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1/26/2014
On HBO's show "Looking"
It is a sad occasion that so many gay males today lack positive role models. Instead, what the media offers them is an voyeuristic, atavistic, and shallow show where reckless behavior and meaningless sex make up the bulk of the narrative. It is an unhappy occasion that so many of the viewing public, desperate for any LGBT narrative, would hasten to defend this kind of shameless and exploitative media. HBO should be denounced for this show, it is as insulting and regressive as "Birth of a Nation" was and is to African Americans.
1/23/2014
3D-Printed Gun Creator Cody Wilson Lands book deal
1/22/2014 @ 9:37AM |3,222 views
3D-Printed Gun Creator Cody Wilson Lands Quarter Million Dollar Book Deal
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When Cody Wilson published the blueprint for the first fully 3D-printable gun on the web last spring, the controversy around that digital weapon led to its being downloaded 100,000 times in two days. Now Simon & Schuster is hoping the same sort of buzz can sell books.
Wilson, who leads the 3D-printed gun group Defense Distributed, signed a quarter-million dollar deal with Simon & Schuster’s Gallery imprint in December to write a non-fiction book chronicling his quest to create the first fully 3D-printable lethal weapon. Though Wilson says the book won’t be a “philosophical treatise,” he tells me he’ll use the opportunity to fully explain his ideological motivations for creating a deadly firearm anyone can download and print in the privacy of their garage.
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“The whole point to me is to add to the hacker mythology and to have a very, very accurate and contentious portrayal of what we think about the current political situation, our attitude and political orientation, a lasting remark,” he says. “It won’t be a manifesto. But culturally I hope to leave a couple of zingers…a touchstone for the young, disaffected radical towards his own political and social development, that kind of thing.”
Wilson says his proposal received highly mixed reactions from publishers, some of whom saw his attempts to create new ways to circumvent gun control laws as immoral. “It was pretty hot and cold,” he says. “Some think I’m awful, that what I did was terrible, and others think this is an incredible story that needs to be told.”
Wilson first announced his intention to create a fully 3D-printable gun in August of 2012, describing it as a demonstration of government’s inability to regulate guns and other types of commerce in an era of distributed manufacturing and ubiquitous communication. In May of 2013 I watched as he hand-fired the world’s first fully 3D-printed weapon, which he called the Liberator, for the first time. Just days later, the State Department demanded that he take the blueprints for the Liberator off the Internet, citing potential violations of weapons export restrictions–a legal debate that has yet to be settled.
More recently, Wilson has focused instead on Bitcoin, working with a group of anarchist developers known as UnSystem to build a piece of software for the anonymous spending and receiving of bitcoins called Dark Wallet. But Wilson, who was until recently a law student at the University of Texas, expects that he may soon be embroiled in a legal battle with the government over his firearm 3D-printing project.
“At least now if I’m in prison I’ll have something to do,” Wilson says, mostly joking. But he adds, more seriously, that he may need the book’s advance to fund a court battle he anticipates over his publication of the Liberator file. “In the worst case, I can at least bankroll my own legal defense.”
1/12/2014
Does she lose her 2A rights? Of course she does! In Soviet America...
I would not venture a guess as to whether a crime of rape has or has not been committed in the initial allegations leading to this media spectacle.
And I am also extremely skeptical whenever dead animals show up as evidence of a "campaign of heinous harassment."
However, can anyone tell me that, since the (media labeled) victim has been admitted to hospital for psychological distress and purportedly attempted suicide, will she be denied her firearm rights?
How can we ask the nation if this person should be denied a NICS check, etc. for firearm in the future?
http://www.news.com.au/world/alleged-maryville-rape-victim-daisy-coleman-attempts-suicide-her-mother-says/story-fndir2ev-1226796966515
I think it sends a great message that women seeking treatment for sexual assault should become defacto criminals. That this particular victim (depending on whether a crime was in fact committed)
went one step further and "attempted suicide" is certainly grounds for her to be denied 2A rights from here on out...AMIRITE?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryville-teen-daisy-colemans-mother-brother-reveal-reaction/story?id=21492788
And I am also extremely skeptical whenever dead animals show up as evidence of a "campaign of heinous harassment."
