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Sentient Developments - Sep 28, 2007
Wired's Ted Greenwald interviews Ridley Scott about the upcoming re-release of Blade Runner. Excerpt: Wired: Some of that ambiguity got squeezed out of the original version. It seems like you've been making up for it …
Tagged: science fiction, blade runner, ridleyscott
Sentient Developments - Sep 28, 2007
Ronald Bailey's recent article, "Climate Change Confabs," brought to my attention Canada's rather lackadaisical and irresponsible response to the global warming crisis. Bailey writes, How are the Kyoto …
Tagged: climate change, canada, kyotoprotocol, canadian politics
Sentient Developments - Sep 28, 2007
The controversy surrounding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent visit to the United States reminded me of an article I wrote a little over a year ago called "Islamic fascism? Actually, yes."
Sentient Developments - Sep 26, 2007
A number of SentDev readers put me to task on my claim that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have been arrested upon his recent entry into the United States. As I stated in the comments section, the post …
Tagged: united nations, globalization, political theory, geopolitics, international law, sovereignty
Sentient Developments - Sep 24, 2007
My jaw hit the floor when I learned that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at Columbia University today. Say what? This lunatic should have been arrested the moment he stepped off the plane …
Tagged: united nations, iran, united states, mahmoud ahmadinejad, geopolitics, crimes against humanity
Sentient Developments - Sep 24, 2007
The unilateral streak that has come to define the neocon Bush administration has once again reared its ugly head, this time at the United Nations talks on global warming. The gathering, which is bringing together the …
Tagged: global warming, united nations, climate change, united states, conservative party of canada, environmentalism
Sentient Developments - Sep 23, 2007
Tagged: science fiction, stalker, solaris
Sentient Developments - Sep 23, 2007
Gristmill staff writer David Roberts suggests that meat-eaters make for poor environmentalists. This article is largely in support of PETA's recent claim that meat-eating is worse for climate than driving. Roberts …
Tagged: vegetarianism, climate change, peta, environmentalism
Sentient Developments - Sep 23, 2007
John Michael Greer explores energy limitations and resource constraints that may account for the Great Silence: On another level, though, Fermi’s Paradox can be restated in another and far more threatening way. The …
Tagged: fermi paradox
Sentient Developments - Sep 23, 2007
Back in January of this year a rather insidious computer virus began to make its way into a startlingly large number of computers around the globe. Called Storm Worm, the virus is a backdoor trojan that affects Windows …
Tagged: computer virus, botnet, storm worm, organized crime, distributed computing, storm botnet