Whenever something that is government-run fails, people always want to fix the problem by throwing more money at it. This is often the case with public education here in the United States. Although it is true that our students are not nearly as educated as they could or should be, more money is [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Fixing Education: Is more money the answer?
Posted in Gov't Idiocy, tagged choice, education, kansas city experiment, money, public, school, spending, students, survey, test scores on May 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Extreme Frustration
Posted in Activism, tagged colorado, Democrat, Libertarian, Republican, Youtube on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There seems to be some angst in Colorado about the upcoming elections. I received a few emails today concerning the rift inside the Republican party. I parted direction with the Republicans back in 2005, although I still have many friends who are Republican activists, I’ve become an activist of my own political persuasion. [...]
VLC Chaos… Not for the weak of heart.
Posted in geekspeak, tagged FreeBSD, Live Video, Quicktime, Streaming, VLC, vlc command line on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is possible to use quicktime broadcaster to send a RTSP stream to a relay server using VLC to receive rtsp and transcode that stream into MMS / ASF.
This means one can broadcast a live video / audio stream from a quicktime broadcaster to a server located in a high bandwidth location (some data center), [...]
You can’t have it both ways
Posted in labor, tagged business, colorado, labor, right to work, union on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Wall Street Journal Online has an article today that describes the current labor-business climate here in Colorado. Unions are pushing some severe anti-business measures (duh, what else do they do?), but there is one in particular that made me say, “??”
From the Journal, “One measure would make Colorado only the second state in the [...]
Gas: The problem with price controls
Posted in Economics, Gov't Idiocy, tagged controls, crisis, Economics, free-market, gasoline, oil, price on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here we go again. With gas prices going up it didn’t take long for many of my lefty friends to start calling for price controls. We can’t let those greedy oil companies make all this money while consumers suffer, they cry. The biggest problem with this “problem solver” is that it is not one at [...]
Live Streaming Video: Techno Babble
Posted in geekspeak, tagged Darwin Streaming Server, FreeBSD, WiMax on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This may seem very out of place on this type of blog. I assure you it is not, but this may not be evident until later posts. Anyway…
Over the past few years I’ve dabbled in streaming video. With very little funding, I used open source software to experiment with different ways to incorporate video [...]
Looking Through Mud Colored Glasses
Posted in Economics, tagged bias, caplan, denver post, Economics, gmu, harsanyi, pessimism, pessimistic on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interacting with others on a daily basis and glancing at a few headlines every now and again will most likely give the average person the impression that the sky is falling or will begin to fall very shortly. This is what George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan refers to as “pessimistic bias.” People [...]
Why people are wrong about capitalism
Posted in Economics, tagged capitalism, Economics, equality, free trade, inequality on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Although I am a libertarian myself, I have spent most of my time around the liberal left.
