grocery store. It’s almost purely user interface design, you don’t have to do any programming. When you have a first draft of your design, hand the programmers you recruit pictures of the screens you want.