"The mosiac theory holds that aggregating lots of pieces of information about an individual that in themselves may be harmless may nonetheless, taken as a whole, constitute a search — even if all the data is public."
That reminds me of one of the most useful books I've ever read: "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed."
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How Marxism always fails...
How AllthoughHouse,, tries to sell you a book on Marxism, selling out capitalism, for the common good of Marxism..to make a buck..
Fails.
(come hither, defenders of the Realm)
A great book.
Browndog, it's not in favor of Marxism at all. It explicitly denounced collective aims.
A great book.
Browndog, it's not in favor of Marxism at all. It explicitly denounced collective aims.
I thought mosaic meant the Ten Commandments.
What could I be thinking?
But there is a point to it. Maybe the Latina is wiser than we...
Nah!
In all fairness, I recall the 60's hippies as being pretty humble and thinking small-scale, experimenting on themselves rather than others. But they were co-opted by the old-school radicals like Ayers and Hayden who dreamt much bigger.
And now it's the dream of single-payer that's turned them all into little tinpot Stalins.
That reminds me of one of the most useful books I've ever read: "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed."
The history of progressive-ism in a nutshell.
@Pogo-
I see it differently-
But, I appreciate your response.
"...one of the most useful books I've ever read."
Well, how do you quantify that? Isn't enjoyment also useful in terms of utility. Was this book better than, say, a cookbook or a hiking manual? Or was it more like a novel?
The author was diffident.
His evidence mocked the results of state collectivist action, but he held back from concluding state action was always wrong.
This pissed me off at first, but I saw later that any such strong statements would have driven away anyone who was on the fence, and those few on the left still awake to facts.
It seems like the last few rulings have reinforced the rights of the individual.
I'm watching the SOTU right now. The POTUS seems half-drunk. Does anyone else notice that?
Bob Ellison said...
I'm watching the SOTU right now. The POTUS seems half-drunk. Does anyone else notice that?
I think we all noticed....as he sobered up slighlty as the speeeach whent onn.
Ug-eeh.
Jees-
It's about time the Court started to follow Moses' Law more often.
A wonderful friend (MFN) suggested I read Atlas Shrugged in the late 60's. I've never forgotten. The same message the state can't solve our own problems.
"The POTUS seems half-drunk. "
Which half?
Ann, you should also read Thomas Sowell's 1970s work "Knowledge and Decisions" in which he makes many of the same points--especially using the founding and settlement of the State of Georgia guided by a top-down
ham-fisted administration back in England totally devoid of knowledge of local conditions in the colony.
Coincidently, George Harrision is alleged to have died in the home of the security consultant who developed the threat assessment system named MOSAIC.
wv - "seduclas" = I saw Mommy being seduced by seduclas, underneath the mistletoe last night
Mosaic was also the first browser. Still some browsers identify themselvesas mosaic in the web.
The theory is well esatblished in Europe .Karlruse ´s Court developed it
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