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Re: Suspension of disbelief applies to networking (Scripting News)

Allan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:05:32 -0000

I am compelled to agree with Chris Weekly that you're not using "suspension of disbelief" in the correct context here. It is (originally) a literary term that means that you "suspend [your] judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disb...

It doesn't really have much to do with being absorbed in an experience; it happens when you're seeing/reading something that *you know doesn't make sense*, but you accept it anyhow as apart of the story.

An example from the movies would be many action flicks where the guy is running around with a .38 (holds 6 rounds) shooting it 40 times without re-loading; you *know* it's B.S. but you still enjoy it when he kills the bad guy.

So, you can't really have your suspension of disbelief "broken," and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with being so absorbed in something that it's weird when you're interrupted. That's just being so absorbed in something that it's weird when it's interrupted. There may be a term for what you describe, but it's not "suspension of disbelief."

In response to the actual question at hand: I'd generally agree with jonknee: if you're really using a *huge* amount of bandwidth (that can affect the experience of others on your node), then you basically need to upgrade your plan to something more suitable for your use that won't degrade the service for those who are typical users just wanting to check their email.

That being said, from what I can read, I'm no friend of Comcast. They sound just like Shaw Cable or Telus up here in Canada.

Re: New Site Logo

Allan — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:13:34 -0000

http://allanh.org/dmiessler.gif ?

Personally, I'm just not that big of a fan of that font (papyrus) ...

:) Happy New Year!!

Re: New Site Logo

Allan — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:54:26 -0000

LOL--Gee, aren't you a nice person! I hope your 2006 gets better than it has apparently been so far. "If you don't have anything nice to say ..."

Re: It’s Official: The New Logo Sucks

Allan — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:31:52 -0000

Sorry :( I don't think it sucks. I'm just not partial to papyrus :) I'm also not the person to listen to when it comes to design. Look at my blog!! :)

Re: New Site Logo II

Allan — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:53:48 -0000

I dig this one!! Much better :)

Re: Google Analytics = So Dissapointing

Allan — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:35:30 -0000

My issues with it have since ceased to exist. All of my pages have loaded nice and fast since just after I pointed this out to you. Maybe there's a cache effect that takes a few days to kick in or something.

For us, the performance hit for a couple of days was definitely worth it as the stats provided are amazing. I run a store and for this in particular, Analytics just blows my mind. The ability to define a "sales funnel" identify where in the process that people bail is invaluable--as is the seemless tie in with adwords.

Re: PHP Includes, Yum

Allan — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:12:15 -0000

You've been blogging since 1996 and you've just discovered this? LOL :) I'm just poking fun of course, but it is kind of funny. Keep up the good work Daniel.

Re: New Mac, Cleanup

Allan — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:31:44 -0000

Ooooh. Lucky guy :) I'm thinking I'm going to take the plunge myself (even though I can't _really_ afford it now that I've gone back to school). Adobe quasi-announcing no universal binary support until '07 kind of scares me a little bit, but I'm skeptical that they'll actually make us wait that long and since I don't really _depend_ on photoshop, I could live without it for a bit. Anyhow, do please give us a scoop when you get yours :)

Re: Creativity vs. Copyright

Allan — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:37:59 -0000

Thank you very much for this link. It is a well thought-out and informative audio/video essay that gets an "A+" from me. The ending quotation is awesome. Take the time to listen to this recording.

Re: MacBookPro Disappointment

Allan — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:20:15 -0000

I hope mine doesn't do this. I ordered last week. Same specs as netjunkie above :) Good that Apple is doing something about it. Sucks that you had to experience such an issue.

Re: 3 Steps to Highly Efficient News Reading

Allan — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:06:31 -0000

Some other things to do for you Netnewswire users (not having used too many other readers, I'm not sure that you can do these things elsewhere, though it seems like it ought to be a standard feature in any respectable aggregator):

1. Use groups! There are _a lot_ of quality news sources out there and once you start to amass more than 20 or so (I am currently subscribed to a little over 300 feeds) then it can absolutely become cumbersome to trudge through them all at any given time. So, categorize! Then collapse the folders so you're not looking at all the different sources.

