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April 11th, 2014 - 12:35 pm § in Misc.

Taxes, Transit, and Parks

Currently Seattle funds parks through a levy system. Personally I hate levies because they make any sort of long term planning impossible and tend, rather like prop 1, to accumulate different issues to get enough votes.  The current levy means the owner of a $450,000 home pays about $85 for the p[...]

April 11th, 2014 - 12:15 pm § in Misc.

Photographic Free Speech: Hungary

Hungarian law bans photos taken without seeking consent A new law in Hungary makes it illegal to take a photograph of someone without their express permission.  Learn more Idaho passed a similar law for pictures of cows.[...]

April 11th, 2014 - 9:59 am § in Misc.

Is Tesla A Bubble?

From The Daily Beast: Now, think about all the rules of math (and human nature) that would have to be violated to reach these goals. To get to 370,000 cars by 2020, Tesla would have to enjoy a 50 percent compounded annual growth for seven straight years. And in 12 years, we’d have a system [&helli[...]

April 11th, 2014 - 8:55 am § in Religion

BUCHENWALD 34: Anniversary of the liberation

Today, April 11, three days before Passover 5774, is the seventieth anniversary of  the American Third Army officially liberating Buchenwald.  The evening of March 28th, 1945 was the beginning of the last Passover celebrated by the inmates of Buchenwald.  I do not know if  any one recorded the l[...]