Sunday, June 3, 2012
Nice Suit
I've been catching up on my full DVD series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Among the many other things I like about the show, the fashion is one of those things. Thought this suit looked incredibly sharp.
Crusders are Jerks
Crusaderism is a psychological disease I discovered long ago. Oh, mock me if you will, and claim, "how can you, an economist, have a gall to say you discovered a psychological disorder?" But in due time, a real psychologist will discover it, give it some kind of official name, and then people will say,
"Ha! THAT??? POTUS Cappy discovered that about 50 years ago!"
However, since I've pointed out crusaderism and explained what it is, more and more people are being able to identify instances of it and are starting to see the deadly serious ramifications.
One of these not-so deadly ramifications is that crusaders are indeed jerks.
The tone of the article is one of "surprise" or "shock." To find out that people who participate in crusades are also highly correlated with being a jerk. People who study crusaderism, however, would not find this surprising at all. The reason why is that crusders are, if anything, incredibly selfish and lazy people. They put themselves first and find easy ways to give themselves self-worth and value. I won't go into detail, but you can see all the detail about crusaderism here, but take two people as an example:
The urban, masters degree intellectual who shops at Whole Foods. Does s/he have a masters in engineering? no. Probably a masters in art history or something like that. Drives a Prius, doesn't have a real job, relies on the taxpayer in one way or another for his/her income. KNOWS deep down inside they majored in sociology because they are too lazy to do math, and don't really contribute anything of value to society. AND SO by "going green" (which takes nothing and avoids math) they can claim not only are they doing something of value, they are superior to you cretins that shop at Wal-Mart.
vs.
The humble Asian student who is studying electrical engineering. S/he works hard, drives a beat up Toyota, studies advanced mathematics and electronics everyday, will inevitably build the processors to the computers on the GPS on the urban masters candidate's Prius, but can't afford as of yet a Prius, let alone overpriced food at Whole Foods or Starbucks. They go on to get a great job at Unisys, they pull in $250,000 and are then accused of being evil rich people that must pay more in taxes for the urban masters degreed dweller to "help" poor people or "the chillllldreeeeennnnnn."
Quite frankly, who would you rather hang out with? Obviously the poor Asian kid because they are intellectually honest. They are true to themselves. They are real men and women of strong moral caliber and you can expect them to treat you with the same courtesy. The other person is just an intellectually dishonest hypocrite and cover it up as much as they try with "buying the right food" or "driving the right car" or "voting for the right candidate" their personality will still shine through and show them to be the assholes they genuinely are.
hat tip
"Ha! THAT??? POTUS Cappy discovered that about 50 years ago!"
However, since I've pointed out crusaderism and explained what it is, more and more people are being able to identify instances of it and are starting to see the deadly serious ramifications.
One of these not-so deadly ramifications is that crusaders are indeed jerks.
The tone of the article is one of "surprise" or "shock." To find out that people who participate in crusades are also highly correlated with being a jerk. People who study crusaderism, however, would not find this surprising at all. The reason why is that crusders are, if anything, incredibly selfish and lazy people. They put themselves first and find easy ways to give themselves self-worth and value. I won't go into detail, but you can see all the detail about crusaderism here, but take two people as an example:
The urban, masters degree intellectual who shops at Whole Foods. Does s/he have a masters in engineering? no. Probably a masters in art history or something like that. Drives a Prius, doesn't have a real job, relies on the taxpayer in one way or another for his/her income. KNOWS deep down inside they majored in sociology because they are too lazy to do math, and don't really contribute anything of value to society. AND SO by "going green" (which takes nothing and avoids math) they can claim not only are they doing something of value, they are superior to you cretins that shop at Wal-Mart.
vs.
The humble Asian student who is studying electrical engineering. S/he works hard, drives a beat up Toyota, studies advanced mathematics and electronics everyday, will inevitably build the processors to the computers on the GPS on the urban masters candidate's Prius, but can't afford as of yet a Prius, let alone overpriced food at Whole Foods or Starbucks. They go on to get a great job at Unisys, they pull in $250,000 and are then accused of being evil rich people that must pay more in taxes for the urban masters degreed dweller to "help" poor people or "the chillllldreeeeennnnnn."
Quite frankly, who would you rather hang out with? Obviously the poor Asian kid because they are intellectually honest. They are true to themselves. They are real men and women of strong moral caliber and you can expect them to treat you with the same courtesy. The other person is just an intellectually dishonest hypocrite and cover it up as much as they try with "buying the right food" or "driving the right car" or "voting for the right candidate" their personality will still shine through and show them to be the assholes they genuinely are.
hat tip
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Amazing
Absolutely amazing.
