Posted in people, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged albert einstein, atheism, einstein, God, human, interpretation, legends, metaphysics, physics, quote, reality, religion, science on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
An excerpt from the 1954 Albert Einstein letter that was recently sold at auction for £170,000.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) [...]
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She was a petite perfectionist in an age of muscular athletes. She possessed a backhand from heaven and shot-making abilities second to no other female tennis player. She was the person who ended the Williams sisters’ dominance in such stunning fashion and then went on to usurp their role.
Justine Henin. Always number one. Thanks for the beautiful moments. And [...]
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Posted in India, miscellaneous, politics, tagged aamir khan, blog, cognitive dissonance, dog, funny, humor, israel, lie, obama, quote, shah rukh khan, shahrukh, twisting, words on May 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Aamir Khan writes in his blog that the caretaker of his Panchgani house has a dog named Shahrukh. He emphasises that he had nothing to do with the naming of the dog.
I’m sitting under a tree, on the edge of a valley, approximately 5000 feet above sea level. The river Krishna flows far below us snaking its [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, tagged copyright, freedom, freedom of speech, intellectual property, laws, liberty, neil nataniel, paradox, patent, property, property rights, volokh on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Intellectual property laws, such as those relating to copyright or patents, are a source of considerable disagreement among libertarians. The reason is not hard to see. In the words of Rodrick Long,
When libertarians of the first sort come across a purported intellectual property right, they see one more instance of an individual’s rightful claim to [...]
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Now, affirmative action based on political ideology!
The University of Colorado is considering a $9 million program to bring high-profile political conservatives to teach on the left-leaning campus.
CU officials want to create an endowment for a Visiting Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy.
The program would bring a rotating cast of scholars, historians, politicians and media personalities [...]
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For more weird face-swap pictures, check out Manbabies.com
(Link via Boing Boing)
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The Vatican’s chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Funes [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, tagged absurd, cops, crime, death, drug legalization, drug war, drugs, informant, murder, police, prison, rachel hoffman, war on drugs on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Rachel Hoffman was a college student and a bit of a hippie. She tried drugs and got caught. Police threatened her with prison time unless she agreed to become an informant and set up a meeting with the supplier to buy $10000 worth of drugs and weaponry, a purchase drastically out of character for a [...]
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(None of what follows is intended to be of any use to geeks, experts, macboys or linux fans. All I have attempted is to lump together some advice that might help a typical windows user. )
1. BACKUP, backup, backup! I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to do so. Not only do you get the insurance of never losing critical files, [...]
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Posted in quote for the week, tagged brain, contradiction, fitzgerald, genius, ideas, intelligence, opposition, quote, thinking, thought on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Not a walk I’d recommend to the faint of heart.
(Link via Andrew Sullivan)
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Posted in libertarianism, news and links, tagged city, communities, community, freedom, paulville, politics, ron paul, society, town on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and/ or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.
Link.
I am curious — will a Paulville resident have the freedom, for instance, to question the ideals of freedom and liberty? What if a resident has a change of heart after [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged addict, addiction, craving, drug war, drugs, food, government, health, junk food, neuroscience, obesity, regulation, war on drugs on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In that the addictions produced by both are similar.
I can see the health police salivating at the prospect of using this as a reason to regulate or ban junk food (though to me, it looks like yet another argument for drug legalization).
However, as the author of the linked article says:
Because if we really do crave junk food the way [...]
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Posted in libertarianism, tagged consent, dc madam, death, freedom, laws, prison, prostitution, sex, suicide, suicide note on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam, killed herself last week. She was due to be sentenced soon for offences related to an elite prostitution ring she ran from 1993 to 2006. In her suicide note addressed to her mother, she wrote:
I cannot live the next 6-8 years behind bars for what both you and I have come [...]
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Posted in personal, tagged associations, change, email, friends, friendship, happiness, life, love, lovers, memory, past, people, relationships, sadness, sentimental, sentiments, time on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Rummaging through my old emails, I found this passage, from an email I wrote to someone three years and six months ago.
There are so many things that are close to you at some point of time. People who were important in your life or just friends ; and then there are surroundings and places. They become part [...]
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