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]

Just say NO to policeware

Yes, I realise we can deactivate/avoid/subvert anything the bastards come up with but wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t bloody well have to in the first place?

Samizdata slogan of the day

I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

– (if you don’t know who said this, you are obviously a visiting space alien)

Samizdata slogan of the day

To not vote in an election is to vote for civil society and against the state itself
– Perry de Havilland

Samizdata slogan of the day

If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.
– Benjamin Franklin

Samizdata slogan of the day

You are the perfect example of a man too lazy to fail
– Kristine Blauser Scalzi

Let’s hear it for successful indolence! Yeah!

Samizdata slogan of the day

There is no problem in the world today that could not be made much worse by a UN conference
– Mark Steyn

Balance is such a tentative thing

A real life Tellytubbie at work.

Update: Oops. It seems we sent so many visitors to the site that their server blew up. Amy has acquired more bandwidth and the cute little Tellytubby chap is available for viewing once more

Samizdata slogan of the day

Samizdata slogan of the day

Bloggers may not be able to change the way newspapers are written, but we can change the way people read them
– Perry de Havilland

Samizdata slogan of the day

We make war that we may live in peace.
-Aristotle

Samizdata slogan of the day

If you can’t see through the absinthe, don’t drink it
-Adriana Cronin

Samizdata slogan of the day

If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams

Cuffing Kuff

Charles Kuffner wrote:

Oh, and surely now that several people (myself, Matthew Yglesias, Mac Thomason, Max Power) have pointed out the idiocy of [We The People] the Samizdata folks would admit that they were wrong in assigning them any credibility, right? Not quite. I stand by everything I said.

Well the trouble I have with this is twofold:

Firstly I think Dale was just pointing out what the We The People campaign are saying, not actually making much of an argument whether it was/was not really valid.

Secondly, and my biggest grouse, the ‘not quite’ link is to my article called Tax: The view from Atlantis in which I actually said I thought ‘We The People’ would lose the legal argument. So to use Charles Kuffner’s words, I thought the ‘We The People’ campaign was not a credible way of trashing the IRS. I stand by everything I say too, Chuck. What is the problem, you don’t like people agreeing with some of what you say?