Destroying the internet free market

Obama wants to keep us safe from the internet... that is... the government wants more control. Of course this is not surprising, but scary nonetheless. The only reason why the internet thrives is because of its non-governmental regulations and open source capabilities.

Intellectuals and Politicians (part 2)

Scientists are usually the first to point out the faults of science. Most of the time its a hit and miss anyway. Einstein's beats newton ends up putting satellites in space... I wonder what hawking will come up with. Humility is what separates the 'pseudo-intellectuals' from those who are genuinely trying to reach truth. There are many stories of scientists who, after years of research, get disproved completely and all they can do is move on.

Politicians have no humility. They can never be disproved. They never accept defeat; instead, all they do is blame each other. They lie, shedding their skin like snakes.

Only buy if you like

This is how torrent sites 'sell' games:

1. Unrar.
2. Burn or mount the image.
3. Install the game. Use the keygen in the /Crack dir on the DVD when
prompted for a serial.
4. Copy over the cracked content from the /Crack dir on the DVD to
installdirGameBin.
5. Play the game. Be sure to have a firewall prevent the launcher and main
game from going online.
6. Support the software developers. If you like this game, BUY IT

Could this be the future of art/media? Pay if/when you like?
Somehow, the de-corporatized free market world which lives within the internets works.

So is the government actually helping the environment?

Today some asian guy (who barely spoke english) came to my door giving me a shower head, a sink faucet top and four energy saving light bulbs to reduce water and energy consumption. So this is where my environmental shipping tax money goes to (they charge consumers an environmental tax for getting things delivered to their house). The light bulbs are great.. but the faucet and shower head didn't fit (government efficiency at work).

All this while subsidizing tar sands. Nice.

The worst part is, some environmentalists don't seem to understand that since saving energy = saving money, I, and most other conscious people, would buy these government handouts anyway. My home is filled with these light bulbs; the handout just postponed my next purchase. Its probably more complicated than that though. The handout means artificial job creation; that is, someone is making money off of this (like that asian guy that came to my house).

Most environmentalists advocate reform, meaning that they want to steal the gun from corporations, instead of revolution, which is just backwards.

On Memory

How you remember is how you view the world. If, for example, you saw something coming at speed X, but you remember it at the faster speed Y, there is both a subjective view and an objective view. One view is the right view. Your existence, however, does not change the speed of something. Also, the existence of speed Y depends on your existence. On the other hand, speed X does not have any dependency, so if you were not to exist, the speed is still X. Therefore speed X is all that really matters.

However, claiming to know X 100% is also a fault as we can never be fully sure. That is why everyone must be subject to some sort of analysis, i.e. the scientific method, rationality and empiricism. Through these methods, one can test the validity of particular hypothesises, but however close we get, we can never be 100% right because there are variables and externalities. Claiming to be the closest to the truth isn't bad, but pretending to be the truth is dangerous and authoritative.