lareinemisere said

> 2. Am I reading it wrong, or are you (in this post and in the previous ones) using ‘irrational’ as an insult and considering ‘faith’ of any kind as 
> something intelligent people should not have?

Not at all. I don’t object to “faith” per say. We all have…

The Cheddarometer!

Edited to add: Try switching it off for a number of SF-related quotes (can you spot them all?) :-)

> Firstly, I should have begun with simply ‘lets assume God exists’. 

Okay, that’s fine. If you’d rather discuss theology than ontology that’s cool if you except that your premise is based on faith and therefore is not rational.

> The plan is to consider, if there is a…

The demos on the video on this page are some of the most impressive technology I’ve ever seen. You only have to one one more step (surgical attachment — swap batteries every day) for us to suddenly be in the first steps of the cyberpunk universe.

It’s not going to be long at all…

quintus_marcius

and one of my other friends but putting it up on LJ since I think it is interesting in general.

A friend said:

Naomi Klein: Beware of Obama’s Chicago School of Economics boys — new face like the old faces? Obama set to rout McCain at the moment (see thisfor how this changed afer he got the nod) but there’s a while yet to the election. Given telco immunity and this maybe there won’t be as much change as people hope……

mongo42

tomorrow…

These ones about privacy (in case you couldn’t tell from the title). :-)

Philly cops raids activists who circulated anti-CCTV petititon

Over-surveillance makes it harder to…

A number of my friends have posted about the 42 days law. My response has been to join Liberty. I’ll leave it up to other people to decide if they want to do that too.

Hmmm…

The Forbidden Kingdom and Tomb of the Dragon Emperor being the latest examples — I’m rather slow on the uptake but metaphor for Americas fear of the rise of China much…?

corone

‘s first posting and it taking me over two hours to do I see he’s responded already with another long essay. :-)

Before I find time to reply properly to…

Heinz pulls TV ad showing men kissing (for 200 complaints) — I for one will be writing to Heinz tomorrow saying I won’t be buying any more of their products until they apologise for this and I’m going to be urging people to do the same.

US subpoenas BAE director in bribery inquiry — see previous post.

Excellent example of what we (left leaning liberal types) are like vs them (you know who they are). Larry Lessig’s group are supporting the producers of Expelled (a pro intelligent design film) in a fair use case even though the film attacks exactly…

quintus_marcius

joins in — the more the merrier as far as I’m concerned. :-)

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> quintius_marcius

> Most of what follows is discussion, as requested…