] A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen
] knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.

] They argued many assaults are committed impulsively,
] prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often
] makes an all too available weapon.

We slowly plod on our path to a world made of nerf, where eventually good old hand-to-hand combat is default method of violence again, and you need a permit to use your arms.

BBC NEWS | Health | Doctors' kitchen knives ban call

Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we’ve come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, he believes the United States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. To do so is immoral, illegal, and dreadfully dangerous.

Foreign Policy: Apocalypse Soon (Robert S. McNamara)

] The study authors looked at what happened in the brains
] of both players during 10 rounds of the game.
]
] They found the extent to which the players trusted each
] other with their money depended on the recent history of
] the exchange.
]
] Activity in the caudate nucleus was greatest when the
] investor repaid generosity with generosity and most
] subdued when the investor repaid generosity with
] stinginess.
]
] According to the researchers, this suggested that the
] caudate nucleus receives or computes information about
] both the fairness of a social partner's decision and the
] intention to repay that decision with trust.
]
] As the game went on, brain scan signs of the trustee's
] intention to "trust" or "not to trust" the investor began
] before the investor revealed whether were going to
] increase their investment or not.

Pretty cool. Don't count on us to incorporate brain scans into the MemeStreams Reputation System though..

] His team is also investigating whether trust differs
] across nationalities, comparing German volunteers
] with volunteers from China.

Someone has been reading Fukuyama.

BBC | Scan 'shows if people trust you'

] But from what I can tell, the penalties laid out for
] downloading one season of a TV show with BitTorrent are
] much harsher than if you actually stole a DVD set of the
] same show from a government store. I lay out a practical
] example in detail below, but to cut to the chase: For
] stealing the DVD you could face no more than up to 1 year
] imprisonment and up to a $100,000 fine; for downloading
] the same material you could face statutory damages of up
] to $3,300,000, costs and attorney's fees (ie: the other
] guy's attorneys), as well as up to 1 year imprisonment,
] and up to a $100,000 fine.

A legal analysis of the punishments set forth for shoplifting a physical item versus downloading a TV show off of bit torrent. Links to all applicable case law are provided.

Off The Shelf - Stealing is cheaper than downloading

] City health officials are investigating whether a baby
] boy died after contracting herpes from the rabbi who
] circumcised him, the Daily News has learned.
]
] The probe was launched after city officials realized that
] three infants in the city who tested positive for herpes
] last year all were circumcised by Rabbi Yitzchok Fischer.
] The Rockland County-based Fischer is a prominent mohel -
] someone who performs religious circumcisions.
]
] Under Jewish law, a mohel is supposed to draw blood from
] the circumcision wound to remove impurities. While many
] mohels do it by hand, Fischer uses a practice little
] known outside ultra-Orthodox communities called metzizah
] bi peh, in which the mohel uses his mouth.

New York Daily News - Fear rabbi gave tots herpes

] The shift to the information age has been accompanied by
] social disorder throughout the industrialized world. But
] new forms of stability may already be in the making.

This is an essay based on Fukuyama's book.

The Great Disruption - Francis Fukuyama

] ICANN has initiated arbitration [PDF] (before the ICC's
] International Court of Arbitration) against VeriSign
] under the .net Registry Agreement, seeking declaratory
] judgments that many things VeriSign has done or attempted
] to do over the years (Sitefinder, ConsoliDate, IDN, WLS,
] and stemming the abusive actions of shell registrars when
] they destructively query the registry for secondary
] market purposes) violate that agreement.

Public Trust vs. Business, the battle continues for the seminal tlds .com and .net.

ICANN, VeriSign, and the Swamp

In the sense of making it more prevalent, our primary goal is to normalize Adeptship. Would you like to help?

Interesting..

Welcome to the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn

Yep.. We've done that too.

Every parade should have a weapon of mass destruction leading the way.

Missile Parade

On the morning of October 27, Thomas Friedman gave a keynote address at the United Nations in which he outlined the key themes of his next book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century."

It is liable to make you think, "I could have written that." But Friedman regularly drips with clue, his audience is a big one, and it can't be a bad thing.

Thomas Friedman at the United Nations