A new drug from China appears to be effective in getting rid of a number of intestinal worms, a problem that plagues more than a billion people around the world. Worms cause anemia, weight loss among infants and malnutrition, and they can retard mental and physical growth. As a result, they can exact a huge [...]
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” – William Seward Burroughs in “My Own Business” Loss of All Systems Including UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) and Emergency Generators [...]
Sleeping in has its disadvantages.
The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you’ve lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at [...]
Excellent, i’ faith; of the chameleon’s dish:I eat the air, promise-crammed. – Hamlet ACT 3 SCENE 2 Quite possibly the most-understated security peril of present day computing, standards-based security and the cryptographic functions which support it has been stretched thin across an ever-growing spectrum of applications. A disastrous combination – the built-in obsolescence of mass [...]
This is relevant to my interests. [Animals] lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live [...]
A second victim has died from injuries suffered during an August explosion at the Bayer CropScience plant in Institute. Bill Oxley died Friday at a burn center in Pittsburgh. Fellow plant worker Barry Withrow was killed the night of the explosion, August 28. “Bill was a much admired and valued member of our Bayer CropScience [...]
What is the soul of seeking? In its heart of hearts, what is the seeker? What is the act of seeking in relation to the one who seeks and that which is sought?
The Nondescript Citizens project began in 1999 and ended at some point in 2000. Fortunately, some materials survived. Visit NondescriptCitizens.com to download “Community Agenda” in its entirety or check out The Proletariat Dream for the only pre-Operator Speaking spoken word which I recall performing (taped telephone calls should not count).
Secrecy is the greatest threat to freedom throughout the world, by far the greatest threat to democracy and freedom, and has been in history and will continue to be. Without secrecy none of the private and governmental means to control and exploit the uninformed populace would work. – Abuse of Secrecy correspondence at Cryptome.org What [...]
