We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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The return I have for some time been occupied first with survival and then with a transition to a new existence. I have never entirely ‘left’ Samizdata, but I have been a very scarce quantity as there are only so many bits into which a human brain and the day may be split.
Not that my time availability has changed all that much: if anything it has gotten worse. What has happened is that I have become fed up enough with my words vanishing on Facebook and the technology delta between posting there versus posting here has narrowed to point at which it is more worth my while to type words here rather than there. The only real problem that remains for me is the relative difficulty of posting photos there versus here where I have to pre-edit the sizes, which takes time I do not have, versus just clicking on the image and not worrying about the size.
So to many of the long time readers who have known me as one of the Samizdata founders and to the many more recent readers who wonder “Who the hell is this guy?”… let the games begin!
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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Dale – you are trying to take space travel away from government control.
Even I understand that this is important and that, therefore, you can devote all your time to chatting with us.
We do understand that you have rather heavy commitments.
Good to hear from you again. Do what needs doing.
Hippos? 😀
Welcome back.
O.K., Dale- what are your thoughts on the Emdrive? Supposedly NASA released a favourable report about it. Any comments?
Post the photos to Flickr or one of the other photo sharing sites, then link in the one closest in size to what you want.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18855/18855-h/18855-h.htm
https://imageresizer.codeplex.com
Yeah category tag: “Hippos” had me a bit puzzled too! But I also noticed this in the sidebar 🙂
Nick (Self-Sovereignty) Gray
March 25, 2015 at 12:01 am
Do you frequent http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/index.php
They have had discussions.
Well that is interesting. My post disappeared.
(Editor: For some strange reason SmiteBot took a violent dislike to you and, er, smote/smited/spammed you. Go figure!)
You left? When?
But seriously… Belfast, Northern Ireland to Laramie, Wyoming? That story you’ll have tell one o’ these days.
I have just tried the new interface and at first blush it appears to do the needful. I can drag an image into the web page and it appears to just let me type in all the information I want about the photo and then set the size to what is required.
So now I sit back and wait to see if it actually worked. If so, a photo blog of some incredible aircraft and aircraft tricks is forth coming.