Comments by stephen chenney

There are numerous companies that do the same thing for bicycles, for much the same reasons.

I find it odd that states are allowed to force you to own auto insurance while we are arguing about whether the federal government can force you to buy insurance, but then I guess you can choose not to have a car (and I agree with compulsory third party auto insurance). However, choosing not to have a car may impose some cost, like the penalty that is proposed for those who do not buy health insurance.

As to "any other area of the economy or society where having the federal government order every citizen to buy a good from a private provider seems like a reasonable solution to a problem", what about flood insurance for coastal regions threatened by sea level rise? The federal government bails such property holders out through disaster relief funds, so maybe we should force them to buy insurance.

But that's not "every citizen", so I too am at a loss for an example right now.

Still, it's amusing that we would be having this argument at all if the government collected the money in the form of taxes and then passed it on to the insurance companies to provide the insurance.

It's a cut throat business.

Google is pushing two-factor, which does not rely on a password as the sole line of defense. It's more of a hassle to use, but relies on people's tendency to keep their phone safe and secure. Even if someone got your phone, they are unlikely to have enough time to crack your password and phone access code before the phone is disabled.

Closed course, do not attempt (yet).

It happens to the best of us, but we don't all try to hide it.

Also anecdotal, it appears that someone has green lit apartment and hotel construction in Atlanta. It's jumped from absolutely nothing to three sites visible from the office window, all in the last month or two.

Look what was uploaded!

Me? Care about copyrights?

Government comes to town

Penny for your thoughts?

Loyalty earns you constant attention.

Then I want a discount if I don't turn on the TV.

The official response in Georgia has been two-fold. The Governor wants to put prisoners to work on the farms, but the farmers don't want that. The farmers are talking more sense: they want the federal government to fix the guest worker program so that it is practical for them to get the laborers they need. I think that's a good idea. They must have some cognitive dissonance when they vote for a political party that will never give them what they want.

China hits the beach.

Bolloré assures us that blue is green.

Bolloré sells us blue as the new green.

Some Preditcitons: http://mpettis.com/2011/08/some-predictions-for-the-rest-of-the-decade/

should be

http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog2.php/2011/08/29/prediction-dem...

I wonder who in the chain of linking has been attacked.

It's not so much the rivets as the rivet holes that stop cracks. The recommended repair for many non-threatening cracks is to drill a hole at the propagation site.

So bad it's good, for some.