Practical Law and Justice

The Big Bang theory has been the centerpiece of modern cosmology for decades despite the fact that it makes no sense whatsoever. To give some background, here's the basic history of the Big Bang: in the earlier part of the 20th century a few astronomers supposed that measurements of the redshift of galaxies meant that the “spacetime” of Einstein’s General Relativity was expanding. Then a Catholic priest was like, "hey maybe that means if we turned the clock back far enough all of matter would be smashed into a single point for some reason." With that stroke of genius, Big...

By David Robison Vote6 0

St. Martinville Police are looking to expand their use of the "Blue Lives Matter" law that the State of Louisiana passed in May of last year. Other states are now following the lead and passing similar laws of their own. This trend has been happening for some time now, "hate crime" laws being contorted into protecting a special victim class -- the police. Typically hate crime laws only cover race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability. Note -- nowhere does it say, "occupation." But since this particular occupation happens to be employed by the same vertically integrated...

By David Robison Vote2 0

Walls. They build em, we fix em. - Smugglers since 10,000 B.C. David Bier wrote an excellent article over at the Cato Institute about the impracticality and potential costs in actually trying to construct the Great Wall of Trump.[1] Many have commented on the 20% tax on goods imported from Mexico, so I think it's pertinent to work from there and then bolster Bier's points with some black market analysis, assuming that despite the practicality issues the wall is even somehow constructed. Austrian econz whizzes out there please correct me if I'm wrong but this is how I'm understanding...

By David Robison Vote5 0

Omar Mateen, the alleged gunman who stormed the gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12th, 2016, and killed 49 people, had three years prior been placed by the FBI on the TSDB (Terrorist Screening Database) in 2013, and was also placed on the narrower Selectee List (a subset of the TSDB)¹ which currently contains approximately 1,700 Americans.² According to the FBI, he was placed on the list after several of his colleagues at the St. Lucie County Courthouse, where he worked as a contract security guard, reported him due to his self-proclaimed association with specific terrorist groups. In response, the...

By David Robison Vote1 0

Greetings my dear fellow travelers. My good friend Mike Huttner wrote this bit on eternal recurrence and I thought it was brilliant. I come from the Thread Theory school of thought which maintains that matter and motion are eternal, but you don't need Thread Theory to realize this. TT just provides an immediately identifiable context in which to really understand these conclusions. Mike has reasoned a startling conclusion here -- that all of matter in the Universe has realigned innumerable times to reproduce this exact situation. You've lived this life countless times and will continue to relive it for all eternity. It's...

By David Robison Vote7 12

Several months ago I wrote an article on Bill Gaede's Thread Theory. Here I would like to provide a formal justification for the "visualization" approach to physics described in that article. I will do that by outlining an alternative version of the Scientific Method called the Rational Scientific Method. The number of proponents of this method has been slowly but steadily growing over the years. I don't think there is 100% agreement in every last nuanced aspect of the method, but overall there is a common understanding. Below will be my understanding of it. From now on I will refer to the Rational Scientific...

By David Robison Vote8 4

Once again gun “control” advocates are screaming for the government to DO SOMETHING. Anything. It doesn’t matter what the measures are but they must be swift and drastic!! I found this cover to be supremely ironic. The statists who mock those offering thoughts and prayers DEMAND that their own personal God, the Almighty State, extend His all powerful hand and solve the violence problem! If anything the tragic history of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror is one long winding series of epic failures on the part of the State to protect people from the very boogeymen who...

By David Robison Vote3 1

Proponents of Quantum Mechanics love to trot out the double slit experiment as "evidence" for their seemingly mystical theories about nature. Many if not most documentaries designed to introduce Quantum Mechanics to the lay person will begin with a presentation of the experiment in order to convince the viewer that nature is incomprehensible to the human mind and thus we have to resort to inconceivable objects to "explain" the seemingly conflicting behaviors of light. In this way all of the potential objections the lay person might have can be easily deflected as merely being based on common sense, something which has no place...

By David Robison Vote6 7

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!!!

By David Robison Vote2 0

Remember when all the physicists cried and hugged each other in celebration a few years ago over the “discovery” of the “Higgs Boson?” I can only imagine that the construction and lifetime operating costs of the Large Hadron Collider, totaling $13.25 billion at that point, put tremendous pressure on them to justify taxpayers being extorted for such a grand sum of money. They needed themselves a damn Miracle Boson and ole Higgsy was just perfect for the job. The fun thing about the monstrous machine is that it produces such a voluminous amount of data that they end up discarding...

