[silk] Reading Between The Still Secret Lines Of The ACTA Negotiations

2010-01-13 Thread Bernhard Krieger
I came across this very interesting summary of a public discussion on ACTA on Monday in Google's Washington DC office. Is this going down the same road as WIPO and TRIPS? Cheerio, Bernhard http://techdirt.com/articles/20100111/2149377710.shtml Reading Between The Still Secret Lines Of

Re: [silk] Engineers of Jihad

2010-01-13 Thread Mahesh Murthy
On 13-Jan-2010, at 7:49 PM, Ingrid said: It's a plausible plotline, methinks: A young man raised to believe he is among the best and brightest in his community/country migrates to a prosperous Western country for higher education and/or employment in a field that encourages a reductionis

Re: [silk] Engineers of Jihad

2010-01-13 Thread Amit Varma
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mahesh Murthy wrote: > Actually, I find myself nodding in agreement here. > > My 'logic' is nothing more than the gut-feel that, at least in the case of > students from developing nations, the ones more driven to "do something > with > their lives" typically tend

Re: [silk] Engineers of Jihad

2010-01-13 Thread Ingrid
2010/1/12 Mahesh Murthy > Actually, I find myself nodding in agreement here. > > My 'logic' is nothing more than the gut-feel that, at least in the case of > students from developing nations, the ones more driven to "do something > with > their lives" typically tend to take the more difficult / "

Re: [silk] WikiWars conference

2010-01-13 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Silklister Nishant Shah is one of the organizers of the event. So, I'm sure he'll post lots on it, if he decides to come out of lurking mode. In any case, videos of the event should be up on the CIS website sometime soon.

Re: [silk] Hello from a new acquisition

2010-01-13 Thread Chew Lin Kay
Hello, fuzzy liberal arts guy, fuzzy liberal arts girl here! I have resisted punning about laying anthesthesized, but surely you will share why you picked the monikor. :) EiF works through providing a safe space (ie environment where you can speak your mind while other people are discouraged from

Re: [silk] The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

2010-01-13 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Ingrid wrote: > The other inherent bias is the ''type'' of woman that joins the military. A > military career is a fairly conformist choice for many men, but relatively > nonconformist, even challenging, for most women. Similar findings have been > observed in the

Re: [silk] The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

2010-01-13 Thread Ingrid
2010/1/13 J. Andrew Rogers and...@ceruleansystems.com > To point out a significant bias, in most militaries I am familiar with the > standards of behavior, compliance, and myriad other things for females are > substantially laxer than for males. Explicitly so, not just as a matter of > practice.