- Bob Altermeyer - The Authoritarians.pdf
in Public bookmarks - Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric
in Public bookmarks - Charles S. Peirce, "Logic of Events" (1898)
We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom. <philosophy>
in Public bookmarks - Charlie's Diary (antipope): The High Frontier, Redux
I write SF for a living. Possibly because of this, folks seem to think I ought to be an enthusiastic proponent of space exploration and space colonization. Space exploration? Yep, that's a fair cop — I'm all in favour of advancing the scientific enterprise. But actual space colonisation is another matter entirely, and those of a sensitive (or optimistic) disposition might want to stop reading right now .
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in Public bookmarks - Copyright - who needs it?
software copyright is evil
copyright freedom law software
in Public bookmarks - Dictators Who Dominate: Betraying Allies to Gain a Preponderance of Power. McGovern, Erin Rachel
Abstract: As authoritarian leaders rise to power, they require the backing of a group of well-connected, well-organized supporters, who together control a large pool of resources. Every new leader necessarily begins his tenure surrounded by politically powerful kingmakers. Dependent leaders aim to keep these supporters happy by sharing the spoils of office, and they often fall victim to coups when key supporters decide to align their resources behind someone new. An independent leader, by contrast, purges his own inner circle to ensure that the “kingmakers” are too weak to remove him from power. Intra-regime purges are a dangerous gamble, but those leaders who survive the short-term repercussions of betraying their supporters gain a more secure hold on
in Public bookmarks - Imagining the Tenth Dimension: a new way of thinking about time and space by Rob Bryanton
Part scientific exploration, part philosophy, this unique book touches upon such diverse topics as dark matter, Feynman's "sum over paths", the quantum observer, and the soul. It is aimed at anyone interested in leading-edge theories about cosmology and the nature of reality, but it is not about mainstream physics. Rather, Imagining the Tenth Dimension is a mind-expanding exercise that could change the way you view this incredible universe in which we live.
in Public bookmarks - Kahlil Gibran Chap.15 - Reason & passion
in Public bookmarks - Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them
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in Public bookmarks by 6 users - MetaFilter: Suction is the female of movement and pressure is the male of movement.
"Lawsonomy is the knowledge of Life and everything pertaining thereto." The collected works of Alfred Lawson - professional baseball player, aviation pioneer, economist, scientist, theologist, and philosopher - are available to all. [more inside]
in Public bookmarks - My Paranormal Life: How to make a fake ghost video
I thought this would be fun to share, since learning about video editing and 3D effects I've learnt a few things and also being as cheap as I am, I have put together a video tutorial on how to make a basic fake ghost video using only free software. The results will depend on how much time you want to put into it, for me I am going to use this technique to make a series of funny video shorts, well I hope they will be funny. The tutorial video took me about 20 minutes to make and the actual ghost video will take less than ten minutes. I also hope that this will give some insight into recognising fake ghost videos that claim to be real, something I will never do. How to make a fake ghost video.
in Public bookmarks - ProCon.org: Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
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Pros and cons of controversial issues. Read pro and con arguments for and against topics such as medical marijuana, euthanasia, prostitution, and more
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in Public bookmarks by 7 users - The Eye of the Crocodile - ANU Press -Lorraine Shannon
1. Meeting the predator 2. Dry season (Yegge) in the stone country 3. The wisdom of the balanced rock: The parallel universe and the prey perspective Second section 4. A wombat wake: In memoriam Birubi 5. ‘Babe’: The tale of the speaking meat Third section 6. Animals and ecology: Towards a better integration 7. Tasteless: Towards a food-based approach to death
in Public bookmarks - THE VICE GUIDE TO GETTING BEATEN UP
Don’t be a victim. If some huge fucking Coke machine of a guy tries to attack you, grab his right arm with the forefinger of your left hand, then twist it behind his back and kick in the back of his knees from behind. If he has a knife, use your elbows as side fists and smash his temples at 45 degrees until his pupils dilate. If he gets you into some kind of a headlock, then sit down on one knee so that he’s forced to sit on your lap and then implode his kidneys using the heel of your left palm against your right forearm… blah blah “nose bone into his brain” yadda yadda yadda. Yeah, right. If a huge fucking Coke machine of a guy tries to attack you, that’s it. You’re dead.
in Public bookmarks - The View from Nowhere - Questions and Answers - PressThink
"American journalism is dumber than most journalists, who often share my sense of absurdity about these practices. A major reason we have a practice less intelligent than its practitioners is the prestige that the View from Nowhere still claims..."
in Public bookmarks - What's Wrong With Copy Protection: John Gilmore, 16 February 2001
Ron Rivest asked me, "I think it would be illuminating to hear your views on the differences between the Intel/IBM content-protection proposals and existing practices for content protection in the TV scrambling domain. The devil's advocate position against your position would be: if the customer is willing to buy extra, or special, hardware to allow him to view protected content, what is wrong with that?" First, I call it copy protection rather than content protection, because "content" is such a meaningless word. What the technology actually does is to deter copying. Such technologies have a long history in computing, starting with the first microcomputers, minicomputers, and workstations. Except in very small niches, all such systems ultimately failed. Ma
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