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In Praise of Idleness By Bertrand Russell
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution.
+ Get technology and have a curiosity about it. Recent US Presidents and national politicians in general don't seem to care or know much at all about technology. "The Internets" and "The Google" have become punch lines. A president who follows technology can make more informed policy decisions.
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Rise of the wikicrats
"It’s like I’m in some netherworld from the movie Brazil, being asked for my Form 27B(stroke)6," writes the media scholar and long-time Wikipedian Andrew Lih. He's describing what it's like these days to contribute to Wikipedia, the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit." Lih recently noticed that Wikipedia lacked an article on Michael Getler, a reporter who now serves as ombudsman for the Public Broadcasting System. Lih added a brief entry - a "stub," in Wikipedia parlance - assuming that other contributors would flesh it out in due course. Within minutes, though, one of the site's myriad wikicops had swooped in and marked Lih's entry as a candidate for "speedy deletion," citing the site's increasingly arcane legal code: It is a very short article providing little or no context (CSD A1), contains no content whatsoever (CSD A3), consists only of links elsewhere (CSD A3) or a rephrasing of the title (CSD A3).
A tough California bill that would have prohibited companies and individuals from using deceptive "pretexting" ruses to steal private information about consumers was killed after determined lobbying by the motion picture industry, Wired News has learned. The bill, SB1666 , was written by state Sen. Debra Bowen, and would have barred investigators from making "false, fictitious or fraudulent" statements or representations to obtain private information about an individual, including telephone calling records, Social Security numbers and financial information. Victims would have had the right to sue for damages. The bill won approval in three committees and sailed through the state Senate with a 30-0 vote.
News: MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill
Following the Dollars: Map Political Campa
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FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact C
March 30 The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline.SECESSION.NET
Principles Goals Strategies At least 5,000 racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural groups are lumped together into only 189 nation states. Most of the world's violent conflicts are related to struggles for dominance within or independence from some large, multi-national nation state.