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A rant and a proposal about essential services
Water rates have recently been introduced here. That means the local council now sends us a bill, quarterly, for the cost of supplying water to our house. Actually the bill is for the cost plus the profit earned by some utility company set up for the particular purpose of administering the provision of domestic water, [...]
The golden rule.
22 United States agents have been convicted in Italy for the abduction and torture of a person who, although himself the subject of a criminal investigation by the Italian police, had been convicted of no crime.
Imagine if Italy did this on US soil. Should those spies be free of the consequences of US law? I [...]
Strange happenings
Over the past 6 months I’ve had 150 users subscribe to this blog, mainly from gmail or mail.ru or ukraine email addresses. The user names of these people don’t match the email addresses. It’s all very suspicious.
So, for safety, I’ve deleted them all. If one of them is you, and you’re real, then I’m sorry. [...]
the war on terror as the new inquisition
Nice article.
Superstrings
By Michio Kaku
The carp could see rippling shadows on the surface of the pond. The third dimension would be invisible to them, but vibrations in the third dimensions would be clearly visible. These ripples might even be felt by the carp, who would invent a silly concept to describe this, called “force.” They might even [...]
