The telecommunications companies want to start giving priority to their traffic and charging users and service providers (like google) access to the higher speed services. Meanwhile other “services,” such as this very blog, will be given lower priority and thus be delivered at a lower speed. This is complete bullshit. The internet is supposed to be a free place that fosters the spread of ideas and innovation. It’s not supposed to be about paying extra so information you want to send actually gets to where it’s going. If they succeed at this they will essentially kill the internet as we know it.

I read a really good and detailed article about this very thing a few weeks ago. It explains that the telcos are trying to change the metaphorical image of the internet from that of a place (I’m on the net, browsing the net, meet you in that chat room etc.) to that of a plumbing system (delivering content through pipes). The latter metaphor allows for them to charge for use of their “pipes.” But the entire point of the internet is that it’s “stupid” in the middle. All the “pipes” and routers and such that deliver the data currently have no idea what it is that they’re routing, they just send it where it needs to go and give no special priority to anything. All the innovation, all the “smartness,” happens on the periphery. The internet itself is just a means of communication between any two computers connected to it. It is dumb, and that allows for fair competition and innovation. Now they want to ruin that, to regulate traffic, to charge tolls, to artificially slow down their competitors traffic. Don’t let them, the internet is the most promising and disruptive force humanity has ever invented and it must be allowed to follow its natural course.

For the past six months or so, I’ve been doing a little bit of experimentation with what I continually hesitate to audibly call Magick (The ‘k’ at the end signifying the difference between this, which I see as mostly scientific, and stage magic, which is flim-flam). This has included the use of meditation and yoga, the creation, charging, and launching of sigils, and most recently, reading the Egyptian Tarot according to the specifications of Aleister Crowley.

That’s all I wanted to say.

Oh, this too:

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§ The Hierophant, The Sun, The Aeon, Death, and The Universe §
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I give it meaning, and I take it away.

Receive the transmission… Ego melts away.

The funny thing about learning about youself is that you realize more and more how much you are different than other people. We are all the same and all that stuff yadda yadda, but I find things out about myself everyday that make me unique. Everyday I become more different than the people around me, and even though I feel as though I understand them more, there is still estrangement. It is as though I am looking at the world through a magnifying glass, and as I learn the glass enlarger my image, but as a negative consequence the glass gets thicker, further separating me from my surroudnings.
The other day my roomate called me out for trying to impose my ideals on the house. She agreed that my idea made sense, but she just didn’t even want to bother to do it so would not agree to the system. (Splitting up and labeling our silverware, so that you coulnd’t leave your dirty dishes for other people)
When I have a good idea that seems to benefit everybody, I assume that others would easily be in favor of it. It’s a fundamental error that I probably make every day without realizing it.
I really can’t speak for other people because I tend to be the prover that proves what the thinker thinks.
I thought she was crazy for not wanting to take responsibility for her dishes, but I gotta remember that I have my own preferences too, and I wouldn’t want them compromized now would i?

Open source android dream as your screensaver.

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