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JS Mill - On Liberty
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The upgrade to the Mac, as I feared, has left a lot of old things behind. Namely my writing, comparing the version of my blog (notes, local to the PC) with the version that was backed up and I find for some reason I'm a few pages short.
To be expected, I guess.
Anyways, Mill does not need my recommendation (damn, I had 5 pages of notes on him!! Where did they go?). Almost 200 years later and everything he says is still valid. This should be taught in schools.
His insights, into the role and responsibility of the individual vs society has never rung truer. And his defence of individual liberty only goes so far - an individual can say or do as he wishes, but he is accountable for these sayings.
I could go on. I did, several pages of notes, but you've been saved by my migrating to a laptop and by a thumb drive that very clearly did not back everything up.
Anyways, his reputation as being one of the most intelligent men ever was well confirmed. Well worth the read.
When all else fails...
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See a professional. Had it, up to here, with my MacBook, upgrading, installing, pissing around and getting no where. And so I took it down to the Mac Guy in Nelson, professional, who ran all the patches and roved through the settings and got it to where it should be. And my TinyMCE is working and I now have 1 computer to rule them all...
$30.00 is what it cost me. How many hours of hair pulling? Well, precious little left anyways.
Now to back up, purge the HP Scream and I can get on with my life. Bloody hell.
Meta AI
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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They say it's the questions you ask, not the answers that you have, that determine intelligence.
I kinda agree with that. Facebook's new "Meta" AI - well, see the photo below:
Clearly not asking the right questions. All this hysteria over AI, it's only for the stupid. Sorry, stupid, you're out of work.
It's not that a computer (or AI) took your job, it's just that you're stupid.
Magnet Fishing
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I've watched quite a few of the videos, in the UK, where they recover all manner of interesting historic stuff, like antique swords and armour, and then in the US where they usually find dodgy used firearms and knives and shopping carts, scooters and bikes.
It's a sport with a high trash-low treasure ratio.
Which I'm kinda drawn to it but have so far resisted. While I know there's spots on the old ferry landing in Ainsworth that would yield treasures, I'm also annoyed by the things it wouldn't get - silver, gold, old glass patent medicine bottles, etc, etc.
But this might just change my thinking...
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