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Thousands still cling to their homes where the upper floors are yet dry, but thousands more have need to be removed in boats and established in great camps on the higher ground. Other thousands are camped upon broken levees. This is the pitiable plight of a lost battle. 27,000 square miles were inundated….An estimated 330,000 [...]

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Back in 1986, when I traded up from my old Kaypro II, I made a decision that continues to affect me on a daily basis. When I fired up my first Macintosh computer I had no intention of making a social or political statement. In fact, I can’t even remember why I chose a Mac [...]

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I often find myself asking why, if so much of what is happening in the political arena seems to go against some of my most basic human values, does it coincide with what seem to be other people’s most basic human values? Everyone I would expect to disagree with the current administration’s policies is eerily [...]

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Title: HAYEK, ‘THE INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIALISM’, AND WEIGHTED SCALE-FREE NETWORKS. Authors: Ormerod, Paul Source: Economic Affairs; Mar2006, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p41-47, 7p How do ideas spread across, or disappear in, a social network of individuals? Paul Ormerod suggests that one important way that individuals form their opinions on individual topics “is by noting the [...]

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Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army [...]

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