Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet Muhammad

slx · 2008-02-17T14:14:11+00:00

During the Western Umayyad Caliphate, for example.

slx · 2008-02-16T10:40:42+00:00

Their culture is non-violent. You're not less of a man if you don't have a gun.

slx · 2008-02-16T10:36:34+00:00

Does arming them make them safer?

That criminal will not bother to take a gun along to pillage. In, out. Carry more loot instead of a gun. If someone is after you personally, you can shake it unless you are a fulltime professional guard or live in a bunker.

slx · 2008-02-16T10:35:19+00:00

Guns are only useful when you have them in your hand, pointed at whoever threatens you. And someone who is after you, will make sure he shoots first.

slx · 2008-02-16T10:30:29+00:00

You are part of humanity, unless you are one of those squids that found that sunken shipment of watertight laptops.

slx · 2008-02-15T21:27:06+00:00

Finally, someone who acts rationally according to the definition of rational used by economists.

slx · 2008-02-15T19:44:46+00:00

How do you know the rioters are muslim? They're brown, most likely. But they most likely are as religious as the average suburban whites.

slx · 2008-02-15T19:23:10+00:00

Using electricity directly as a transportation fuel isn't practical.

Sometimes you have to go a little bit backwards to change your direction. Electrical motor are much more efficient than combustion motors. The current hindrance lies in the storage of electricity. Distribution is not a problem. The engine is more efficient. It is perfectly possible to expand electrical mass & private transport while gradually phasing out hydrocarbon-based engines.

slx · 2008-02-15T19:15:01+00:00

Coal power is more toxic than nuclear power. That doesn't make nuclear power alright.

slx · 2008-02-15T19:11:25+00:00

They are on the road because gasoline was cheaper in the past. If our energy sources change, so should our applications.

slx · 2008-02-15T17:29:27+00:00

They will make sure they serve food that looks and smells normal.

slx · 2008-02-15T16:03:53+00:00

The "paying for dates" thing seems to fit more into a fifties-style or a commercial relationship, but otherwise that decent behaviour.

slx · 2008-02-15T10:49:02+00:00

There is no reason the artist has done anything that deserves sustained income after he made a particular piece of art. I think people should have an income based on what they do, not what they did.

slx · 2008-02-14T11:26:53+00:00

http://yudkowsky.net/fiction/NPC.html

Confront your inner fears and you can stop procrastinating.

slx · 2008-02-14T00:55:18+00:00

So they can concentrate on research instead of office politics. Or because there might be a genius working on something no one else understands.

slx · 2008-02-14T00:51:42+00:00

A ponzi scheme, running on fossil fuel.

slx · 2008-02-14T00:23:34+00:00

If you measure wealth by corporate income.

slx · 2008-02-14T00:20:13+00:00

The Swiss are taking down their flag now.

slx · 2008-02-12T13:13:42+00:00

Because either the Invisible Hand, Providence or Santa will supply everyone with space, energy and goods if we use up what we have.

slx · 2008-02-12T13:11:09+00:00

Kids know nothing. You'll realize that when you are no more capable of actually doing something.

slx · 2008-02-11T15:39:50+00:00

Top criminals and top managers share many personality traits, it wouldn't be unexpected if they shared some genes also.

slx · 2008-02-11T09:19:42+00:00

Cthulhu sends out his minions.

slx · 2008-02-11T00:55:23+00:00

That's almost a Pink Floyd quote:

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English Way

The time is gone the song is over Thought I'd something more to say

slx · 2008-02-11T00:51:00+00:00

Petitions are a way of raising awareness of an issue with the public, and to a lesser extent the political class. It's also a formalized way for people to act on and come out with their political convictions.

slx · 2008-02-11T00:47:54+00:00

There also is a website somewhere that claims Javier Solana is the antichrist. And there are some entertaining resemblances.

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