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Max Headroom first aired in 1987. This shows, which took place '20 minutes into the future,' ended up being surprisingly prescient. One episode dealt with the idea of creating AI versions of dead relatives. Today we're living that episode.
Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared God to be dead. Max Stirner, less famously, declared the same. The faithful disagree, but their statements within context, that the Enlightenment diminished belief in Christianity, are undeniable. Today we live with the consequences of the Enlightenment and they're not all good.
Here's yet another example of how you don't own your smart devices. Echelon, a manufacturer of smart exercise equipment, has removed third-party application access via a firmware update.
Is the new 6.8x51mm superior to the 5.56x45mm? Is .45 Auto superior to 9mm Luger? Should smart tactical operators adopt the latest 6mm wundercartridge? Does any of this actually matter?
I consider diet one of the three pillars of fitness along with exercise and sleep. I realize that I've written almost nothing about diet so I'm going to fix that by writing about my recent efforts to clean mine up.
Rather than post a review of a rifle for which there are already a million reviews, I thought I'd go over how I setup my Steyr AUG.
The discussion about global warming is usually a debate between whether it's happening or not or whether it's manmade or natural. Those who agree that it's happening and it's manmade also agree that it's your fault.
In this post I share my six month saga with Smith and Wesson. Through this saga I learned that Smith and Wesson, a company I once held in high regard, is utterly incompetent and dishonest.
Everywhere you turn companies are turning the straight forward into the convoluted by unnecessarily inserting apps in the middle. There's no reason anybody needs to pull out their smartphone to order lunch, pump gas, or check into a hotel.
Socialists, communists, and many other leftists see themselves are rebels. They believe that they're revolutionaries fighting against a corrupt and oppressive society. While there are some rebels amongst today's leftists, many of them are actually rule followers to the extreme. Rather than fighting against society, they're fighting for it.