Recent content by My First Name Is Paul

I'm not asking about just one commodity (oil), I'm asking about all of them. How is it possible that they are all going down so much? I don't really buy the currency claim because normally raw materials just fluctuate in price to reflect the international value. For example, the price of Lead...

The Bloomberg Commodities Index (BCOM) is down about 50% over the last 5 years. I work in the recycling industry and the metals we deal with are all down that much or more over the same time frame. Although there have been ups and downs, the trend has been overall strongly down, with one of the...

Liberty Compass is a new news aggregation site that provides a simple Drudge-like interface with links to stories of interest to the Liberty-minded. I'm not affiliated with the site, other than I emailed the site owner about some technical issues after I discovered the site. I encourage...

StackExchange provides an innovative platform for question and answer sites that Google has typically favored in search results. The first sites they made were only for software developers, sysadmins, and web developers. They have slowly been expanding the topics they cover through a community...

I appreciate that. I have emailed, tweeted, facebooked, and filled out contact forms everywhere but nobody seems to give a care.

In the 1990s, investigative journalist Gary Webb uncovered the CIA's importation of crack cocaine and was subsequently threatened by the government and ostracized by popular media. Kill the Messenger, a film based largely on Webb's book Dark Alliance, which covers what he reported on as well as...

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Natelson's article does not argue if what was done was a power grab, if some part of society benefited more than others, or if there was some underlying conspiracy. What he argues is that the process used to create and adopt the Constitution was within the law of the day.

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Apparently nobody cares to read the article. What separates Natelson from those you quote is that he more than just an historian, he is a researcher and has done considerable research on the original Constitution. His conclusions are based in the law of the time, which, among other things, held...

Usually when I research about government created technologies, the origins most commonly come from researchers' theories that the government wanted to put into practice. As far as encryption goes, the source code for the most commonly used methods is completely open source and thousands if not...

That was not the intent of the founding generation, if that is what you are implying.

http://constitution.i2i.org/2013/06/02/the-constitutional-convention-did-not-exceed-its-power-and-the-constitution-is-not-%e2%80%9cunconstitutional%e2%80%9d/

Nobody has made or is making quantum computers.

They are nowhere near cracking modern encryption. If you had a processor 1 trillion times more powerful than the theoretically most powerful computer/botnet/cluster tody, you could not brute force a randomly generated 2048-bit key for centuries. The numbers on this stuff are gastronomically...