Author Archives: Jonathan

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Guns on Planes

I am wondering what you think about allowing citizens to take weapons (such as guns) on public flights? The problem with weapon laws, in my understanding, is that those who obey the laws do not need the laws in the first place and those that break laws are going to break them anyway. In other …

23 June 2011 – 18:36:50 | By Jonathan | Posted in Guns, Political | Tagged , |

Tax the Rich

Just doing a little math here. A true “flat tax” might look something like this: US Population 2010: 309 million people (309000000) US Federal budget request for 2010: $3.55 trillion ($3550000000000) 3550000000000 / 309000000 = $11,488.67/person/year That is quite a bit of tax. Although, consider what we pay in taxes across the board in sales, …

23 June 2011 – 18:32:25 | By Jonathan | Posted in Economics, Political | Tagged |

Git Notes

I have recently taken the plunge into learning Git. These are my notes thus far. I know there are plenty of git write-ups out there on the web. I started this one mostly for myself as a quick cheat sheet. I figure it may be useful to someone so I am sharing it. My typical …

14 June 2011 – 08:42:10 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Programming, Software, Unix/Linux | Tagged |

Scarcity vs Abundance Quiz

How do you think about money? Read each question and pick the answer that most closely resembles the way that you think. 1) My friend lands a new job that pays a lot more than money than my job does, and it has amazing benefits, including 4 weeks of vacation. I feel very excited for …

10 May 2011 – 20:50:09 | By Jonathan | Posted in Economics, Philosophic | Tagged , , , , |

Misplaced Roles

In response to the idea of withdrawing our troops from the world as mentioned by Ron Paul in a recent blog post of his. Initially, I was wary about the idea of pulling our troops out. But I am sure that is because I have not understood everything. The problem with forming an opinion on …

09 May 2011 – 13:04:29 | By Jonathan | Posted in Philanthropic, Philosophic, Political |

What is Easter?

I was just imagining what it would be like to happen upon an American Easter celebration with no prior knowledge of the holiday or accompanying traditions. It would probably seem that Easter is about a magical bunny… that lays eggs. Eggs that mostly contain sugary treats, though occasionally there are other things in the eggs, …

25 April 2011 – 14:26:05 | By Jonathan | Posted in Philosophic, Religious | Tagged , , , |

My Vim Cheatsheet

A while ago I read some Vim tutorials that were written by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier and found them to be an excellent source of quick tips for a cheat sheet. So I set out to create a cheat sheet I could hang near my computer. I finally got around to finishing it. So I am …

25 February 2011 – 15:08:55 | By Jonathan | Posted in Programming, Unix/Linux |