The human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.

The Thinker can think about virtually anything.  History shows that it can think the earth is suspended on the back of infinite turtles or that the Earth is hollow, or that the Earth is floating in space; comparative religion and philosophy show that Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as non-existent.  It can think itself into living in a Christian universe, a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe – among many possibilities.   (more…)

The Bugatti Veyron 1001 Horse power engine only gets 4 mile per gallon when driving at full speed.  This means driving at full speed would only last for 12 minutes on a full tank of gas…and I’m sure it’s worth every minute!!!

Published on Sunday, February 21, 2010 by The Boston Globe
Tracking a New Kind of Civil Disobedience by Kathleen Burge

NEWTON, Mass. – As Newton resident Lisa Dodson, a Boston College sociology professor in the thick of a research project, was interviewing a grocery story manager in the Midwest about the difficulties of the low-income workers he supervised, he asked her a curious question: “Don’t you want to know what this does to me too?”

She did.  And so the manager talked about the sense of unfairness he felt as a supervisor, making enough to live comfortably while overseeing workers who couldn’t feed their families on the money they earned.  That inequality, he told her, tainted his job, making him feel complicit in an unfair system that paid hard workers too little to cover basic needs. (more…)

A well-heeled Philadelphia school district gave out laptops to students—then used the webcams attached to covertly spy on them, both at school and at home, according to a class-action lawsuit. The case, Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District, was filed after one of the school’s vice principals disciplined Robbins’ son for “improper behavior in his home,” using a photo taken from the camera as evidence, according to the filing.

The laptops were issued to 1,800 students at three high schools in the district, each with a built-in webcam that, according to the lawsuit, administrators can activate remotely and covertly. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all the students and their parents. They’re seeking damages for invasion of privacy, theft of private information, and unlawful interception and access of electronic information.

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