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“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche

TERRORISM AND MORALITY Understanding the Language of Terror

"In its modern form, therefore, the language of terrorism has become the rhetorical servant of

the established order, wherever it might be, and however heinous its own activities are.

Talking of ‘terrorism’ in this way flattens the world of international relations, removing all the

subtle peaks and valleys that make up the real life of nations, and reducing the diplomatic map

to a dull, lifeless plain on which are arrayed the huge army of sovereign nations on one side

(the ‘counter-terrorists’) and those who seek change - for whatever reason - on the other (‘theterrorists’). It is obvious that this is a crassly ahistorical account of the world, ignoring how

the various governments and regimes that deploy the language of terrorism in this way

themselves secured power: there is a Cromwell, a Washington, a Mandela or a Mugabe

behind most of today’s political power structures. It is in the inconsistency of its approach to

the use of force for political ends that the language of terrorism most exposes itself to moral

disapprobation."

Read the whole ESSAY here.

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New Gunsight Improves Marksmanship With Intuitive Aim, Says UAB Vision Scientist on Vimeo

New Gunsight Improves Marksmanship With Intuitive Aim, Says UAB Vision Scientist on Vimeo:

This is some interesting science behind the sight picture. I have used a Steyr M9A1, and found those sights to be intuitively simple and effective over and above your average stock pistol sights. Like to see where this sort of research goes.


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National Center for Supercomputing applications of health sciences?

Why not devote say $12-20 billion USD to the creation and sustainment of a national supercomputing agency/facility whose primary task is to create/outsource/maintain/supply researchers and scientist with super computing resources for the exploration of diseases with special emphasis on protein folding/prion based pathologies?

I know there is already a national center, but it's focus is not primarily on health sciences.