Sustainable hedonism
Ok, so the Manchurian microchip thing got some leverage in the press (as expected) and the news is spreading like wildfire in California (sorry, bad example – my heart goes out to the forest vegetation and the animals!). So anyways, here’s a BBC article (I didn’t Diigo because I pretty much already mentioned everything useful from the article) .
The epilogue of this mess awaits…
(via: BBC)
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The most interesting thing I’ve read this week so far…I don’t know what to make of it yet, but if it turns out to be just a product of imagination it would still be eerie enough to make an excellent summer blockbuster thriller. An excerpt:
The myth: Chinese intelligence services have concealed a microchip in every computer everywhere, programmed to “call home” if and when activated.
The reality: It may actually be true.
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“It is there, deep inside your computer, if they decide to call it up,” the security chief of a multinational corporation told The Investigator. “It is capable of providing Chinese intelligence with everything stored on your system — on everyone’s system — from e- mail to documents. I call it Call Home Technology. It doesn’t mean to say they’re sucking data from everyone’s computer today, it means the Chinese think ahead — and they now have the potential to do it when it suits their purposes.
I’ll leave you with that, go here to read the full article and for the Diigoed version go here.
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A small tribute to true pressure. It comes with added bonus sometimes…
My congrats to the man, but I refuse to make a big deal out of it. Hearing and reading about people who say they couldn’t believe a non-caucasian person would ever become president of a western nation makes me feel friggin shocked above all. Then sad…because for a split second I realize how right all these people actually were. Then happy…because we were all proven wrong. Then sad again…because its almost 2009 and we’re all applauding something that’s way over due…
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An excerpt from Vladimir V. Putin: Neo Con:
…His strategy was cold, it was clear, it was thoughtful and purposeful, and it was very definitely his own. Reagan knew intuitively that the Soviet Union was tottering. But he did not want to fight the Soviets, he wanted to bring them to the negotiating table. To that end, he used little, if any, overt force against the Soviet Union. Instead, he developed what in Pentagonese was known as “competitive strategies.” In plain English, this meant, “Spend ‘em to death.” Reagan’s aim was to force the Soviet Union to spend money, allocate resources, and occupy technical talent that they either had better use for elsewhere or didn’t have. (The best Soviet scientists and engineers were world-class, but they had no real depth, no bench strength.) Supporting the mujahedin in Afghanistan was one way to deplete them. The Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as Star Wars-perhaps the most successful weapons system never built or intended to be built-was another…
Apart from a khm, ’slightly’ overly pro-Russian attitude, the article is incredibly insightful and well written! It’s not the shortest thing you’ll ever read, but it’s truly worth your time and effort!:)
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A small tribute to self-awareness.
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China, bitch! The land of paper, kung-fu, excellent dental care and those weird dumpling-looking thingies.
Oh. Did I mention they scare the shit out of me and at the same time seem like an unavoidable playground for the future. “China…so you don’t have to!”
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A small tribute to the most obvious thing I could think of…now there’s inspiration for ya;)
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A small tribute to people who don’t take themselves too seriously…;)
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A small tribute to a dying 47-Year-Old Professor who Gives an Exuberant ‘Last Lecture‘ (this has generated quite the buzz, and rightfully so)
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