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The site is a place for me to distribute what I consider my unique philosophical perspective to the world. If things go as I would like the site will develop a substantial readership and engage in lively debate on issues. The point of this site is not to make you agree with all my viewpoints but to encourage thinking and debate on both your and my part. I will be wrong from time to time. I want to be called on it. Most of all, it's a place for me to express my thoughts on Life, The Universe, and Everything.
Yes and No. It's a blog in that it contains my personal reaction to a number of issues. It's not a blog in that my personal life will appear in the site at most indirectly and there will be nothing approaching daily updates. Update 5-17-05: I now have a blog in the traditional sense.
In short, as often as I get around to it. Updating requires me to have something to write about. It also requires me to have time to write and post. Both of these things will vary greatly. I'll be a lot more motivated if I get feedback to update. I'll try to do an update at least once a month, but I make no promises. Updates will often come in spurts as the amount of other things I have to do varies and as I become impassioned about various issues. Update 5-17-05: Updates have been slow recently, I intend to increase the pace.
For the purpose of this site, a fancy design just is not needed. I'm a big believer in the idea that form should follow from function. My ideas will be no more compelling laced with Perl and Java applets. If the site being ugly really bothers you, you like web design, and you want some web design cred let me know, maybe we can work something out. Update 5-17-05: As I write this, I'm writing the site to use a PHP backend to render all the pages dynamically. This will make it easy for me to maintain the site, but will have little effect on my users.(at least for now)
In short, nobody special. Just a guy with a bunch of crazy ideas about the world he'd like to share with other people and see what they think See my biofor a more detailed answer to this question.
Crazy Ivan is the name of a Russian submarine maneuver which I first heard of when reading Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October. A more detailed explanation of the maneuver can be found here. I also like the image the alias conjures up: some crazy Russian dude sitting in a cabin somewhere writing manifestos.
I welcome all correspondence. I refer you to the contact page. I do it this way because it makes it easy to update contact info in one place rather than dozens of places across the site.
Not so much a question, but I'll answer anyway. As to the general tone, insults without content really won't get you anyway. Note that I'm not easily offended, so insults may be sprinkled as liberally as you like in well-reasoned counterargument. Now to the content. As to being a liberal, I am one insofar as you look to the roots of the term which are associated with freedom. I believe in the maximum amount of individual freedom possible. Sometimes this agrees with the views of those called "liberal," sometimes it agrees with the "conservatives," and sometimes pretty much no one agrees with me. As to being the ruin of this country, I got to say, "I can only hope so." This country as it stands today is an abomination to everything I was taught the United States of America was supposed to stand for. I hope it dies a swift death, so that freedom can return; I would love to be considered among its executioners.
Do it. Please. All the material of this site is governed by a Creative Commons License. I do have two requests though 1) If the format allows please link to the site. However, DO NOT LINK to the essay itself. Instead, link to the main page or the essay page as the top level domain for the site may change and I can't put redirects on the essays themselves. 2) If using an excerpt, please use one that is large enough to provide context. A sentence or two taken out of context could make it seem like I'm advocating something I'm not.
In short, you don't. Pretty much any instructor or referee will eat you alive if you try and cite someone without at least a master degree in the field they're writing about. Is this wrong? Absolutely. (see 2.4) But that's the way academia works. If you look hard enough you can probably find some "authority" who says whatever it is you wanted to cite.
I only write about things I feel strongly and have considered at some length. Since coming up with topics is a major challenge I'll be happy to take suggestions, but for a variety of reasons, I may not take them, so don't be offended. Even if I do like a suggestion it may be some time before the resultant essay is posted.
um err well no. The FAQ is slightly misnamed since the questions were not even asked let alone frequently. However, I think that answering some of these questions upfront is important. It also facilitates my delusion that the site will some day have a large question asking readership as well as to help flesh out the site
I would love to see the FAQ change and grow. Please see question 2.3 for contact info.