Libertarians are often called Libertopians. The Icelanders (Smari and Herbert) call Libertarians “Propertarians” because, well, a lot of ‘em confuse property rights with liberty. Seems to me the comboword is Propertopians. Dunno if it’s a good word or not, but there it is.
Read more →The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals. [This . . .] whether we like it or not, spells duty – Winston Churchill
Read more →sort of a lot to report – TIDES at the Pentagon, and Innovative Sheltering in Eindhoven, etc. More later.
Read more →See, over a period of time, what happened is that these got bigger and bigger. Nobody ever figured out how to get them to do the stairs because the base is too broad, so you just buy one per level and sweep the stairs yourself, down onto the lower landing for the downstairs one to [...]
Read more →Part of what makes my job tolerable is using images of 14 century Hindu saints as my test data.
Read more →http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869 Hi. My name is Vinay Gupta, of the Hexayurt project, a FOSS-style organization aimed at radically improving the lot of refugees and the poor. We’ve had some luck, recently, and we need help coping. Here’s the technology – we call it “Disastr” – a simple approach to using the network to reinforce efforts to [...]
Read more →Nasty story about guardianship and gay people. There are similar stories about immigration – couples separated with no way to marry and resolve visa issues. It’s time for this to stop. Either abolish the legal standing of marriage between men and women, leaving it as a religious institution, or institute it for others. I’m aware [...]
Read more →I’m saving that one for later.
Read more →You can’t trust anybody these days. At the root of the systems of oppression we labor under is the concept of the Nation State, and the idea that the Nation State has some kind of automatic right to enforce its will on the population unlucky enough to be born within its borders. It is a [...]
Read more →This is the official flag of the Planetary Design Science Revelation. PDSR is the internal name for the process that produces the hexayurt project and the various other things I’m working on. The work is Buckminster Fuller and Gandhi. The attitude is pure Jack Sparrow. The politics are being defined. Game on. [if anybody wants [...]
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