May all men remember that they are brothers. May they abominate the exercise of tyranny over souls as they abhor the brigandage which carries off by force the fruits of toil and peaceful industry!
Voltaire, Traité sur la Tolérance, Tome I, Ch. 23.
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Always controversial but always interesting. It’s a tad long, but oh well.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-749136266511341921
This isn’t that far from the truth. The govt. is trying to banish smokers from the face of the earth, and I’ll be damned if I haven’t seen smokers threatened with everything up to “it’s gay”. I’m not a smoker myself, but I defend everyone’s write to kill themselves with whatever disgusting habit they see fit. Yeah, you might end up in a wheelchair on some oxygen tank, but statistically your probably going to die anyway. It isn’t the length of life but the quality of it; if smoking does it for you and you’ve thought through the health/financial considerations, then by God light it up. Even if it makes you a fag.
So this story has been circulating for the past few days now:
Now Turing enthusiasts, led by John Graham-Cumming, are petitioning the government to make a formal apology for the treatment of Alan Turing. They say this would give a national recognition to the Turing’s remarkable contributions and would acknowledge the tragic consequences of a life and dazzling career cut short by prejudice.
So first the govt. forces sterilization on the man, and now it wishes to gain political points by “apologizing” to him? In what sense of the word is this “apology” meaningful? I say, to hell with British leeches (is there any other kind of political force?). Alan Turing will be remembered for his accomplishments for years after England dissipates. Great men transcend the barbaric political rituals of the earthly, temporal regimes.
Read more about the man here.
Tags: Alan Turing, Computer, England, Logic, Mathematics, Politics
In George Orwell’s “1984,” government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute called the “memory hole.”
On Friday, it was “1984” and another Orwell book, “Animal Farm,” that were dropped down the memory hole — by Amazon.com.
In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.
This is why I will not purchase DRM protected crap, and the main reason I will never use Amazon’s e-book services. I may end up purchases an e-reader, but it would have to be “open”, unlike Amazon’s device, and it would not have this kind of direct internet link to any manufacturer. This is nutty.
Yep, a five-year-old’s pet chihuahua:
Two policemen herded Jack onto the family’s front porch and had the dog cornered when it allegedly bit the officer 26 times on both hands and left a tooth embedded in his flesh.
Police then tasered the 2.3kg dog before shooting it three times.
Source
Protect and serve!
Tags: Government, Police, Politics
A new op-od in the NYT yesterday outlines the coming rejection of the dollar in favor of the Chinese Renminbi. Clearly this is a logical choice IF China can continue to stabilize economically and begin importing (sending its money abroad). Right now China holds huge cash reserves of foreign currencies, but as the world suffers through a global recession we’ve seen the dollar take its licks. It may now be time for a new reserve currency.
Details here.
…to see a mother-in-law before she died in the hospital:
The video shows what happened after Moats, who plays for the Houston Texans, rolled through a red light in Dallas en route to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano. Powell switched on his lights and sirens, caught up to the family’s SUV, and followed for about 20 seconds as they found a parking spot near the hospital’s emergency entrance.
Moats’ mother-in-law, 45-year-old Jonetta Collinsworth, had been struggling with breast cancer. That night family members received word that they needed to hurry to the hospital because she was dying.
Perhaps even more disturbing than the 15 minute lecturing (during which the mother-in-law died) is the fact that the officer drew his gun…at the driver’s wife. If you watch the video, you’ll see that Moats was very respectful through the entire power trip.
It’s just wrong.
Powell needs to go away for a long, long time.
Tags: Police, Politics, robert moats
Listen to Robert Gibbs choke on his words as he confronts some pretty pointed questions about the legalization of a plant:
