2019-03-15 18:13
Many problems that arise out of conflict in society between people, organizations, nations, and so on, are a direct result of how our biological brain's design.We are all intellectual capita… Read More
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2019-03-09 20:20
Know thyself—whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance—is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capac… Read More
2018-11-22 12:35
what islam thinks of liberals Read More
2018-11-22 12:11
what iSlam thinks of progressives Read More
2018-11-11 15:35
If you don't know who Thomas Kuhn was, then you are missing a vital piece of knowledge when it comes to #science. If you are a #scientist +scientist, #science #journalist, #scientific h… Read More
2018-10-28 22:59
There is one inherent absurdity of believing in one, and only one, religion.If there is one true religion, then the rest are false.Any religion that is not your religion is not-religion beca… Read More
2018-09-14 16:34
My reply to https://www.quora.com/Will-robots-take-most-jobs I built my first robot in 1998. I competed in the Mark Tilden’s World Robotics Games in Calgary in 1999, placed 8th in the… Read More
2018-09-13 01:39
There is nothing permanent except change - Heraclitis#Philosophy Read More
2018-08-18 18:42
2018-07-12 13:21
A Critique of Critique: Applied Criticism Background This brief explores the epidemiological background for criticism applied to scientific research review.Introduction A general definition… Read More
2018-06-03 02:15
I have a great disagreement with most Buddhist monks whom do not study the meaning of words with the same fervor they take to chanting and mysticism. Assuming you understand a word and… Read More
2018-04-15 15:32
I lifted a couple of pages from Michael Crichton's book, State of Fear, and I am putting them in blog form so as to make sure his words enter the search engine databases of the world… Read More
2018-03-22 00:44
Sometimes I struggle to understand how normal people think. What facts they use, and how they arrive at ill-informed conclusions.So people are upset this person sold metadata that users volu… Read More
2018-03-04 15:11
In Professor Glennan's "On our craving for generality", he makes an argument about an acceptable need for generality in philosophy and he conjures Professor Wittgenstein's lone criticism&nbs&hell…Read More
2018-02-24 21:17
Electronics miniaturization, global technology parity, and the Internet all combine to make awesome and frightening potentialities. When you see things you never imagined you would, it's… Read More
2018-02-09 15:18
I predicted the #StockMarket would crash in 2016 when President Clinton would have been elected to a third #Obama term. Instead there was so much sidelined money it came rushing back in on h… Read More
2018-01-27 19:16
I agree with @nflcommish; @SuperBowl is perfect time to recognize #WWII veteran #MedalofHonor Hershel Williams.After 73 years, the @nfl didn't have a better time and wouldn't want the… Read More
2017-12-25 21:33
For Badiou's Being and Event, given this text is old, traditional in the wake of Logics of Worlds, it staggers from inconsistencies like the one I describe here.His use of the term supernume… Read More
2017-11-02 15:23
Google's Waymo has disabled autopilot features which allow drivers to become a passenger.https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-alphabet-autos-self-driving/google-ditched-autopilot-driving-featur… Read More
2017-09-29 15:45
I predicted #Trump would win, you can go back and look at my old postings.I also predicted this, and I write this as I listen to #Trump speak to the Manufacturing Association in Washington D… Read More
2017-09-01 07:08
Today, China and USA owe more money than they can possibly repay in the lifetime of their current citizens.Chinese labour supply are surging and new workers will demand the same rights and b… Read More
2017-07-29 17:02
I cannot tell if #Trump is more like Commodus or Nero, but I can claim that the King of Cynics in the Senate isSenator John McCain.Quite willing, fearing his certain and near fate, to implod… Read More
2017-07-23 22:12
This poor fellow stood still too long. I hit him near his hole opening and he emitted a single death chirp as he struggled into the hole. Died mid escape. This proves that often they are cri… Read More
2017-06-25 22:18
Richardson's ground squirrels have 4 distinctive chirps. This is their interpretation.Normal chatter: when talking amongst themselves the tone and cadence sounds like animal talking. Aperiod… Read More
2017-06-14 04:23
My throat-clearing yesterday, Buddhism and violence, was meant as a precursor to my next exploration:Violence in pursuit of purpose.Violence to some is abhorrent. I agree.Violence to some se… Read More
2017-06-13 05:36
Despite all the yoga mats, meditation, and facile introduction of Westerners to Buddhism, many misunderstand the global tenets of Buddhism. They assume that it is outside the norm when compa… Read More
2017-06-04 20:05
Richardson ground squirrels have infested the farmland around my home. They arrived from the East and now run roads and cause tripping hazards with hidden mounds anywhere that can hobble hor… Read More
