Recent content by Pythagoras

Freedom is a complex idea--everyone loves it, but trying to explain cause-effect feedback loops and positive reinforcement is not. The American people do not understand freedom. We need simple oneliners: "Freedom is personal power over government power," or "Freedom is not having to fear...

The enemy is failure to learn from our mistakes. Freedom is a complicated concept. We need to find out what people aren't getting and formulate short comprehensible "edubites". One thing is we need inoculate Ron from the "crazy baiters." All revolutionary ideas sound crazy and taking the...

Should've written..."halflife of data insures secrets always lag reality."

Open source Open source is the only answer. Secrets and walls keep more information out than they protect, plus the halflife of date insures that secrets are always behind what's real. Believe the message. Believe that freedom is the answer. Wouldn't it be great if the opposition squandered...

Memory stick How about "open sourcing" the database and let everyone download it onto their own personal memory stick? This campaign is supposed to be a geek works. I'm too old be a geek, but geeze guys--this is just plain stupid. And stupid has only itself to blame. Learn. The key to...

One other thing: I agree with BGDubb, but maybe the most important point is that Ron is changing the debate. Huck as already picked-up on it, and others will too. I'm expecting to hear Edwards pick up Ron's "pull back the overseas spending" line.

The thing I noticed after Ron’s interview was the demeanor of Tim and the pundits. There was an embarrassed strain as one might experience have after having had to kill the family dog. I almost got the feeling that Tim was a little disgusted with himself and the other two were a little...