I was contacted yesterday (or was it two days ago? I’ve since flown across the international date line, so I’m a bit confused on time at the moment) by the product manager for DBsign, the program that is used for user authentication and signatures on DTS (and other applications? unsure about this at the moment). […]
Month: April 2011
Immaculate Intervention: The Wars of Humanitarianism
Another excellent essay by George Friedman. There are wars in pursuit of interest. In these wars, nations pursue economic or strategic ends to protect the nation or expand its power. There are also wars of ideology, designed to spread some idea of “the good” whether this good is religious or secular. The two obviously can […]
What Happened to the American Declaration of War?
Another outstanding article from George Friedman which touches on some of the deeper aspects of American governance with regard to the current engagement in Libya. By George Friedman In my book “The Next Decade,†I spend a good deal of time considering the relation of the American Empire to the American Republic and the threat […]
Cloning: Not a viable business model
There has been a bit of talk over the last few decades about cloning technologies and the idea that we are technically capable of human cloning at the present time. One way of generating public interest in the mass media when there isn’t much to talk about is to resort to the scary-technology-future schtick. While […]