Principa Cybernetica mathematically demonstrates why capitalism is doomed to fail. The pursuit of exclusive individual gain destroys the basis of wealth in the long run. If I may editorialize, and I may, greed is a shit-poor organizing principle for society, which would be obvious if it wasn't the air we breathe.

The problem of suboptimization

Dagmar is going to love this.

Aliens are Real

] "This was also two days after a modern day QUEENS
] existence took the life of RUN-DMC's heart and soul,
] their DJ who made all our damn day, Jason 'JAMMASTER
] JAY' Mizell. "

Chuck D's reflection on Jay Master Jay and some of the early hip-hop scene. Good read. Tells you something about the interconnectedness of the these early innovators and something of what the scene was like "back in the day."

Public Enemy: Terrordome

] "On the heels of the murder of its DJ, Jason Mizell (Jam
] Master Jay), on Oct. 30 (allstar, Oct. 31),
] groundbreaking hip-hop group Run-DMC has announced its
] retirement."

Run-DMC has left the building.

Rev. Run Announces the retirement of Run DMC from the hip-hop game.

] 'While the headlines screamed loudly about the race to
] win control of the Congress and huge money poured into
] those races that were close, most legislative races in
] fact were completely noncompetitive. Our Center for
] Voting and Democracy's pre-election projections of who
] would win and lose more than 75% of U.S. House races held
] up with an apparent perfect score -- the same model
] projected 929 of 930 winners accurately in 1996-2000.
] Within days we will issue our projections for the
] November 2004 elections (yes, that's right -- the
] elections two years from now) in some 350 House races
] with the same degree of confidence.
] We can confidently make these projections without knowing
] anything about the quality of the candidates and
] inequities in campaign finance because we use
] "winner-take-all" elections in districts that generally
] tilt clearly toward one party or the other. This lean is
] no accident, as state after state enacted incumbent
] protection plans in redistricting over the past year.
] With only a few exceptions, incumbents and party leaders
] gerrymandered districts to guarantee the reelection of
] incumbents, as well as the over-representation of
] whatever party controlled the redistricting process in
] their state. In California, the Democratic Party
] incumbents actually paid "protection money" in the amount
] of $20,000 apiece to have their legislative districts
] drawn to guarantee them a safe seat, an audacious example
] of political "insider trading." '

Center for Voting and Democracy

EPIC's excellent response to the RIAA's recent attempts at intimidating Universities into policing their networks for transfer of copyrighted materials over P2P networks.

EPIC Letter on P2P Monitoring to Colleges and Universities

Your tax payer dollars hard at work treating alleged Al'Qaeda members like animals.

Hurray for America! Land of Equality and Fair Treatment!

Remember, you're innocent until proven guilty!

Art Bell - POWs On Board

Interesting kuro5hin article on alternative logic.

kuro5hin.org || Alternative Logic

Rattle wrote:
] Disturbing article about a provision of the No Child Left
] Behind Act, which forces public secondary schools to give
] military recruiters the names and addresses of attending
] students or get their federal aid cut. An act that lives up to
] its title.

Some choice pieces of this article:

] 'The military complained this year that up to 15 percent
] of the nation's high schools are "problem schools" for
] recruiters. In 1999, the Pentagon says, recruiters were
] denied access to 19,228 schools. Rep. David Vitter, a
] Republican from Louisiana who sponsored the new
] recruitment requirement, says such schools "demonstrated
] an anti-military attitude that I thought was offensive."
] ...
] Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school
] lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings,
] phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents
] object. "The only thing that will get us to stop
] contacting the family is if they call their congressman,"
] says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for
] Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid
] died, we'll take them off our list." '

BTW, it is now Anti-American (implied) to be a pacifist. You are with us or against us. Three little words:

Hitler Youth Corp

Witness the slow regression of your country.

RE: Military Demanding Names of Children

Rad!

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