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Steven M Scotten

How about a usually-balanced budget amendment?

Just thinking out loud here for a moment. I’m sure that any flaws in my logic will be pointed out in the comments. My only problem with a balanced budget amendment is that times of economic downturn could be the worst time to cut back spending. I’m not

Breaking a perfectly good fuel pump

Breaking a perfectly good fuel pump

My Moto Guzzi has been running pretty rough lately. It wouldn’t start on my trip into San Francisco for a doctor’s appointment the day before Independence Day and I had to get it trailered back to Alameda. A couple of months ago I had a similar-seeming issue which

The pin in the Brembo

The pin in the Brembo

It’s way past time for the rear brake pads on the Guzzi to be replaced. I’ve been putting it off for too long thinking that I don’t really use my rear brake that much anyway. Of course, that’s terrible reasoning for at least three reasons. First,

Rehabilitating Keynes

The American right is fond of spitting the word keynesian as an epithet, just as those on the left hold Keynes up to be some sort of savior, rescuing the masses from the tyranny of the wealthy. Today’s economic policies that the left promotes and the right attempts to

If you're on the left or the right, you've missed the point

Not too long ago I was shopping in my local grocery store when I ran into an old friend whom I had not seen in some time. She and I had been out on the streets of San Francisco on the night of Barack Obama’s election to witness the

Performance on Mac Pro RAID

Performance on Mac Pro RAID

It’s probably a bit late in the game to be reviewing the performance of a four year old product, but one more set of benchmark results in the world can’t hurt much, and may shed some light on more general questions about RAID performance in different configurations. Testing

Armchair observation

Armchair observation

The Moon was very near to Venus in the sky tonight. It took me by surprise as I had not been following the Moon’s phases closely but with my western-facing living room windows it was very difficult to miss an unusually bright Venus next to a bare sliver of