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We all change. The future is emergent and dynamic, evolving with our minds and our society. Technology plays a fundamental part in this evolution, this evolution of complexity. So I ask, how does technology affect society? How does technology affect our minds and then society in turn? How does our economic and political system affect society and technology? What are the products of this evolution – and what are our goals?
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    5 Things No President Will Ever Do
    Denounce Religion for the Population Controlling Fraud it is

    No politician would ever denounce religion. For one, they've done too good a job so far increasing its credibility. If the people realise religion is a fallacy, they will have to take responsibility for their own actions, to actually make decisions in their own minds, rather than simply misinterpreting religion for answers. Then they might realise that once they can do this, not only would they not need God to tell them how to live, but they wouldn't need politicians either.

    Put More Effort into Life Extension Research

    We all have to die. It's part of the natural order of things. If people realise they can live longer, who'll sign up for our money making wars? Old people are a burden on the economy, and stem cells make baby Jesus cry.

    Legalize Drugs


    Of course not. Drugs are evil, they kill children and destroy lives. Lets just keep them illegal, that way the only people who can profit from them can be drug dealers, criminal organisations, and the government itself. The authorities will stop drug wars one day, if they can just take a few more civil liberties away. It's worth it, for your children's safety, and it'll save you the hassle of educating them.

    Disband Income Tax

    This forced, unconstitutional and illegal robbery of the people is enforced at gunpoint on the good American people. If you don't pay it, you're being unpatriotic, which means you're also being blasphemous.

    Outlaw RFID

    You might think that RFID simply allows marketing companies to be able to tailor their sales to you. However, RFID is the ultimate dream of a totalitarian authority. Not only can they know where you are and everything about you, but eventually money will only exist on the chips. If you step out of line, your chip is turned off, essentially making you a prisoner, as everything you can possibly use will require the chip to work. It's already in your passport. Soon it'll be under your skin.

    But it's OK - they'll stop terrorists.

    Sun, May 24, 2009  Permanent link
    Categories: freedom, politics
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    SAILOR     Mon, May 25, 2009  Permanent link
    All correct. We need to correct the world and rid it of fallacy. Science is proof. Nature is key.
    gamma     Wed, May 27, 2009  Permanent link
    It sounds a bit paranoid to me. Our friend Neil K. did some counseling on fear... Alas, here are two old posts from my old blog.

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    Promised interest rates of up to 40 percent convinced players of the
    online virtual reality game Second Life to deposit $75,000 in real money
    with Ginko Financial. But when Ginko disappeared from the virtual world,
    with the deposits, chaos ensued. The game's maker, Linden Lab, banned
    all virtual banks, effective today, and that led to a run on virtual ATMs as
    well as virtual stock market and real estate crashes. The debacle led to
    some calls for government regulation of the lawless Second Life world,
    but "most members of Congress don't understand what this is all about,"
    said economist Dan Miller with the Congressional Joint Economic
    Committee.

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    ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Don Giovanni and the Big Top are returning to Turkmenistan.
    President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov reversed his predecessor's ban on operas and circuses, saying that with increasing development in the Central Asian nation, it deserved to have such artistic performances, state-run TV reported Sunday.
    "Our flourishing nation should not stand separate from the world," Berdymukhamedov told a group of Turkmen intellectuals at a meeting Saturday. "It absolutely should have a worthy operatic theater and a worthy state circus."
    The ban was imposed in 2001 by then-President Saparmurat Niyazov, who criticized opera and ballet, among other things, as being foreign to Turkmen culture, and allowed funding for state-sponsored circuses to dry up. In more than two decades as the country's leader, Niyazov, who called himself Turkmenbashi, of Father of All Turkmen, crushed dissent and instituted a range of often quixotic rules and laws as well as creating a vast personality cult.
    Since Niyazov's death in 2006, Berdymukhamedov has softened some of Niyazov's most draconian policies. He also has moved to court foreign energy companies and outside investors to tap the poor, desert nation's natural gas reserves, which are some of the largest in the former Soviet Union.
    In his televised comments, Berdymukhamedov estimated the first opera would be performed in six or seven months. It was unclear whether his order included the return of ballet.
    gamma     Thu, May 28, 2009  Permanent link
    Turkmenistan returned to the Gregorian calendar.
    http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/24/asia/AS-GEN-Turkmenistan-Calendar.php
     
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