No, there’s a guy who is actually saying that, and a news pundit… agreeing? Fox news is actually endorsing terrorism, to prove a point? Is that what I really just read? Which is why I just.. can’t…. watch TV,. Or…. I mean for real??
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Jul 01 2009
funny, so does iran
US Department of Defense classes protests as “low-level terrorism” - Boing Boing.
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Jun 22 2009
Parents: “Ug, it’s Sunday, we’re trying to sleep in a bit, don’t you want to quietly read a book?”
Bennet: “No boof!!”
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Jun 07 2009
I hate tobacco corporations, they have painfully ended more American lives than that wanker Bin Laden can ever possibly hope to achieve, but because they make a profit from your drug addictions they get called champions of capitalism.
I hate the US Health Industry; a corporation built for turning a profit will NEVER have a patients best interests in mind, the two are inherently mutually exclusive. I don’t think I’ll be coming back to America until the system is changed. I’ve said before: the currenty health system in America is broken and corrupt, and for further evidence, please see the following:
Link:Health insurers want you to keep smoking, Harvard doctors say : Scientific American Blog.
Short of the story: Health companies hold around 4.5 Billion dollars worth of stock in tobbacco companies. Shocked, and not at all shocked. You might at first say that its a conflict of interest, a company charged with keeping you healthy investing the money you spent in them helping you keep healthy in other companies whose goal is to get you addicted to drugs that will insure a painful untimely demise. You might call that a conflictn of interest, if keeping you healthy was at all of interest to health insurers.
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Jun 06 2009
Now, see here.
This is what I was talking about, one step in building an honest democracy, oir perhaps a democratic technocracy? The first step for - NOT for overthrowing the govornment, that’s counterproductive - rather for UPGRADING all govornments through technological openness is building an accessable database of rules, laws, and standards as can be accessed by the general public.
I’m not some idealist on a soapbox, real people are already taking real initiatives in this field.
Link:RFP: Enhanced Code of Federal Regulations - Open Government | Google Groups.
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Jun 03 2009
Holy F, this was THE most amazing book I have ever written, I mean read. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas; wherein victorian alchemy and psychedelics resolves quantum metaphysics through death and timetravel.
The End of Mr. Y: Amazon.co.uk: Scarlett Thomas: Books.
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Jun 01 2009
More likely than what’s been going on in Guatemala, you’ve surely heard of the happy fun political joy of the UK Houses of Parliments having been found to have been bilking taxpayers for hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of under-the-table payments to themselves, and everyone’s here’s in an uproar. Granted that still pales in comparison to what other governments have paid themselves, and certainly many magnitudes less than your billions of dollars and poundsthe bankers have skived off with.
People, there is actually hope, and it lies in the digital revolution:
I have said before, and I’ll say again, and I’ll take the current events in Guatemala as a huge case in point for my evidence taken from real life- that the only chance for an actual democracy: govornment for the people, by the people lies with the ability of people to be able to communicate as equals, which is specifically dispersed by controlled media, by a relatively small number of individuals powered with making our decisionsas ‘representitive govornments’ and handling our finances, by the electorial college. These forms of govornment were appropriate when there was nothing better, but time has moved on. The electorial college made sense when one had to ride two weeks on horseback to cast a vote, but time has moved on. There’s no reason for that system to exist: it ensures that votes are no longer equal. Ohio and Florida resident’s votes are significantly more valuable as a result of this system, and more open for vote fiddling shenanigans, but I’m sure nothing like that would ever happen.
It’s communnicative technology. Communication is the key. The more self-aware we become, the better the world will be. It’s the only way to make an honest govornment, which will mean: no war for profiteering. Which will scale down war everywhere. Making the world safer, in the long run. And maybe, just maybe, man will be given the chance to hold on long enough to evolve to the next stage. I’m not holding my breath, though.
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Jun 01 2009
ie the apple, it don’t fall far from the tree.
Bennet get comlpletely absorbed by things that interest him, so whern he’s checking something out, it’s not that he’s actively ignoring you, coz when he does twig on you’ve been calling him for the past … he snaps out of it and comes running. Geez.
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May 19 2009
