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Latest article: “Causation and Aggression” (co-authored with Patrick Tinsley), in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 7, no. 4 (winter 2004): 97-112, a special Reinach symposium issue (based on the Reinach and Rothbard: An International Symposium, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 29-30, 2001).
Update: See also Adolf Reinach, J. N. Mohanty, “Kant’s Interpretation of Hume’s Problem,” The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 2, HUME ISSUE (SUMMER, 1976), pp. 161-188 (twitter: “Reinach wrote an essay that explains Hume as coherent with rationalism in the same way Mises was, a non-Kantian (i.e. non-transcendental) rationalist.”)
Sometimes you ask someone a question and they diplomatically answer, “Well, I would think that…” I want to interrupt and say, “‘Would’? You ‘would‘ think that, if what?” Would is conditional; if you were to do this, then I would do that.
Even worse is “should”–“I should think that…” Should is normative; obligatory. Nobody cares what you should think; say what you do think.
It’s a pretentious Britishism, sort of like saying “he was graduated from Harvard” instead of saying “he graduated from Harvard” or “when I was at university” instead of “when I was in college”.
- FireFox browser. Much better than Internet Explorer. Rarely crashes; faster; has tabbed browsing.
- The Google Toolbar (or, for FireFox, the GoogleBar).
- Google Desktop search. This is just fantastic: google indexes emails, Word files and other documents on your computer and instantly shows results when you do a google search.
- SharpReader: a great RSS feed aggregator. How did I live without it?
And most of these, the indefatigable Jeff Tucker told me about! Also increasingly useful: Skype, with its free Internet telephony; and AIM, which also now has Internet telephony and even video (which I have not tried yet).
I just spoke (free–via Skype) to a Dutch attorney friend. He said the headlines over there are all about the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the great-grandnephew of painter Vincent van Gogh. Apparently he was killed by a muslim angry about a film of Van Gogh’s critical of Islam’s treatment of women.
My friend told me two interesting things. First, that at least the headlines of the murder will trump all the US election headlines that would otherwise take center stage. Second, that most Dutch seem hostile to the idea that it was a Muslim who killed Van Gogh. Jeez, I didn’t realize the Europeans were as politically correct as we are.
In a recent chat with a friend he wrote:
Why is it that foreign sites are never worth linking to? Their URLS are always breaking. These bastards don’t pay their bills or what?
Europe is one big pile of shit so far as the web is concerned. A well known webmaster refuses to link to anything in Europe. First they steal all our graphics and code, then they don’t pay their bills.
In response to a previous request for gmail (Google mail) invites on the LewRockwell.com blog, I received a bunch–more than I need. Some of the senders agreed to offer them to the LRC community (or others, presumably). Their email addresses and messages or invites are listed below:
- Paul [[email protected]] writes: “I’ve got three Gmail invites that I’d like to share with any interested LRC reader or writer.”
- Chris Pruden [[email protected]] has 5 gmail invites to give away
- [email protected]: I have some invitations, too. I’ll be glad to send them to whoever is interested
- villa.straylight: I just checked my 2 gmail accounts and I have 13 invites total to give away. They’ll have to be anonymous donations (I have an uncommon name that so far doesn’t appear in search engines!) and use my other address “[email protected]” instead of this one. I’ll use the same priorities as the other guy, authors then readers
- Joshua Paulin [joshua.paulin -at- gmail.com] offers: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-e9284b0f1e-ae5f99fa8c-f34565fac5 ; and he also writes: ps, I have 6 more sitting over at my other account: [email protected] if you know of any other deserving LRC peeps
- Adam Jones [[email protected]] offers: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-c542fb7dda-8be7cbb278-84842339b7
- Eric Liebman [[email protected]] offers: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-630950d64f-323d065735-bfba629560
p.s.: if you don’t know what gmail is you probably don’t need it!
Finally starting to notice signs of age (I’m now 39). In addition to fading hair and expanding gut, I noticed a year or so ago that I would doze off in the easy chair while watching tv or reading a book at night. And lately, on occasion, while I am up late on the PC, fighting sleepiness, I will actually dodder off to sleep in the desk chair with my fingers on the keyboard. Pathetic.
The guy I know who refers to Iraqis as “Iraqians”–I reviewed something he wrote and told him it was full of grammar and spelling errors. He said, yeah, “I know it’s not very grammical”. He was not kidding. He also refers to google as “goggle.”
I went to the Rush concert in Houston a few months back with my brother in law and his brother in law. It was raining as we all walked to the stadium, donning our ponchos. One guy accidentally bumped into the guy in front of me, making him spill his cup of beer. We all stopped to avoid a collision, and there was a brief tense moment, as the beer guy looked up in shock and anger, half his beer sloshed out of his cup, glaring a bit at the clumsy guy. I decided to try a sleek geek maneuve, and interjected, “…hey, it’s okay, we’re all Rush fans, man.” The tension broken, we all resumed our march to nirvana.
Recently found a copy of a review by Peter McDermott of my 1997 book Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk. Other reviews here.
A revised version forthcoming in early 2005 is International Investment Political Risk and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide.
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