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lilo = owned (too soon?)

Larry Sanger's fork of Wikipedia
posted by huslage at 2006-09-16 19:04

coderman: "We will avoid calling it an "encyclopedia," because there will probably always be articles in the resource that have not been vouched for in any sense." - so that explains it
NickleHydride: hard to see how this fixes the current problem, unless people unilatarily prefer it and wikipedia drops out of google .. fat chance
NickieHydride: how 'bout 'scraplopedia'
est: schismopedia

How to be a Tetragrammaton Cleric or Grammaton Cleric
posted by coderman at 2006-09-16 18:49

est: i must say that gunkata takes me through sparring partners quickly
coderman: "2.Is it real? Unfortunately, no." - AWWW, SO DISILLUSIONED!

Physicists celebrated on currencies
posted by est at 2006-09-16 18:12

est: some portraits remarkably vivid

Alcohol use helps boost income: study
posted by rovar at 2006-09-16 17:51

nickronomycon: invest now in "social capital"
est: The authors acknowledged their study, funded by the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, contradicted research released in 2000 by the Harvard School of Public Health. "We created our hypothesis through casual observation and examination of scholarly accounts," the authors said.
nickronomycon: "then we had a cocktail party to prepare the findings"
nickronomycon: we meant "discuss" "discuss the findings"
est: "One of the unintended consequences of alcohol restrictions is that they push drinking into private settings. This occurred during the Alcohol Prohibition of 1920-1933 and is happening on college campuses today. By preventing people from drinking in public, anti-alcohol policies eliminate one of the most important aspects of drinking: increased social capital."
nickronomycon: dishcush

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posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 10:37

NickleHydride:
NickleHydride: svg version
NickleHydride: ok thank fuck that has been stuck in my head since yesterday lunchtime
NickleHydride: you may go about your business

http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 09:57

http://darkmonkey.org.uk/4/Main/856/
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 09:41

NickleHydride: http://darkmonkey.org.uk/4/Main/803/

http://darkmonkey.org.uk/4/Main/916/
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 09:16

NickleHydride: WTF?!

weblogs_killed_the_personal_website.php
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 04:29

NickleHydride: "I don't know if I should say the concept of the personal website died, or simply fell into a perverse form of self-loathing and mutilation..."
NickleHydride: ""OMG! U R KIdding!!!!!!" "

blogs that mention candidates for local office to be regulated in San Francisco
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 03:58

cryptomail: it will die, don't worry
cryptomail: cuz uh "free" speech
NickleHydride: "freedom of speech as long as you don't discuss politics"
NickleHydride: How about THAT WEATHER?!
cryptomail: Again, don't worry
cryptomail: will be slapped down
NickleHydride: this conversation is now "legally censored"
NickleHydride: well, could be
NickleHydride: i hope you're right
cryptomail: /me takes it to SCOTUS
cryptomail: /me would say /me FTW but won't
NickleHydride: article dated Apr 03, '05
NickleHydride: http://woi.brynmawr.edu/ "Blogging blogs and the bloggers who blog them"

Software Freedom Day === Sat 16 September 2006
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 03:18

rechump: Use liberty dollars and go to jail?
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 02:06

NickleHydride: pretty sure they could also pull one about attempt to undermine the currency of the crown
NickleHydride: would be interesting to press for these types of laws to be used against eg Visa, AmEx, ... FlyBuys ... there is at least one distinction made that I'm aware of, that you can make voucher systems for a limited range of services
NickleHydride: I bet US is a signatory to this: 1929 Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeit Currency though I can't find many mentions of this treaty on <search engine name here>
NickleHydride: A short history of money
NickleHydride: "When the first paper money was introduced in China a millennium ago, many must have thought it was just as great a joke. Who would rest their fortunes in mere pieces of paper? Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor who ruled China in the 13th century, emphasized that it wasn't a joke when he decreed that those who refused to accept paper money would be executed."
NickleHydride: yes, these are the people we work for
NickleHydride: bring me your oil-backed dollars ...
NickleHydride: "Emperor Nero in 64 AD. By the end of his reign, the silver content of Roman coins had shrunk by 10%. Other emperors followed his example, and over 200 years from the start of the process, the content shrank to 5%. The buying power of the currency fell accordingly."
NickleHydride: summary: same thing again and again, new currency every now and then -> diluted -> devalues
NickleHydride: the state runs on a treadmill to keep in the black, then eventually it goes belly up
NickleHydride: "[Khan] also confiscated all gold and silver, even that carried in by foreign visitors. This was the purpose of Chinese paper money: to ensure total state control over precious metals. It was effectively a totalitarian measure."
NickleHydride: keeping imperishible valuables out of the hands of those who have only perishable goods
NickleHydride: to guarantee their subservience to the continually-inflating economic unit
fridge: The currency becomes worthless, and individuals once again start from scratch to find an imperishable and fungible store of value
NickleHydride: "Slave to the Dollar"
fridge: Perhaps with todays technology, a global, real-time barter matching system could be put in place instead of currency
NickleHydride: The govt reserves the right to devalue the currency ;)
NickleHydride: "There were difficulties at first, with some early bankers burned at the stake..."
NickleHydride: "The Bank of England ... in 1844 ... would be given an effectively monopolistic charter to issue bank notes. Other nations established such 'central banks' to control the manufacture and distribution of currency."
NickleHydride: "Section 10 of the American Constitution established in 1789, providing a central Federal government above the squabbling states, expressly prohibited the states from printing their own money. That right was reserved for the Federal government"
NickleHydride: fiat currency of today is fish wrap of tomorrow, or something
NickleHydride: 'fiche

Get some Culcha up ya! (aka "What's wrong with people these days is...")
posted by NickleHydride at 2006-09-16 01:48

NickleHydride: best criticism of modern culture EVAR
NickleHydride: audio .. interview with John Drummond, Director of Edinburgh Festival, who died recently
NickleHydride: just the mp3
NickleHydride: more culcha maaate
    
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