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Sample Chapter from AI’s Children

Posted on March 24, 2014 by ehurst

In which I begin forming the nemesis to the children; you need not take seriously what these people believe about themselves. The elder sage pulled him aside in the foyer of the temple academy. Despite the pressing need to catch … Continue reading →

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Taming Kubuntu

Posted on March 23, 2014 by ehurst

Whew! It’s too long to post here on the blog, so I have a draft version in good ol’ HTML here (gone now). Just click the link and you should get a fairly long tutorial. I need feeback. This will … Continue reading →

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Marx, Strauss and Mass Manipulation

Posted on March 23, 2014 by ehurst

What do you say to a man born and raised on the East Coast who is a rabid fan of some West Coast football team? There are a lot more of such people than you might expect. Throughout history it … Continue reading →

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Job 32

Posted on March 22, 2014 by ehurst

People in the Ancient Near East would recognize that most moral questions can be answered differently on different levels. They were untroubled by apparent paradoxes and reversals of good and evil when viewing the exact same issue from different contexts. … Continue reading →

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Saturday Report — 22 March 2014

Posted on March 22, 2014 by ehurst

The second book in The Brotherhood series is taking a little longer to get rolling. The story is more difficult, as I’m trying to spread it among a trio of primary characters and creating some bad guys with more substance. … Continue reading →

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Quantum Privacy

Posted on March 21, 2014 by ehurst

If you render it into a digital format, it’s public domain. When the only thing protecting you is government policy, you have no protection at all. The mere existence of any entity’s access means it will be used and abused. … Continue reading →

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Idolatry of Reason

Posted on March 20, 2014 by ehurst

Call it what you like; divine moral justice is nearly impossible to put into words. We can characterize it. That’s what parabolic language is for and Jesus used parables as the primary means to teaching. People whose spirits are alive … Continue reading →

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Moving from Windows

Posted on March 19, 2014 by ehurst

After some feedback from users who are migrating from Windows to Linux, I realize XFCE probably isn’t the best choice for most of them. So after a little chatter here with someone about my various desktop concerns, I think I’ll … Continue reading →

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Certain

Posted on March 19, 2014 by ehurst

You can have certainty, but not certitude. It’s not so much the precise definitions of the words, but the connotations. The latter implies something outside of you, a basis in external reality, while the former is distinctly internal. In that … Continue reading →

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Information Activist

Posted on March 18, 2014 by ehurst

We could characterize the US Constitution’s 1st Amendment as: freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble and express your conscience. The convention delegates didn’t use those terms because they were facing contextual problems that seemed more pressing than … Continue reading →

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