2 pages on my site of 〈The Unabomber Manifesto〉 hit reddit, at http://www.reddit.com/r/sjsucks/comments/1by3nk/an_interesting_read_it_applies_to_sjws_very/
2 pages on my site of 〈The Unabomber Manifesto〉 hit reddit, at http://www.reddit.com/r/sjsucks/comments/1by3nk/an_interesting_read_it_applies_to_sjws_very/
it's actually from Scientology. See also: Scientology and Falun Gong
a 20 years old but still in a toddler's body. Brooke Greenberg
Philip Pilkington: Let's begin. Most economists claim that money was invented to replace the barter system. But you've found something quite different, am I correct?
David Graeber: Yes there's a standard story we're all taught, a “once upon a time” — it's a fairy tale.
What actually happens instead?
… this is what anthropologists observe when neighbors do engage in something like exchange with each other, if you want your neighbor's cow, you'd say, “wow, nice cow” and he'd say “you like it? Take it!” – and now you owe him one.
〔What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber By David Graeber. @ www.nakedcapitalism.com…〕
David Graeber. 〔《Debt First 5 000 Years》 @ amazon〕
Google is banning me left and right. Now, this page GNAA Weev Troll Song (Kesha — TiK ToK), they say is violating their AdSense rules.
Here's other moral-sensitive songs. Sensitive Songs Index
I started to put Google ads in 2005. Within one month, they ban'd me, probably because i say fuck George Bush in front page. See: Google AdSense Ban on XahLee.org
So, since 2005 to 2011, i did not run any ads.
In 2012 July, i separated out my articles to different domains, so that all my none-controversial articles (which is about 95%) can benefit from ads.
Then, Google ban'd my xaharts.org for ads. See Google AdSense Ban on Ancient Asian Goddess Sculpture Page and now is warning me about that troll song.
the moral here is, if you wanna make money, stay in line! Or, be one of those unscrupulous ad-ridden SEO site or a spammer!
so many people helped me in a difficult time. Thank you. Here's a record Xah Financial Crisis 2012-12
two file related to the LulzSec around
i think i voted once only, and that was i think the CA governor recall ~2003. (☛ The 2003 California GUBERNATORIAL thing RECALL) (or was it something after that, some regional CA thing, i forgot)
at that time, i did spend huge amount of time to study ALL the issue, every item on the ballot, in detail.
though, in general i think voting is futile, for many reasons:
The sign lady disappeared. Sign Language Interpreter Girl Steals the Show
The town i grew up. photos: Taiwan 2003 Wanshen Street
started a Chinese blog at 李杀中文博客 (most posts are in Chinese only)
the most critical period of a animal's life is when young. That's when death occur the most. Including, human animals. Thus, teen suicide, depression, and other risks. When a animal is young, he lacks experience to deal with survival, and is also physically weak, thus susceptible to predation (bullying) by others.
is your teen years hell? It's not surprising. Same applies to your daughters and sons.
this is not to be taken hysterically. Just a simple fact.
Reddit today isn't just a porn fodder. But stuff there is surpassing 4chan. See new info at bottom: Reddit = Porn Fodder
I always viewed Sweden as a model country. One of Northern Europe country, open views on sex, politics. But since wikileaks …
New twist of event on my youtube porn article: Larry Sanger Reported me to FBI
I support Wikileaks and Julian Assange.
However, Julian's personality isn't the winning type.
If you've watched him on video, you get the impression that he's more of a calculating, conniving, asocial, loner, type of fellow. Such a character trait does not express emotion spontaneously. A significant percentage of geeks are like that. It does not correlate to one's ethical outlook and behavior.
Even in a prepared commercial Wikileaks's Mastercard Parody, you see a rather distant fellow.
this is in contrast to politicians and salesmen types, where, these smooth operators smile and laugh with you readily, easily making you like them, but what they really have in mind is anyone's guess.
United Kingdom declares war on Ecuador over a broken condom in Sweden.
while updating the page The 2003 California GUBERNATORIAL thing RECALL (NSFW), discovered that Peter Camejo died in 2008.
newly generated. 6532 links to Wikipedia. Links to Wikipedia from XahLee.org
updated: Population Under the Firmament
This is me juggling, 2002. Seems like yesterday. xah_juggle.mov
Updated again: Li Ao on Tibet and Dalai Lama.
