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    Combined Endeavor, Lager Aulenbach, Baumholder, Germany

    by  • May 7, 2007 • Hexayurt, Personal • 0 Comments

    Sea of flags on the hill, with massive cable runs all over the place. Mostly various kinds of radio and computer guys, working to make systems internationally interoperable. Testing testing. Nearly everybody is either in camo (various nations, you get to know the pattern by eye) or the “working contractor” uniform (a particularly functional, I-work-18-hours-a-day [...]

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    The Five Pillars of the New Society

    by  • April 12, 2007 • Personal • 1 Comment

    1> Mahatma Gandhi showed that in some cases, poor people could resist political oppression by economic warfare and collected, calm non-cooperation. If he is understood as an economist, who understood that increasing self-sufficiency reduces the dependence on the State, and therefore, if the State is run by your oppressors, for your oppressors, you get a [...]

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    First individuals, now companies with foreign policies (Google singling out Darfur)

    by  • April 11, 2007 • Hexayurt, Personal, Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    Google singles out Darfur for special attention. There are a lot of other crises in the world. By singling out this one, Google is both contributing to helping solve it, and also throwing many other situations into the shadows. As I said before, “I am an individual with a foreign policy.” The new game of [...]

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    Global problems I don’t even worry solving any more

    by  • April 5, 2007 • Personal • 1 Comment

    1> Global energy supply. Why? Far too many news stories about solar panel breakthroughs and far too much money on the table. By extension, hydrogen- or battery-storage etc. electrical cars, and decentralized electrical grids. Assuming that we get the 20 years it takes to make this happen globally without civilization collapsing, this is a cooked [...]

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    by  • March 30, 2007 • Personal • 0 Comments

    WORK FUCKER WORK WORK HARDER HARDER STOP WHINING WORK WORK DAMMIT DO THEY CALL IT THE GREAT WHINE? THE GREAT BOOK COLLECTING OFF EBAY? THE GREAT DANCNG AROUND IN ROBES AND COMPARING WANDS? THE GREAT HARPING ON ABOUT RELIGIOUS UNITY? FUCK NO! IT’S CALLED THE GREAT WORK MOTHERFUCKERS! SO GET TO FUCKING WORK ALREADY!!!!!!!!! Jason [...]

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    Bruce Sterling on social change and the hazards of being an early adopter and incidentally on Ning

    by  • March 26, 2007 • Personal, Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    Bruce Sterling on Ning How many &&^$$@%^&$ times in my life have I been through this early-adapter shuffle? The opportunity costs, the cognitive loading… the *pain* of all that…. I just now bothered to blog-embed a *&^%&%$ youtube video, and now look at THIS. Pesky Scoble! He’s like one geek with a damn camera! There [...]

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