Posted on February 9, 2008 by samvaknin
Six cardinal (and, in the long-term, deadly) sins plague the Wikipedia. What unites and underlies all its deficiencies is simple: Wikipedia dissembles about what it is and how it operates. It is a self-righteous confabulation and its success in deceiving the many attests not only to the gullibility of the vast majority of Netizens but to the PR savvy of its sleek and slick operators.
Filed under: TrendSiters - Digital Content and Web Technologies | Tagged: Internet, web, browser, software, application, content, digital content, Britannica, Encarta, distribution, rights management, downloads, e-books, e-publishing, copyright, brands, reference, user generated content, Web 2.0, Wikipedia | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 9, 2008 by samvaknin
Mother tells me not to say anything at school about what is happening at home. Nothing is happening at home.
Filed under: The Suffering of Being Kafka | Tagged: emotions, family, fiction, Hebrew, Israel, literature, love, poems, poetry, Sam, Shmuel, short fiction, short stories, stories, Vaknin | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 7, 2008 by samvaknin
The greatest analysts with the most impeccable credentials and track records failed to predict the forthcoming crash and the unprecedented economic depression that followed it.
Filed under: World in Conflict and Transition | Tagged: banks, bonds, business, capital, competition, credit, currency, EBRD, FDI, finance, government, IFC, IMF, International Monetary Fund, investment, labor, macroeconomics, markets, microeconomics, money, pensions, private sector, privatization, public sector, savings, shares, stock exchange, taxation, trade unions, transition, unemployment, World Bank | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 7, 2008 by samvaknin
Cannibalism (more precisely, anthropophagy) is an age-old tradition that, judging by a constant stream of flabbergasted news reports, is far from extinct.
Filed under: Philosophical Essays and Musings | Tagged: AI, art, artificial intelligence, artist, automata, cognitive, consciousness, culture, dream, epistemology, ethics, God, machine, mind, moraility, narcissism, ontology, philosophy, physics, power, psychology, quantum mechanics, religion, robot, science, society, superman, technology, Turing, virtual | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 7, 2008 by samvaknin
Most abusers and batterers are males – but a significant minority are women.
Filed under: Abusive Relationships with Narcissists and Psychopaths | Tagged: abuse, antisocial, battering, divorce, domestic violence, DSM IV, ego, harassment, narcissism, narcissistic, narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, object relations, personality, personality disorders, psychodynamics, psychopathology, psychopaths, psychotherapy, relationships, self, spousal abuse, stalking, therapy | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 7, 2008 by samvaknin
I remember the day I died. Almost did.
Filed under: The Mind of the Psychopathic Narcissist | Tagged: narcissism, personality, narcissistic, narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, psychopaths, antisocial, psychopathology, therapy, relationships, abuse, divorce, battering, spousal abuse, domestic violence, psychotherapy, personality disorders, cluster B, DSM IV, self, ego, object relations, psychodynamics, stalking, harassment, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, molestation, incest, deviance, perversions, schizoid, borderline, psychology, psychiatry, pathology, inverted, compensatory, pedophilia, paraphilias, serial killers | Leave a Comment »
