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by blendergasket 15y ago
This is really sad. I drove a long distance (maybe 60 miles?) for the first time in years yesterday because I'm staying with my mom in the suburbs that have 0 public transportation infrastructure. First: It's impossible to have a life witho
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I really wish people who did this would put donate buttons on their sites. I would rather all (or most when taking the processing fees into account) of the money would go to them and not Apple or Amazon.
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by blendergasket 15y ago
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html - The Nag Hammadi Codex. Gnostic scriptures, some of which are of the Gnostic Christian varieties that were circulating around the time of Jesus and after. These offer a fascinating counterpoint
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by blendergasket 15y ago
Does this make seeing the real dead sea scrolls more or less impressive I wonder?
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I had a facebook acct and got rid of it but then realized that for RSVPing for things and adding facebook integration to websites I needed one so now I have a facebook acct that has no friends and is only used when there is no other way to
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I did too.
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by blendergasket 15y ago
It would be nice it the date and time of the roundtable was on it.
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I don't have all the evidence. I weigh the evidence I have, and believe the preponderance of evidence is on one side or another. You call it think, but really there's no difference between that and believing. If you think so you're living a
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by blendergasket 15y ago
My perspective on this is that, at least for people like myself, believing or disbelieving in human caused climate change is completely an act of faith. We can look at the situation, try to wade through the journal magazines, blogs etc to f
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by blendergasket 15y ago
The danger is when skepticism becomes a positive force that has specific ideas it holds dear, like Man-made Climate Change being a myth or the fact that the world is entirely material. Then it ceases to be skepticism and becomes just anothe
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I find that politicians and PR people use the specific words they use for very specific reasons. In this case they can send a message to people who might want to leak in the future, who might be parsing this stuff really carefully, but not
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by blendergasket 15y ago
"Asked what data Wikileaks might have, a Bank of America spokesperson told Reuters: 'We don't know what they claim to have had, and we have no comment on what they allegedly may have destroyed.'" It's interesting how he states he doesn't kn
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Google suspends ad for book about WWII atomic coverup(thenation.com)
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I really feel like programmers could be pushing this individualist freedom/collective, memetic will forward in such a more interesting way than is happening now. I feel like we can look at the world, think about how it could be better, or w
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by blendergasket 15y ago
What a great idea! It'd be cool if there were some way to create color coded mice/pointers so people could point to places on the page, or find some way for users to highlight some parts. I love it!
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I'm sort of in the same place. I've been working on making my own blogging system that can house various projects I'm working on and it's been going... slowly. I'm nearly done with the first iteration of it though. I've rewritten it maybe 3
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by blendergasket 15y ago
The tide seems to be turning against the RIAA/MPAA, damages 100s of times the cost of legitimately downloading the song are being questioned, the ruling that an IP address != a person and other stuff that is making it less likely that the c
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I think judges can order the accuser to pay the legal fees of the accused at least.
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by blendergasket 15y ago
Definitely happened to me too. Also, I've noticed the ATMs at convenience stores, bars, on street corners etc are usually the swipe ones and the ones at banks are usually the keep your cards ones for some reason. To me the ones that give me
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I would argue that the opening up of HPGary's emails was most definitely in the public interest even though not legal. We learned that private, unaccountable security firms were being contracted by the government and corporations to circumv
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by blendergasket 15y ago
In my opinion it's more likely that cash would be outsourced so that the governments could control who has access to it by using corporations' "rights" as excuses to circumvent the pesky checks and balances the constitution and bill of righ
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by blendergasket 15y ago
Imagine 3 there are 3 restaurants/grocery stores in the world that control the dissemination of 90% of the food in the world. The other food disseminators that control the remaining 10% all exist on top of various mountains. Now imagine tha
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by blendergasket 15y ago
So what you're saying is there's absolutely no way these organizations are motivated to block the money going to the organization which threatens to publish their own secrets because of any threat to themselves?
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by blendergasket 15y ago
Assange claims to be being blackmailed over the bank docs he has. I wonder if the lawsuit he just filed is related to that in any way.
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by blendergasket 15y ago
Regarding Derrida, I think a lot of what he was writing about was the fundamental biases inherent in language and how people use it. To coax these out he had to write in a way as to not get stuck inside these biases and to reflect them back
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by blendergasket 15y ago
Donated. This site has been such a godsend for so long. I'm really glad it exists.
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I used to have this awesome FF addon called Add-Art that overlayed curated visual art in the shapes and sizes of the ads Adblock removed. It was pretty cool. Occasionally it messed up the site's layout but I thought it was worth it. Sadly t
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I watched The Corporation on Hulu. It was hilarious to watch it perforated by commercials. Needless to say they didn't have the desired effect.
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by blendergasket 15y ago
The Take by Naomi Klein is a really interesting documentary about workers in Argentina breaking into the factories their corrupt bosses closed down after the economic collapse and working them themselves (sometimes having to barricade thems
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by blendergasket 15y ago
I want to mount my desk on a stationary bicycle.

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