2017-05-15 00:27
Herein is the proof of my previous complaints. So I was wishing my mother-in-law a happy Mother's day, and I thought to myself that I really can't accept my own behavior unless I attemp… Read More
2017-05-12 14:59
My mother once told me I wasn't part of her real family.That's why I don't celebrate Mother's day. There, you don't have to read any more.I'm not stating this from a place of self-pity… Read More
2017-04-21 01:47
ScottAdams blogged a very inspiring and creative solution to the Korean conflict crisis here.How To Structure a Deal With North KoreaWhile it is thoughtful and reasonable, here is why it won… Read More
2017-04-12 13:20
It's hard to encompass the entirety of Conrad's (I can call him that since his criminal record was enough for the British ["he is ineligible to take part in the work of the House of Lor… Read More
2017-04-05 00:57
From 2 years ago, why would one trust Bill O'Reilly?#DeliciousIrony: The angry old people that used to watch #BillOReilly to yell at the stories and viewpoints that #CNN won't cover, now can… Read More
2017-03-24 00:47
Mathematics is bounded Philosophy is unbounded Mathematics is bounded Philosophy is unbounded Mathematics is bounded Philosophy is unbounded Mathematics is bounded Philosophy is unbounded Ma… Read More
2017-02-12 22:45
This is a prime example from an hour ago of how narcissistic, selfish parents manipulate children to do their bidding:My daughter texts me (in blue) :Hi dad.... since you have me for family… Read More
2017-02-03 22:22
I'm so afraid of war I volunteered to serve in war zones- twice.I'm the result when the +Terminator and +Mr.Spock have a love-child.I was House before +Hugh Laurie had an American acce… Read More
2017-02-03 21:54
I'm easy to work with... so long as I'm in charge Read More
2017-01-22 18:45
So I have to vote this year, let's see...well I like the Libertarian policy of free markets, lowest taxes, staying out of my choices & my body, and no wasteful wars....but the +Libertari… Read More
2016-12-20 02:36
I wanted to write this felicitation on my holiday treats:As a Buddhist I've sworn off all materialism as illusory trappings of existence. I keep to that principle as best I can. I tend to fo… Read More
2016-12-18 16:55
How #Trump WonFor those of you still catching up to reality of President-elect @realDonaldTrump, let me (as someone that predicted his victory in August 2015) enlighten you to how it really… Read More
2016-11-19 01:23
+General Michael Flynn is in hot water for warning about islam; but he's not wrong on his analysis.All the Abrahamic religions have fire and brimstone commandments authorizing bloodshed, sla… Read More
2016-11-15 23:11
Finally a MSM pundit is able to break through the bullshit, the fake outrage, the, "racist", and "misogynistic" smears of the left denialists and explain why middle America voted against the… Read More
2016-11-11 04:44
+Gov. Gary Johnson has a unique moment while +DonaldTrump takes office. There are disaffected Democrats & Republicans that are diaspora in the wake of political u… Read More
2016-10-28 19:23
I like Twitter even though I am a big believer in long winded rational thought.It was a little nicer back then. What makes twitter special is that it reinvents the walls of the Roman Forum… Read More
2016-10-28 09:26
People tend to forget, if they get caught up in the Buddhist spiritualism, the human made pageantry and ritual of a religion like Buddhism, that even Buddhism doesn't exist.As humans, we nee… Read More
2016-10-27 11:28
If I was running as a Libertarian candidate, and in the spirit of Jefferson suppose that is true, then this is what my platform planks would look like:PositionsIndividual RightsWe hold that… Read More
2016-10-21 19:13
The following excerpt is what I deal with on a weekly basis, perhaps monthly basis from an ex-wife that was so difficult to deal with it took lawyers, years and a pile of cash to resolve. So… Read More
2016-10-20 13:23
Linux is an operating system built by ad-hoc bizarre attendants that you are expected to worship as if it's a cathedral Read More
2016-10-07 16:09
I have discovered through ego-inquiry, that my personal political philsophy aligns closest to the Libertarian ideals than either a righter wing Conservative / Republican mindset or a lefter… Read More
2016-09-24 13:52
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/brexit-political-economy-lessons-1.3655931"At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution," Piketty wrote. http://www.cbc.c… Read More
2016-09-16 14:22
This is from The EconomistIn the future, in a world where capitalism has opened up and swallowed even the poorest of countries, it is the societies that innovate new things based on STEM / S… Read More
2016-08-30 16:33
Civil discourse in public should follow the Socratic Method, it should be the pursuit of truth in facts and ideas and making them plain for all to consider. It should be left to the intellig… Read More
2016-08-30 14:41
I have been thinking about how investors interplay with the economy. While the facile view is that investors are the source or money, which isn't false, and they take profits, which is true… Read More