Just regenerated Wikipedia link report for my website. Now at 5927 links to Wikipedia articles, spread among 1406 pages. See: Links to Wikipedia from XahLee.org.
A joke from the web:
美女住酒店一晚结账时账单800元，她抱怨太贵。经理说这是标准收费，酒店附设泳池、健身房和wifi。美女说自己完全没使用，经理说饭店有提供，是她自己不用。 女客人打开皮包掏钱付账，但说要扣除经理和她共度春宵的700元，只拿出100元。经理急呼：“我哪有？”女客人：“我有提供，是你自己不用。”.
Translation:
a pretty girl is checking out in a hotel, the bill is $800. She complains it's too much. Manager says its standard fare, hotel features swimming pool, gym, and wifi. The girl said she didn't use any of it. Manager says: but it's provided. The girl proceeds to make a payment, but deduct $700 for bedding with manager, so pays only $100. Manager panicked and said: when did i? Girl said: but it's provided.
See also: Woman with Good Legs (Humor).
More detail: Autism Test.
Started a new blog: Xah's Belles-lettres Blog. Its topics are {English, writing, literature, language, linguistics}. Recent articles on these topics are moved there. If you have interest in these topics, subscribe there.
Discovered a UFO cult: Raëlism. See: Cults: Lawsonomy, David Icke, Moonie, Falun Gong, Raelism.
This one is highely recommended.
Logitech “Ultimate Ears 500vi Noise-Isolating Headset” amazon
See: Gaming Headset Reviews.
The first step towards moral progress is to replace the word “human being” and “humanity” with “human animal”.
Student Who Found GPS Device On His Car Due To Reddit Comment Sues The FBI (2011-03-04) By Mike Masnick. @ Source www.techdirt.com
Here's a comment by the well know computer security expert Bruce Schneier.
The FBI is Tracking Whom? (2010-10-13) By Bruce Schneier @ Source www.schneier.com
Time mag has a article about a related issue:
The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves (2010-08-25) By Adam Cohen. @ Source www.time.com
I made one tweet about Falung Gong yesterday, and today i got spamed by 7 consecutive tweets from the group, with hinted threats. The last 2 of the tweets read thus:
musella 3:32am via WebDo not stand in the opposite of "truthfulness, benevolence, forbearance", do not think that disasters are accidental. @xah_lee
musella 3:33am via WebTo be or not to be ? That is a question for you to choose. @xah_lee
Here's the screenshot of the whole tweets:
screenshot of tweets from Falung Gong group.
Another funny video from Fredryk Phox.
“Fredryk Phox - Treadmill”
For another, and who's he, see: Fredryk Phox
Naked Nimba Girl (photo; commentary)
Discovered this political video, via wikileaks's tweet:
“EXPOSED: Attack on Wikileaks”
I was wondering, who is the blonde woman in the video. Of “firedoglake.com”?? What kinda name is that? How she seems to know so much. Can we trust her?
That blonde woman in the video, is Jane Hamsher. She was born in 1959, so, aged 51. Ten years older than me. Amazing. She's very attractive to me, and looks like 40ish. She must have had a very healthy life.
Here's some quote about her frow Wikipedia:
Jane Hamsher (born July 25, 1959) is an American film producer, author, and blogger best known as the author of Killer Instinct, a memoir about co-producing the 1994 movie Natural Born Killers with Don Murphy and others, and as the founder and publisher of the politically progressive blog FireDogLake (2004 – the present). With Murphy, she also co-produced the subsequent films Apt Pupil (1998), Permanent Midnight (1998), and From Hell (2001). A contributor to The Huffington Post, she posts also in other liberal Websites and political magazines, such as AlterNet and The American Prospect.
Funny, she co-produced the Natural Born Killers. (1994) amazon It's a film is a satirical critique of the media. I loved it. (not for the faint of heart)
lyrics appreciation time!Eurythmics - I Need A Man (music video)
In 2005, i read and annotated the Unabomber Manifesto (Industrial Society and its Future), by Dr Theodore Kaczynski (aka unabomber).
