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Science and Technology: Some thoughts on the ado about crowdfunding fails
Or, caveat emptor always applies. If you’re at all like me and follow the crowdfunding world with a sense of excited curiosity, then you can’t help but to have noticed the crop of “how not to get scammed” articles littering the tech writing world in the wake of the FTC ruling over a known Kickstarter […] Continue reading
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Tagged crowdfunding, Democracy, ideas, money, naivety, risks, technology
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Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Liberty, and Choices
Over the past several weeks, I’ve seen a lot of posts from a lot of people on the idea of shopping on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Online Monday, all all the other money spending days before Christmas that … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Economy, Holidays, Life, Local, Philosophy, Society
Tagged black friday, Choices, Christmas, Consequences, money, persuasion, Spending, Thinking
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Taking the plunge!
While my wife and I have been living and working on Innisfree for the last three and a half years, it has always been something of a part-time job until now. Late last year, we paid off the last of … Continue reading → Continue reading
Science and Technology: Some thoughts on Gingrich’s moon base idea and on why America is losing the technology race
My first thought on reading the predictable backlash against Newt Gingrich’s moon base idea was, “Americans suck.” I thought that because the backlash is so short-sighted of all the positive things building a moon base would bring to the table. It’s not like the money and effort to build a moon base would be poured […] Continue reading
Posted in Science and Technology, Space
Tagged Americans, money, moon, moon base, technology
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