A Flakebook friend of mine is up in arms about Amazon shutting down some user accounts and denying access to ebooks those users purchased. I’m no legal expert but I think the user agreement for that stuff includes limited access rights to ebooks which can be revoked at any time so… it’s not like buying […]
Archives for May 2018
Why the Joker cannot be blackmailed
Most modern superheroes are handcuffed by their own morality. They won’t kill people, no matter what. They might beat people up, but they have a line they won’t cross. Batman was sort of like that in the “Dark Knight” series. The Flash. Superman. Spiderman. Wonderwoman. Captain America. … and so on. But… villains? It’s a […]
How to save money
“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we […]
Think you can beat the insurance company at its own game? Good luck
One of my favorite scenes in The Dark Knight is when Coleman Reese (a lawyer) finds out Bruce Wayne is Batman. He approaches Lucious Fox to try and blackmail him for his silence: *** Lucius Fox: Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in […]
Life insurance world record
A few years ago, a well-known billionaire in the tech industry took out the largest life insurance policy in the history of the industry: $201 million in insurance. Unfortunately no one knows who it is or many of the details of the policy because… life insurance is a private contract, the details of which ain’t […]