http://randomstrings.posterous.com free ideas, thoughts inchoate. add a dash of lunacy and randomly string the theories. posterous.com Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotation Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:35:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/ORUq4QuspR8/mind-and-brain http://randomstrings.posterous.com/mind-and-brain <p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alshepmcr/4434321855/"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4068/4434321855_42fb339117.jpg" border="0" height="375" width="500" /></a></p> <p>What is the mind? A collection of thoughts, sensory impressions and psychological states.</p> <p>It is a non-physical entity independent of the brain to the same extent as numbers and ideas are not dependent on their physical representation.</p> <p>Mind experiment: If a mind is represented by a certain configuration of the brain, then two brains with the same configuration would represent the same mind. The two brains are identifiable as two distinct entities, the mind is the same and independent of any of both.</p> <p>If a mind is independent of any given brain, then it is also independent of any brain at all.</p> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/mind-and-brain">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/mind-and-brain#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=ORUq4QuspR8:t1GUDv_LXEg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/ORUq4QuspR8" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/mind-and-brain Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:31:43 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/JkWsB0vTnZ4/indecisive-moral-situations http://randomstrings.posterous.com/indecisive-moral-situations <p> According to<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-the-week-the-idea-of-justice-by-amartya-sen-1774900.html" target="_blank"> The Independent,</a> Amartya Sen argues, using a thought experiment, that &quot;justice is not a monolithic ideal but a pluralistic notion with many dimensions.&quot;<div><br /><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Take three kids and a flute. Anne says the flute should be given to her because she is the only one who knows how to play it. Bob says the flute should be handed to him as he is so poor he has no toys to play with. Carla says the flute is hers because it is the fruit of her own labour. How do we decide between these three legitimate claims?</div></blockquote><br /></div><div>The fact that it is impossible to decide what is just in a single situation is not equivalent to absense of a moral system that can &quot;resolve [disputes] in a universally accepted just manner&quot;. Maybe <i>morality is non-deterministic in some situations</i>. </div> <p /><div>There are two ways how a non-deterministic problem becomes deterministic. </div><p /><div>a) Finer details: </div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"> <p /><div>Let&#39;s say Anne is so rich, she can afford a new flute anyway. Bob is an amazing salesman and can buy lots of toys that he will share with his friends in exchange for the flute. And Carla&#39;s labour consists of snipping her finger to activate the magical flute-making machine that she inherited from her great aunt. </div> </blockquote><p /><div>b) Different proportion:</div><p /><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Anne&#39;s flute play delights her five-member family. Bob will share the flute with his twenty siblings and Carla has no dependant or charity that will benefit from the flute. </div> <p /></blockquote>The trolley problem may have a totally different dimension with different numbers:<div><br /><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"> <div> A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are five people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you could flip a switch, which will lead the trolley down a different track to safety. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track. Should you flip the switch or do nothing?</div></blockquote><p />Let&#39;s say, instead of five people, one person or six billion people are tied to the track. How would you choose?<br /><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"> <p /></blockquote><div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p /></blockquote><div>NB: You may realise that this post is <i>not </i>a rebuttal of Amartya Sen. </div> <p /> </div></div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/indecisive-moral-situations">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/indecisive-moral-situations#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=JkWsB0vTnZ4:HYSS0B3eRcc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=JkWsB0vTnZ4:HYSS0B3eRcc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img 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stock-breeders. They burnt the forests that I loved so dearly as a child to make land for weeds they have tamed and animals they have caged. They hollow the Earth to scrape for pieces of dirts that they melt into weapons and tools.</div> <p /><div>They worship rain and soil that grant them the crops on which their unworthy lives depend upon. Yet, they fear and despise the wild beasts that we hunter-gatherers respect as brothers and honoured foes. They enslave defenseless game and instead of giving them a merciful death, they pen them up and force them and their offspring to suffer a wretched life away from the fruits of the fields, the forests and freedom.