My brain has so been brainwashed to see things differently in the past via black and white films that even though I KNOW the human eye 100 years ago saw the same colors, people and landscapes I do today, I can't imagine people 100 years ago seeing anything besides black and white...or my dad seeing anything that wasn't tinted 1970's yellow.
Still, click on the pictures. My favorite is the dog. It shows things have not changed at all with dogs.
My brain has so been brainwashed to see things differently in the past via black and white films that even though I KNOW the human eye 100 years ago saw the same colors, people and landscapes I do today, I can't imagine people 100 years ago seeing anything besides black and white...or my dad seeing anything that wasn't tinted 1970's yellow.
Still, click on the pictures. My favorite is the dog. It shows things have not changed at all with dogs.
GDP Yield Per Dollar in Education Spending
Permit me a chart that will probably go down in Cappy Cap history as one of my more important ones:
Now lend me your ears, especially you "the children are our future" hypocrites who have no shame in abusing the children when it comes time to protecting your overpaid jobs. I want to make sure your ear drums burst.
WE SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY ON EDUCATION!!!!!!
Period.
End of discussion.
Truth as truth can only be told.
Of course, I can't assume that everybody reading this post is a regular Cappy Cap reader and therefore doesn't need a hand-holding explanation of the chart above, so let me explain to you in simple terms the wonderful economics lesson the above chart tells us all and the ramifications of it.
The above chart is quite simple. It shows us "GDP Yielded per Dollar in Education Spending." Or, in other words, "How much GDP is produced for every dollar we spend on education."
It is a measure of the efficiency and effectiveness of our education system in that it essentially shows us our return on investment in education.
Notice in the olden days we could expect that for every dollar we "invested" in the precious little children, we could expect about $32 in economic production in return. It peaked during WWII where we almost doubled that rate of return, and even during the great depression it had a trough of $21. But still the average was reasonably high.
In the 50's our ROI for education averaged in the upper $20's, but then in the 60's it started a very measured and deliberate decline. This decline continues today where we get LESS THAN HALF OUR OLD SCHOOL RETURN - $14.52. The cause of this decline I presume was that blessed, wonderful and highly ineffective "Great Society."
Whatever the cause, the fact still remains that education has been suffering a phenomenon economists like to call "Diminishing Marginal Utility" or "Diminishing Returns."
Or in English - "We ain't getting our bang for our buck."
It is here, no doubt, liberals, leftists, socialists, communists and other economic parasites will try to change reality, redefine words, and tender touchy feely arguments that are not based in reality or logic. However, for those people, allow me to do you the favor of tendering your arguments for you because I know you so well because I know your ulterior goals and motives:
1. "Well education isn't all about the money. It's about becoming a well-rounded person. It's an experience" etc. etc. touchyfeelygarbage, touchyfeelygarbage.
2. "People don't get an education just so they can go and work. They do it so they can enhance their intellect and lives. You don't want a bunch of dumb people running around the country, do you? You want a place where everybody is smart like us in San Francisco or New York."
But, if you can stand to be as open-mined and as intelligent as you hypocrites all claim you are, permit me not a counter-argument, but reality.
1. BS. The amount of money students, their parents and taxpayers spend on education, you damn well better believe money matters. When people blow $100,000 on a college degree, unless you're some spoiled pampered brat whose parent can afford it, you are CRIPPLING YOUR ECONOMIC FUTURE. Liberal or conservative. Capitalist or parasite. Your political ideology and naivete does not matter as that $100,000 in student debt will destroy you and your future regardless.
2. The government (which means me and the dwindling percent of the population who actually produce something on value in this country) pay for 75% of all educational spending. That's right, other people are paying for the majority of your education.
READ
WE HAVE EVERY GOD DAMNED RIGHT TO DEMAND A RATE OF RETURN
AND
WE HAVE EVERY GOD DAMNED RIGHT TO DEMAND THAT OUR MONEY IS SPENT WISELY ON DEGREES AND EDUCATION THAT LEADS TO GENUINE ECONOMIC PRODUCTION AND NOT FINANCE SOME BLEEPING HOBBY DEGREE LIKE SOCIOLOGY, WOMEN'S STUDIES AND WHATEVER OTHER DEGREES YOU LEFTISTS PURSUE THAT ARE VOID OF MATH, RIGOR AND PURPOSE.
Of course, ultimately, I know this is not a debate. I know that this is falling on deaf ears which relegates this post for posterity. Debates require both sides to have theories, but no proof or evidence, which results in speculation, logic, thought and an attempt to convince the other person to see it their way. Debate also requires intellectual honesty of both parties. This is instead one of two things:
A psychological problem in which people who "argue" otherwise simply are psychologically impaired and cannot accept fact, data, statistics or truth (aka-ignorance, delusional).
