I’ve been listening to Cory Doctorow reading Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown. It’s a non-fiction work that at its core describes the actions and environment that lead up to the huge crackdown by the Secret Service, FBI, and the telco companies against the “hacker threat” during the early 90′s. The work takes a fascinating look [...]
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Slights of mind.
A really fascinating article: Sleights of Mind about the annual meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. (That sounds like an interesting group!) Some of their guest presenters and speakers were magicians like Teller of Penn & Teller. Who better to help people understand and experience the way in which the brain [...]
READ MORE »To heck with the people, Bush protecting againt encroaching evil socialism!
The People’s Branch of government–Congress–have both passed bills that would provide increased medical coverage for children and before the ink is even dry King George has said he’d ignore the will of the people and veto anything that crosses his desk that provides social health assistance to children: Bush Administration Bravely Fights the New Communist [...]
READ MORE »Crime and punishment–need serious overhaul!
Earlier I posted about a prosecutor who has gone down the road of insanity in trying to force pre-conceived convictions: Coercion by the legal system, by the mind. The main tool this prosecutor is using to coerce confessions is the threat of the death penalty. When a state persecutor prosecutor tells you confess or you’ll [...]
READ MORE »Coercion by the legal system, by the mind.
Just read an article on Classically Liberal that’s just astoundingly tragic and nearly unbelievable: Four innocent men, one dead woman and a bad cop. I challenge you to read it without dropping your jaw at least once. Bottom line: a prosecutor is denying all reason, logic, obvious and ridiculous mistakes in order to prosecute his [...]
READ MORE »Why we vote against our own interests.
This weekend I was listening to Air America as I am want to do, and there was a guest (I forget who) who was talking about the Republican abolishment of the “estate tax,” and why it is middle-class America, who stand to gain the most benefits from the state tax, voted to get rid of–allowing [...]
READ MORE »Smile, you’re on Bush TV!
King George has approved a move by his loyal Patriot Act authoring lackey and current head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, to use military level spy satellites and aircraft upon the homeland and its citizens: Domestic use of spy satellites to widen My wife is a very reasonable, moderate person who is usually the voice [...]
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How the USA is becoming a police state.
…slowly (not so much) but surely. Just found this site: How the USA is becoming a police state Very interesting clearinghouse of all the ways in which King George’s administration has raped and pillaged the Constitution. One caveat: the site seems pretty certain that the administration is responsible for 9/11. Now, I’m as wary as [...]
READ MORE »Democracy via accident.
It really boggles my mind how little play the voting machine issue of the last two major elections has gotten in the media. Sure some of it sounds like conspiracy theory, and may just be that (such as the CEO or Diebold, the largest manufacturer of e-voting machines, being a huge Republican Party supporter being [...]
READ MORE »Countdown to X-files movie begins.
CNN has an article about David Duchovny’s new Showtime series: Duchovny gets physical — and sexual — in show I’ll freely admit to having a real man-crush on Duchovny. He’s cool, he’s smart, he’s fun and a little crazy. But what I’m most interested in is X-Files news! I was a hardcore X-phile back during [...]
READ MORE »Cheney is very wise, reasonable, and moderate.
Or, so he was in 1994: What the heck happened?! According to the BoingBoing post I got this from: A reader says: “Dick Cheney in a 1994 interview explaining, quite correctly, how invading Iraq would lead to a quagmire. He even uses the word quagmire.” Of course, this was before Saddam Hussein personally flew those [...]
READ MORE »Carl Sagan and humility and wonder.
This post is tangentially religious only in some subtext. The point of this post is about human humility, the promise of the future of humanity, and the awesomeness of the universe and our wonderfully rare and special and insignificant place in it: It’s very powerful. Some of Sagan’s text was used in my all-time favorite [...]
READ MORE »FREEDOM IS SLAVERY -Party slogan
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY -Party slogan Both BoingBoing and Classically Liberal have a posting on Ministry of Love candidate Rudy Guiliani and what he said during a speech last Wednesday: “Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the [...]
READ MORE »Stars like plumes of sand!
See that artist’s interpretation picture to the left there? That’s an approximation of what four galaxies look like colliding into what will eventually become a supergiant galaxy. It’s going on right now: Galaxies clash in four-way merger This galaxy merger will add to the already small but growing list of colossal galaxies astronomers have detected. [...]
READ MORE »Who’s really to blame for eroding American liberties?
Yesterday I posted regarding the greatest betrayal, as yet, this government has perpetrated on the people they “represent”: Betrayal of principles leads to greater destruction America. “Greatest betrayal,” hyperbole, maybe? I don’t think so. Here’s why (you knew that was coming) : The administration lying and twisting information to get us into a war with [...]
READ MORE »Where the future Kings of America stand on issues.
A nice chart showing where the Presidential hopefuls stand: I’m supporting Mike Gravel. (I just wish he wasn’t such a grouchy, crusty, cranky old man.) Although, Kucinich is surprisingly not bad! I was going to support Ron Paul, but he’s let me down on too many other issues. He’s not as libertarian as he lets [...]
READ MORE »U.S. arming Iraqi civil war.
Pentagon loses track of weapons for Iraqi forces Nearly a million rifles and pistols are unaccounted for, intended for newly trained Iraqi police and army. What’s likely happening? Some go missing when scores of Iraqi trainees get blown up by car and suicide bombs, I’m sure. But most are given to trainees who themselves simply [...]
READ MORE »Betrayal of principles leads to greater destruction America.
Am I talking about some kind of attack? Yes, in a manner of speaking. The U.S. Congress attacked the Constitution, liberty, core American ideals and values by selling out and betraying the American people for King George. Under the threat of not being able to go on vacation, Congress handed the American Emperor our rights [...]
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