</div> <p /><div>They value mundane things, like tools and pieces of ornamented bones, and call them &quot;property&quot;. They also draw lines in the fields, divide the soil among families and call each parcel their &quot;own.&quot;</div> <p /><div>&quot;Property&quot;: Though I knew those agriculturists for decades, I have never grasped the meaning of this word. What I have learnt is that it creates jealousy and hatred amongst men. While we admire a man for his strength, agility and courage and while this admiration inspires us to strive for these noble qualities, agriculturists envy their neighbours for worthless pieces of metal and bones. Instead of crafting these things themselves, they would resort to what they call &quot;theft&quot;. </div> <p /><div>Their system of morality and justice is perverted. When someone uses something that is not his &quot;property&quot; and without the consent of the &quot;owner&quot;, he has committed the crime of &quot;theft&quot;. We, hunter-gatherers, while been fearless of death, value life and freedom the most. A crime only occurs when a man kills or harms another man with the intention of murder. In that case, either the harmed or a next of kin may face the aggressor in a fight to death unless the latter one has run away in cowardice. The agriculturists value their property more than their lives. They would cage someone like they cage animals, because he has led a pig or cow from a neighbour&#39;s home into his own. You may wonder what the difference is where a slave animal is kept. To the agriculturists, it is a crime and they would slaughter the criminal, who has no chance to defend himself in a fight or seek freedom in escape, like they slaughter an animal.</div> <p /><div>The biggest perversion is however their own lives. A hunter-gatherer, if he survives the childhood and withstands illness, may live for six or even seven decades. The life of an agriculturist is nasty, brutish and short. Even a healthy male may live no longer than forty years. And even if he survives so long, he will already have lost all his teeth and have no means for feeding. While we live on the nutritious flesh of wild beasts so that their life passes on to us, the agriculturists eats the products of the soil for which they have sacrificed their sweat and blood.</div> <p /><div>Very few of our offspring survive the childhood due to hunger and illness. However, those who become adults are strong with hardened bones and filled with vitality. The agriculturists give birth to many children that despite malnutrition and illness survive into adulthood . Thus they are weak and disease-ridden. Their bones are soft and deformed due to the hard labour in the fields. They are shorter than us and their mind is blunted by their monotonous activity.</div> <p /><div>It saddens me that these debased creatures which share same ancestry with us are multiplying like worms and rabbits, while our forests and habitats are shrinking. Imagine a world where hunter-gatherers are gone and Earth is torn apart and martyred by the surviving agriculturists. </div> <p /><div>It is a horrible world.  </div><p /><div><i>Following, &quot;The Lament of an Agriculturist against Industrialists&quot; and &quot;The Lament of an Industrialist Worker against Internet Geeks&quot; are coming. </i></div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-lament-of-a-hunter-gatherer-against-agric">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-lament-of-a-hunter-gatherer-against-agric#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=T3OAddd2H6g:5ww7Pf86nGk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/T3OAddd2H6g" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-lament-of-a-hunter-gatherer-against-agric Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:35:17 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/ZW8752KUdtY/world-domination-is-such-an-ugly-phrase-i-pre http://randomstrings.posterous.com/world-domination-is-such-an-ugly-phrase-i-pre <p> And yes, I stole the quote. </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/world-domination-is-such-an-ugly-phrase-i-pre">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/world-domination-is-such-an-ugly-phrase-i-pre#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=ZW8752KUdtY:B4xcfnv5yM0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/ZW8752KUdtY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/world-domination-is-such-an-ugly-phrase-i-pre Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:58:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/mM5UUulPr4g/proposal-new-electoral-system-bonus-feature-s http://randomstrings.posterous.com/proposal-new-electoral-system-bonus-feature-s <p> <div><span style="font-size: large;">Single-winner elections:</span></div> <p /> <p>The voter casts a single vote either for&nbsp;</p> <div> <ul> <li>a candidate,</li> <li>sortition or</li> <li>disapproval of all candidates.</li> </ul> <div>The option with a relative majority wins. If all candidates are disapproved, the election has to be repeated with new candidates. If the voters decide for sortition, a candidate is selected by casting lots from a pool of citizens with passive suffrage who have voluntarily enlisted themselves for sortition.