2016-08-29 19:28
In order to remove the chance of another Full Trumpian monster candidate, we need to make press fully accountable for how much effort they spend on hysteria instead of policy.From now on all… Read More
2016-08-18 14:14
I watched the Fox News "Townhall" for #DonaldTrump hosted by Sean Hannity yesterday, and at 11:07 the candidate became weaponized.What I say was a raw raw cheer show organized by obviously b… Read More
2016-08-16 21:38
Right now stock markets are climbing to all time highs, at a time when productivity, demand, and worker participation are at all-time lows. Add to that, ageing demographics implies higher so… Read More
2016-08-14 01:45
If you want to make marijuana legal, stop calling the process:"Decriminalizing marijuana""Legalizing marijuana"Both those concepts assume there is a reason why they refer to illegality and t… Read More
2016-08-09 12:56
For those of you who express yourself best in Futurama quotes, because it's the superior nerdy Simpsons, I present to you the Morbotron (It's not mine, I just needed a flashy way to end sent… Read More
2016-08-07 01:41
Some people may find even shorter discourse interesting. I find a challenge in compressing many complicated ideas in a single tweet. Most professional people / professionals are not ve… Read More
2016-07-26 21:06
I read this article, Pax Trumpiana by Dr. Paul Krugman, and I replied with a comment at the bottom.My comment was not approved by the reviewers, so to anyone wondering if the New York Times… Read More
2016-07-23 00:23
So I've been AWOL from blogging as I explore Twitter as another media outlet one can use/abuse/misuse your time with. I find it hilarious that people follow you/ unfollow you based on one -o… Read More
2016-06-26 12:08
It might be shocking to learn this if you haven't already worked it through, but as you might imagine the truth about a capitalist economy is that it is really a #CapitalistPonziScheme. I ha… Read More
2016-06-24 13:53
This is a warning sign for voters in the USA, and especially the ruling plutocrat class. The people that started the globalization movement - the people of the British Empire and then… Read More
2016-06-17 02:30
It was my august infantry instructor who commanded that we understand what words mean. After all, you don't want someone setting up an ambush if you said delaying position because that… Read More
2016-06-04 21:18
I was reading Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existence Precedes Essence" and it struck me quite precipitously, where had this philosopher been all my life?Here was a man, a soldier like myself, one tha… Read More
2016-05-30 14:45
There are many things that have killed humans throughout human history. Of course humans die from causes that are natural as well as human causes. Since the most humans live today, the death… Read More
2016-05-29 21:02
There are two denial groups operating in the climate science domain. One is the right wing pro-capitalism climate denying agency that seeks to make science a delayed cost to their investment… Read More
2016-05-29 20:09
Who made Donald Trump into a media monster? CNN did. When the story about the Libertarian Party frames the Libertarian party as an "also ran" alternative to the main parties of Democra… Read More
2016-05-20 04:00
This book is for men struggling with hard-to-deal with exes that do not have normal psychology; pure and simple.https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=2JovDAAAQBAJ I wrote thi… Read More
2016-05-11 21:13
#WhatDeliciousIrony: #DonaldJTrump encircles #HillaryClintonHow unfortunate Clinton is unaware she has been encircled...Billionaire Donald Trump is appealing to the masses by suggesting he m… Read More
2016-05-06 16:45
If Einstein's insanity was "repeating the same thing and expecting different outcomes" thenFrom Wiktionarystupid (comparative stupider or more stupid, superlative stupidest or most stup… Read More
2016-05-06 12:27
The best non-endorsement of Trump, by Asher Edelman, the inspiration for Gordon Gekko:"As frightening, vulgar and high-risk as Donald may be, Hillary's commitment to the status quo wi… Read More
2016-04-30 16:00
Scott Adams has summed up in this cartoon what I call the "Manager's Dilemma".If an employee claims that with X resources he can make Y product, and a manager refuses to give those resources… Read More
2016-04-29 14:29
As Russians endorse Trump's policy speech more than Americans do, and Putin favours a willing partner, it is entirely possible that this is the moment that radical Islam has a true ene… Read More
2016-04-27 21:02
My daughter was upset about how she was doing on an in-class written essay, and it reminded me of all the pain and suffering I went through in high school writing essays.I really have a p… Read More
2016-04-14 15:57
I had a tech blog that was getting no hits so I decided to try an experiment on a group of people that I understand quite well: introverted technology workers. I know a little about the gene… Read More
2016-04-12 01:54
