As I understand it, most of the contending concepts of freedom draw in some way on the Christian notion of psychological freedom: the untrammeled individual will or volition that chooses between salvation and damnation. That decision is already stacked heavily against the choice of non-belief (a...
Did not Satan take Jesus from the wilderness right up to the pinnacle of the Temple of Jerusalem. Let us not be deceived. The satanic world is all around us. It has been this way forever, even in the sacred space of the Garden that God created, the satanic power was present. When I...
Many moons ago, way before I started making a living writing software, I spent several years in the US Navy as an enlisted man specializing in operating submarine nuclear reactor plants. Freshly out of the training pipeline, I reported aboard my first submarine, which happened to have just sta...
One way to test this would be for a person to journey the US without any money, just on the good will of others. What would happen? Would he find food, shelter and support? The idea intrigued (激起兴趣) me. The week I 37, I realized that I had never done something truly crazy. ...
to accelerate its legislative agenda—a tactic that significantly dilutes the publicly participatory nature of New Zealand’s law-making process. While fast-tracking can be justified in genuinely time-critical situations, its frequent use is viewed by many critics as a way to avoid the detailed ...
Don’t expect me to accept them willingly or lightly, though. I will ultimately show the way…it’s up to each of you to follow or not. I will see something come to pass as a digital commons…whatever form that takes. I’m not going to wait, though. Expecting people to do this ...
The moral algebra in this tale of intrigue gets confusing because Freedom House happened to be on the side of the Good Guys in many of these fights. On the other hand, considering the way the revolutions in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine have soured, it’s hard to say what has been won and los...
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The first thing one must do in JNI is to create a Java Virtual Machine instance: without JVM, there's no Java code to call. Similarly, when I later had to call C# code from a native C++ code, the preferred way (at that time) was to export COM Inte...
I am in my element in a way that I haven’t been in a while. I am growing and learning at a rate that surprises me daily. The blessing of being a young senior leader on a highly functioning team, is that I get to make a new mistake every day, and every day I also get the ...