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from Ars Technica
IBM PC: The complete history, part 1
Bill Gates. Mysterious deaths. IBM trying to act like a nimble startup. This story has it all!
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from BBC News (UK)
In January 1948, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson took the last photos of Gandhi before the Indian leader's assassination. Those images, and the ones of the funeral, are now on display at a new exhibit in NYC.
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from The Catholic Herald (UK)
Why the cappa magna makes people see red
For “progressive” Catholics, the cappa magna is – appropriately, you may think – like a red rag to a bull. I blinked in surprise when I saw the photographs. On June 18, the Archbishop of Liverpool – a diocese associated with the drab vestments and liturgy of the 1970s – processed into St Mary’s Shrine Church, Warrington, wearing a cape of violet silk whose train was so long that it stretched into the next postcode. Archbishop Malcolm McMahon was sporting the cappa magna (“great cape”), a flamboyant pre-Vatican II vestment that hadn’t been seen in his neck of the woods for decades. But then this was a prelude to a pre-conciliar ceremony: he was ordaining two priests of the traditionalist Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) using the Old Missal, something that hadn’t happened anywhere in England and Wales for over 40 years. He also celebrated a Tridentine Mass watched by the Bishop of Shrewsbury, Mark Davies, sitting in the choir.
________Why the cappa magna makes people see red
For “progressive” Catholics, the cappa magna is – appropriately, you may think – like a red rag to a bull. I blinked in surprise when I saw the photographs. On June 18, the Archbishop of Liverpool – a diocese associated with the drab vestments and liturgy of the 1970s – processed into St Mary’s Shrine Church, Warrington, wearing a cape of violet silk whose train was so long that it stretched into the next postcode. Archbishop Malcolm McMahon was sporting the cappa magna (“great cape”), a flamboyant pre-Vatican II vestment that hadn’t been seen in his neck of the woods for decades. But then this was a prelude to a pre-conciliar ceremony: he was ordaining two priests of the traditionalist Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) using the Old Missal, something that hadn’t happened anywhere in England and Wales for over 40 years. He also celebrated a Tridentine Mass watched by the Bishop of Shrewsbury, Mark Davies, sitting in the choir.
from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Cultural Appropriation Is Intellectual Property on Stilts
After years of complaining about such “problems” as a white chef cooking Mexican food or about “insensitive” Halloween costumes, it looks like Social Justice Warriors have finally prevailed. The United Nations will soon discuss, at the demand of indigenous groups, a ban on so-called cultural appropriation in order to “expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.” Property implies a physical object like a house or clothes you bought or made yourself. It is as old as human civilization and is scarce. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is a monopoly granted by governments to keep someone from using something that is never scarce: ideas. When a culture's ideas don't get adopted into wider society, they die.
Cultural Appropriation Is Intellectual Property on Stilts
After years of complaining about such “problems” as a white chef cooking Mexican food or about “insensitive” Halloween costumes, it looks like Social Justice Warriors have finally prevailed. The United Nations will soon discuss, at the demand of indigenous groups, a ban on so-called cultural appropriation in order to “expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.” Property implies a physical object like a house or clothes you bought or made yourself. It is as old as human civilization and is scarce. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is a monopoly granted by governments to keep someone from using something that is never scarce: ideas. When a culture's ideas don't get adopted into wider society, they die.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Meltdown at CNN: Journalists Play the Victim Amid Crisis of Credibility
A terrible month of controversy, coupled with criticisms from the Trump administration, appears to be taking a toll on the rationality of CNN correspondents and pundits. CNN’s senior international correspondent, Clarissa Ward, suggested Wednesday evening that protests from the White House over fake news stories and unfair media treatment could result in violence against journalists.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]At this point, it’s no great surprise when Donald Trump walks away from past statements in service to some impulse of the moment. Nowhere, however, has such a shift been more extreme or its potential consequences more dangerous than in his sudden love affair with the Saudi royal family. It could in the end destabilize the Middle East in ways not seen in our lifetimes (which, given the growing chaos in the region, is no small thing to say).
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
All the reasons why you don’t want to go to Hogwarts.
All of the irreversible wrongs in the series can be traced back to this moment. It didn’t have to be this way.
from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Russia has new intelligence of planned western provocations in Syria in light of US statements on alleged Syrian government plans to carry out a chemical attack there, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
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from Statesman Journal (Salem, OR)
News that the U.S. Forest Service is proposing a way to limit the number of people entering Oregon’s wilderness areas didn’t come as a major surprise. As the number of people hiking and camping in Oregon’s outdoors has skyrocketed, wilderness areas, often in fragile alpine environments, have been particularly hard-hit. What did surprise many was the scope of a plan announced this month by Willamette and Deschutes national forests. They propose a system that would require a permit to hike or backpack in the Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, Three Sisters, Diamond Peak and Waldo Lake wilderness areas. The goal is to limit crowds and damage by restricting numbers, officials said. But it would also represent a fundamental change in a state that, for the most part, allows people to recreate as they please on public lands.
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