Half Math beta

rather than have centralized fcc-style protection of the internet, where everyone has to conform to standards set by the majority, there should be a free downloadable program where the user can either: individually choose different levels of restrictions for different individually created categories of websites (violent, sexual, political, clowns); choose to follow the profile set by some other user (falwell, fonda, bin laden); or create/join a community which democratically votes on which sites should be restricted for all.

background: censorware and sections 13 and 17 of "convention on the rights of the child"

1) Learn organizational skills:
How to take a bunch of disparate facts, organize them
In a way which makes those facts coherent...
And then spit out
An argument about those disparate facts
One which is convincing to other people.
That's a ridiculously useful skill to have.
The "we impose ourselves on the past" argument only really applies to shitty arguments,
Being biased doesn't matter, but a bias which makes an argument unconvincing does.

2) There are concepts in history which everyone can relate to:
How do people deal with authority?
How do people construct belief?
How do people relate to one another in a given social environment?
History's a relatively safe construction zone for answering the above.

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I could probably construct something similar for stripping:

you'll get over the "we impose ourselves on the audience" argument and realize the limited extent of self-commodification

how is your self-image defined? what's the role of others in so defining it?

seduction is ridiculously useful, and stripping professionally is a relatively safe way to learn how to seduce

looks great on your resume.

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professional hobo-ing still wins out though.

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heh, you = stripper.

oh, and here:

i read a book about revolution today, it was quite exciting. these guys came and told a king that he was acting tyrr-ynn-yous-ly, so the king said "let's be friends!" and they all smiled and laughed and then the king made an army to kill them all. but the army poofed! (hoorah! that makes marx happy!) and then a bunch of people were executed (wow!) and then they all went to fight the french but the french won so they were sad but then there was peace and milk and honey flowed forth from their arses rejoice! and then the king had them all killed. ten years later. it was rad.

hrm...cost/benefit:
the perception of an invasion of privacy is destabilizing enough to increase the chance that something bad happens, so the value of security has to have the cost of a loss of privacy subtracted from it relative to the context:

(S - mP) x (probability of oogly happenings...or POOH) must be > P

or

SMPPOOH P

all that remains is the negotiation of precisely how people will perceive the limitation of privacy.

"(fear of Kaboom - fear of Peepers) x POOH > porn" is the nsa's only hope.

granted there's also fear of Economic destabilization and Radiating nukes, so really, -(PE.KR)(POOH):PORN is the key. (i was even kind enough to put the nukes with the kaboom; see how right wing i am? didn't even argue war iraq -> iran's nukes)

and if life in britain has taught me anything, it's that "pecker" is slang for "courage": the nsa must be seen to have the courage to resist the hunny jar of pornography. which is why we need eunuchs running the intelligence agencies.

it worked in dragon inn, right?

"what are you doing?"
i was hanging sideways out the window.
"winter's passing fogged reflection running drained"
i was sipping hot chocolate
"the marshmellows melted quite nicely"
why thank you
.
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"will you be waking?"

there's far too much information in the world and not enough means to filter it! in this post i will explain the best way to avoid the overabundance of information which plagues our life thereby revealing the best means to living through limitations placed upon the said overabundance which is truly debilitating to those who do not know how to deal with the overabundance of information which is plaguing our society which is built on an overabundance of information which need not be filtered but really should be filtered because without the aforesaid filter there is not any way of negotiating sense out of the information which is really a shame because information is nice.

in the next post i will explain the best way to combat the evils of the ignorant slobs who insist on providing information that disrupts the filters which allow us to negotiate our way through an overabundance of information provided by those intending to do us evil through breaking down the filters which allow us to live in a world of information ripe and abundant and overgrown and really i'd prefer it if we trimmed the information into a pattern which made sense of the information military style crew cut information which leaves the head free to swim through waters of information faster than those damn hippies.

"Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,—Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin.... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not Chronology, for that is left to lawyers,—nor is Remembrance, for Remembrance belongs to the People. History can as little pretend to the Veracity of the one, as claim the Power of the other,—her Practitioners, to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc, spy and Taproom Wit,—that there may ever continue more than one life-line back into a Past we risk, each day, losing our forbears in forever,— not a Chain of single Links, for one broken Link could lose us All,—rather, a great disorderly Tangle of Lines, long and short, weak and strong, vanishing into the Mnemonick Deep, with only their Destination in common." (Mason and Dixon p. 349)