A Graveyard for Lunatics

I fancied reading one of Malcolm Bradbury's campus novels, but what caught my eye in Bath Central Library was Ray Bradbury's A Graveyard For Lunatics.

Ages ago in the summer, probably 1992, Steve from Uni invited me out to his parents' house in France. There were two books there that …

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Corporations are amoral...and that's ok

I intended to write how corporations are amoral and only concerned with profit, and this isn't a bad thing. Corporations are best seen as a force of nature like the sea. We rightly compel corporations to follow laws, and it's the laws that convey our morality, and the laws that …

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Public Transport 2.0

I've long been annoyed at how bad public transport is, and I've long been mulling over an idea to make it actually work. I've put up an article called Public Transport 2.0 explaining the idea. Let me know what you think.

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I agree that free speech has limits, the question ...

I agree that free speech has limits, the question is where does the limit lie? I've given my view in a later post.

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The limits of free speech

Andy left a comment on EU holocaust denial ban, that really posed the question: what, if any, are the limits of free speech? I remembered an interview with Noam Chomsky where he said:

In brief, speech should be protected up to participation in imminent criminal action. So if you and …

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The short answer to your first question is yes. Ho...

The short answer to your first question is yes. However, since cars wear out, the increased CO2 emissions are only temporary. My giving up driving is the green bit, and selling the car gives me a financial reward at the cost of some CO2 emissions. So it's mixed but the …

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having read most of it now i can say that i also d...

having read most of it now i can say that i also disagreed with a lot of it. i found a lot of the conclusions not very sound. the best bit of the whole thing was when he related someone else's research (the bagel guy - a real world example of …

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I think Mary Whitehouse came up with the best line...

I think Mary Whitehouse came up with the best line about free speech: 'Censorship is a dirty word in any society but there comes a point where you have to say 'Stop. What you are doing is wrong'.

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what if you sold it to someone who used it a lot i...

what if you sold it to someone who used it a lot in a frivolous way? wouldn't that be contributing to global warming?

and what if the person you sold it to wasn't a careful driver?

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