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by canadian_voter 10y ago
"When you positively leave a house and enter into another house your positive action ceases to be positive action at all because you have abandoned one power structure for another, which you will again have to leave. So this constant r
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
> What threshold is going to make prime real estate lots around Lake Washington not scarce? Warp drive? A thousand habitable planets that make Earth look like dusty, irradiated backwater? An vast frontier to explore, filled with endless
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Not everyone can get what they want, but certainly everyone gets what they need. Everyone living in mansions? Nope. But is anybody homeless? Nope. It's a trade-off. Many sought-after things are scarce. Starship commissions are scarce.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Well, for a start, it's a post-scarcity society that has the capacity to produce 7 billion widgets if necessary. So that gets you around a lot of problems. You'll notice that the crew quarters in the show are decorated in a minima
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Trump's cavalier response to this is shocking. These are serious allegations. His statement is mind melting on so many levels: Asked on Wednesday night at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., about reports of the impending sancti
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
An old man told me that, once upon a time, every steam train would have two stokers aboard. Their job was to fuel the fire with coal; a hard, dirty job. They were replaced by mechanical stokers and their jobs made obsolete. But the union wa
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
> We just need to be better to each other. I believe that the fundamental problems of our time are ethical, not technological. If we can figure that part out, the technology should take care of itself. I would love to live in a post-scar
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
They don't need anyone to buy their wares if they are self reliant and can produce everything they need. We're not talking about making more and faster cell-phones with less labour, we're talking about a small group of people
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
It's a great book. Their analysis of violence as the organizing force of society was what stuck with me the most. They also talk about how the core values people will need are trustworthiness, self-reliance, etc. That's where the
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Microwave dinners?
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
I think the megapolitical perspective on violence in The Sovereign Individual[0] by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg can be helpful here. Unions were powerful because they could limit access to labour, which was required for p
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
"Minor crimes" like stalking can lead to major crimes like murder. There are 2 major issues here: 1) The information might be used "off-label" for all sorts of personal and political reasons. There are countless examples
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Now we're talking. That's a prescription for action. I will agree with this. Edit: Although I think there is more we do too. :) (Not defending Aaron's particular actions here.)
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Okay, so you're advocating for some sort of direct democracy. It sounds lovely, but I'm not sure it's realistic. We sure as hell don't have it, so how do we go about getting it? We live in a world where there are huge im
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." --Rousseau (Ties in with my previous point: To ask "Why should anyone have more power than anyone else?" is missing the point: people clearly DO have different amounts
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
... I think we're working from a different set of assumptions. Edit: To ask "Why should anyone have more power than anyone else?" is missing the point: people clearly DO have different amounts of power in the world. What part
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead (disputed, but still catchy) What would be your alternative strategy for positive change?
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
How about a more positive message? "The creator of this software believes in equal rights" or "Be excellent to one another". Picking on "Trump supporters" is a pretty low blow. And in practical terms is probabl
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
> Maybe if everyone had all the nuclear weapons they could want, no wars could ever happen again which would be a good thing. Please see The Weapon by Frederic Brown. [0] [0] https://writenowisgood.wordpress.com/the-weapo
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Or how about we set up a Mars colony, and do all of our wars there? Seems somehow appropriate. We can nuke the hell out of Mars and everyone on Earth will be fine. And what makes people think that in the event of global thermonuclear war th
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
"After considering all of the evidence, the board did not find clear and convincing evidence of innocence and declined to recommend clemency in this matter." Hey, just because he's not guilty doesn't mean he's innoc
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Love the bit at the end: "Quantum computing and consciousness are both weird and therefore equivalent." Quantum consciousness doesn't sound very different from plain old vitalism.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
The references, in order, are to Frank Herbert, Albert Einstein and Johhny Depp. The point is that famous, successful people don't always start out that way. Just trying to give people some hope. POP: I read that you did telemarketing.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
We were traveling in Central America and we passed a mansion on a hill: the biggest, nicest house we'd seen in the country. We asked the driver who lived there, thinking it was perhaps the president's mansion. He said: "That&
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
John Ralston Saul does a great job explicating this in his book Voltaire's Bastards[1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Voltaires-Bastards-Dictatorship-Reaso...
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
We're a zoo for a higher intelligence? Joke is on them, reality is a simulation! Turtles.
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
Imagine if you came to Jean Luc Picard and said "Captain, we found a way to replace exploration with the holodeck! And the best part is, none of those boring nebulas or silly aliens -- we can generate endless grotesques unlike anything
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by canadian_voter 10y ago
For those of you who are unfamiliar with how voting works in other parts of the world, I'd like to describe the voting process in Canada. Registered voters (which is virtually everyone) receive a card in them mail telling them where to