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they thought the (global) public ought
to know. Even exposing potential targets for attack is no worse than,
for example, me posting the results of running nmap on Owen's machine,
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Alfredo Covaleda wrote circa 10-12-09 01:18 PM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY7p9I7wWh0
Nice! You gotta love Blue Öyster Cult.
I figured I'd check out the anonops #OperationPayback IRC channel just
to get a feel for it. Man, that place is hoppin. I didn't learn
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Don't be too hard on the wackos. And don't resist becoming a wacko
yourself. Let your freak flag fly, man. ;-)
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http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/
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mailto:g...@tempusdictum.com wrote:
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surrounded by judgements by my
friends and colleagues which I must hold in suspension to avoid this
polarization. I happen to like a lot about the implications of the
activities of the WikiLeaks but don't necessarily demonize those who
find themselves unable to support them.
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Yay, Wuala http://www.wuala.com/en now has an Android app! No more
turning on an SSHD or USB Mass Storage then copying files manually for
later perusal! Of course, it downloads it from the Wuala cloud on the
fly; so, it still won't help me when I sit down to read a PDF on the
mountain.
computers. It
just seems reasonable to me; but perhaps I've drunk too much Kool Aid?
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that we've been
conned. Anyone who promises that a given tool or device that just
works is selling snake oil and ocean front property in Nevada.
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of
marketing, scitech, and legal operatives ensconced in every institution.
(Although this site helps:
http://www.cornucopia.org/dairysurvey/index.html)
I have similar anecdotes about ground beef, pre- and post-manufactured
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Any thoughts from the other side of the (digital) ecological divide?
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q...@aol.com wrote circa 11-11-17 06:07 PM:
You do mean tinny, as opposed to woody, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwXJsWHupgfeature=youtube_gdata_player
Ha! Recidivist. I hadn't seen that before. Thanks.
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At this point, I'm inclined to write them off.
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very
density prevents me from keeping my mouth shut. ;-)
Precisely what control does an android user _not_ have? I seem to have
control over every aspect of my android device (Droid 2 Global),
including which carrier I use.
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It's not so easy with rock. Was it designed to filter water? ... or to
execute people who break your laws?
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money. I have way too many established charities knocking.
At this point, I'm inclined to write them off.
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If you want I could ask the regional coordinator to give you guys an
e-mail so you could discuss your concerns.
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completed, and a GAO investigation of the role of contractors in
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attack. It's so obvious I'm totally confused why more people don't
support Occupy. We should not only protest in the commons ... we should
also play chess there ... drink beer there ... play football there ... etc.
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of others.
[*] Though I am thoroughly tired of vampires at this point. [sigh] I
used to love a good vampire story. I'm not sure what happened.
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Given some of the conversations we've had here, I thought this might be
interesting to some:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57412225-281/this-internet-provider-pledges-to-put-your-privacy-first-always/
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/patients
association and conspire against the insurance companies.
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Medicine goes back millenium, with many
cases. But I, being somewhat skeptical, continue to be surprised by how
useful it is as I practice it with clients. I urge you all to try a local
Chinese/Ayurvedic Medicinal Herbalist. You may find it surprising. Peggy M.
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Canadian health care policy.
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ERIC P. CHARLES wrote at 07/11/2012 09:41 PM:
Why not say some
simple and straightforward things about what you actually accomplished?
Well, for what (little) it's worth, they did send me this:
http://content.wuala.com/contents/gepr/public/obama-biden-wallet-posterized-scaled.png
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:31 AM:
But the problem here is not faith, itself, which always
lies somewhere down there amongst the turtles, but the rapidity to which a
shallow thinker appeals to it.
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hold doctrine
as _less_ central to their religion than practice. Interacting with the
real world probably takes precedence over navel-gazing.
[NST ==] I see, Glen, that you want to perjoratize one kind of intellectual
behavior and prioritize another, but why? On what grounds. If navels
don't know what a zombie is.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
(Yes, I have been _called_ a master of the non sequitur ... but that's
not because I make unjustified inferences. It's because I don't take
the time to show my work. ;-)
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criticism. To hide
behind the veil of tolerance in the face of clearly amoral (or perhaps
just plain stupid) behavior is to allow these anti-social behaviors to
spread like the cancer they are.