2. Prioritize! Netnewswire has a cool feature that allows you to set the refresh time on individual feeds. If you're subscribing to a feed that is of interest to you, but that you don't need to keep up on _every_ day, then don't. Change the refresh parameters to only check for new content every 72 hours.

3. "Mark All As Read" is _your friend_. Learn to use it wisely. If you have a "Fun" group with 20 feeds set to refresh every two days, and all of a sudden you have a group with 120 new items in it, don't be afraid to _skim_ the headlines and then "Command + K" it. It can almost seem like a waste to aggregate a bunch of information that you don't even read, but sometimes you just have to hit reset rather than get bogged down.

4. Dinosaurs. Though it is somewhat hidden, and doesn't have a keyboard shortcut :'(, the dinosaurs feature of Netnewswire lets you see feeds that haven't refreshed recently, possibly indicating that the source has been abandoned. Use it. Use it well. Nuke feeds that you don't need.

Any other tricks?

Re: Buddhism

Allan — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:12:20 -0000

I think you should take your edit out. It's brilliant and I think it would be good entertainment to watch the comments of those that don't get it. The 'humor' tag should be hint enough ;)

http://del.icio.us/tag/buddhism
http://del.icio.us/tag/philosophy

:)

Re: Firefox Universal

Allan — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:30:18 -0000

Nice! My MacBook arrives tomorrow, so I'm stoked this is finally available. Thanks for the head's up :)

Re: Firefox Universal

Allan — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:05:44 -0000

My Macbook finally arrived :D I can't tell if deer park is faster, since _everything_ is faster for me now.
But you mentioned you were looking for a "widget" to make the browser look more like safari? I'm not sure what you mean by "widget", but my preferred theme is from http://takebacktheweb.org/ --I use "Grapple (Eos)", but you might want to scroll down a bit and check out "GrApple (Brushed)" :)

Re: Firefox Universal

Allan — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:31:40 -0000

I'm really liking it so far. It's a huge improvement over my second gen. 12" PowerBook :) The only thing that's taking some getting used to is the keyboard; I'm _so_ not used to having the extra realestate on the sides of the unit. I keep moving my hands to the outer edges and it throws off my typing. That, and my GMail notifier doesn't seem to want to work correctly, even though it's the Universal version. Whatever though. I don't play video games at all, so I can't relate to your impressions of Warcraft framerates--I needed the upgrade for the power to handle all of the RAW files I'm shooting these days :) All in all, I'm happy to have spent the money. I think I'm going to need to spend even more now that they've released Final Cut Studio as a Universal ...

Re: The MacBookPro: A Version “A” Product Example

Allan — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:07:07 -0000

You know what my biggest peeve is with the MacBook? It's that the screen doesn't open wide enough anymore. It's limited to about a 45 degree angle and that's just not really enough (my 12" PowerBook does about 15-20 degrees more). I'll be able to live with it, but (beside the other stuff you mention) it's the most annoying thing.

Re: Ten Out Of Ten Vegetarians…

Allan — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:32:41 -0000

We die anyways, Captain Obvious, but we do less violence to the planet while we are here, and provide for less-toxic fertilizer :-) That is, of course, unless you kill your own wild (and, debatedly, therefore organic) meat?

Re: Ten Out Of Ten Vegetarians…

Allan — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:16:02 -0000

I really should stop commenting on stuff, because I always get it wrong :) I know this is a joke . . .

Re: The Ultimate Content Filler

Allan — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:09:21 -0000

http://lipsum.org/ :)

Re: My Next Car Has Been Chosen

Allan — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:38:28 -0000

30 mpg?

Get an air car :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-A3XHFT5qc&...

Be sure to watch part 2, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8aZVLpf-c&...

In copying and pasting those links, I found a neat little keyboard shortcut in firefox I didn't know about: Option-clicking a link (on OS X) is a short cut to "Save Linked File As"; cool!

