Enigma of ancient computer solved
The Daily Bendiken
Oct 10
“ However, if there is no government, then what is bent? Not the government, but the individual. If you attempt to bend the government to your will, then you will find that it is you who bends. In this particular fashion, I believe, all the efforts of Libertarian Party members, Republicans, Democrats, and others are made pointless. You cannot reform the government. There is no government for you to reform. You cannot make the government better. There is no government to improve. You cannot make the government obey the constitution. There is no government to be made obedient.
— Jim Davidson, The Morpheus Proposal
“ I submit that there is no government. “The government” is an illusion, sometimes consensual. In fact, there are only individuals. Individuals in “the government” get away with murder, theft, lies, deceit, fraud, violence, viciousness, and betrayal. Were those individuals without governmental sanction, they would be merely bullies, killers, and thieves. They would deserve no greater respect and no swifter punishment. As “the government” however, they are understood to be immune from prosecution, immune from lawsuits, immune from criticism. Even their own treason against the constitution is considered acceptable, whereas it is considered treasonous to accuse them of treason.
— Jim Davidson, The Morpheus Proposal
“ Centuries ago, Ben Franklin wrote that three things are inevitable: the weather, death, and taxes. I disagree on all three counts. I’m for weather control, life extension, and free markets.
— Jim Davidson, The Morpheus Proposal
Oct 06
4 perfectly round circles (optical illusion)
Oct 04
“ Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.
— Norm Franz
Oct 02
Get your personal USB port here
Making the world safe for democracy?
Sep 30
“ Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
— Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History
Sep 29
Why they really want us to vote yes to Lisbon
Sep 25
Petabytes on a budget: how to build cheap cloud storage
“ May the last king be strangled in the guts of the last priest.
“ Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
— Milton Friedman, answering Phil Donahue on “whether greed’s a good idea to run on”
Sep 24
She told me we couldn’t afford beer anymore and that I would have to quit
