Two interesting and highly useful terms and concepts within the study of the personal and party sciences:
Self-Ownership: “Self-ownership (or sovereignty of the individual or individual sovereignty) is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral right to control his or her own body and life. The concept has been originated inside mainstream anarchist theory, [...]
{Piggy-backing on the idea I just posted about: using cached versions of pages in place of newer updated versions, either intentionally or accidentally…}
How would you ever know whether a blog post that you’re reading from a random stranger on the internet hasn’t been automatically edited to remove certain keywords and types of content? For that [...]
I saw the Bourne Ultimatum the other night with the Strategist. We’d both already seen it, but have a shared love for these kinds of movies as well as the subject matter in general.
One of the things that I thought was the most interesting in this movie is the ways in which technology becomes [...]
This is probably an obvious metaphor but I only came to it last night, so you’ll have to forgive me. It occurs to me that Google is really nothing more than a searchable card catalog/subject index of all the materials online. Which can be useful as shit if you know approximately what you are looking [...]
Another interesting point by Svenson (who has tons of great ideas!):
If SS #’s are a matter of “public record†they have no VALUE to identify you. This also means that they have no value to identity theives.
Its the same with credit card numbers or anything else. Once one becomes widely known, its value depletes by [...]
