Tom Morris



2006.04.16

I blog and I vote, contrary to some of the ideas poked here. But democracy means nothing if democracy brings about authoritarianism. If America voted, democratically, to get rid of the First Amendment, that's not an enviable result. The statement "Democracy works" is only stated when democracy produces the same result as determined by a person's ethical or political beliefs. Democracy means that tax collectors steal my money, police officers spy on me and governments shuffle my name around. Democracy sucks, liberty rules. For liberty to arise via democracy, we need blogs. It enables some fundamental questioning of things which neither the political or media establishment wants to question. Parliament will debate the best way of colelcting tax. The media will too. Neither will debate whether the government have any moral authority to steal money. That requires the Internet. 2006-04-16T21:53:30ZUntitled entry permalink

Dave's been at the zoo, and he's got pictures and video (QT). 2006-04-16T21:35:50ZUntitled entry permalink

Ophelia has a good article on the New Statesman article which features numerous quotes from Andrew Copson, an acquaintance of mine. 2006-04-16T21:33:20ZUntitled entry permalink

Ooh, there's progress on the Universal Frontier. 2006-04-16T21:28:52ZUntitled entry permalink

Oh yes, after two months I've finally got LyX working on my MacBook Pro. I can now do academic work on this here laptop. There have been a few changes to get it running on Intel. The interface for LyX 1.4.1 is nice, but what would be even more cool if there was an editable outline. There's an outline view which is cool, but the ability to drag it around would make it perfect. The Apple+T command is nice even though it goes through ps2pdf rather than pdflatex or dvipdfm (and ps2pdf throws me lots of errors when I load it with my BibTeX file). 2006-04-16T19:42:59ZUntitled entry permalink

I've just been reading a few of the responses to the Judas text. It's really quite amusing. "This was written ages after Jesus!" Indeed, but so were the damn Gospels, fools! 2006-04-16T18:36:05ZUntitled entry permalink

No candy for me, Lisa. Took the dogs for a walk, drunk from the NewsRiver and had a lovely tasty dinner. 2006-04-16T17:37:50ZUntitled entry permalink

Oh my, I hate these people. They want to abolish private property, but only on Sundays. 2006-04-16T15:44:55ZUntitled entry permalink

Rep Ron Paul (R-TX): "Eliminating one-third of the proposed 2007 budget would still leave federal spending at roughly $1.8 trillion-- a sum greater than the budget just 6 years ago in 2000!" 2006-04-16T15:32:34ZUntitled entry permalink

Want to see unintended consequences? The London Borough of Camden provides. 2006-04-16T15:27:52ZUntitled entry permalink

Foundation schools goons are involved with the peerages-for-sale debaclé. 2006-04-16T11:11:20ZUntitled entry permalink

Hmm, I wonder why Skepticality is listed under "Religion/Inspiration" on the Podshow directory... 2006-04-16T10:23:01ZUntitled entry permalink

Oh, there's madness at Microsoft. Fiji? Vienna? Both are beautiful places, but we must see the Vista first. 2006-04-16T09:05:29ZUntitled entry permalink

Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian has an interview with nutjob feminist Catharine MacKinnon. Tongue twister? "If you've got that material being sold, there are people who are not intimate to the experience who are experiencing it. How equal is that? Your sex is being bought by somebody over there. You're now a thing in relation to people experiencing you sexually. How equal is that?" 2006-04-16T08:58:29ZUntitled entry permalink

Could Bush be a net benefit for ideas people? Nice idea, but I'm just too cynical. 2006-04-16T08:35:52ZUntitled entry permalink

Missed the Rapture? No worries! (Via Majikthise) 2006-04-16T08:32:50ZUntitled entry permalink

I've just subscribed to Gary's Trial by Fire because of posts like "Blogging May Need an Ethics Renaissance" and "Windows Vista: Past Its Due Date Already". 2006-04-16T08:28:48ZUntitled entry permalink

They're chattin' with Chomsky in Science & Theology News (which has an RSS feed, interestingly). 2006-04-16T08:24:47ZUntitled entry permalink

Another example? Oh yeah, those nutters at the Air Force Academy are demonstrating some good Christian ethics. 2006-04-16T08:21:17ZUntitled entry permalink

Let's see, another case of Christian Ethics in action. Bitter? No, just depressed - in real life - by the actions of certain subscribers to said doctrine. 2006-04-16T07:57:34ZUntitled entry permalink

This video has been flitting about the net for a week or so now, but it's great: Fitter and Happier. 2006-04-16T07:54:19ZUntitled entry permalink

 

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Tom Morris
Currently in: Kent, England
Usually in: East Sussex, United Kingdom
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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