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Federal Reserve/Fractional-reserve banking

The National Debt does exist

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 19 Comments

Mike Norman over at The Street recently shat out an article called “The National Debt: Why fret over something that doesn’t exist?” And how do...

Accounting/Technology

Searching for an accounting system

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Over the last couple years, I’ve massaged my financial management into a very, very effective system that uses GnuCash. I’ve managed to take wide ad...

Charity/Taxes

Helping the poor

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m often baffled at the amount of fake advocacy that happens online. Slactivism is what it’s largely been called. One thing that plenty of people h...

Debt/Mortgage

Still more debt advocacy

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Once again I encounter another article describing why a person should not seek to pay off their mortgage quickly. This time it’s Deborah Kearns of NerdWal...

Colony West

Revisiting the colony

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Stability for some reason had been an ongoing concern with this setup. What was confusing is that stability wasn’t a concern before I built the rack and g...

Absinthe

Another glass of absinthe

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Time to revisit Absinthe. Current specs for immediate reference: CPU: Intel i7-5820k GPU: XFX R9 290X “Double-D” 4GB Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512 GB...

Crime/Second Amendment

Misleading gun statistic

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve seen one particular statement replayed several times over, and it’s rather misleading in its representation: gun deaths have been cut in half o...

Mira

Mira – Finished

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m writing this on Mira, which means the system is up and running. But it wasn’t without hiccups. As much as I’d hoped the upgrade would go s...

Mira

Mira – II

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

That is a rendering of Mira in Space Engine 0.9.8, a screenshot I snapped from within the software. Mira is the Bayer designation for Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti)...

Debt

Almost getting it right

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve said numerous times that I really don’t like much of what is published about debt collections. Because most articles I’ve seen about the ...

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