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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Laptop Oracles: Stand Your Ground
Be consistent, even if others don’t understand. In a very few years, we shall have ubiquitous video communications over most of the earth. Cell phones are nearly there now. But it’s not a question of hardware; it’s a question of … Continue reading
Biblical Law and Children
A couple of items came to my attention today regarding how Scripture handles children. In the Ancient Near East (ANE), a child was seldom away from mother during the first five years of life. A mom could get a break … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, history, law, psychology
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Laptop Oracles: Sheeple
There must be sheeple. The selection of folks who have some realistic idea how the Internet works is very small, indeed. Fact: The majority of all Internet connections terminate with a machine running some version of Windows poorly configured. The … Continue reading
Laptop Oracles: Secrecy Is Evil
Thus saith the Lord: Withholding information is as the sin of murder. So very much has been made of the insistence some things need to be classified, to protect from enemy eyes things which might give them an advantage of … Continue reading
Laptop Oracles: Copyright Is Dead
Thus saith the Lord: Withholding information is as the sin of murder. Placing a gateway, or any other impediment to information access, is an abomination to God. If you depend on selling such access, you are a thief at the … Continue reading
Sniffing False Flags in the Wind
You can smell a false flag coming soon. As you scan back over the public reports from the past few decades, you realize we have suffered quite a few false flags here in the US. Increasingly, the disasters were predicted, … Continue reading
Laptop Oracles: Trust
Civilization was God’s idea, His command through Noah. The fundamental question which civilization seeks to answer is how people can live in close proximity with minimal friction. A higher density of humanity provides a great many benefits, but at a … Continue reading
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Laptop Oracles: Civilization
A new civilization is aborning. The West is dead, it’s carcass moldering in the street. Will someone please push it off into the sewer? What once was is past. We shall be forced to bear its foul odor a bit … Continue reading
Squeeze, FFMPEG and MP3 Conversions
Debian Squeeze: Things have changed and there seems to be poor notice from the developers. I still like to find my old favorite songs on YouTube and strip out the audio track to make an MP3. It’s gotten a little … Continue reading
The Laptop Oracles: Preface
Edward, a madman and prophet of Jehovah, typing on a Dell laptop: The West is dying, and will be overtaken by the Networked Civilization. We shall have world governments, but the only ones which remain very long will build on … Continue reading