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BBC NEWS: UK | Lawrence of Arabia's Mid-East map on show

emmineb — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:52:15 GMT

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Beyond The Beyond | playground for global guerrillas | By Bruce Sterling 100201

emmineb — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:55:32 GMT

No rules: Internet security a Hobbesian "state of nature" Ars Technica By Nate Anderson | Last updated February 1, 2010 Life in cyberspace can be nasty, brutish, and short. So says a new report (PDF) on international cybersecurity, which argues that the Internet is a Hobbesian “state of nature” where anything goes, where even government attacks maintain “plausible deniability,” and where 80 percent of industrial control software is hooked into an IP network.

Boing Boing: Google founder regrets censoring China

emmineb — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:16:52 GMT

Google founder Sergey Brin told an interviewer that censoring China's search-results at the behest of the totalitarian government in Beijing was a "net negative" for Google. Before this, Google's position on China was the a kind of Orwellian doublespeak: "We have to censor China because they have lots of money and we can't have any without participating in censorship" and "If we censor China but tell Chinese people when they're being censored, they'll clamor for democracy." (Um... yeah... What about if you just send uncensored web-results to China about democracy? Wouldn't that aid the cause of democracy more?)

Boyd's Comments on Cheng and Ch'i: Remarks to the Seminar on Air Anti-tank Warfare May 25-26, 1978

emmineb — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:08:38 GMT

Sun-Tzu talks about a cheng and ch'i maneuver as a basis to throw strength against weakness. Now the question is, what is a cheng and what is a ch'i. You might even be able to explain it better than I can, but let me give you an idea. How many people here saw the movie Patton? If you recall in one portion of that movie--I think he was up before the American flag, I do not remember exactly when--he made the comment to the effect "What you want to do is you want to hold them by the nose and kick them in the ass." Everybody said, "Ha, ha, funny." That was a very important statement he made because it really represents in a sense a cheng and a ch'i. The hold by the nose to get his attention and then the undisclosed movement to the rear in order to pull him apar

Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine « Blogs 4 Brownback

emmineb — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:24:45 GMT

What’s even worse than the debate raging in American schools about the teaching of the soulless doctrine of evolution, is the non-debate over an issue that rational Americans have foolishly conceded to the secular among us: the issue of Heliocentrism, or the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled "The Peter Principle Game."

emmineb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:17:49 GMT

Index of Economic Freedom 2007

emmineb — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:47:43 GMT

The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom measures and ranks 161 countries across 10 specific freedoms, things like tax rates and property rights. View scores and rankings for any country, along with detailed data and background analysis. [Visit the Countries »] or [See Top 10 »] A Renewed Index The 2007 methodology has been revised to provide an even clearer picture of economic freedom by using data-driven equations rather than performance brackets which allows countries to be graded using a percent score rather than a 1–5 rating. In addition, labor freedom has been added as a variable. We continue the tradition of blending "Ten Freedoms" equally to produce a simple, unbiased overall score for each country.

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emmineb — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:19:04 GMT

John Paul Vann as a Metaphor for U.S. Involvement in Vietnam, p. 2 of 7

emmineb — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:39:16 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vann

Martin van Creveld: The Blemish of Conquest

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:53:07 GMT

In 1966, Israel’s leading newspaper, Maariv, invited the legendary military commander Moshe Dayan to be its war correspondent in Vietnam. Dayan, then 51 years old, jumped at the chance. He had been working in politics since 1959, eventually serving as minister of agriculture under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, but he had left his post in 1964 when Ben-Gurion fell out with the new prime minister, Levi Eshkol. He had been casting about for a new project.