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Fables for Freethinkers

looks like a worthwhile project


unfortunately there's been a hacking of kickstarter...

https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/16/kickstarter-hack-faq-card-data-facebook-and-more/

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/important-kickstarter-security-notice

Important Kickstarter Security Notice

Yancey Strickler · February 15 2014 ·

On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers' data. Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system.

No credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on all but two Kickstarter user accounts.

While no credit card data was accessed, some information about our customers was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one...
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a fable for the modern age, eh?
 
It sounds like Freethinkers Book of Fables is trying to tell me what to think, which would be delightfully ironic unless it turns out the author's name is NOT Freethinker, in which case it would just be meh.
 
LogGrad98 said:
It sounds like Freethinkers Book of Fables is trying to tell me what to think, which would be delightfully ironic unless it turns out the author's name is NOT Freethinker, in which case it would just be meh.
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Not what, just how.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I see so Freethinker thinks I should not be free to think HOW I want to think?
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Your question doesn't make any sense to me. Learning how to wire a building doesn't stop you from wiring the building any way you want; it gives you the skill to do so successfully. There are people who don't want to learn to think; I never took you for one of them.
 
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Your question doesn't make any sense to me. Learning how to wire a building doesn't stop you from wiring the building any way you want; it gives you the skill to do so successfully. There are people who don't want to learn to think; I never took you for one of them.
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That assumes that what he is putting in his books is THE way to think, and that everyone needs to learn that particular way to think or they don't really think at all. Mighty presumptuous.
 
LogGrad98 said:
That assumes that what he is putting in his books is THE way to think, and that everyone needs to learn that particular way to think or they don't really think at all. Mighty presumptuous.
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You do get that this is children's book for freethinkers, so they can teach their kids how to think about not relying on dogma, prior limitations, using evidence, etc., right? I don't think that's any more presumptuous than teaching them to put dogma over evidence.
 
I am just playing on the irony of something titled "freethinker" telling us how or what to think.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I am just playing on the irony of something titled "freethinker" telling us how or what to think.
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Freethought is a philosophical position of removing dogma and unevidenced assumptions from your decision-making process. It has never claimed to be "anything goes".
 
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