Who is your enemy?

Who would you kill? and feel no remorse for doing so?

Saw this TED-talk today and loved it. Thought I'd share.  

Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we Must Reclaim 

This is a c&p of a recent chat log, from the morning of March 24th, 2013.  

7:52 AM

Candie

the Jodi Arias trial in Arizona been on

Me

Jodi Arias... omg...

I shouldn't even talk about that.

Candie

they need to hang her

Me

I agree... but I'm fairly radical.

Candie

she killed him because he was going on vacation with…

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States is a 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The 10-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book of the same name.  It is not a complete…

A supreme example of "thinking outside the box".  I posted about this boy back in 2011 and said that we were all going to be amazed at the things he comes up with; and I still believe it.  

Jacob Barnett is a mathematician and child…

As some of you know, I attended a webinar last week on the topic of building social networks. It was hosted by our service provider, Ning, and the guest speaker was Richard Millington, author of The Online Community Manifesto, and the new book, Buzzing…

OMFG - why did it take me so long to find this!?  

First of all, I love Google Chrome as a web browser, for so many reasons, and I'm not going to go into all of those here.  I was a Firefox fan before, {and would still recommend Firefox to people as an alternative to I.E.}  but I fell in love with Chrome last year because of its speed and the little "extras"…

I stumbled across this Al-Jazeera page recently - 

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/african-aid-helpful-or-hazardous-0022175 

which posed the question of whether foreign aid is really helping the people in Africa, or hurting them.

The page includes a lot of information and related videos, the Headliner of them all being the recording of a…

I'm not going to do anything tl;dr with this post like I do sometimes.  I just wanted to throw this up as something for you all to think about.  It comes from a conversation that I had on our Ventrilo server recently with March about I-Power appearing to be really slow, or even dead sometimes... and I told her that I thought that the site would…

This post is actually a very long comment that I constructed in response to a recent discussion thread on the site titled, "Is there an action that is not driven by selfishness?"  And I decided to turn it into a separate post of my own.  

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My comments and answer to the above-mentioned post & question are as…

I just love all of my I-Power friends!  You all are so wonderfully self-developed and mature.  :-) 

My friend Kokomo on here, for example, is always inspiring me to stay motivated. 

Here is one of his recent motivational videos about the inspiration he gets from chocolate:…

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Our Ventrilo service decided to migrate everything to new servers.  

The Voice Chat page has been updated with the new server details.  

Ask for help if you have any problems.  ;-)

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lul - the things we do to get attention, right?  :-D 

Ok, so this post isn't really about necromancy; but it is related to something kinda similar.  I was having a chat on the site recently with another member and trying to explain to them what necro-posting was, and why that practice is…

Well, it's official - Reese "tweeted" last night from BlizzCon and said that Blizzard is definitely going to introduce the Panda as a new character class in World of Warcraft.  lul

I'm not sure how the rest of you feel about this, but I think it's *facepalm* worthy.

Some of you, of course, probably feel like this:…

I was motivated to write this because of some criticism that I received recently from one of our members regarding a photoshopped comic picture that I uploaded to the site last night.  That picture was created by another one of our talented members and it depicted me as a type of triumphant hero, holding a big weapon, and overlooking the slain bodies of my enemies from an elevated position.  lul  And it would have been totally harmless except for the fact that the member who created…

Like many of you, I signed-in to the site tonight and was surprised to see that only  one post was showing in the list for "Today's Top Content."  Ironically, the subject & content of that post are related in a way to what I wanted to say here, which is that if you want something out of life, then you have to care enough about that thing…

Well, I experienced something terrible the other day, and since I'm still upset and angry about it I thought I might blog about it and try to "get it off my chest".  It regards a "prayer breakfast" that my mother had invited me to attend with her last Friday morning.  I usually don't go in for those kind of things, but she cajoled me into it by telling me that she would enjoy my companionship and that I needed to get out of the house more, etc.  So I said, OK; and I went with her. …

I had a conversation today with another member about how each one of us is more significant in this world than we sometimes realize or think we are.  Many of us put ourselves down too much, or think of ourselves as being insignificant, when we really have more power to influence and affect people and things in our world than we know.  Anyway, it reminded me of a song that I heard a few years ago which I thought was powerful, and which always gave me chills, or made me cry; and since…

Most of you reading this already know a little about me by now. My face has been on the front page of I-Power quite a lot this year; and I was even officially featured yesterday as a prominent member of the community. Which was very flattering, although I'm not exactly sure what actual benefits are supposed to be associated with that. lul  Anyway, you probably know that I'm one of the…

Note: The comments below were originally part of a Discussion thread that I posted in the site's forums, but which I decided were no longer appropriate there as I had originally intended. This post will serve to effectively replace that one, and will simply describe my personal views on the subject without encouraging any debate about it.  ;-)

Of course, a lot of you already know how I feel about…