Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Who invented the wheel and which primate was the first man?

Email #3 thru 3 trillion
I still get that same second email from Nigeria (wonder if he ever his got his millions).
Ayyadurai collects endorsements aggressively (he’s very proud of convincing Noam Chomsky!)
Snookering Noam Chomsky doesn't appear to be too difficult. He is an anti-America, anti-Israel Socialist who would like to see the US to suffer at the hands of third world terrorism as a form of justice.

E-Mail Birthday Intrigue - NYTimes.com
September 6, 2012, David Pogue

The other day, I got snookered.
On Aug. 30, I tweeted: “Happy birthday, email! 30 years old today!”


(Whereupon a fellow Twitterite, @bschorr, responded: “Little known fact: the 2nd e-mail sent 30 years ago started: ‘Dear friend, I am Humabli Kiprotich from Nigeria…’”)
I tweeted my message because I’d received a press release about it. “Today, August 30th, marks the 30th anniversary of email,” it said. “While the technology that we live by has come a long way since it was first copyrighted, we are still using the same To: From: Cc: Subject: Reply, Forward fields.” The press release went on to plug an e-mail service.
I did a quick check — I found this confirmation on what looked like Politico — and then tweeted.
But then I got the most intriguing note from Thomas Haigh, a technology historian, chairman of a professional group dedicated to information technology history, and “career academic”— via e-mail. It went like this:
A colleague sent me a copy of your tweet, “Happy birthday to EMAIL! 30 years old today!” I’m afraid that you’ve inadvertently endorsed the propaganda campaign of V.A. 
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