&nbsp;</div> <p /> <p /> <div><span style="font-size: large;">Multi-winner elections:</span></div> </div> <p /> <div>The voter casts multiple votes for the candidates, or a single vote for sortition or disapproval. The options with the most votes win.&nbsp;</div> <p /> <div>If the disapproval has more votes than some candidates, than the candidates with more votes than disapproval are granted seats. A new election is to be held with new candidates, where the former candidates with less votes than disapproval have a chance for re-run if their votes would have granted them a seat.</div> <p /> <div>The number of seats elected by casting votes is the modulus of votes for sortition divided by the number of votes for the next lower ranked option, but not greater than the number of possible seats.</div> <p /> <div>Example of an election for 10 seats, with candidates A - Z:</div> <div>A is approved by 40% of the voters, B by 38%, C by 37%, D by 12%, E by 9%, F by 8%, G and H by 7%, I-Z by less than 5%.&nbsp;</div> <div>35% votes for sortition, 10% for disapproval. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <p /> <div>Candidates A, B, C and D are elected. Two seats are filled by casting votes as 35% (percentage of votes for sortition) divided by 12% (percentage of votes for candidate D, who has the next most votes) is more than 2 but less than 3. The remaining four seats are contested in a 2nd election, where E, F, G, H are allowed to run for the seats, since they would have been elected if not for the disapproving votes.&nbsp;</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/proposal-new-electoral-system-bonus-feature-s">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/proposal-new-electoral-system-bonus-feature-s#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=mM5UUulPr4g:Y2WiYreabRk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/mM5UUulPr4g" height="1" width="1"/> http://randomstrings.posterous.com/proposal-new-electoral-system-bonus-feature-s Wed, 26 May 2010 11:37:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/cP6siSMB0Lo/best-republican-educational-ideas http://randomstrings.posterous.com/best-republican-educational-ideas <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/randomstrings/lkErogmxhVrtbJdX3qquAZumRVrDRw6y3m58O4niY8T3rbDxb7ea9ysXPOFU/Ideas_in_Education_America_Spe.png"><img alt="Ideas_in_education_america_spe" height="357" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/randomstrings/Vb4RuUw7RVacdcfCWNOeEhag3YGWDJJoV5VcE5KLexY1Hd2HT2tzqzlCpnTG/Ideas_in_Education_America_Spe.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/best-republican-educational-ideas">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/best-republican-educational-ideas#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=cP6siSMB0Lo:mZcq75dTvok:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/cP6siSMB0Lo" height="1" width="1"/> http://randomstrings.posterous.com/best-republican-educational-ideas Wed, 26 May 2010 10:27:07 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/w7wE4DxxwzU/speculators-maggots-metaphorically-speaking http://randomstrings.posterous.com/speculators-maggots-metaphorically-speaking <p> Maggots profit from dead corpses, but they don&#39;t cause the death.<br /> <p /><div>As a metaphor, the invincible hand of the market put maggots onto different bodies to test for necrotic tissue. Sometimes, they bite off some bits of healthy flesh, but nothing lethal.</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/speculators-maggots-metaphorically-speaking">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/speculators-maggots-metaphorically-speaking#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=w7wE4DxxwzU:U-SWfvW-HMk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/w7wE4DxxwzU" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/speculators-maggots-metaphorically-speaking Mon, 24 May 2010 01:53:44 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/eTpzTMVj0xs/chinas-official-statistics-1-owns-40-of-the-w http://randomstrings.posterous.com/chinas-official-statistics-1-owns-40-of-the-w <p> Amazing, the communists have made a society in which the inequality is bigger than during the feudal eras. </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/chinas-official-statistics-1-owns-40-of-the-w">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/chinas-official-statistics-1-owns-40-of-the-w#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=eTpzTMVj0xs:int7VltIxR8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/eTpzTMVj0xs" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/chinas-official-statistics-1-owns-40-of-the-w Mon, 24 May 2010 01:51:59 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/NOF9BjsyQD8/robin-hood-2010-15 http://randomstrings.posterous.com/robin-hood-2010-15 <p> In attempting to capture the historical Robin Hood, Ridley Scott made Russell Crowe the son of the author of the Magna Carta. <p /><div>The Magna Carta granted rights to the barons against the king rather than the common peasant. And then the English nobility was French Normans so the war between Philip and Richard Coeur de Lion was rather a infight amongst French feudal lords rather than a war between two nations as the Hundred Years War later mutated to. And it was cute but unrealistic that child poachers ride on little ponies into the battle. </div> <p /><div>Apart from these tolerable historical accuracies, it was an enjoyable action movie. The plot is streamlined as Hollywood block busters are, but the screen effects are terrific, which is what I go to cinemas for. If I want good story-telling, I read a novel.