My ex-wife is a narcissist and she refuses to cooperate because, frankly, she is incapable of the same reasoned compromise "normal" people can do.She brings my daughter over without telling… Read More
2016-04-10 18:31
If #DonaldTrump is a Democratic plant, then is #BillMaher a crypto-supporter of Donald Trump? This is exactly what Bill Maher should be saying if he wants to elect Donald Trump. All tho… Read More
2016-04-08 03:00
Secular Bangladeshi writer murdered in the streetRIP Nazimuddin SamadIt must be painfully clear to the reasonable in society, that the last great refuge of ideological fascism, is religion… Read More
2016-04-03 20:36
If mankind is to remember the basic ideas of scientific understanding, when few have access to the ideas daily, then we need to find ways to insert it into culture.It's great to sing about b… Read More
2016-03-29 00:15
A response to F.S. Naiden's Do drones contradict lessons from centuries of war?I read with much dismay Professor F.S. Naiden's essay on the value of a "dishonorable" weapon - drones - and hi… Read More
2016-03-27 22:05
Political correctness is the enemy of free choice; language meant to deaden emotional reaction also dampens the distinction between choices.I just read Bring on the Mud, by Christopher Hitch… Read More
2016-03-18 11:35
L'invasion d' Anglais marche toujours incessant... Google translates into French.It used to be "bonnes faites de semaine". I was taught traditional French and it's all out of date. Eng… Read More
2016-03-12 14:49
This is the hypocrisy of voters and the exposure of humanity. Just like people smoke and eat fatty foods (if that is still harmful - one needs to check that daily with nutritional advi… Read More
2016-03-06 17:09
#DonaldJTrump does not know how to build walls and buildings; he knows how to fund them. He didn't get ahead by writing laws; he bought politicians. He didn't study and research all the buil… Read More
2016-03-05 22:51
The old traditional model of money's value made a direct correlate to value backed by work. You work so long or make a product that can be transformed into money. There was a distinct relati… Read More
2016-03-05 15:40
I hate to sound like a real conspiracy nut, because I tend to believe in evidence based evaluation towards decisions. But I find it astonishing that CNN has no mention on its website anywher… Read More
2016-03-04 23:36
Roger Stone was an ascerbic outspoken dilettante the first time I saw him on CNN. Then I read some of his work on The Stone Zone and some of his books. He has a real inside view… Read More
2016-03-02 14:01
Clinton has just adopted a strategy that takes on the viewpoint of Republicans, while at the same time Trump is the change agent demanding to wreck the Republican establishment and take bac… Read More
2016-02-27 14:20
I just watched a fascinating documentary about the Gore versus Buckley debates in 1968. If you want to understand the bifurcation in US politics' if you want to understand whom did Ronald Re… Read More
2016-02-24 02:55
I watched the movie Deadpool last week, and I loved the movie on two levels. It was a great anti-hero movie. It was a great extended metaphor for the city, Vancouver BC, itself because… Read More
2016-02-21 15:29
It took me a while to decide which US political party was the one that leveraged emotional tricks more than substance on policy, but the recent action points out the "Republican clown car"&n&hell…Read More
2016-02-21 02:24
Trump gets to be Trump because his money can make the difference.http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/02/Marco-Rubio-2-Getty-1-640x480.jpgSay hello to VP Rubio Read More
2016-02-20 17:35
While Pope Francis exudes charm and grace, at the core he's still deluded by a sense of otherworldly grandeur. His job description is the Vicar of Christ on Earth, so anything he does… Read More
2016-02-14 23:12
I was cleaning up the basement and painting things and had the xbox / Youtube on with this Wilson / Hitchens debate; I thought Wilson was one of the best opponents that Hitchens faced. … Read More
2016-02-10 16:31
If Presidente Calderon wants to get Trump elected, then he should continue to attack Trump. From the story:"Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall! A… Read More
2016-02-10 05:17
All Hail President Combover... Trump / Sanders 2016! Read More
2016-02-05 16:40
If you want to win a war, you need to do the things that make victory possible. This is all the evidence you need Obama isn't trying to win or even contain ISIS / da'esh because he has not s… Read More
2016-02-05 16:24
If you want to change the financial situation, you can't keep giving all your money to the same people that lie to you. Max Keiser gets analysis that the ruble is 60% undervalued. If you pu… Read More
2016-02-05 06:34
He may be onto to something: I think her deflection is contempt and not defusion. Read this article that discusses contempt.This reminds me of why I think Hillary is Mom from Mom's Old… Read More
2016-02-05 06:29
If you ever watched the Lie to Me TV show, that was quite popular for a while, here is a more grounded explanation of some of the techniques and research behind that show. Emotions: A P… Read More
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