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It seems that every week something new comes out regarding the NSA’s attempts to intentionally weaken security protocols in order to create back-doors. Beyond simply being a violation of government authority and an infringement on our rights, this is one of the greatest threats to cyber security imaginable. Because of that, even those who have fallen into the belief that they have “nothing to hide” should be concerned.« Continue »
As you might have noticed, the site looks quite different than it used to. Also, if you’re reading this while the switch is still recent, you might notice that pretty much all our old posts are gone. Don’t worry, we’re going to be importing them into the new site, but we’re also going to be cleaning them up and adding a lot more content. We’re doing this so that we can provide more information with greater accuracy to more people.« Continue »
We have all heard the terms poor, middle class, and rich, or some variant of those terms. They are descriptions of position in a socio-economic system. Yet, how accurate are these descriptors? Even the most well defined methodology of class identification is limited to basic measurements of income and wealth, which are wholly inadequate measures. A new model for class stratification in the American socio-economic system is a necessary step forward in evaluating the condition of individuals within the system.« Continue »
Capitalism needs war, does it not? This is the rhetoric thrown around by many anti-capitalists. The following is a conjecture formulated based on knowledge of human history and the evolutionary past of humanity. It still requires further testing, but as it stands, it is quite reasonable to assume that it is indeed a valid view point, at least as valid as those view points of the “great economics” who had very little real world knowledge to go by when producing their economic theories.« Continue »
In Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future, Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza discuss how the ability to kill individuals of the same species from a distance is the reason why humans act in a relatively peaceful fashion. However there are alternative explanations to this relative peace. Specifically, our ability to communicate in a complex fashion could be the explanation.« Continue »