Author Archives: Anton

D120

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

Thirty fair dice (rotating in Java; still GIF) most of which you won’t find at your game supply store. It’s misleading to imply that there are exactly thirty. Several of the figures are special (more regular) cases of others shown; … Continue reading →

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pity the poor little superpower

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

Pejman writes: We want to pursue this particular dream that we have, and we would like it if the world left us alone to pursue it. We don’t particularly lust for an empire, or for hegemony – we take up … Continue reading →

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yet another way in which I’m like Einstein

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.” Found in Quotations from Mathematicians

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Fukuyama II

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Joe Sobran: Addicts of the State You might almost suspect Fukuyama of gallows humor when he says that only the government could be counted on to send firemen into buildings. We all know what happened to those firemen and those … Continue reading →

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“a final thought about October”

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Libertarian Rant doesn’t exactly hear voices: I’d be interested to see if other folks are getting cryptic messages from their voice recognition software. There may be something larger at work.

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the copyright wars

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

politechbot.com: Hollywood wants to plug “analog hole,” regulate A-D converters The people who tried to take away your VCR are at it again. Which raises the question: if “they” couldn’t do that, how did they since get powerful enough that … Continue reading →

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power through the people

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Mesh Radio. The idea is to link subscribers to each other with multiple tiny dishes, rather than all to a central station. I hope it works: existing schemes lack redundancy at the consumer end. Later: It has been pointed out … Continue reading →

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