Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-21-2010

[andrewducker]

• Oakland green lights industrial marijuana cultivation
  (tags: marijuana drugs)
• Why not censorship?
  (tags: freespeech censorship)
• I didn't know Conversation had rules!
  (tags: conversation communication psychology aspergers)
• The Gender Stereotype Game
  (tags: gender stereotypes)
• Scots drink a quarter more alcohol than other Brits
  (tags: alcohol uk scotland)
• A screenwriter has a very strange encounter, and writes the best blog post I've read this year.
  (tags: writing crime reality)
• Entanglement - a simple, but addictive, HTML5 game
  (tags: games javascript puzzles)
• Sharp launches world first Android netbook -kinda.
  (tags: Telephone android)
• PressThink: Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion.
  (tags: journalism ethics media bias news)
• Scottish rents rise as home buyers opt to rent
  The best performing city in Scotland is Edinburgh, where the average rent for a one bed flat in the city now stands at £520 - a rise of 3.2% compared with last year - while the average cost for a two-bedroom flat has risen 4.6% to £680.
  (tags: scotland housing)
• The differences between Civil Partnerships and Marriage.
  (tags: marriage law)
• SNP to outlaw smutty innuendo. They can fuck off.
  (tags: sex freespeech scotland EpicFail)
• Sony files patent on using stereoscopic lenses to allow two people to share a screen without seeing what the other does.
  (tags: 3d technology games)
• The former head of MI5 says that the invasion of Iraq substantially increased the terrorist threat to the UK.
  (tags: terrorism uk war iraq)

Comments

[usmu.livejournal.com]

For me it all boils down to a rather interesting problem. If you want to protect something, you'll eventually have to use its opposite to do so. If you don't you'll lose whatever you're trying to protect. And that loss is even worse. That doesn't mean you don't have to be very careful about what you do, as always, but at some point it might need doing IMHO. We'll have to agree to disagree.

[andrewducker]

For me it all boils down to a rather interesting problem. If you want to protect something, you'll eventually have to use its opposite to do so

That makes no sense to me. One does not prevent child abuse by raping children. One does not protect the Ozone layer by releasing CFCs.

But sure, I don't think this is being terribly productive :->

[usmu.livejournal.com]

It's interesting though. And as far as philosophical concepts goes it's true though: prepare for war if you want peace, that kind of stuff. But that's a whole different topic. :)