Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread mp
On 12/03/18 22:50, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Using acoustic waves through the air as the carrier is definitely > confronting at the infrastructure level :) > >> And then something really radical: talk to your neighbour, come out of Oh, so you give into the idea of human resources? :) Well, I beg

Fwd: Shree Paradkar: When will there be a film on Winston Churchill, the barbaric monster with the blood of millions on his hands? (Toronto Star)

2018-03-13 Thread Keith Hart
I have studied Churchill for a long time, especially his part in British imperialism (Southern African branch) around 1900. Liberal governments at the launch of the last century, when facing insurgency in India Ireland and South Africa, invented most of techniques of dirty state warfare that made

Tharoor? // was: Re: Shree Paradkar: When will there be a film on Winston Churchill..

2018-03-13 Thread mp
On 13/03/18 04:39, Prem Chandavarkar wrote: > In a similar vein: > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/03/10/in-winston-churchill-hollywood-rewards-a-mass-murderer/?utm_term=.61f5a658e188 > >

Re: Shree Paradkar: When will there be a film on Winston Churchill, the barbaric monster with the blood of millions on his hands? (Toronto Star)

2018-03-13 Thread Keith Hart
I have studied Churchill for a long time, especially his part in British imperialism (Southern African branch) around 1900. Liberal governments at the launch of the last century, when facing insurgency in India Ireland and South Africa, invented most of techniques of dirty state warfare that made

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread Felix Stalder
On 2018-03-12 18:27, Morlock Elloi wrote: > The old-fashioned way, by confronting at the infrastructure level, away > from keyboards. Messaging through the adversarial infrastructure is like > drawing graffiti on the enemy tanks - cute but doesn't do s*it. > > This is not something that will be

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread Morlock Elloi
> What do you mean by "confronting on an infrastructure level" and > "liberating the infrastructure"? Sure, one thing is to understand the 1. Requiring equal access to switches and fiber. Like cities (most so far) cannot have private streets, and like Ma Bell was forced to provide phone

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread Morlock Elloi
These distinctions (humans, animals, machines) are artificial and not helpful (also a slippery slope - the end game in that direction is racism/identity politics.) Speech is most likely a mutation only 50,000 years old (we didn't get quite used to it yet.) The difference between the speech

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread Frederic Janssens
I mostly agree, apart from antiquity of speech. The more we go, the older it gets. See for instance : https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/bones-of-stone-age-boy-challenge-single-origin-theory-of-modern-humans "Bones of Stone Age boy challenge single-origin theory of modern humans. DNA

Re: The System Development Corporation

2018-03-13 Thread Frederic Janssens
I mostly agree, apart from the antiquity of speech. The more we go, the older it gets. See for instance : https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/bones-of-stone- age-boy-challenge-single-origin-theory-of-modern-humans "Bones of Stone Age boy challenge single-origin theory of modern humans. DNA