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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Got a little argument going with a feller called Brian Drake on the Mises Institute website. I thought it was good enough to share here:
http://blog.mises.org/archives/011113.asp#c632492
The main thrust of the thing is that libertarians don't accept the concept of society, preferring to look at it as a collection of individual actions. ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
As I read over my arguments against Murray Rothbard’s “For a New Liberty”, I started feeling uneasy about the rambling, unfocused writing. So here is a shorter and hopefully somewhat clearer explanation of what I meant:
First, something that may not have been really clear in the original post: I’m all ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Note: For those of you with a low tolerance for long-winded arguments and poor off-the cuff writing, I’ve summarized this post here: http://cygielski.com/blog/2009/08/05/another-take-on-rothbard/. Please read that instead. I'm keeping this post only for the sake of chronological accuracy.
At the recommendation of my friend Steve I've been reading Murray Rothbard's "For ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Just when you thought you were safe:
[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frogmovie2.flv 480 360]
Audio done in Audacity (an open source audio recording/editing program) and synched in Blender's video sequencer. The drops are actually just me tapping my finger on my laptop's microphone. Sound FX to the max!
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fly.flv 480 360]
I thought I could do the whole thing with the Gimp Animation Plug-in (GAP), but the video encoder is buggy and I couldn't get it to make an AVI file. After several attempts, I put the single frames into Blender for final processing. Let me know what you ...
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