Nick Arnett wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
That's a good point. I'd ask you to think about something else, though
-- why do you consider yourself religious? I mean, if you have some
kind of faith, *why* do you have that faith?
Well, there's the question. An honest answer has to include, I don't
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Apr 4, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Warren, that is a good example of the kind of Atheistic thinking that
I respect. It matters little whether one agrees or disagrees about the
specifics; the general idea you propose is one most Christians should
be able to
http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915
Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
Friday 27 May 2005 - 11:02
Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling
copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel
Corp. now embedding digital rights
William T Goodall wrote:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
Apple are migrating the Mac from the PPC CPU to the x86 over the next
two years. x86 based Macs are available for developers now, and the
first x86 Macs for sale to the general public will be available within
Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 6/7/05, KZK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
Apple are migrating the Mac from the PPC CPU to the x86 over the next
two years. x86 based Macs are available for developers now, and the
first x86
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44624
I want you to imagine the squeals of outrage we would have heard if,
back in the 1990s, President Clinton spoke to a Democratic congressional
fund-raising dinner attended by a porn star and a pornographer.
I want you to imagine the
www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2137787/security-chip-block-non-macs
Security chip to limit OS X to Macs
Apple looking to keep operating system from running on third-party hardware
Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 13 Jun 2005
Apple could use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip to ensure
Tens of millions killed by Indian (continental) cult 'thugees'.
Hundreds of millions killed by roman catholic church.
Story at eleven.
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William T Goodall wrote:
On 18 Jun 2005, at 8:51 pm, KZK wrote:
Tens of millions killed by Indian (continental) cult 'thugees'.
Hundreds of millions killed by roman catholic church.
Story at eleven.
Are you a new troll or an old troll with a new address?
I must be a new troll. Lol
There is but a simple rule to understand current Republican Propaganda.
Watch very carefully when Republicans start accusing other of doing
things. Then carefully come through the news until you discover that it
was the Republicans who were doing what they accuse the others of.
Frex Karl
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/56.php
The influential Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna has suggested
that belief in evolution as accepted by science today may be
incompatible with Catholic faith.
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Gary Denton wrote:
Jeanne D'Arc discovered that the Cardinal developed this Op-Ed with
the Discovery Institute - the Protestant Creationist unthink tank
that is pushing Intelligent Design. One of the comments mentions an
internal document that was leaked from the Discovery Institute that
Leonard Matusik wrote:
on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:53:59 -0500 Gary Denton wrote:
On 7/10/05, KZK wrote:
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/56.php
The influential Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna has suggested
that belief in evolution as accepted by science today may be
incompatible
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1828859,00.asp
While the TNC specification is still very young (Version 1.0), it is
also the first-ever protocol to attempt to enforce network access on a
per-client or per-network basis, which makes it a spec worth exploring
if you're doing enterprise
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/business/worldbusiness/28trade.htm
The vote, 217 to 215, came almost a month after the Senate approved the
trade pact and gave Mr. Bush a crucial victory that had seemed in doubt
a few days ago. As recently as Tuesday, fewer than half of Republican
lawmakers
Evil inside:
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/08/01/0421248.shtml?tid=179tid=118tid=3
Several people have discovered that the new Intel kernel Apple has
included with the Developer Kit DVD uses TCPA/TPM DRM. More
specifically, it includes a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a
Infineon
http://www.walken2008.com/FAQ.html
What is Mr. Walken's party affiliation?
Mr. Walken believes that voters should vote based on the candidates'
platforms, not their party affiliation. At this early stage, we are not
affiliated with any political party, nor do we plan to be. Our platform
William T Goodall wrote:
Interesting article about the evil monsters behind 'intelligent design'.
http://tinyurl.com/d89qz
A closer look shows a multidimensional organization, financed by
missionary and mainstream groups - the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation provides $1 million a year,
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_09_25_atrios_archive.html#112787530711248003
The Op-Ed Which Wasn't Run
Rick Perlstein wrote this in the second week of September, and sent it
to various major newspapers for submission. Rick has had great success
in placing such things. It was rejected or
Bill O'reilly is a href = http://www.billoreilly.com/;Terrorist
sympathizer/a and a a href = http://www.billoreilly.com/;Traitor/a.
~KeZiK
+
+
'Hope is the denial of reality.
The New American SS:
http://progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308
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bFinally... an alert.../b
Have a look at InfraGard -- the FBI's program to
develop a quasi-secret network of private businesses
that are shielded from normal transparency by trade
secrets laws, to assist in guarding national
In your article on Singularities and Nightmares, you briefly discuss
negative intervention by outsiders (i.e. Aliens or so-called deities),
but you didn't really discuss positive / preventative intervention or
even neutral intervention by aliens. Granted you explore those
scenarios in depth
I exclude positive intervention in order to let them -
or God - off the hook. There is (1) no evidence for
such events and (b) had others the power to intervent,
there have been mega tragedies they could have helped
us to avoid. Just the availablity of glass lenses,
would have let us
Thanks guys.
I keep expecting that the new computer graphics would
empower semi-professionals to start a golden age of
animated SF...
But it hasn't happened yet, alas...
