2018 May

2nd month of the 2nd quarter of the 29th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer-Trump economic depression

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"In the period between _The Communist Manifesto_ (1848) and the publication of the first volume of _Capital_ (1867), the real [inflation-adjusted] wage of factory workers had risen 17% while the average number of hours worked declined." --- Yaron Brook & Don Watkins 2012 _Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government_ pg170 (citing Jerry Z. Muller 2002, 2007 _The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought_ pg202)

2018 May
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2018 May, week 1 (1-5) (16KB)
2018 May, week 2 (6-12) (16KB)
2018 May, week 3 (13-19) (16KB)
2018 May, week 4 (20-26) (16KB)
2018 May, week 5 (27-31) (16KB)

"If the principles of justice were founded on the decrees of people, the edicts of princes, or the decisions of judges, then 'justice' would sanction [approve of] robbery and adultery and forgery of wills, in case these acts were approved by the votes or decrees of the populace. But if so great a power belongs to the decisions and decrees of fools that the laws of nature can be changed by their votes, then why do they not ordain that what is bad and baneful shall be considered good and salutary? Or, if a law can make justice out of in-justice, can it not also make good out of bad? But in fact we can perceive the difference between good laws and bad by referring them to no other standard than nature: indeed, it is not merely justice and in-justice which are distinguished by nature, but also and without exception things which are honorable and dis-honorable. For since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dis-honorable actions are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature." --- Marcus Tullius Cicero (quoted in Mark Reed Levin 2017 _ReDiscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Regressivism_ pp14-15; citing Marcus Tullius Cicero, Jeffrey Henderson & Clinton W. Keyes 2000 _On the Republic, on the Laws_ vol1 pg xvi; pp345, 347; vol1 pp x, xv, xvii)

captain William Scott's flag for the Republic of Texas.

2018 May

2nd month of the 2nd quarter of the 29th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer-Trump economic depression

2018 May, week 1 (1-5) (16KB)
2018 May, week 2 (6-12) (16KB)
2018 May, week 3 (13-19) (16KB)
2018 May, week 4 (20-26) (16KB)
2018 May, week 5 (27-31) (16KB)

Proposed Bills 2018

"...part-time jobs... A similar story holds for temporary staffing industry [bodyshopping/gigging] jobs (for a review, see Segal and Sullivan 1997). On average, temporary jobs pay much less per hour [and provide far less skills development and training, paid vacation, retirement pensions...] than non-temporary jobs. Observable characteristics of the worker and job account for about two-thirds of the temporary [vs.] non-temporary wage differential. Further accounting for selection bias into temporary jobs by low-skill workers reduces the wage differential to about 3%. Moreover, the fringe benefits offered to temporary workers on average are much less generous. As a result, total hourly compensation typically is lower for temporary jobs than for non-temporary jobs." --- David Neumark 2000 _On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past?_ pg343 (citing Lewis M. Segal & Daniel G. Sullivan 1997 "The Growth of Temporary Services Work" _Journal of Economic Perspectives_ vol11 #2 pp117-136)

K	kilo-	thousand		10^3	1,000
M	mega-	million	one thousand thousand	10^6	1,000,000
G	giga-	billion	one thousand million	10^9	1,000,000,000
T	tera-	trillion	one million million	10^12	1,000,000,000,000
P	peta-	quadrillion	one million billion	10^15	1,000,000,000,000,000
E	exa-	quintillion	one billion billion	10^18	1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Z	zetta-	sextillion	one billion trillion	10^21	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Y	yotta-	septillion	one trillion trillion	10^24	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Except that computer people use 2 as a base raised to multiples of powers of 10, instead of 10 raised to multiples of powers of 3 because powers of 2 are handier for them, but they also want to stay somewhat close to the values of 10 most folks are used to.

1,024 K kilo- (kibi-) 2^10

1,048,576 M mega- (mebi-) 2^20

1,073,741,824 G giga- (gibi-) 2^30

1,099,511,627,776 T tera- (tebi-) 2^40

1,125,899,906,842,624 P peta- (pebi-) 2^50

1,152,921,504,606,846,976 E exa- (exbi-) 2^60

1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 Z zetta- (zebi-) 2^70

1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 Y yotta- (yobi-) 2^80

An alternate set of prefixes has been proposed.

Proposed Bills 2018

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"The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted... The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep... standing armies in time of peace... from... thefacile means, which they afford to ambitious and un-principled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rightsof the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considred as the palladium (defense) of the libertiesof the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will... enable the people to resist and triumph over them." --- Joseph Story 1833 _Commentaries on the Constitution of the USA_ vol3 pp1890-1891

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1,024	K	kilo- (kibi-)	2^10
1,048,576	M	mega- (mebi-)	2^20
1,073,741,824	G	giga- (gibi-)	2^30
1,099,511,627,776	T	tera- (tebi-)	2^40
1,125,899,906,842,624	P	peta- (pebi-)	2^50
1,152,921,504,606,846,976	E	exa- (exbi-)	2^60
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424	Z	zetta- (zebi-)	2^70
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176	Y	yotta- (yobi-)	2^80