Few days ago, i got a comment from someone who's in contact with Kaczynski. It appears, that a revised edition might be coming. You can see the comment here: http://xahlee.org/p/um/um-s27.html#comment-141501691
Recently, in the academic psychology community, there's hot discussion about a psychologist (Daryl Bem) who made experiments that seem to confirm the possibility of some parapsychology phenomenon. e.g. seeing the future, knowing the past, reading other's minds, etc. I'd say, don't pay attention to it. But if you do have a interest in this matter, i recommend reading this article:
Back from the Future: Parapsychology and the Bem Affair (2011-01-06) By James Alcock. @ Source www.csicop.org
You hear China being on the rise in the past few years right? But i'm totally taken back now.
The world's fastest super computer is from china now. See: China Owns the Fastest Supercomputer …Now What? (video) @ Source singularityhub.com.
“China Has World's Fastest Supercomputer”
Here's Wikipedia listing of fastest computer: Fastest computer. Funny that they all run Linux. LOL.
Also on the news is that china also built the “longest bridge”. See: China Completes World’s Longest Bridge – More than 26 Miles! (2011-01-18) @ Source singularityhub.com. Here's Wikipedia article: List of longest bridges in the world.
hmm... interesting. my facebook page is google ranked at 4. I guess it's good thing for me to be ranked high, though i have little idea why. I guess people google my name and clicks on my facebook page. I got a rep among online programing forums as a troll. I know people are interested in oddball personalities, as in gossip mags on celebrities. Though, i dont write much personal stuff (as in, my current mood, feelings, what i had for dinner, new relationships), partly because writing trivia isn't my style, partly because in past 7 years i don't really have good news on these to brag about. (that reminds me, i'll have to write my 2-years experience living in a Honda Civic around 2005.)
Am guessing that the perception of me as a troll has waned in the past 3 years. I think partly because my emacs tutorial is getting popular, and i haven't written much essays with downright idiot-this n shit-that expressions.
As a thinker, even a nameless one, or possibly crazy idiotic one, i think it's important to write as you are, even with extreme views and insulting words. Because, that is the force of idea, expression, that are not ubiquitous. Sure, politeness is great, in fact critical, and actually necessary if you want to sell yourself, make friends. (e.g. in marketing, advertising, diplomacy, a core ingredient is to make people like you, and cynically — ingratiation.) But if thinking is what you sell, as a philosopher or artist, you have to sell them as is, and best to express them as you are.
Yeah, right! So, Xah, you think you can make a point only if you insulted people. What you take of me, a idiot? Yes, and i just made a new friend. (O, Shakespear says, please remember to read between the lines!)
Now, let's engage in a lil' fun speculation on humbleness from evolutionary psychology's perspective. Why do people despise arrogance? why humbleness sells? Besides selling, what's the effect of humbleness in the quality of work?
I don't know!
PS this blog shouldn't be titled “why humbleness sells”. That's the inaccurate message. Humbleness doesn't sell by itself, of course. Nobody would care more just because a idiot is humble. Rather, “why humbleness is in general a good quality to present onself”. For exmple, some well known celebrities are not shy to express themselves, examples are Stephen Wolfram, Steve Jobs. Others, for example blogger Steve Yegge (of amazon and google), Jeff Atwood (of codinghorror and stackoverflow frame), write conspicuously in a humble way (usually injecting extraneous humble statements or jokes), and they get tens of thousand followers. Political leaders, some are also humble, some cocky.
See also: Self-deprecation. Quote:
Self-deprecating humor relies on the observation of something negative about the person delivering the commentary. Many comedians use self-deprecating humor to avoid seeming arrogant or pompous, and to help the audience identify with them. In this way, the use of self-deprecating humor could be seen as an application of the rhetorical concept of ethos. This is a major component of the comedy of comedians such as Don Knotts, Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Jerry Seinfeld, Rodney Dangerfield, Conan O'Brien, and Daniel Tosh.
Thanks to Lori Williams for some thoughts.
Ran into this mockery: “Why I Need To Quit Facebook” @ Source runt-of-the-web.com.
Though, note, that fb and other social media is merely a extension of RL chat or whatever u do around friends or water coolers.
So, when you are with friends in meat space, may it be in party, on phone, or at work place, do you engage in serious intellectual stuff like history, philosophy? Of course not.
In a sense, the article about “why i need quit facebook” mockery is itself just another insignificant thing on the web that “wastes” your time.