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a) fundamental constitutive component
of all other things.
As usual, the conversation hasn't gone the way I wanted. Dammit. 8D
But I'll still hold my final trump card to my chest just in case it
takes a turn back in my favor.
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action ... perhaps something called state, which is distinguishable
from process?
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. What better way to stimulate the mirror neurons of your peers
than to exacerbate the bullying?
Go ahead. Taunt that cop!
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call belief or intention.
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that might actually
cause a person to have faith.
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whether memory (of some type) is sufficient for belief. E.g. are there
types of memory that do not amount to belief? Like if I know that some
person thinks 1+1=3, I can remember that, suspend disbelief, and play
along with that equation for awhile without believing it.
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ERIC P. CHARLES wrote at 09/19/2012 02:54 PM:
But Glen, when you talk about the infiltrator, or the person
paying lip-service, you are just appealing to a larger pattern of
behavior.
Aha!! Excellent! So, tell me how to classify the patterns so that one
pattern is just lip service
on the spot, everyone cops out
with the I can't define it. But I know it when I see it. To which I
say: Pffft. 8^P
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) an attempt to apply modern,
non-statistical, mathematics to this problem. That would include math that can
adequately deal with discrete and non-discrete aspects, etc., which you point
out we would need. Lee, can you give a more skilled plug?
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together, which is the only reason I noticed the
ruckus. Had we lived back in our rent house on the river, with lots of
space between us and our neighbors, this wouldn't have been an issue.
Here's an honest and personal question to make the ethics concrete:
Should I have intervened?
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If so, then definitely yes.
Otherwise, you should have simply, and quietly, have respected the
family's faith.
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, the uncertainty surrounding any given
action matters much less than that surrounding something on the critical
path. I know that, personally, I'd be much more likely to invoke and
talk about faith when considering a cut-point action as opposed to one
that had plenty of low-hanging fruit alternatives.
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glen wrote at 09/24/2012 04:16 PM:
We could think of this in terms of compressibility where faith is less
compressible than Faith.
Sorry. I meant the opposite: Faith is less compressible than faith.
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) represented, mimicked, or
replaced by a smaller system. Any (adequate) representation of an
incompressible system will be just as large as the system itself.
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Prof David West wrote at 09/22/2012 09:00 AM:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012, at 10:24 AM, glen wrote:
Here's an honest and personal question to make the ethics concrete:
Should I have intervened?
clearly a tough question - given the state of society, the prevalence of
guns and predisposition
to regret it.
Ultimately, the _nest_ comes down hard and ruthless on those living in it.
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Douglas Roberts wrote at 09/26/2012 09:03 PM:
dead gang members are far more productive members of society than
live ones, I suspect.
And here I was worried I wouldn't get enough _hate_ in my diet today.
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hell breaks loose and we riot in the streets.
Financial liberalism is the _trunk_ and social liberalism is the leaves.
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threads which ultimately weave a fine and strong fabric of community.
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might take expressions of other
agents' rules as inputs ... i.e. meta-rules or rule operators.
This seems like a very common casual modeling conversation, to me.
What's questionable is whether the mechanism we've suggested so far will
contribute to a debate about religion and atheism.
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approximate/simulate an actor.
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). Non-attachment is acting with perfect knowledge that
the action is the right action in that context, with context being the
totality of the world. (A kind of omniscience, the possibility of which
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as there are only 2 nationally viable parties. One thing that
would be interesting is if I were allowed to affiliate locally with 1
party but state-wide with another, and nationally with yet another.
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with this both on a
personal level and within the scholastic or intellectual sphere. If
this is not a supremely hard problem it is probably a supremely subtle one.
Scissors, Paper, Stone.
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at using their own. I also know some
people who refuse to use a tool properly, but seem to be very
efficient at achieving their objectives.
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invented methods for ... billing people. 8^) And I suspect they were
competent with those tools. But I also suspect those tools did not
translate well to non-astrophysicists or non-lawyers ... or perhaps even
very many astrophysicists or very many lawyers.
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Most of the yahoos I met at the gun show two weekends ago _think_ guns
are natural for them. But I think they're wrong. My guess is that a
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horizon and stop being capable of thinking
differently. Only the lone wolves hiding in the forests have a chance
of preserving our biological diversity.
