Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers?
“As written, any “website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application” that is “determined by the President to present a significant threat to the National Security of the United States” is covered…”
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If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Back in the USSR from Peter Harrison on Vimeo.
A metonymy is a figure of speech that is used regularly without the user realizing it. A good example of metonymy is the expression White House for the people making decision inside the oval office, or Wall Street as the city’s financial center represented by the New York stock market, or Hollywood for the movie “industry” in LA. Similar to a metaphor, a metonymy reflects the unconscious depth of language underscoring layers of subliminal symbols, connections and messages.
The Internet as metonymy is defined as a kernel that propagates other peripheral mediums, like hypertext markup language (HTML), the World Wide Web (WWW) and all other applications. In this sense it overshadows the meaning of Internet as the physical network of hardware like telephone lines, fiber-optic cables and satellites, servers, etc… The applications are simply mediums existing within a physical network of interconnections.
Valentine’s Day originated with the canonization of Valentino di Terni by Pope Gelasius in 496 CE in commemoration of his martyrdom. Valentino was a religious community leader under Roman rule, when being a Christian was illegal. He was arrested by the Roman authorities for his Christian faith and sentenced to death by Emperor Claudius on February 14, 269 CE; the date of his sainthood dedication.
Valentino was reputed to have given a young woman a dowry in order to enable her to marry the man she loved. Without the dowry she would have been condemned to remain celibate for the rest of her life as a social outcast. The gift was meant to elevate the union between a man and a woman as the highest form of love, procreating the sacredness of life.
Saint Valentine’s canonization was meant to promote marriage as a church sacramental ceremony. It was also a way to convert Roman religio by the emerging Church. Namely to overshadow a popular pagan ritual of Lupercalia that was celebrated in mid February.
Lupercalia was an ancient Roman fertility and purification festival. The ritual consisted of the sacrifice of a dog and a goat. The pelts of the sacrificed animals were worn by a naked man and woman. Both held vegetable roots, representing nature’s seasonal cycle of death and rebirth. Part of the festival included the pelt covered couple running around Rome’s Palatino hill. While the main focus of the festivities surrounded the woman’s sensual dance, invoking eroticism and celebrating fertility.
The celebration of saints like Valentine was part of a widespread promotion by the newly founded Church of Saint Peter (the Rock) in Rome to spread Christian faith throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
Over the ages, the popularity of Saint Valentine spread throughout Christendom and inspired numerous popular narratives of courteous love and chivalry during the Middle Ages. And later novels depicting romantic love like Tristan and Isolde of the 12th century. And during the 16th century stories like the one written by Luigi da Porto entitled Giuletta e Romeo that was made popular by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Saint Valentine inspired various legends and evolved throughout the centuries. All versions are dedicated to the passionate love and uncontrollable attraction between two human beings.
Today, Valentine’s Day is another example of the secularization of a Holy-day into a commercial holiday. What was at the outset a fertility ritual converted by the Church into a sacramental union between a man and a woman, as a celebration of the procreation of life, has been supplanted by a commercial exploitation of love and sexual promiscuity; parting with the genetic thrust to procreate human life.
Time for a corny video break.
Gary B: Bitter Sweet
The village idiot takes the throne
His the wind in which all must sway
All sane people, die now
Be lifted up and carried away
You’ve got no home in this world of sorrows
There’s a parasite feeding on
Everybody’s bag of rage
What goes out returns again
To smite the mouth and burn the page
Under the rain of all our dark tomorrows
I can see in the dark it’s where I used to live
I see excess and the gaping need
Follow the money – see where it leads
It’s to shrunken men stuffed up with greed
They meet and make plans in strange half-lit tableaux
Under the rain of all our dark tomorrows
You’ve got no home in this world of sorrows
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If you’re curious as to how the symbols found on the US dollar came to be, look no further than
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