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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Big Brother wants YOU! User Friendly has been my daily “must read” cartoon every day since it’s inception. It’s the “Bloom County” of the computer world. If you see a tech guy laughing hysterically and falling off his seat, it means he’s either just wiped the corporate server terrabyte disk and backups by accident or is reading UF.
Like Bloom County, the strips have long standing characters and follow ongoing story lines. The stories often have a connection to the humorous side of current events.
Now to the point and the current events. UF’s Sunday ‘toon takes a pithy look at the true meaning of the RIAA “amnesty” program.
Don’t blame me if you spend the rest of the day and well into the night reading the UF cartoon archives… you have free will. Really.
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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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Speaking of Bloom County….
Oddly enough, I just finished reading UserFriendly for the day. I do recommend it as .
Might I observe that the User Friendly cartoons also come in a nice series of books, published by O’Reilly. I particularly like the cover of this one