December 2010
7 posts
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
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Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage (2005). Quote from Sophie Scholl, a student leader of the peaceful anti-government resistance group the White Rose in 1940s Germany. She was a biology major at the University of Munich. She was beheaded by the National Socialists in February, 1943.
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“A new species of philosophers is coming up: I venture to baptize them with a...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, ‘The Free Spirit’, section 42.
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“The missing ear - ‘So long as one always lays the blame on others one...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human All Too Human, vol.2, section 386.
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Representation and Secrecy
If they who represent us are unwilling to disclose what they said on our behalf the only thing certain is that they no longer represent us.
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“We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the...”
– Julian Assange
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Excerpts from Julian Assange's Q&A at the Guardian
rszopa asked:
Annoying as it may be, the DDoS seems to be good publicity (if anything, it adds to your credibility). So is getting kicked out of AWS. Do you agree with this statement? Were you planning for it? Thank you for doing what you are doing.
Julian Assange answered:
Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free...
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“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in...”
– Glenn Gould, from Glenn Gould: Music and Mind, p.64, by Geoffrey Payzant.