Wednesday, September 26, 2007

09/26/2007:Regular Post.

Kennedy understood the power of raw information and destroyed KluKlaxKlan, When Information is hoarded, it is obviously more important. Information when spread enables people to do best and hence everything gets easy. The hindernace of information from one to another is known as Information Assymetry. People take advantage when they know more than you.

From Freakonomics Directly:
"A phrase like “well maintained,” for instance, is as full of
meaning to an agent as “Mr. Ayak” was to a Klansman; it means that a house is
old but not quite falling down."



"This hardly means that discrimination itself has
ended—only that people are embarrassed to show it."


=>beacon=signaling or guiding device such as lighthouse
=>cudgel=short heavy stick
=>lemon=a defective car having several defects found by purchaser after using it.
=>parlance=Speech, especially a conversation or parley.
=>perpetrators=responsible to commit.
=>detriment=damage, harm.
=>invasie=Tending to intrude or encroach, as upon privacy.
=>internist=A physician specializing in internal medicine.
=>ally=friend
=>confounding=confuse
=>conjured=To summon (a devil or spirit) by magical or supernatural power.
=>charade=A readily perceived pretense
=>Hispanic=Of or relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America.
=>gleaned=To collect bit by bit: “records from which historians glean their knowledge”
=>narcissit=A conceited, self-centered person
=>fabulist=Liar

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