Re: Global Warming: Causation vs. Corelation

Allan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:43:46 -0000

Personally, I'd have to say that I wouldn't be placing bets on this hypothesis.

If you read onto page 2 of the article, it does say:

"His views are completely at odds with the mainstream scientific opinion," said Colin Wilson, a planetary physicist at England's Oxford University.

"And they contradict the extensive evidence presented in the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report."

As well as:

"Perhaps the biggest stumbling block in Abdussamatov's theory is his dismissal of the greenhouse effect, in which atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide help keep heat trapped near the planet's surface."

The article (on page 2) also explains "planetary wobble" as a very plausible counter-point to this *single* study from this single man. Not that I distrust the ability of one man to change how everyone looks at the universe, it's just that I doubt that this is the case here.

http://realclimate.org/ has some educated response to the "it's solar!" argument, among other counter-points.

The thing that makes Anthropocentric Global Warming a Theory is that it is so well supported by many different facts, collected by many different scientists; all peer-reviewed and scrutinized. Of course the science is open to interpretation, and if there were enough evidence to warrant revising AGW, then I doubt scientists would have any issues with doing so. The problem is that they (climate scientists) have a lot of correlating data that leads them to dismiss, or at least marginalize, the solar factor.

As you noted, even if C02 turns out to be relatively innocuous as a global warming agent, we *still* must be looking to harvest all of that abundant solar energy being poured onto the planet in ridiculous excess, instead of burning fossils; it only makes sense.

:-)

Re: No, Einstein Wasn’t Religious

Allan — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:14:28 -0000

These are great quotes :) Thanks for publishing them. - A

Re: My Future: The Semantic Web and RDF

Allan — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:24:12 -0000

You wrote:
Hint: Think “semantic personal information exchange using RDF”.

This sounds promising, and I'd be interested to learn more about this as you proceed (no time to contribute however).

I'd be most interested to hear what you have to say about microformats (http://microformats.org), and how aspects of them such as hcard and hcalendar impact your vision. The reason why RSS and such are subsets of RDF is, by my understanding, a result of RDF being overly complicated for simple usage.

Re: Read This if You Believe in Man-Made Global Warming

Allan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:43:08 -0000

Hey Daniel.

Why "believe" in anthropocentric global warming to begin with? It's science; there's nothing really to believe or not believe. There's just a mass of evidence that suggest things to be one way or another. If this guy's assertions turn into real evidence that the current climate models are straight-up wrong, then we can recalculate, change the theory, and move on. It's not really about being right or wrong; it's about following the best hypothesis at the time.

What is Mr. Christie saying anyhow? That a few holes (of myriad) as yet to be explained invalidates most of the research out there? OK, what if they do? What does that mean? Mr. Christie seems to think that if we stopped spending all of this money on "global warming" and started building more schools in Africa that the future would suddenly be better for us?

Let me get this straight: because C02 doesn't drive climate change, that means that coal-burning electric plants and the internal combustion engines are suddenly cool again? That can't be what he means, but . . .

To what end are we arguing this? So we can stop investing in sustainable energy? Do we keep giving oil companies huge tax cuts? Because the service they provide is relevant?

Does it matter if our pollution is changing the global climate? It damn-sure alters local climates, and is just so plainly and obviously not good for us or our natural surroundings. How are C02 emissions good?

What does not believing in human-induced global warming gain us? did the problem go away? Maybe we're using different semantics, but the problem remains.

Considering how many more of us there are going to be, figuring out a way to power ourselves with perpetually renewable, non-polluting sources is the task of our time (or rather stopping the oil companies from suppressing the already existing technologies).

Maybe our pollution will cast us into another ice age; maybe we'll all fry; maybe the climate will remain stable, but we'll just slowly poison ourselves through the very food we eat.

All of this leads me to ask: Who cares what this guy says? It's not a controversy because even if it's true, it shouldn't change a damned thing except the semantics.

Re: Can We Vote For Ron Paul in the Primaries and Then a Democrat in the General Election?

