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by laotzu 11y ago
>use topical voting instead of figurehead voting. This is entirely feasible now with the internet. One of the primary assumptions which led to to the design of a representative republic which we have on paper was that it was impossible f
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This is such an obvious example of the divide to conquer strategy which is still alive and well in the region. Iran Contra revealed the MIC was selling weapons to both Iran and Iraq at the same time. Profit from endless weapons sales, profi
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For more reading, here is a Congressional report on the sale of those weapons and the resulting blowback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegle_Report
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>politeness is hard to enforce. Because it is a logical fallacy. To enforce something implies using violence which is considered mean and not polite. The same logical fallacy applies to gun control. Oh you want to ban or restrict access
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It is the broken window fallacy: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...
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So basically any device manufactured in China and sold abroad should be assumed to be rooted by the Chinese government?
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>We have become like the most primitive Palaeolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information. -Marshall McLuhan
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by laotzu 11y ago
One would think that doing something like weakening and backdooring encryption would provide a negative net benefit because it helps hackers to steal information more readily. I guess it depends on what you think of the broken window fallac
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Wide scale defiance does not necessarily mean bloody revolution. Dr. King being a prime example.
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A more distributed internet infrastructure would also be needed i.e. mesh networks. Dragnet surveillance is too simple and easy to do when the internet infrastructure is centralized in the hands of a couple ISPs.
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by laotzu 11y ago
Just to reiterate, the study we are discussing and my original post are about inefficiencies in the design of human social hierarchies and not inneficiencies in data structures. >Hierarchies are efficient, that is why they exist. They ex
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McLuhan and Nevitt are talking about human organizational structure, not technical design.
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Care to elaborate?
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That's because the losses are theoretical, meaning they don't exist in reality. You can't lose what you don't already have. There is a difference between copy/paste and stealing. When stealing, scarcity is implicitl
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by laotzu 11y ago
Linear hierarchy may have been effective for quick decision making in the age of paper and print but as Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt point out in their book Take Today: The Executive as Dropout (1972)[1], in the age of electric me
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by laotzu 11y ago
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you
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by laotzu 11y ago
I would assume oldmanjay is referring to the objective increase in life expectancy we have seen since the industrial revolution. However, it remains the been seen whether or not this is a valid example of "progress" considering th
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we didn't have any delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys therefore
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by laotzu 11y ago
>I hope that someday, waking up the way the Buddha did will be a rite of passage for children. According to Zhuangzi, Lao Tzu, and Confucius young children who have yet to learn our game (language, customs, etc) are already as "awak
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>Working backwards from the current state of the Universe, scientists have theorized that it must have originated at a single point of infinite density and finite time that began to expand Logically, it doesn't make sense to me how
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>But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your ene
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State run public education and mass media
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by laotzu 11y ago
Money is debt by design, and GDP and money creation are positively correlated on purpose. I'm not sure what you're trying to point out here.
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Consider that CNN and NBC are owned by Time Warner and Comcast.
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"The best political weapon is the weapon of terror" -HH
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>This can't be going this way forever and something has to be done to stop this madness. Wall St: "Invest in pitchforks!"
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I question the assumption that "job creation" is the necessary prerequisite for money creation especially in an age of automative ephemeralization and surplus. Large demand for money already exists among the poor whether or not th
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I wonder about the linguistic difference between the terms "human property" and "human capital". One is synonymous with "slave" and one is synonymous with "employee" and yet "property" and &
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Life advice from an investment standpoint is life advice
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>Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Eg

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