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Re: “Chernobyl” writer asks tourists to respect the site after nude photo shoots in Pripyat [NSFW]

alex williams — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:21:17 -0000

Indeed!

Re: Intro to Thelema – Three Recommended Books

alex williams — Sun, 18 May 2014 21:34:26 -0000

Thanks for a very useful survey of the most useful introductions to Crowley's work and the links as well!

Re: Evernote Update: Reminders Get Deployed to Android

alex williams — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:15:15 -0000

Absolutely love it! Date & time settings seem similar to Google calendar on the Android SIII.

Re: Washington Post raises eyebrows, questions with ‘composite’ photo on front page

alex williams — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:38:04 -0000

I can but agree. Don't you hate dogmatists? I suppose all those B&W from last century's newspapers weren't truth either.

Re: I'm Dumping My Blog

alex williams — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:59:41 -0000

I think this is a wonderful experiment and I hope I've jumped the right hoops to be included in the wave updates. It seems I did but we'll see.

Re: County won't force permit on Bible study leaders

alex williams — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:35:20 -0000

Glad someone's paying attention. Yes! We'll engage in the same tactics that "so-called Christians" engage in in their oppression of gays, atheists, Pagans, or any other group you want to suppress or foment hatred against. Be Christian, love thy neighbor and you'll have no problems. Know any Christian pastors murdered this week? In their church?

Re: Flavio Piccioni, Robert Scoble, and Pavan Gunupudi, this is for you

alex williams — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:28:27 -0000

Absolutely true. Excellent advice; particularly on Friendfeed. It's an
excellent vehicle for me in learning what I need to know today. Keep up the
good work.

Re: Flavio Piccioni, Robert Scoble, and Pavan Gunupudi, this is for you

alex williams — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:33:43 -0000

This is really good to see.

Re: Twitter turns brain dead

alex williams — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:06:30 -0000

Can't possibly express how funny this is!!!!!! What is wrong with these Tweeps?

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

alex williams — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:12:23 -0000

Nice tune. Thanks.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

alex williams — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:13:46 -0000

"...it can become hard to grok once we get to a certain level"
Agreed there. I've just really been thinking about this idea for a few weeks so I'm far from grokking it myself. Particularly when it comes to the currencies we might use; I can't get much beyond barter at the moment. I know that at points in history prior to and even after the creation of the Bank of England there were many local currencies but how they worked I've not researched enough to understand fully. And yes it seems to be an absolute/relative kind of thing. One wonderful piece of fiction that almost got me to understand it was Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle". Gold/silver vs paper currencies. Monetary systems can be quite complex, as we've seen all too clearly with the credit derivatives crap the banks got into.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

alex williams — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:17:47 -0000

It isn't so much that they can set arbitrarily cheap interest rates as it is simply arbitrary. Central banks make possible the dominance of the monetary economy itself. The products that we buy and sell are very different from the monetary products of the banking system as we know it today. Trying not to get too far astray of the origin of the discussion; the products of the entertainment industry whose copyrights are the point here, are controlled by a centralized industry of 4 or 5 media/entertainment conglomerates. Those corporate interests demand control of the artists themselves and arbitrarily decide who the market is and what price the consumers should pay; whether they be individuals or radio stations or venues where the performers do their thing. Excellent examples of "taking the power away" from the RIAA and the recording industry are groups such as the Grateful Dead or Pearl Jam who through selling their music more directly to the consumers of that product decentralized the economy of music sales. Others currently "giving away" their music like Neil Young with his album of a few years back are creating a market that is truly free. I bought Young's album specifically because he first gave it to me, and I wished to support that effort to democratize the arts.
Sorry for being so long-winded.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

alex williams — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:29:10 -0000

"The point? 21st century economics are radically decentralized." Economics are not the only sphere that is being decentralized today. Or I should say, need to be decentralized. Society reasserts itself or regains control of itself through localization. What has made the banking crisis possible was the notion of a central bank, i.e. the Federal Reserve. Jefferson told us this was a bad mistake. To oversimplify; centralization makes possible the dominance of the moneyed interest. Localization makes possible the freedom of a merchant economy, as distinct from "capitalist economy". So yes, it is the responsibility of elected reps but they must truly be determined by the electors and not by whoever happens to have the most money.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

alex williams — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:08:08 -0000

A just and equitable world where all have an equal opportunity to provide food, clothing, and shelter for themselves is the only path to a peaceful world. A non-violent world is even possible with these fundamental principles assured for all.

Re: Laurent Batailley Images ClipBoard - Happiest dog in the world (via calanan)

alex williams — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:24:31 -0000

Envious! of the dog, But great image too.

Re: the Mattsmith

alex williams — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:22:19 -0000

Yeah baby! Gotta have that!

Re: OMG they're all the same camera! Except they're not.

alex williams — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:25:48 -0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Re: Hashtags are dead. Long live real-time search and filtering!

alex williams — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:56:05 -0000

Having only just started using both twitter and friendfeed; this is a very helpful view of the search question. Thanks.