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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 1)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) Lots of folks offer various kinds of guides to installing Debian. This is just one more. Why Debian? It’s easily the single best escape from MS Windows for most … Continue reading
Internet Unrealities
Perhaps you’ve met one like him. He asked me to come over to his apartment and look at his computer, saying only that it had a problem. Some charitable agency had given him a decent system with Ubuntu installed. He … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, computers, culture, government, internet, Internet traffic, NSA, oppression, technology
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The Core of Human Existence
No grand theory here; I’m struggling to echo the Bible in modern Western terms. Let’s pretend, maybe something along the lines of the Fallout series of video games. Trailers and bits of game play can be found in good quantity … Continue reading
Posted in religion
Tagged computers, epistemology, game, game play, Law Covenants, mysticism, peace, philosophy, scripture, spirituality
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Three Debian Install Issues
This applies to Ubuntu Precise and Debian Wheezy for sure, and perhaps other versions. 1. Libre Office Extensions: You need to install OpenJDK’s JRE version 7 (“openjdk-7-jre” is the package name) or at least some of your installable extensions from … Continue reading
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Tagged debian, Debian Wheezy, Libre Office, linux, technology
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Some Limits Apply
The atheist or secularist who takes a poke at faith is merely shadow-boxing. Since they can’t hit the real thing, they simply castigate the effects. Faith is unreasonable in the sense of being far above reason, operating in a different … Continue reading
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Tagged divine justice, epistemology, intellect, law, mysticism, spirituality
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Job 17
Job’s visitors demand that he tell a lie against God. They have no objective evidence at all that Job has sinned such that his situation is punishment for some specific error. Instead, they have only their pitiful reasoning. What they … Continue reading
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Tagged hebrew poetry, Job, mysticism, scripture, spirituality
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Quantum Culture
Even today, we have little comprehension of what the ancients did, much less what they knew in order to do it. Part of it is our complete failure to grasp how they understood their world. We speculate with very little … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquities, civilization, culture, history, math and science, mysticism, science, technology
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Quantum Commerce
It’s all about the people. As 3D printing takes off, we’ll see a huge shift in the leverage for manufactured goods. Some types of manufacture will always require huge concentrations of resources, not to mention the distribution of those goods. … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D printers, civilization, computer aided design, computers, culture, divine justice, economics, government, technology
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