Chipping the web – manual maximum
December 28th, 2006 2:08:52 pm pst by Sterling Camden
Sweetness: Walter Payton, the famous running back for the Chicago Bears who wore #34, was nick-named “Sweetness”.
Turns out honesty is the best policy. Who knew?
If it isn’t interesting to some people, then where do the page views come from? You can police your own domains, but please don’t try to “clean up” the Internet. We’re not China, and we don’t want to be. Besides, I enjoy Randy’s posts.
I hear you, Seth.
IMHO, there is little question that humans have evolved. We are not the same creatures we were even a hundred years ago. The question is: has it been for the better? Answer: define “better”.
Phil Factor provides his automated prophesies for your new year. Written in SQL. Wouldn’t it have been easier to just inspect the liver of a goat or something, Phil?
I’m always up for some handy neologisms. I especially like “Google delay” and “lateroluddite”.
No stealing the mellow! Anyway, mellow has an infinite number of sources, especially if you’re willing to take risks.
Ha, Doc, I scored 60! I’ll keep talking if I want to.
Funny how you never realize a person’s worth until they’re gone (via Scoble).
In fact, death can improve just about anyone (thanks Armchair Anarchist).
I’m really gonna miss good ole Marmaduke.
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You and what army?
On the Libertarian Purity Test I scored 104.
Seth: an army of one.
Joseph: I stand in awe of your Libertarianness. I wonder at what score does it cross into Anarchism? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
[...] Manual maximum: using your hands as numeric digits (ha), and composing their values with your fingers (thus counting in base 6), the maximum value you can represent is 55base6, which is decimal 35. Unless you have more than two hands. Of course, you can count in base 7 if you suffer from hexadactyly. [...]
I scored 110 out of 160 on the Libertarian Purity Test. I think anything over about 130 must perforce be called “anarchist”, generally speaking (though the way the test is put together, there are some strange and self-contradictory possibilities for scoring).
Anyway, the person who wrote this test seems to be a strict anarcho-capitalist. I thought the same way in high school, but I’ve matured a bit since then. I’m now a free market libertarian minarchist.
Actually, I’d still be an anarcho-capitalist if I thought anarcho-capitalism had a chance in hell of longevity, but since it’s not I basically opt for the most government one can reasonably get without violating NAP libertarian ethical principles — which is damned little — to provide some kind of organizational inertia to counteract the effects of overambitious syndicalists and authoritarians.
I guess one could say that I’m actually more anti-state, in practice, than most anarchists. After all, anarchy is just a void waiting to be filled.
Indeed, apotheon. Where leadership and organization are completely missing they spontaneously arise, and not always for the better.