Maybe some of the graphics challenge winners will
spark something!
Hate to burst your bubble Dr. Brin,
KZK thanks for interesting and thought-provoking
stuff.
I try.
Look, I like Miazaki and I have enjoyed a lot of other
anime. Still, there seems to be a deep and abiding
reluctance to do SF that I would call for grownups.
I tried to list ones that were mostly fairly serious drama's
I'd like to hear Dr. Brin's thoughts on this:
http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html
He touched on the concept in some of the Uplift Novels, where galactic
languages have generally been constructed in a way that eliminates
metaphore. Also I would like to know how it
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM, KZK evil.ke...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to hear Dr. Brin's thoughts on this:
http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html
He touched on the concept in some of the Uplift Novels, where galactic
languages have generally been constructed
Dr. Brin Wrote:
True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody
inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a
modern DVD player to watch a film that you already own - let alone
record an episode of NOVA - it is why I keep three VCRs in the house,
still.
I
David Brin Wrote:
Today's DVD's
1- are not universal if you record on minus or plus mode and many
units throw fits, even then
1a. Get a better Player. Sony. Avoid Philips/Magnavox for electronics.
1b. Why even bother with the minus format. It's inferior, and it's
pretty much dead. Use
This paper (pdf) shows how MOG (Modified Gravity or
Scalar-Tensor-Vector) theory explains the Bullet cluster 'proof' of dark
matter without dark matter:
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702146
This article argues, weakly, that the apparent acceleration of the
universe can be explained without
This is very cute:
http://www.partiallyclips.com/pclipslite.php?id=1008
Unfortunately, their is an error in the strip.
According to the first panel the second dragon can not be the
alternating Trvth/Lie teller [*].
According to the third panel the second dragon must be the alternating
New York Times: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
http://su.pr/3287Ll
[When the LHC is powered on after a year of repairs after an
accident shut it down] it will be time to test one of the most
bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I'm not talking
This paper (pdf) shows how MOG (Modified Gravity or
Scalar-Tensor-Vector)
theory explains the Bullet cluster 'proof' of dark matter without
dark matter:
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702146
This article argues, weakly, that the apparent acceleration of the
universe can
be explained without
Dr. Brin, in one of your recent blog posts you mention the article
about
dark energy but not the paper about dark matter. This is confusing,
because the paper on dark matter is the much more interesting of the
two, seeing as it doesn't rely on any might-be's or other
supposition's,
but
Dan M wrote:
Subject: RE: Br!n: Dark Matter / Energy in Doubt
I don't dispute anything you write, except for this. Forgive me if I am
mistaken, but my understanding was that they did not in fact have to
modify the MOG theory in order to explain the data in the case of the
bullet cluster.
http://www.asymptosis.com/libertarians-republicans-and-democrats-new-findings-on-morality-empathy-and-sympathy.html
http://www.asymptosis.com/are-machines-replacing-humans-or-am-i-a-luddite.html
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-Apartheid
plank in it's platform. You can usually get a Libertarian to argue that
Slavery is OK, because people have a right to sell themselves.
From: KZK
http://www.asymptosis.com/libertarians-republicans-and-democrats-new-findings-on-morality-empathy-and-sympathy.html
http
http://www.asymptosis.com/libertarians-republicans-and-democrats-new-findings-on-morality-empathy-and-sympathy.html
Another point. Since conservatives seem to care a great deal for
purity, this post makes a whole lot more sense:
On 3/20/2010 4:49 PM, KZK wrote:
On 3/20/2010 12:00 AM, David Brin wrote:
Wow, this guy is really something.
I'll tout him on my blog.
Who is he?
[Steve Roth]
Thanks for sharing it.
I think their have also been other things going on for a number of
years. Namely, most employers (90
David Brin Wrote:
Go read some of ther terrific “fanfic” or fan-generated fiction out
there. Here’s a great example: futurist/scholar Eliezer Yudkowsky’s
ongoing series/novel that is both a tribute to - and deconstruction
of - J.K. Rowling’s fantasy universe. HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS
OF
This article suggests that Language and Orientation/Navigation skills
are directly correlated:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/language-in-space-language-and-orientation-skills-correlate.ars
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Metal bed-frames as antenna's..
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http://www.asymptosis.com/are-machines-replacing-humans-or-am-i-a-luddite.html
Another Interesting Article along similar lines:
http://globalsociology.com/2010/07/01/accumulation-by-dispossession-and-savage-sorting/
Although when I read savage sorting I think selection.
At 07:49 AM Sunday 7/4/2010, KZK wrote:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=left-sided-cancer-blame-your-bed-an-2010-07-02
The first line of evidence they cite comes from a 2007 study in
Sweden conducted between 1989 and 1993 that revealed a strong link
between
More brilliance from a one-term president:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Obama-closes-curtain-on-transparency-468557-100595914.html
President Obama has abolished the position in his White House dedicated
to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of a
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/08/09/glenn-greenwald/the-digital-surveillance-state-vast-secret-and-dangerous/
And as we acquiesce to more and more sacrifices of our privacy to the
omnipotent Surveillance State, it builds the wall of secrecy behind
which it operates higher and more
in detail many of the
specific abuses the Obama admin has continued and extended from the Bush
administration.
