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Re: Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at 100

Douglas Rushkoff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:07:58 GMT

Coming from you, it *is* a Nobel Prize, Mason. I do appreciate that. And I really do also need to write an essay about my problems with Creative Commons.

Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at 100

mason — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:57:10 GMT

Wiki News boldly and factually dubs him a Structuralist .

Re: predator drones

mason — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:17:55 GMT

The vid (and only the vid) is up at one of your fellow's sites. http://hermenaut.org/2009/10/22/digital-nation-predator-drones/ I've emailed you info re the

Re: I may not agree with what you say, but by god, please dont hit m

mason — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:02:30 GMT

Cripes! Thanks for the insights. Sounds like things are more similar across the pond than i had imagined. Our PBS is much more cowed so they glide merrily

Re: predator drones

Douglas Rushkoff — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:25:48 GMT

I'd love it taken down. Don't know where to request it. Let me know what procedure the person wants me to go through. It's not my piece. I wrote something, a

I may not agree with what you say, but by god, please dont hit me..

avarice — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:03:39 GMT

I was taking the Noam Chomsky position, (I also like to defend the BBC which seems to be constantly under attack from every possible angle 24-7, the useless

Re: More fasces Elliot Ness?

avarice — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:02:58 GMT

You're quite right, the quote should have read "twenty-four attendants or lictors". You came, you saw, you corrected. Mr Whippy

predator drones

mason — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:56:52 GMT

Strange, the minor buzz about the removal of the piece from the Daily Beast. Instead of following the issue thru the usual channels i had to google my way

Re: This being the squat,

mason — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:45:23 GMT

Continuously thoughtful DJ. Too bad far too few in government have the courage to begin constructing an operable multiparty system. I believe most sensible

Re: This being the squat,

DJ — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:55:03 GMT

What's happened over the past 20 years or so in the conservative ranks that is of primary import is that they've lost huge areas of the voting block and have

Re: This being the squat,

mason — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:14:36 GMT

Dead Nuts DJ! That is where i live 24/7 until i can't bear it any longer. I responded to one of Doug's posts at Arthur with this comment, which applies here,

Re: This being the squat,

mason — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:14:35 GMT

Whippy! Hardly seems British to fear one's actions being construed as anti free speech! Not when there were such lively exchanges on the show! Americans could

Re: This being the squat,

DJ — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:55:52 GMT

There's something else at work too though. The right doesn't consider it a game. They don't consider themselves fictional, nor their antics. That's our hangup.

Re: This being the squat,

mason — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:44:26 GMT

True enough. Sounds like a video game..... I'm content to sit on higher ground, albeit beneath Rich and and Douglas, and endorse (what is it?) non-engagement.

Re: This being the squat,

DJ — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:12:45 GMT

Yes, exactly. But, I think also that it's about the simple perception that they are fighting back. Nothing at all to do with the content of the fight. Simply