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Cool. Can you link me to them?

Nothing new about that desire. Only thing different is the technology has caught up with the desire such that some technocrats can make living in that hell a reality.

>Religious stories about the Buddha were readily and literally coopted into Christian lore by early Church writers.

That's just another assertion of "They copied it!" Where is the evidence that this is so beyond an inference that they were copied?

>Unless you presume the Buddhist stories were themselves historically accurate - which would start down a road of "both Buddhism and Christianity are true" - it's hard to imagine that these were coincidentally also stories about real figures.

Life is suffering, and the Messiah took all human suffering on himself? I'm not sure these are mutually exclusive.

Ya know, the Divine sometimes works in mysterious ways. While it is possible these two fellas were a ripped-off Buddha story, it is also possible that they were actual people who lead these lives so that people who were Buddhists had some examples of how to adapt their previous Buddhist tendencies to Christian ones if they had an experience that caused conversion. Is there evidence to suggest they were not real people, or at the least, a large absence of evidence?

This is the way!

The diversity of Roddenberry is a different animal from the imposed diversity of the modern left that NPR is trying to stoke the fires of with this article. For one thing, last I knew, there are no versions of Star Trek on the air that are currently new for the first time in a long while. The reason this is so, partly, is that the series was strangled by diversity and politics that got too far away from the idea of "exploring strange new worlds".

Why I Like Reading About Bugs by Bertrand Russell

I stopped worrying about getting indexed by Google around 2008ish when it became apparent they were trying to impose their own rules on the internet and how things were found. Nowadays, I'm content to not have google index anything at all.

They left out the part where they profit. Otherwise, it checks out.

I still have a modem that looks like that, I just can't easily use it anymore. I also remember all the talk about taxes, and then how taxes in different states were applied to e-commerce and still are.

The issue with all discussions around the digital world is that the infrastructure doesn't have the same costs as say having a road. It is partly why ownership is being redefined so heavily when it comes to digital bits and whether you can own anything other than a license. Because the internet is not really physical beyond some cables and smart pieces of plastic, a tax applied to it is a little like trying to tax certain thoughts. Nothing makes solid sense in terms of how to impose a tax on anything since all of it is ultimately "wisps in the air" that ultimately exists chiefly in the mind.

This is a weird project. I'm not sure what the point of it is, exactly. Whole point of webrings was that they were not generated and were made by real people.

I bet after all this time, it still doesn't have a glossary function.

They are if the world doesn't stop trying to control how you have children and in what way you want to educate them, and how to look after their health.

>Are you saying that senior military leadership has earned the right to a little light graft?

I'm saying graft isn't the only explanation at this point.