However, can anyone tell me that, since the (media labeled) victim has been admitted to hospital for psychological distress and purportedly attempted suicide, will she be denied her firearm rights?
How can we ask the nation if this person should be denied a NICS check, etc. for firearm in the future?
http://www.news.com.au/world/alleged-maryville-rape-victim-daisy-coleman-attempts-suicide-her-mother-says/story-fndir2ev-1226796966515
I think it sends a great message that women seeking treatment for sexual assault should become defacto criminals. That this particular victim (depending on whether a crime was in fact committed)
went one step further and "attempted suicide" is certainly grounds for her to be denied 2A rights from here on out...AMIRITE?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryville-teen-daisy-colemans-mother-brother-reveal-reaction/story?id=21492788
1/07/2014
New Obama HHS recommendations: "See a shrink, lose your rights."
Leave it to this criminal executive branch to weaponize mental health in it's never-ending crusade to disarm the US citizenry. As I citizen I can in no way have faith in a attorney general who is clearly compromised by the gunwalker ("fast and furious" scandal), an IRS that is used to harass political opposition voices, and an NSA that has abrogated the fourth amendment of the constitution. Now this chicago gangster and his liberty despising cronies wish to recruit by fiat the woefully underfunded mental health system of this country to further a political agenda that has nothing to do with actually helping citizens who suffer mental ill-health. Where will the expansion of computerized databases that constantly compute the program of systematic exclusion and disenfranchisment of citizens from their rights end? Eventually such "functionality creep" will be applied to the political and ownership classes themselves with the end result being that no one is "sane enough" to hold public office, drive a school bus, operate heavy machinery, work in a hospital, etc. much less exercise their second amendment rights.
If a citizen is prohibited from possessing firearms (over and against the explicit language of "shall not be infringed") because of an ever-expanding and all-inclusive definition of mental ill-health, how much more so then the "urgent need" for such mental health exclusion mechanisms be imposed to prohibit persons from holding public office?
In case you haven't noticed, social trust, what little is left, is quickly evaporating in this country. It is no secret that the government of the United States does not rest on popular consent or moral legitimacy but is held together by threats of force. Obama is scraping the bottom of the barrel attempting to turn the remaining institutions ostensibly purposed with caring about human health and welfare and healing into a political crudgle of exclusion. The new Obama HHS recommendations are as cynical as they are heartless and anathema to liberty and a society that extends trust a priori.
It is a terrifying and demoralizing reality that today, in the US, there is a great impetus to reduce all institutions to one form: that of the prison. Under such conditions even the concept of "mental health" becomes unintelligible, all humans are a priori assumed to prisoners and criminals. The NSA's blanket surveillance apparatus posits as much. The diginity of humanity and the idea of the inherent goodness of human nature is under attack. If the only tool government has is a hammer all citizens start to look like nails.
If a citizen is prohibited from possessing firearms (over and against the explicit language of "shall not be infringed") because of an ever-expanding and all-inclusive definition of mental ill-health, how much more so then the "urgent need" for such mental health exclusion mechanisms be imposed to prohibit persons from holding public office?
In case you haven't noticed, social trust, what little is left, is quickly evaporating in this country. It is no secret that the government of the United States does not rest on popular consent or moral legitimacy but is held together by threats of force. Obama is scraping the bottom of the barrel attempting to turn the remaining institutions ostensibly purposed with caring about human health and welfare and healing into a political crudgle of exclusion. The new Obama HHS recommendations are as cynical as they are heartless and anathema to liberty and a society that extends trust a priori.
It is a terrifying and demoralizing reality that today, in the US, there is a great impetus to reduce all institutions to one form: that of the prison. Under such conditions even the concept of "mental health" becomes unintelligible, all humans are a priori assumed to prisoners and criminals. The NSA's blanket surveillance apparatus posits as much. The diginity of humanity and the idea of the inherent goodness of human nature is under attack. If the only tool government has is a hammer all citizens start to look like nails.
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