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No, and that link is outdated; I started on http://www.taxforthepeople.us/ but I am a terrible Web designer and have a lot of other shit to focus on (including education). Haven't been self-promoting because I would just be promoting an embarrassment.

I like to process information. I don't absorb others's philosophies or become evangelists of people like Tony Buzan; I listen to their ramblings, reject shit that makes no sense, build upon the part that does, occasionally come back and throw out half of those decisions because of new information, and continuously forge my own assessments and plans. Mind you, I will reach back for an appeal to authority from time to time--you might be intelligent if you can solve the world's problems on your own, but nobody will *think* you're intelligent unless you pull quotes from philosophers and famous world leaders out of your ass--but only for the parts I see as aligned with my own assessment.

You'll never see me associated with a political party or group because I invariably find part of their political philosophy to be either misguided or a steaming pile of group-think. This is so radical an effect that it's readily illustrated by comparing my positions on various topics.

My stance on education is massively conservative: we need a huge step back into an era where we learned to learn, where we taught kids how to remember things, how to study, how to perform math, instead of just exposing them to "science" (look! Baking soda makes bubbles in vinegar!) and hoping the experience will teach them. The teaching of study methods (SQ3R, SQW3R), mnemonics techniques, and advanced mathematical education from the dark ages (Soroban and Anzan, as used in Japan today!) would greatly improve education; yet all of this was thrown out when Faculty Learning was falsified as a theory, as a huge overreaction. People recognized that pounding Latin and Greek into the brain did not "strengthen it by exercise", but failed to recognize that Latin and Greek give students a strong basis with which to associate English (and other European languages), thus making a broad array of languages meaningful and easily-learned.

In contrast, my stance on economy is a liberally progressive movement toward a citizen's dividend intended to eliminate poverty and reduce the power of large business, yet with a strong conservative stance on how to apply welfare and an aim to reduce large government. I push back on means-tested welfare: you get nothing for children, nothing for having a low income (and no penalty for having a high income), nothing for disability; instead, we give everyone just enough to get by--that is, just enough for businesses to profit by selling them basic needs goods and services at prices they can afford, creating a huge and profitable market for supporting the poor. Liberal progressive mentality is to take every opportunity to point out hardship and lobby for additional support for the especially needy, which is expensive and prone to abuse--and requires bigger government; while conservative mentality is to stop handing out free shit entirely, which I think would weaken the economy.

Of course that means I take in anything anyone says, chew it up, spit out the parts I find distasteful, and readily swallow the rest. What did Mack Reynolds write that's of interest?

Get the audiobook from Audible for Moonwalking with Einstein. The performance is fucking fantastic! It's mostly amusement; Kenneth Higbee's book is a technical treatise.

I stick to fantasy and scifi. I've read Shibumi--great book, no way am I reading anything else by that author. 1Q89 I have in Japanese--can't read it--and it looks promising, but I'm leery because it's too urban. Age of Misrule was excellent--I love dark fantasy--but borderline due to being too mundanely urban for me; would highly recommend the entire 9 book set. By contrast, Vampire Hunter D is pulp and formulaic, but I enjoyed a run through the first 5 or 6 books; The Archmage follows similar suit, and The Deepgate Codex is just terrible writing but a favored trilogy of mine (mostly, any time spent in Hell is interesting).

Look, it's stupid. You're stupid. Everyone is stupid.

Buy this. It has two HDMI inputs on the back. Hook your computer to one--your sound will even come out of the speakers, and stop coming out when you switch the TV off--and an HDMI switch to the other. Plug your Wii U, PS3 (bluray player), etc., into the HDMI switch. Plug your legacy systems (NES, PS2) into an Audio-Stereo-Component switcher, with composite systems routed properly (the same pins are used for AVC as AVRGB, with the Red pin reused for Composite; just switch to Composite input when using your SNES).

Now you can fullscreen RWBY right on RoosterTeeth's site from your computer, onto 1080p HDTV. You can switch to the Wii U or PS3 and watch your Netflix and Amazon Instant Video right there, or even a BluRay or DVD--assuming you're not just using the computer to play Amazon Prime Video straight on screen.

You put a TV somewhere, you plug a computer into it. In the extreme case, you can plug a $50 Roku into it instead of a computer or game console, and pull Hulu and Netflux and Amazon up that way. You know, instead of plugging in a $35 ChromeCast and spanning a Web browser tab in from another room. Most likely, you have a friggin' laptop or another PC in that room.

I have 6 ways to watch an Amazon, Netflix, or YouTube video just as a matter of course, on a ginormous HDTV.

It just attracts idiots. Silk Road is, purportedly, viable now because you can buy things anonymously--over Tor, with Bitcoin.

And have them shipped to a physical address.