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Jeff Berwick, in Acapulco, Mexico, talks with Smuggler, the author of The Second Realm:

http://anarchast.com/storage/podcasts/Anarchast_Ep.50.mp3

Let's get Alexander McCall Smith on this right away!

Perhaps a whole new series of novels based on the concept of the "The No. 1 Ladies' Geek Startup" ?

Not exactly news, I've been using it for years. Very useful for automating things like cutting and pasting from pdf's.

I'd really like to see someone hook it up to SPAUN.

What's SPAUN? I'll let the Doctor explain http://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2012/12/09/large-scale-neu...

http://nengo.ca/build-a-brain/spaunvideos

You would enjoy this site http://gettingstronger.org

Likewise http://mises.org/books/stoics.pdf

As a long-time fan of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, I was pleasantly surprised to discover the links between them and modern anarcho-capitalists like Hazlitt and Mises.

Nothing new under the sun, kids. Hormesis. Look it up.

http://gettingstronger.org/stoicism/

Thanks for the explanation. I was really hoping to find something like the SqueakNOS project

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=239339

ROS calls itself a 'meta-operating system', I guess the definition of an OS is sort of blurry!

Is this comparable to eLua?

http://www.eluaproject.net/home/overview

EDIT: I found this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_aXsutL4rQ

I was interested in this a while back, but never took the plunge. Seems you can run it in an 'emulator' on i386.

Here is a terrifying but fascinating story of an artist who almost died from dengue.

http://danrhema.com/when-i-was-a-ghost/

http://www.deborahdachinger.com/dan-rhema-dramatic-near-deat...

And it's much worse in Brasil.

http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/noticia/2012-11-27/dengue-br...

http://www.healthmap.org/dengue/index.php

Happy 14th baktun, America!

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/20-signs-that-th...

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/75-economic-numb...

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. - Sigmund Freud

It can be a lot simpler than that, depending on where you live. I have a wireless connection for my home laptop, for which I never had to give my name when I bought it, top up in cash, never use my name in emails on that connection, and use Startpage instead of Google. Total anonymity.

I had been a Phoenix user for several months when I heard it had run into problems with the name. When I heard it was going to be called Firefox, I thought it was the most ridiculous name I'd ever heard! Funny, now I really like it.

When I first heard the name Barack, though... http://rense.com/general84/brck.htm

"It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant." James Joyce

http://incomestrategix.com/incomestrategix/admin/uploadImage...

"Self-delusion is a characteristic of Irish society. In the old days we were told things about ourselves that in retrospect seem laughable. We were morally superior to other races, O’Connell Street was the widest street in Europe, the Shannon was going to be drained, the country reunited and the Irish language restored.

Such was the pathetic nature of the society that it tended to grasp at any idea, no matter how absurd, seen as positive to our warped sense of nationhood."

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0920/122432...

The fact that you are "pretty positive" about that only means that you are the kind of person who is too lazy to investigate the facts. You probably still believe that JFK was killed by a crazed lone gunman, that Pearl Harbor was a complete surprise to FDR, and that 9/11 was NOT an inside job. In other words, you are the kind of complacent rube that makes it all possible, thanks a lot.

The official bindings are PySide, incorporated into Qt:

https://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide-Tutorials-by-Experience-L...

There is a book out there called "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming by Mark Summerfield" Code downloadable here: http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html

Full text: http://ebookbrowse.com/summerfield-rapid-gui-programming-wit...

In all the code in that book you can just substitute "import PySide" for "import PyQt4" and pretty much everything works. In addition, if you install Qt4Assistant you will have a searchable tool for all classes and documentation.

It just needs one more ingredient to make it a must buy for its target market: Hemp!

Introducing Kestrel, The First Road-Ready Car Built Out Of Hemp http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-02/introducing-first...

Right!! Why do so many people think everything should be easy?

Oh, I know why - their "self-esteem" has been carefully protected from reality throughout the years they spent being indoctrinated in the state school system.