It's clear you didn't read the article, or even know who Glenn Greenwald
is (try Salon.com).
From: KZK
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/08/09/glenn
On 8/21/2010 10:14 PM, Chris Frandsen wrote:
This is the same anti government pitch being pushed right now to hamstring this
administration.
So, we should just ignore it when Obama is worse, in this case on spying
on Americans, than Bush was, just because he has a (D) after his name?
We
This Graph puts the 23Trillion in Perspective:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79361...@n00/4868316187/
Obama's Kleptocratic Banksters aren't really very different from Bush's.
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http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/10/he-gave-us-order-out-of-chaos-r-i-p-benoit-mandelbrot-1924-2010/#ixzz12YTWaBON
Very sad. I've written several version of a program that would display
the Mandelbrot Set. You can zoom into the complexities forever. Even
more complex is that you can
More evidence of how badly designed the brain is. I can only add a
truism: It’s cheap to maintain Lies and expensive to maintain Trvth.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490874f=1014sc=tw
New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds
when
On 11/14/2010 10:39 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 14 Nov 2010, at 11:14, KZK wrote:
More evidence of how badly designed the brain is. I can only add
a truism: It’s cheap to maintain Lies and expensive to maintain
Trvth.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490874f
http://amultiverse.com/2010/09/29/dont-ask-dont-swim/
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Steve Roth asks an interesting question about the number and type of
real inventions since the seventies (that aren't just improvements of
existing inventions):
http://www.asymptosis.com/name-one-really-big-invention-since-1970-besides-the-internet.html
Optical media? (CD, LaserDisc, DVD,
Ronn! Blankenship
Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us
about innovation. - By Neal Stephenson - Slate Magazine -
http://www.slate.com/id/2283469/
I just read an article that completely deconstructed that article:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/08/human-activity-can-cause-earthquakes/
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It’s cheap to maintain Lies and expensive to maintain Trvth.
--KZK's Maxim
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/michael-hudson-debt-and-democracy-has-the-link-been-broken.html
What with 700+ Trillion in derivatives outstanding...
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On 12/5/2011 12:51 AM, David Brin wrote:
Wow, this was more interesting than I expected it to be. On Debt, Democracy,
and all that...
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/michael-hudson-debt-and-democracy-has-the-link-been-broken.html
Only the best for the good doctor.
What with 700+
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/philip-pilkington-libertarianism-and-the-leap-of-faith-%e2%80%93-the-origins-of-a-political-cult.html
Which dovetails rather nicely into this long socratic dialog:
Edge never fails to disappoint.
http://edge.org/conversation/infinite-stupidity-edge-conversation-with-mark-pagel
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--KZK's Maxim
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/huge-plunge-in-petroleum-and-gasoline.html
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It’s cheap to maintain Lies and expensive to maintain Trvth.
--KZK's Maxim
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On 2/11/2012 5:50 PM, KZK wrote:
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/gasoline-tanking02-12.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/huge-plunge-in-petroleum-and-gasoline.html
Moar:
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/energy-consumption-dropping02-12.html
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It’s cheap
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/interview-with-daniel-kahneman-on-the-pitfalls-of-intuition-and-memory-a-834407-druck.html
...
Kahneman: Yes. Psychologists distinguish between a System 1 and a
System 2, which control our actions. System 1 represents what we may
call intuition. It
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428202/quantum-cryptography-outperformed-by-classical/
The idea is straightforward. Alice wants to send Bob a message via an
ordinary wire. At each end of the wire, there are two different
resistors that correspond to a 0 or 1.
Alice encodes her message
The idea is straightforward. Alice wants to send Bob a message via an
ordinary wire. At each end of the wire, there are two different
resistors that correspond to a 0 or 1. Alice encodes her message by
connecting these two resistors to the wire in the required sequence.
Bob, on the other hand,
On 6/15/2012 2:37 AM, KZK wrote:
But Eve, who is listening in to the publicly available noise, does
not know which resistor was connected at each end and cannot work it
out either because the laws of thermodynamics prevent the extraction
of this information from this kind of signal.
So why
David Hobby Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:35:51 -0700:
Between ALL communications channels, even the public ones? That's
asking rather a lot of Eve. I think there are a lot of people who
would use a cryptographic system that required an additional open
channel, confident that they could somehow route
Dave Land
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:04:21 -0700
I think you can be forgiven, particularly if there's any chance that your Bay
Area friends can buy you a drink while you're here. If you have any time in the
evening, I'd like to see you, and one or two others maybe, too?
FYI: Pretty sure you need the
David Brin:
Seriously. (May I? For just a moment?) Next time you contemplate a
book’s retail price, try dividing it by the number of hours of
pleasure you’ll get, reading it. Then tell me of any other pastime
with a better minutes per pennies ratio of sheer joy!
Video games. It's easy to
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121121145404.htm
The vacuole -- and its counterpart in humans and other organisms, the
lysosome -- has two main jobs: degrading proteins and storing molecular
building blocks for the cell. To perform those jobs, the interior of the
vacuole must be
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