Allan — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:13:52 -0000

To me, there's always been something strange about the very concept of 'strategic' voting. Personally, I think it does more damage to democracy in the long run by forcing homogenization; the lesser of two evils is still evil.

It's analogous to those who hold Ralph Nader responsible for Gore's defeat in the 2000 election: those who didn't really support Gore, but who voted for him anyway as an opposition to the republicans.

I think that forcing a two-party system in order to avoid the opposition is inherently un-democratic and does more to indict American-style democracy as a failure than having Bush in office in the first place.

I do think that you raise an interesting strategy here; that if there were to be a 'strategy' behind my vote (beyond simply voting for the best platform), that this would probably be it :) I like the idea of someone holding membership in both parties; it's a statement to the absurdity of the system.

Then again, I've been known to spoil my ballot by voting for everyone, so don't take my logic at face value ;) If I were a US citizen, I'd vote for Paul over any of the dems but Kucinich.

Re: Google: Why Can’t I Bookmark a Site From Google Reader?

Allan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:03:01 -0000

I have it on good authority that new and cool features for this type of thing are coming down the pipes.

Re: This Doesn’t Happen in Countries That Aren’t Close to Social Collapse

Allan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:46:49 -0000

Hey now, don't go painting anarchists with this brush.

If anything, this behavior you note is a symptom of unbridled capitalism; this type of thing wouldn't happen in an anarchistic society.

Personally, I'm not a true-blood anarchist, but I do think that anarcho-syndicalism is probably a better system than what we have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalist

I'm just tired of people labeling stupid, irrational behavior as "anarchy!". Stupid, irrational behavior is just that, and doesn't have anything to do with anarchy.

Thanks :)

Re: This Doesn’t Happen in Countries That Aren’t Close to Social Collapse

Allan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:55:17 -0000

@Fred: LOL! :-) That's great. I did that (reworded their comment to flip it around on them) to someone myself recently.

Re: Paul Basically Says Obama the Best of the Three Candidates

Allan — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:31:00 -0000

As sad as it is we have a simple case of “greater good” here.

And sad it is. I don't understand how people in the U.S. can possibly think that the system there is democratic. Sad, sad, sad.

Re: Decision 2008: Google Apps vs. Apple’s MobileMe

Allan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:12:19 -0000

I think my original comment was lost, so I'll just say that I'm in Google's boat and am just waiting for Android to piece it all together in a very cool way.

Re: ChaCha

Allan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:38:13 -0000

You know you can query Google via SMS too, eh? http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sms/index....>

Re: Overheard at a Coffee Shop

Allan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:38:21 -0000

Great post, Jon. I like your writing a lot.

Before I go: I don't suppose you'd be willing to put a link to Freedom Footbags in your sidebar, eh? :-)

Cheers.

Re: 2007/10/15/google-reader-stats-are-bullshit-with-proof/

Allan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:06:04 -0000

As a footbag player, I gotta say that I was taken aback by your description of it as a "joke". May I suggest that you edit your post to use "niche" instead? We'd thank you very much :)

As for why the (footbag) feed has so many subscribers: it's likely because it is included by default when you subscribe to the "Sports" package, along with EPSN.com.

My friend Steve runs footbag.org and happens to be the head manager for Reader. His engineers included the footbag.org feed into the pre-package as a show of support / joke.

Furthermore, as I'm sure you're aware, sometimes the best sites are not up 100% of the time. I would suggest that you simply caught the footbag feed at a bad time, as I've been getting regular updates from it (and recently at that), and it's working now to be sure.

I'm a big fan of this site (except when you dis my favorite sport ;)). Keep up the good work.

Re: 2007/10/17/how-a-hacky-sack-site-got-74000-rss-subscribers/

Allan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:32:45 -0000

I *still* don't get it. ESPN.com has graphical banner ads; they're making money (a lot more of it I would imagine) from being included too. Why is no one complaining about that?

It's not as if Reader claims that their bundles are algorithmically determined. What law has been broken? What's the big freakin' deal if a small non-profit sport gets a little extra coverage? Don't like it? It's not like you can't unsubscribe from it.