Its significance, is alerting us that many of us spend too much time on social media. Though, that itself isn't a problem caused by social media, rather, it is caused by modern society. The internet merely provided you a way to waste time by many means. Without, those who spend too much time on Facebook probably would over-sleep or playing solitaire endlessly (which indeed people do a lot in 1990s). You won't be reading War And Peace or dig into history, philosophy, anytime soon.
Likewise, average human activity been like that for past thousands of years too. Books such as War And Peace existed for over a hundred years, likewise other great literature or philosophy been around for thousands of years. Do average people get excited by them?
Magibon's typical video.
For info and more vid, see: Magibon, Boxxy (4chan personality video)
Am re-starting my wordy-english word-a-day. From 2004-11 to 2008-10, it ran on yahoo mailing list at games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/ But now, the new address is wordy-english.blogspot.com. This way, you can subscribe as blog and read it whenever you like, or you can subscribe by mail.
You can see archive of about 5 thousand words with usage here: English Vocabulary. Everyday, i'll pull a word there and post.
Please subscribe! Thank you.
Alexander McQueen, Haute Couture, Suicide (video; commentary)
“The Arabian 1002th Night Guo Pei Haute”
The song is Harem (Sarah Brightman) amazon
The Wikileaks situation is getting out of hand. (See: Wikileak: US Diplomatic Cables Leak) In the past week, they got kicked out by amazon hosting, then paypal, then Mastercard, and Vista card, and the a Swiss bank closed their account. Due to gonvernment's political pressure, mostly from US government. Here's a detailed timeline of the attacks:
You can still donate, here: http://wikileaks.ch/support.html.
Also, you can help hosting the site, here: http://213.251.145.96/mirrors.html. There are currently over 1k mirror sites already.
I think Google and Free Software Foundation should step up to make a gesture for hosting.
The severity of this government and big org censorship, is kinda a revolution material. We, the people, should stand up against them.
Just read a story that exposes how the sexual harassment happened. A must read:
〈The Wikileaks sex files: How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange〉 (2010-12-07) By Richard Pendlebury. Source www.dailymail.co.uk.
Time Mag cover 2010-12-13 Julian Assange
A very interesting video: 〈WikiLeaks's Julian Assange Reviews TIME's Top 10 Leaks〉 Source www.time.com.
According one of the US Diplomatic Cables Leak, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered espionage on UN officials.
Here's a Gardian article: 〈US diplomats spied on UN leadership〉 (2010-11-28) By Robert Booth and Julian Borger, guardian.co.uk. At: Source www.guardian.co.uk
A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton's name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications.
It called for detailed biometric information "on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders" as well as intelligence on Ban's "management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat". A parallel intelligence directive sent to diplomats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi said biometric data included DNA, fingerprints and iris scans.
Washington also wanted credit card numbers, email addresses, phone, fax and pager numbers and even frequent-flyer account numbers for UN figures and "biographic and biometric information on UN Security Council permanent representatives".
So, the United States, with its justice obsession and all, is now spying on not Iran, China, or some rogue enemy states, but United Nations, a org for world peace that US touts to have helped build. How ironic. And the US want things including passwords, credit card numbers, DNA, iris scan. This is getting serious.
I think UN or something should prosecute Hillary Clinton to the fullest extend of international law.
Madman drives a self-built, modified-to-armored bulldozer on a destruction rampage. He's Marvin Heemeyer.
Madman drives a stolen tank thru street. He's Shawn Nelson.
See also: Unabomber Manifesto (Industrial Society and its Future).
“Llorando” from the movie Mulholland Drive.
Truth, Virtue, Beauty; Truth, Virtue, Beauty They are the nervous breakdowns Sweat and tears How do they taste? Truth, Virtue, Beauty; Truth, Virtue, Beauty Their cost is insanity Intoxication, and despondency Are they not suffering? How many failings, the dejections and futilities Buys how much truth, virtue, and beauty? What sacrifices, oblivion What wreckage For how much truth, virtue, and beauty? Truth, Virtue, Beauty; Truth, Virtue, Beauty Just who appreciates them? Who loves them? Who needs them? Have you tasted their costs?
Greg Kennedy juggling inside a conical enclosure.
For comment and 2 more vids, see: Conical Surface Juggling.
