These are my links for November 25th 2008
- Belmont Club » A Pirate’s Life For Me – "It is legally more dangerous to apprehend a pirate than to let him go. If you actual succeeded, it might be necessary to grant them asylum."
- Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy [RAND Corporation] – "Netwar-like cyberwar-describes a new spectrum of conflict that is emerging in the wake of the information revolution. Netwar includes conflicts waged, on the one hand, by terrorists, criminals, gangs, and ethnic extremists; and by civil-society activists (such as cyber activists or WTO protestors) on the other. What distinguishes netwar is the networked organizational structure of its practitioners-with many groups actually being leaderless-and their quickness in coming together in swarming attacks. To confront this new type of conflict, it is crucial for governments, military, and law enforcement to begin networking themselves."
- Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes | Environment | The Observer – Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes, £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry. The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground.
- Love in the Time of Darwinism by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Autumn 2008 – Darwinian dating. We are all animals: manhood is alpha-style toughness and cool promiscuity. Woman are just as manipulative, calculating, and driven by self-interest…