Stop making a mountain out of a mole hill. This is a non-issue. You people are just looking for controversy where there is none.

PS it's called "footbag". Hacky sack is a brand name.

Re: 2007/11/02/why-google-gets-a-free-ride/

Allan — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:53:03 -0000

I am curious: why did you say "alleged monopoly" in reference to Microsoft? The allegations have been proven to be be true numerous times by US State Department in it's numerous law suits and findings against the company.

When a person is a accused of murder, they are "alleged criminals"; when they're found guilty by a judge and jury, it's safe to drop the "alleged" part, and just call them criminals :)

Not to nitpick or anything . . .

:)

Re: 2007/12/30/androids-non-working-demo/

Allan — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:51:33 -0000

Orkut in written in ASP.

Re: 2008/03/05/apple-flash/

Allan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:57:54 -0000

Personally, I couldn't care less about Flash on my iPhone. Fewer annoying Flash-based sites? Great! Flash is straight-up bad for the web. Developers building sites in Flash should have their heads examined. The only real use for format is for video delivery (an inherently binary medium), and they've already proven that they can work around that issue by using a comparable (arguably superior) codec for that purpose. In fact, I hope they *don't* include Flash support. Can someone tell me how being able to view a Flash-based site on my iPhone is going to enrich my mobile experience? I just can't see it.

Re: 2008/06/12/social-media-delusions-of-grandeur/

Allan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:34:18 -0000

Yes, I would want the president "twittering away" while in meetings.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Allan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:21:32 -0000

IE4? LOL. As far as I'm concerned, users can expect a degraded experience for anything below IE7. I will not support IE6 any longer. I'm not saying that I don't test in IE6, and I fix issues which affect the functionality and/or access to the information, but the investment of time spent is not worth the payoff. I say force users to upgrade.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Allan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:21:32 -0000

Re: Google planning an offline iPhone app for GMail

Allan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:42:17 -0000

"Additionally, Google is planning to introduce a voice-search app for the iPhone, so when you’ll say “images of Canada in the winter” into your iPhone, a Google image search browser window would open, showing you the results."

How is this different than the current Google iPhone app that does voice-based search?

Re: Google planning an offline iPhone app for GMail

Allan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:18:18 -0000

Ah. So, perhaps rather than "planning to introduce a," you might have said "planning to update/improve their existing."

Thanks :)

Re: New Site Logo

Allan — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:13:34 -0000

http://allanh.org/dmiessler.gif ?

Personally, I'm just not that big of a fan of that font (papyrus) ...

:) Happy New Year!!

Re: New Site Logo

Allan — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:54:26 -0000

LOL--Gee, aren't you a nice person! I hope your 2006 gets better than it has apparently been so far. "If you don't have anything nice to say ..."

Re: It’s Official: The New Logo Sucks

Allan — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:31:52 -0000

Sorry :( I don't think it sucks. I'm just not partial to papyrus :) I'm also not the person to listen to when it comes to design. Look at my blog!! :)

Re: New Site Logo II

Allan — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:53:48 -0000

I dig this one!! Much better :)

Re: Google Analytics = So Dissapointing

Allan — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:35:30 -0000

Re: PHP Includes, Yum

Allan — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:12:15 -0000

You've been blogging since 1996 and you've just discovered this? LOL :) I'm just poking fun of course, but it is kind of funny. Keep up the good work Daniel.

Re: New Mac, Cleanup

Allan — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:31:44 -0000

Re: Creativity vs. Copyright

Allan — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:37:59 -0000

Thank you very much for this link. It is a well thought-out and informative audio/video essay that gets an "A+" from me. The ending quotation is awesome. Take the time to listen to this recording.

Re: MacBookPro Disappointment

Allan — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:20:15 -0000

I hope mine doesn't do this. I ordered last week. Same specs as netjunkie above :) Good that Apple is doing something about it. Sucks that you had to experience such an issue.

