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Snowden, Rothbard, Seeing the Future

Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Perhaps at…

Smart Phones, Spooner #17, Mental Models

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Fulcrum, Movie View: Downton, The Fallacy Fallacy

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Words Poorly Used #60 — Settled

To a voluntaryist, “settled” means voluntarily agreed upon among individuals.  In the running arguments of today, in the vernacular of statists, it means a formal or informal recognition among statists, that an institutional goal is greater than voluntary agreements among individuals.  Example, “settled science.”  We too frequently hear that there is a consensus among scientists…

Process, Spooner #11, Specious Accuracy

Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Wow!  We…

Spooner #9, Fallacy #18, Hard Work

Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. A review…