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America Jones: December 2006

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Thursday, December 07, 2006. Paranoid cops and the law above the law (worried yet? Milwaukee police officers have been disabling the gps units in their squad cars. Trying to hide from the panopticon? There have been a number of recent cases where police agencies have located individuals using the gps transponders in the target's mobile phone. now government agencies have begun to activate cellphone microphones by remote for surveillance purposes. Combined with automated voice recognition.

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America Jones: Irrational Contagion

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011. Informed, rational debate is a cornerstone of American ideology. The American constitutional republic is a clear implementation of European Enlightenment Rationalist ideals. Conservatives want government to keep its hands off their Medicare. They're going to get what they asked for and they're not going to like it. Conservatives criticize Muslims for wanting theocracy, and advocate returning the US to its " Christian roots. Advocate increased spending on " national security.

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America Jones: March 2008

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Friday, March 28, 2008. Debating Popular Intelligent Design. A recent article on Wired. Sparked a debate in the online comments section about the relative merits of evolution and popular intelligent design; it is with some dismay that I've seen this and similar debates enacted in a variety of forums. I think part of the problem with the evolution vs. intelligent design debate is a conflation of ontologies. Needless to say, ants don't engage in such nuanced social behaviors as art; but by the same token, ...

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Numbered Accounts: 30. Say Yes

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Tuesday, April 05, 2005. The Famous Shot of the Famous Taj Mahal. We did our duty as tourists in this country, and it was thus that we found ourselves in Agra. A couple of weeks ago, and while the Taj Mahal. Truly is beautiful (see Fig. 30-1. The constant flow of tourists seem to have spawned a strain of shop owners and rickshaw drivers that are thoroughly resistant to standard methods of refusal to their constant offers of good bargains that you are clearly not interested in. Posted by Nick Thalhuber at...

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Numbered Accounts: 32. Having a Wrestle in the Shadow of Love

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Friday, April 08, 2005. 32 Having a Wrestle in the Shadow of Love. Having a Lunchtime Wrestle. I didn't want to let this picture go to waste, and since it has outlasted its use as a placeholder in the previous post, I'm giving it's own post, though it's really nothing more than a picture post of Taj Mahal. Employees having a friendly lunchtime wrestle in the shadows of the world's greatest monument to love. Posted by Nick Thalhuber at 4/08/2005 02:48:00 AM. Links to this post:. View my complete profile.

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Numbered Accounts: 28. Moustache!

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Thursday, March 31, 2005. The State of Things, From the Ear Down. I have a moustache. I don’t know if I should be proud or ashamed, but let’s just say that if I. Were a bunch of doctors. It might have been said that ‘ a bunch of doctors thought that it was impossible for me to grow a moustache. So I’m actually sort of attached to the thing. Though it is either too thin, or to lightly colored, to look very dramatic or pointy. Add to this my new rash of aggressive. She diagnosed it as a School Pictures.

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Numbered Accounts: 34. Waking Up Just to Go Back to Bed

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005. 34 Waking Up Just to Go Back to Bed. Good for Traveling Bad for Sleeping. Though waking up early is rarely easy, there’s a certain comfort in getting out of bed to do something early in the morning, if you know full well that you’ll be able to return to bed at some point in the morning in order to resume sleeping. While the overnight train’s ability to conserve valuable travel resources such as precious daylight hours and. You Can Never Sleep in the Same Bed Twice. The only jus...

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Numbered Accounts: 35. Cute, Bored, and Dangerous

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Thursday, April 21, 2005. 35 Cute, Bored, and Dangerous. Cute, Bored, and Dangerous. There are cows everywhere in India. While a cow in the road seems generally aggravating to drivers, the relationship is pretty much one of mutual indifference, as the organic nature of traffic simply assimilates the cow as yet another thing to navigate around, and the car’s large and threatening nature seems to be a sufficient deterrent to any act of frustration on the part of the cow. Also, to do justice to the cow in t...

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Numbered Accounts: 33. The Art of the Chase

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Sunday, April 10, 2005. 33 The Art of the Chase. One Half of a Hopelessly Flawed Metaphor. Last week in Bombay. As I walked along a very nice part of town, just behind the famous Taj Mahal Hotel. Though closer to where I was staying the less renown. Though just as well known. Guest house, I saw a sparrow chasing a cockroach. Across the sidewalk the same way that an overexcited dog would chase a squirrel through a park. Though the action was more frenzied than your standard animal-chasing-animal. Our reac...