Nobody asked but … I have very recently been reading The Information: History, Theory, Flood by James Gleick. After having absorbed twice the section on the Turing Machine, the coin has finally dropped after more than a quarter century. I will not attempt to explain the Turing Machine to you, referring instead to a starting…
Tag: history
War (Again), Rothbard, Ab Origine
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Snowden, Rothbard, Seeing the Future
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Biological Warfare, Consequences, Amazing Familiarity
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Today’s work…
Free Will #2, Rothbard, Movie View: Escape Artist
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. This has…
The Monopoly on Crime
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing sporadically at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. The difference between the state and an owner of private property is often made fuzzy by anarchists of the collectivist tradition. They…
Mission Creep, Founding Voluntaryists, Rigor
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. There are…
Bridging Sanctity of Marriage and Marriage Equality
Marriage is often defined as the “legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife, and in some jurisdictions, between two persons of the same sex, usually entailing legal obligations of each person to the other…A similar union of more than two people.” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com) Throughout U.S. history until the the turn of the…
On SCOTUS II
The recent SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage has the very real effect of forcing States, Counties, Cities, Townships, and other political bodies to license and recognize same-sex marriages within the United States. Is it not conceivable that this ruling will also force non-political bodies to recognize same-sex marriages? Bodies like businesses and churches. Should it?…
Expertocracy / Idiotocracy
Nobody asked but … Carl Sagan Technology Quotes The same can be said for logic, empathy, history, philosophy, spirituality, morality, … voluntaryism. The one thing that a large part of humanity can understand is self-ownership. We all have to be confronted with it. It is inevitable from birth. The better ones of us learn the…