The cultural changes you mention are not specific to Japan, they are global. For an in depth analysis of the issue I suggest F. Roger Devlin's classic paper 'Sexual Utopia In Power':

http://dontmarry.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/sexualutopia.pd...

Agreed. This is the Achilles Heel of affirmative action. It actually undermines the achievements of the favored group. For instance, many people believe that Obama would not be president if he were not half black. How accurate that belief is is certainly open to question, but it's not racist to think so.

In any case, according to this research, Obama's first term didn't improve racist attitudes in America.

Prejudice has risen since 2008 Obama victory:

https://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/10/27/poll-majority...

Remember, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Actually, nothing. I just posted it because I am in shock after reading it. Feel free to downvote, or, I'll just delete it. Are you one of the "nearly one third"?

EDIT: To be fair though, it does have a Jewish connection - cattle trains?

I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem.

http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...

I wasn't seriously tempted to try it again until I read this post. Poetic nostalgia! Somewhere deep down inside I'm also a-yearning for the Hurd...

I have read it. It's excellent. "Outsider" is the term chosen by Grady Towers high IQ society correspondents.

Interesting. I first read ZAMM first when I was 15, and really enjoyed it, but I would strongly encourage everyone who has not read "Lila" to please read it, as Pirsig basically retracts most of what he said in ZAMM. In his own words, "Lila" is his "smart child", and the book he wants to be remembered by. It is a much better book than ZAMM.

If anyone is interested, I just discovered William James Sidis's "The Animate And The Inanimate" here:

http://www.sidis.net/ANIMContents.htm

Funny, the police in Police State USA prefer low IQ's ' on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training'

Or perhaps that being smart doesn't make you an enthusiastic state thug?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...

Don't bother with bloodless synopses online, or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

http://coinread.com/lila_an_inquiry_into_morals.503624.html

The essence of Dynamic Quality is that you click on the link now :)

I believe that the idea that someone who works a "menial" job "isn't getting much value out of being highly intelligent" is the fundamental misconception here.

If you are a genius, your time is not necessarily well spent on ANY job, whether it is considered menial or not by the intellectually unwashed masses, unless it is for exercise, relaxation, sustenance, or pleasure.

I refer you to the classic essay The Outsiders http://www.cpsimoes.net/artigos/outsiders.html

'The second kind of social adaptation may be called the marginal strategy. These individuals were typically born into a lower socio-economic class, without gifted parents, gifted siblings, or gifted friends. Often they did not go to college at all, but instead went right to work immediately after high school, or even before. And although they may superficially appear to have made a good adjustment to their work and friends, neither work nor friends can completely engage their attention. They hunger for more intellectual challenge and more real companionship than their social environment can supply. So they resort to leading a double life. They compartmentalize their life into a public sphere and a private sphere. In public they go through the motions of fulfilling their social roles, whatever they are, but in private they pursue goals of their own. They are often omnivorous readers, and sometimes unusually expert amateurs in specialized subjects. The double life strategy might even be called the genius ploy, as many geniuses in history have worked at menial tasks in order to free themselves for more important work. Socrates, you will remember was a stone mason, Spinoza was a lens grinder, and even Jesus was a carpenter. The exceptionally gifted adult who works as a parking lot attendant while creating new mathematics has adopted an honored way of life and deserves respect for his courage, not criticism for failing to live up to his abilities. Those conformists who adopt the committed strategy may be pillars of their community and make the world go around, but historically, those with truly original minds have more often adopted the double life tactic. They are ones among the gifted who are most likely to make the world go forward.'

Pirsig actually came up with an entire metaphysical system in response to this. It's in his book "Lila". Basically it deals with what "good" (as in a good theory, or answer) is, and the different kinds of goodness or Quality, as he calls it, there are.

It's quite detailed, but his first distinction is between 'static' and 'dynamic' good. A test-writer values static good more highly than dynamic, and while this is justifiable in the circumstances, in the big picture, dynamic good is the real deal.