Re: 3 Steps to Highly Efficient News Reading

Allan — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:06:31 -0000

Re: Buddhism

Allan — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:12:20 -0000

Re: Firefox Universal

Allan — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:30:18 -0000

Nice! My MacBook arrives tomorrow, so I'm stoked this is finally available. Thanks for the head's up :)

Re: Firefox Universal

Allan — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:05:44 -0000

Re: Firefox Universal

Allan — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:31:40 -0000

Re: The MacBookPro: A Version “A” Product Example

Allan — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:07:07 -0000

Re: Ten Out Of Ten Vegetarians…

Allan — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:32:41 -0000

Re: Ten Out Of Ten Vegetarians…

Allan — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:16:02 -0000

I really should stop commenting on stuff, because I always get it wrong :) I know this is a joke . . .

Re: The Ultimate Content Filler

Allan — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:09:21 -0000

http://lipsum.org/ :)

Re: My Next Car Has Been Chosen

Allan — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:38:28 -0000

Re: Global Warming: Causation vs. Corelation

Allan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:43:46 -0000

Re: No, Einstein Wasn’t Religious

Allan — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:14:28 -0000

These are great quotes :) Thanks for publishing them. - A

Re: My Future: The Semantic Web and RDF

Allan — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:24:12 -0000

Re: Read This if You Believe in Man-Made Global Warming

Allan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:43:08 -0000

Hey Daniel.

To what end are we arguing this? So we can stop investing in sustainable energy? Do we keep giving oil companies huge tax cuts? Because the service they provide is relevant?

What does not believing in human-induced global warming gain us? did the problem go away? Maybe we're using different semantics, but the problem remains.

Maybe our pollution will cast us into another ice age; maybe we'll all fry; maybe the climate will remain stable, but we'll just slowly poison ourselves through the very food we eat.

All of this leads me to ask: Who cares what this guy says? It's not a controversy because even if it's true, it shouldn't change a damned thing except the semantics.

Re: Can We Vote For Ron Paul in the Primaries and Then a Democrat in the General Election?

Allan — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:13:52 -0000

Then again, I've been known to spoil my ballot by voting for everyone, so don't take my logic at face value ;) If I were a US citizen, I'd vote for Paul over any of the dems but Kucinich.

Re: Google: Why Can’t I Bookmark a Site From Google Reader?

Allan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:03:01 -0000

I have it on good authority that new and cool features for this type of thing are coming down the pipes.

Re: This Doesn’t Happen in Countries That Aren’t Close to Social Collapse

Allan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:46:49 -0000

Hey now, don't go painting anarchists with this brush.

If anything, this behavior you note is a symptom of unbridled capitalism; this type of thing wouldn't happen in an anarchistic society.

Personally, I'm not a true-blood anarchist, but I do think that anarcho-syndicalism is probably a better system than what we have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalist

I'm just tired of people labeling stupid, irrational behavior as "anarchy!". Stupid, irrational behavior is just that, and doesn't have anything to do with anarchy.

Thanks :)

Re: This Doesn’t Happen in Countries That Aren’t Close to Social Collapse

Allan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:55:17 -0000

@Fred: LOL! :-) That's great. I did that (reworded their comment to flip it around on them) to someone myself recently.

Re: Paul Basically Says Obama the Best of the Three Candidates

Allan — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:31:00 -0000

As sad as it is we have a simple case of “greater good” here.

And sad it is. I don't understand how people in the U.S. can possibly think that the system there is democratic. Sad, sad, sad.

Re: Decision 2008: Google Apps vs. Apple’s MobileMe

Allan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:12:19 -0000

I think my original comment was lost, so I'll just say that I'm in Google's boat and am just waiting for Android to piece it all together in a very cool way.

Re: ChaCha

Allan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:38:13 -0000

You know you can query Google via SMS too, eh? http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sms/index....>

Re: Which Books Have Inspired You?

Allan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:23:26 -0000

- From Naked Ape to Superspecies (David Suzuki)

- The Nature of Economies (Jane Jacobs)

- The Ecology of Commerce (Paul Hawkin)

- Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)

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