</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/robin-hood-2010-15">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/robin-hood-2010-15#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=NOF9BjsyQD8:W0LPUx4M8eo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=NOF9BjsyQD8:W0LPUx4M8eo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=NOF9BjsyQD8:W0LPUx4M8eo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=NOF9BjsyQD8:W0LPUx4M8eo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=NOF9BjsyQD8:W0LPUx4M8eo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img 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perfectly fits the Keynesian cycle of wealth creation.</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/us-government-lends-banks-money-to-lend-the-g">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/us-government-lends-banks-money-to-lend-the-g#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=FpISDy2JtZ0:TTZcHjEeO8s:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=FpISDy2JtZ0:TTZcHjEeO8s:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=FpISDy2JtZ0:TTZcHjEeO8s:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=FpISDy2JtZ0:TTZcHjEeO8s:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a 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/><div>In a trade where information and confidentiality are the services you sell, honesty and openness are your most valuable assets.</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/google-vs-facebook-and-apple">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/google-vs-facebook-and-apple#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=-FiZ1OHeo2M:EZO1SBImi0A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=-FiZ1OHeo2M:EZO1SBImi0A:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=-FiZ1OHeo2M:EZO1SBImi0A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=-FiZ1OHeo2M:EZO1SBImi0A:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a 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dislocated phrases, English is everywhere. Everyone demonstrates how cosmopolitan they are by mingling in English words.<p /><div>Why not French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Polish or Czech? Any language with a proper spelling does it better than English.</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/english-is-infecting-german-like-an-aggressiv">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/english-is-infecting-german-like-an-aggressiv#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=qtiaxnDSqok:CuK8pGKVa38:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/qtiaxnDSqok" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/english-is-infecting-german-like-an-aggressiv Tue, 11 May 2010 23:41:12 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/iqh1BBAcdgU/the-united-states-of-europe-is-coming-thanks http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-united-states-of-europe-is-coming-thanks <p> First, they took your currency. Now they are taking your budget. And soon they will be instead of you. You as an allegorie of the European nation-states.<p /><div>The libertarian thinkers and economists have warned about this. So nobody prevents to be surprised.</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-united-states-of-europe-is-coming-thanks">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-united-states-of-europe-is-coming-thanks#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=iqh1BBAcdgU:ktWDR5bVQjw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/iqh1BBAcdgU" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-united-states-of-europe-is-coming-thanks Tue, 11 May 2010 03:34:43 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/4c4oYkTdCnc/memory-discs-will-become-the-new-currency http://randomstrings.posterous.com/memory-discs-will-become-the-new-currency <p> ... in far future.<p /><div><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpwwwkilowatt_odhgu" height="76" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/randomstrings/mnjEamjBrfvDcxIGrBpccwowGegxFCotwkDtvHvgykgpmdCBBjqeyBvjstra/media_httpwwwkilowatt_odhGu.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="145" /> </div> I have blogged about the possibilities of new currencies that are neither fiat money nor rare metal but are per se useful, easibly transferrable and universally appreciated: energy and data storage.</div> <div><p /><div>Since energy cannot be easily stored within a small container, it might be traded as certificates. Information, however, can and are stored in physical containers. The amount of information created will be far more than the amount of available storage [<a href="http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15557443">The Economist</a>].</div> </div><p /><div>The current problem we have is inflation. Technology enables the creation of better data storage so fast that any current held currency will be quickly devaluated. However, I believe there is a technological threshold after which more efficient data storage can only be achieved with significant difficulties. </div> <p /><div>That is the point where information will offer itself as the perfect universal currency, in the far far furture, when human kind has long left the planet Earth and colonised another solar system where free independent people fight the evil core planets...