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  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    I've just finished re-reading Watts' Rifter trilogy and it got me thinking about drug use by the Police in Ferguson. How do they cope with PTSD? Presumably there's a protocol for rehabilitating Police officers who end up killing somebody in...
  • Commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
    They had me at "Conquering the world "....
  • Commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
    Combat rhetoricians can only change the past. We'll need combat Incantors to change the future. (with a nod to Anathem)....
  • Commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
    That'll be Epimenides' Cretan friend who said "So all Cretans are sarcastic? Yeah, right!"?...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    I'm reminded again of our good friend Bruce Sterling's comments about musicians. "Whatever happens to musicians will eventually happen to everybody." http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/459/State-of-the-World-2013-Bruce-St-page02.html#post38...
  • Commented on "Write me something fresh and new, but make it just like the last one"
    The title of this blog, makes me think of the essential vampirism of the true fan. ""Write me something fresh and new, that will make me feel like I did when I first read one of your books". Again....
  • Commented on Generation Z
    the last bastion of freedom? Norway, maybe? This. If you're prepared to move, where's a good place to go with reasonable prospects and where they at least understand English; Khazakhstan, perhaps? How does potential climate change in your expected life...
  • Commented on A nation of slaves
    So, I LOL at "Lies for money" remembering RAW's comments about pyramidal command and control structures; where everyone lies to their superiors, telling them what they want to hear, lies to their subordinates to get them to do as told...
  • Commented on Schadenfreude
    How about if the Bank of Scotland issued Ponds which were pegged one to one to the Pound (until they weren't). Then you could go to the Glasgow PondLand and get a plastic bag of goldfish for one Pond. Seriously...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    Meanwhile in Chile, A group of self-described anarchists, libertarians and Ron Paul supporters fleeing the crumbling world economic system have founded Galt's Gulch, a community in Chile inspired by Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" — and with an economy based entirely...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    I confess I'm just slightly disappointed that there's no Nu-Money, Crypto-currency called either 'Flaxscrip' or 'Hempscrip', mentioned in http://coinmarketcap.com/ or a currency that is deliberately designed to lose value the longer you hold onto it((fnord)). Why mine a crypto-metal when...
  • Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
    Further proof that America (and American influenced economic colonies) are still living in a Robert Anton Wilson novel where the John Birch Society is an Erisian art project. Which seems particularly apt near Thanksgiving and an important anniversary of the...
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    Getting back to the OP... I was struck by Cameron's repeated comments in the speech about visiting the Imperial War Museum as a small boy and then later taking his son there. And it occurred to me that we were...
  • Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
    Three things that haven't been mentioned so far. 1) Word's HTML output. 2) That OpenOffice/LibreOffice is just as bad, because it tries to be a clone of Word 3) That way that Word tries to be helpful all the time...
  • Commented on Parasites
    Re: Disease memes crashing the human brain, "Snowcrash" obviously. And there-in the Tower of Babel myth as a metaphor for the parasitic memes that are human languages taking over and manipulating human minds. Re dangerous images, I wonder about QR-Codes...
  • Commented on The latest news
    If we see the NSA's dataset as a treasure trove, that means the NSA is playing the role of Smaug, no!?! The following should (probably) be taken as ironic sarcasm not a real suggestion. Let's crowd source the search for...
  • Commented on Marking time, more thoughts
    RA Wilson talked a lot about this, in the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy I think. This was mainly in the guise of a radical simplification of the tax and benefits system. Give everyone a minimum wage in the form of negative...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34
    Notwithstanding your apology, you might want to add 10 years to avoid upsetting the over 50s. Never trust anyone over 30, 40, 50, 60. IMHO, It's the over-60s who don't really understand social networks at a gut level, and the...
  • Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
    It would be interesting to see some analysis of this data against social class, education and principle source of media. Are Guardian readers equally confused or simply just as confused but about different things? It used to be that the...
  • Commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
    Why do any of these have review quotes or explanatory text on the cover? Does anyone think actual consumers/customers will ever read these? As opposed to (say) marketing people in a meeting signing off on the design....
  • Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
    Rather than talking about leaving the EU and making it smaller, I think we should be talking about making it bigger. And we shouldn't stop till it encompasses everything from the Atlantic to the Urals and from Hammerfest to the...
  • Commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
    you can't get $1.25 in government benefits while paying only $.75 in taxes. I take your point but question the language. We're not talking about "benefits" as if it's only welfare or such like. It's the entire apparatus of the...
  • Commented on Context is everything
    I'm a breeder. (insert 12 step program here). And also a not very empathic nerd. So as I get older I have a very pragmatic view of this. I can just about feel empathy for my kids and for their...
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