Steve Smith wrote at 01/16/2013 10:16 PM:
Glen -
I'll save you and the rest of the list my long-winded point by point
response (written
rapidly within an individual's lifetime. Add to
that the mobility of individuals, and there are multiple, perhaps
competing understandings of what polite behavior is.
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that it's impossible to tell the whole truth.
And we have non-well-founded set theory to tell us that it's problematic
to tell nothing but the truth.
Hence, if we follow your setup to its logical conclusion, then everyone
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argumentation. ;-)
Douglas Roberts wrote at 01/17/2013 10:46 AM:
Even I can detect a willful argumentative bent here. Ray said, and I
quote: Yes, we lie frequently.
You said, OK. Well, if we're all always lying, [...]
Now now, you know better...
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positive to pat his male employees on the back on a regular (like ...
high frequency regular) basis. He's a good guy and I kinda like him
otherwise. But that incessant touching was seriously irritating. Ugh.
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for members and one for non-members. And they'll likely have a 3rd for
the boss.
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not the vague notion of politeness that does it. It's the
implicit status as watchdog, enforcer of the unenforced-due-to-bias
parts of the standard, that does what we need.
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boredom with us!) stays out of the fray here, so he is relatively
safe. I'm getting to know others well enough that I think I could
parody some of you with impunity and possibly with appreciation by the
recipients as well as the audience.
Glen and I have not finished our back-n-forth about
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Arlo Barnes wrote at 01/20/2013 12:11 PM:
New: Is this the selfsame Axiom of Choice that enables Banach-Tarski if
used?
Yes, that's the way I intend to use it.
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the data of the consumer and producer did not make
sense together.
You mean I wouldn't be allowed to listen to the smooth sounds of:
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You gotta help me, help me to shake off
.
Was your experience different from that?
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can't be a profit center.
I'd certainly pay for many of google services .. although I doubt this
would stop them from randomly killing off ones I care about.
Is there some obvious trend, like I mentioned above, for example ..
moving everything to G+?
Damn!
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not sure what happened, but all
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Steve Smith wrote at 03/15/2013 09:47 AM:
OK Glen... Looks like you've been called out, now we want to see YOUR
version of this classic!
Well, I don't know anything about classics, per se. But here's the
distinction I'd make. The vector should be:
from this -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
its users and the
society in which they're embedded.
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Laid out in amber baby
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, then the simulations I'd
be a part of would be much different.
I am also not completely an illusion.
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Frank Wimberly wrote at 03/20/2013 02:59 PM:
Did you ever read that novel, Glen? When I read your post about
twitches I had the feeling it resonated with some memory. Then I
realized what it was.
Aha! Yes. I _loved_ that novel, even read it twice. I completely
forgot about it. I forget
glen wrote at 03/21/2013 06:36 AM:
I forget when I read it, though. I still have my copy
somewhere; perhaps there are notes or something that will remind me when
I read it first. Thanks.
Yep. Sure enough I have page 314 starred:
We rode across Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he left
Steve Smith wrote at 03/21/2013 10:24 AM:
I'll see your King's Men and raise you aStone Junction
http://books.google.com/books/about/Stone_Junction.html?id=woneSCNLbrYC by
Jim Dodge
Ordered!
When Glen writes his great american novel (surely to be also an
alchemical potboiler, a digital noir
, it's quite difficult to distinguish
between the former (authentic expression) and the latter (posturing).
But, I also admit my gullibility and naivete.
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mixed state? What density/spread of 20-something activists does one
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best evidence against psi ... or perhaps with a softening like the
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effect bubble? If so, when? Immediately? Or perhaps after some window
of time as the placebo effect decays and it bumps up against the hard
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is
about how to manipulate the system so that cause and effect can be
teased out of the noise. The point is if, when, and how to manipulate.
The question of improvement only comes after addressing the question of
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scientific community. We *know* there is bias in the woo community
but just repeatedly pointing that out is not the same as looking in a
mirror for where the scientific community has conspired with itself to
fashion and wear blinders.
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Robot Lords
Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/04/2013 04:21 PM:
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a belief set with no evidence, based solely on what someone said was The
Truth.
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partial order, perhaps there are as many different types of evidence as
there are foci of attention, a multi-dimensional space, with an
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This body of mine, man I don't wanna turn android
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