</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/memory-discs-will-become-the-new-currency">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/memory-discs-will-become-the-new-currency#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=4c4oYkTdCnc:Wpkmv2MQgOE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/4c4oYkTdCnc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/memory-discs-will-become-the-new-currency Mon, 03 May 2010 07:02:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/_sP3TAU5bMA/is-bp-financially-liable-for-the-catastrophe http://randomstrings.posterous.com/is-bp-financially-liable-for-the-catastrophe <p> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/skytruth/4542684379/"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4542684379_a23d235d5d.jpg" border="0" height="334" width="500" /></a><br /></div><br />BP certainly carries some degree of liability for the oil spill. But shouldn&#39;t the US Government also be partially blamed if the oil spill reaches the coast and fatally damages the natural habitats? The government extracts billlions of dollars from the oil company through off-shore drilling licenses and taxes on mineral oils. We should at least expect that some of this sum is invested in the protection of the coastal habitats from a possible accident.<p /> It is analogous to the case that the government taxes the people for universal health care and denies health care coverage and blames the patients for becoming ill. </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/is-bp-financially-liable-for-the-catastrophe">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/is-bp-financially-liable-for-the-catastrophe#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=_sP3TAU5bMA:DuTh-LT8w3E:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/_sP3TAU5bMA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/is-bp-financially-liable-for-the-catastrophe Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:21:44 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/PIc9nEnaqU4/difference-between-libertarians-and-non-liber http://randomstrings.posterous.com/difference-between-libertarians-and-non-liber <p> Libertarians believe that people can take care of themselves. Non-Libertarians want &quot;competent&quot; people to be in power. </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/difference-between-libertarians-and-non-liber">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/difference-between-libertarians-and-non-liber#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=PIc9nEnaqU4:TDVRMgHjK_Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/PIc9nEnaqU4" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/difference-between-libertarians-and-non-liber Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:54:07 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/z9hTX6p6-MY/the-hottest-article http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-hottest-article <p> I thought only Chinese nationalists have the time to spam The Economist. Apparently, Southeastern Europeans do also have enough leisure time to dispute the inane. The <a href="http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15905742&amp;source=most_commented">most commented article for weeks</a> has been a naming dispute between Macedonia and Greece.  </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-hottest-article">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-hottest-article#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=z9hTX6p6-MY:KL13LJtaxaQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/z9hTX6p6-MY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/the-hottest-article Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:25:00 -0700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/posterous/feed/~3/QyT_ElsPzH8/o-negative-reporting-tags-journalism-the-econ http://randomstrings.posterous.com/o-negative-reporting-tags-journalism-the-econ <p> <p>If a newspaper is consistently reporting negatively on you, it's either because the newspaper is biased, or because there is something wrong with you.</p> <p /> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/netzkobold/2902443145/"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2902443145_9da4e9770e.jpg" border="0" height="500" width="379" /></a></div> <p /> <div style="text-align: left;">If The Economist is consistently reporting negatively on you, there is something wrong with you.</div> </p> <p><a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/o-negative-reporting-tags-journalism-the-econ">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://randomstrings.posterous.com/o-negative-reporting-tags-journalism-the-econ#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?a=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/posterous/feed?i=QyT_ElsPzH8:wVfiuT2zCCw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/feed/~4/QyT_ElsPzH8" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1533256/Technicolor-squared.png http://posterous.com/users/1beqXfIuKhb randomstrings randomstrings http://randomstrings.posterous.com/o-negative-reporting-tags-journalism-the-econ