Or
A problem of evil. Where people who "argue" otherwise know full well I, and millions of others are right, but know to indignantly feign disagreement so they can continue to unfairly milk the system for their advantage at our expense.
And so for those of you who are evil, know that you're not fooling any one.
And for those of you who are ignorant, know that we no longer care to discern between the two because the costs to us are the same.
WE SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY ON EDUCATION!!!!!!
Period.
End of discussion.
Truth as truth can only be told.
Of course, I can't assume that everybody reading this post is a regular Cappy Cap reader and therefore doesn't need a hand-holding explanation of the chart above, so let me explain to you in simple terms the wonderful economics lesson the above chart tells us all and the ramifications of it.
The above chart is quite simple. It shows us "GDP Yielded per Dollar in Education Spending." Or, in other words, "How much GDP is produced for every dollar we spend on education."
It is a measure of the efficiency and effectiveness of our education system in that it essentially shows us our return on investment in education.
Notice in the olden days we could expect that for every dollar we "invested" in the precious little children, we could expect about $32 in economic production in return. It peaked during WWII where we almost doubled that rate of return, and even during the great depression it had a trough of $21. But still the average was reasonably high.
In the 50's our ROI for education averaged in the upper $20's, but then in the 60's it started a very measured and deliberate decline. This decline continues today where we get LESS THAN HALF OUR OLD SCHOOL RETURN - $14.52. The cause of this decline I presume was that blessed, wonderful and highly ineffective "Great Society."
Whatever the cause, the fact still remains that education has been suffering a phenomenon economists like to call "Diminishing Marginal Utility" or "Diminishing Returns."
Or in English - "We ain't getting our bang for our buck."
It is here, no doubt, liberals, leftists, socialists, communists and other economic parasites will try to change reality, redefine words, and tender touchy feely arguments that are not based in reality or logic. However, for those people, allow me to do you the favor of tendering your arguments for you because I know you so well because I know your ulterior goals and motives:
1. "Well education isn't all about the money. It's about becoming a well-rounded person. It's an experience" etc. etc. touchyfeelygarbage, touchyfeelygarbage.
2. "People don't get an education just so they can go and work. They do it so they can enhance their intellect and lives. You don't want a bunch of dumb people running around the country, do you? You want a place where everybody is smart like us in San Francisco or New York."
But, if you can stand to be as open-mined and as intelligent as you hypocrites all claim you are, permit me not a counter-argument, but reality.
1. BS. The amount of money students, their parents and taxpayers spend on education, you damn well better believe money matters. When people blow $100,000 on a college degree, unless you're some spoiled pampered brat whose parent can afford it, you are CRIPPLING YOUR ECONOMIC FUTURE. Liberal or conservative. Capitalist or parasite. Your political ideology and naivete does not matter as that $100,000 in student debt will destroy you and your future regardless.
2. The government (which means me and the dwindling percent of the population who actually produce something on value in this country) pay for 75% of all educational spending. That's right, other people are paying for the majority of your education.
READ
WE HAVE EVERY GOD DAMNED RIGHT TO DEMAND A RATE OF RETURN
AND
WE HAVE EVERY GOD DAMNED RIGHT TO DEMAND THAT OUR MONEY IS SPENT WISELY ON DEGREES AND EDUCATION THAT LEADS TO GENUINE ECONOMIC PRODUCTION AND NOT FINANCE SOME BLEEPING HOBBY DEGREE LIKE SOCIOLOGY, WOMEN'S STUDIES AND WHATEVER OTHER DEGREES YOU LEFTISTS PURSUE THAT ARE VOID OF MATH, RIGOR AND PURPOSE.
Of course, ultimately, I know this is not a debate. I know that this is falling on deaf ears which relegates this post for posterity. Debates require both sides to have theories, but no proof or evidence, which results in speculation, logic, thought and an attempt to convince the other person to see it their way. Debate also requires intellectual honesty of both parties. This is instead one of two things:
A psychological problem in which people who "argue" otherwise simply are psychologically impaired and cannot accept fact, data, statistics or truth (aka-ignorance, delusional).
Or
A problem of evil. Where people who "argue" otherwise know full well I, and millions of others are right, but know to indignantly feign disagreement so they can continue to unfairly milk the system for their advantage at our expense.
And so for those of you who are evil, know that you're not fooling any one.
And for those of you who are ignorant, know that we no longer care to discern between the two because the costs to us are the same.
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