By David Robison Vote7 7

Before I say, "everything we thought we knew about physics is wrong" let me qualify that statement. Modern physics isn't wrong. It's irrational. I know what you're thinking. That's silly, we have advanced technology. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can make extremely accurate predictions. Those GPS satellites need to be adjusted because of time dilation, those transistors wouldn't be here without Quantum. Your computer wouldn't function! I have to be absolutely clear here -- I am not denying whatsoever that Relativity and Quantum can make very accurate predictions. I am not denying that the application of mathematics in engineering can be indispensable...

By David Robison Vote26 57

Before you grab your torches and pitchforks let me explain. Sometime around 2009 I was a recent college drop out working at a liquor store and indulging in the finer smokes. Naturally I spent my time trying to figure out the universe. Several years prior the Ron Paul revolution had prompted me to get into libertarianism and Austrian economics, the latter of which I found especially fascinating. Unlike all the other schools of economics, Austrian econz made assumptions and used them to explain rather than attempting to follow the Popperian version of the scientific method which sought to gather quantitative data and...

By David Robison Vote35 29

In this article I attempt to briefly cover some of the history of Anglo-Saxon law from the time the various tribes migrated to Britain. By no means is this meant to be comprehensive, nor am I an expert on the subject. The goal is simply to try to understand how customary, competitive systems of law and justice slowly transform into monopolized systems, and to analyze the natural degression that arises out of the perverse incentives resulting from a state. RECIPROCAL LAW AND JUSTICE Bruce L. Benson, economist and senior fellow at the Independent Institute, has outlined six main characteristics of...

By David Robison Vote4 4

The vast majority of human existence has been conducted in a stateless environment. For a few hundred thousand years humans roamed in groups of hunter-gatherers. Some researchers believe that Middle Palaeolithic humans (ca. ~250,000 - 45,000 yr) were sparsely populated in groups of not more than 25 individuals (pg 124 from the previous link). The evidence suggests that not much time and labor was invested in producing technology, and that besides spear tips and shafts, nothing found in the ancestral tool-kit would have taken more than twenty minutes to produce (pg 120). As a result, the efficiency with which prey was hunted or food gathered...

By David Robison Vote10 8

I think I've managed to merge two of the most comprehensive databases of killings by police: Fatal Encounters and Killed By Police. I believe the result might be the most extensive collection of information to date on fatal police encounters which occurred in 2014. The data is far from perfect, but the trends are interesting nonetheless, so I would like to present some preliminary results. A few points to consider: Fatal Encounters and Killed By Police both aggregate information from local media stories and as such only provide a baseline minimum estimate for the number of people killed by police in 2014 Both databases...

By David Robison Vote5 0

There is a big difference between respect and deference. While dictionaries may give them similar definitions there are two concepts behind these terms that are very different. I will use the term respect to refer to the phenomenon where one human has a feeling of admiration for another due to their personal abilities, qualities, or achievements. I will use the term deference to refer to the phenomenon where one human has a feeling of fear, obedience, or humble submission to another for any variety of reasons. That distinction is critical when talking about a free society and the views of the...

By David Robison Vote10 0

How deadly are police compared to the regular population in America? I did some rough calculations and here are the results. The FBI reported that in 2012 there were 12,765 murders and 310 justifiable homicides committed by private individuals for a total of 13,075 killings. The FBI data on killings of private individuals by police is deeply flawed, and so for that figure I will use the Killed By Police Facebook page which accumulates a number based upon local media reports. KBP only started collecting data in mid 2013, so I will use the 2014 figure even though the year is not over yet. That...

By David Robison Vote14 1

Big Bullshit: Why Big Bang Fails (and a Proposed Alternative) May 18, 2017

“Blue Lives Matter” “Hate Crime” Laws and a Solution to the Police Problem in the United States Feb 6, 2017

Black Markets: Why the Great Wall of Trump Cannot Possibly Succeed Jan 28, 2017

What do the Ft. Lauderdale Airport Shooter and Orlando Pulse Nightclub Shooter Have In Common? Jan 11, 2017

Why Eternal Recurrence Is Inevitable Jan 18, 2016

The Rational Scientific Method Jan 14, 2016

The Insanity of Gun “Control” Dec 7, 2015

The Double Slit Experiment: A Rational Explanation Nov 28, 2015

Dueling Statists – US Election 2016 Nov 26, 2015

Muh Gubmint Fyziks: The LHC Returns Oct 17, 2015

The Grand Unified Theory of Physics Has Been Discovered Oct 4, 2015

Modern Physics is a Load of Horse Shit Mar 8, 2015

The De-Evolution of Anglo-Saxon Law Jan 24, 2015

Rise of the Block Chain: The Great Return To P2P Jan 5, 2015

Killed By Police – Preliminary 2014 Data Jan 1, 2015

Respect vs. Deference: Can You Respect Police? Dec 31, 2014

How Deadly Are Police Compared To Private Individuals In America? Dec 24, 2014