[Buddha-l] Political views of Buddhists

[Richard Hayes]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 00:24 +0000, Stephen Hodge wrote:

> PS:  Has it ocurred to anybody that this site may be a clever way of 
> collecting data on people for identification and subsequent treatment a la 
> Carral in this surveillance society of ours ?  How do you know that you are 
> *really* not identifiable by participating ? 

Did I forget to mention that the Political compass website is sponsored
by MI5? 

But not to worry. Just install a copy of privoxy and tor. These are
tools that enable you to surf the web without leaving telltale traces of
where you have been. More to the point, they accept cookies from sites
you visit but the cookies are worthless to the sites that send them to
your computer. The cookies cannot be used later to send advertisements
to you. This is because privoxy works by rerouting your content through
a series of constantly changing web addresses. It slows down your
browsing, but it does make it almost impossible for any site you have
visited to find a route back to your computer. Just do an Ask.com (or
Google) search for privoxy. Or go to http://tor.eff.org/ or
http://tor.eff.org/ for their official websites.

If you are like me, you spend a lot of time visiting Mongolian teenage
Lesbian gymnast porn sites; ordering a metric tonne of anthrax-infected
monkey mucous from e-Bay and FedExing it to 1600 Pennsylvania avenue;
sending Christmas e-cards to Jewish and Muslim friends; hacking into the
Federal reserve and diverting funds to a bogus PayPal account in order
to have enough funds to play Texas Hold 'em on Uzbekistani e-casinos;
shopping for plutonium on North Korean web sites; and checking into the
buddha-l archives. It would make one's life unnecessarily complicated if
others knew about these hobbies, so it's prudent to use private proxy
software such as privoxy and tor. (Besides, Who needs all the spam that
eventually comes in asking you if you need some v1 at gr@ to help you deal
with er3ek*yle d15function as you gaze as Mongolian teenage lesbian
gymnasts?)

One interesting feature of tor is that when I search Google using it, I
get only German websites. 

Sometime during the next day or so I plan to compile the results of the
political compass questionnaire and write up a bunch frivolous
time-wasting fatuous comments on what MI5 and I have learned about the
political views of Westerner with academic pretensions who labour under
the delusion that they are Buddhists. I'll then forward this information
to Benito so he can tell us what kinds of cancer we are in the
Dharmakaya. (It is ever so much fun to be rectified by Benito!)

One last chance to take the silly but entertaining questionnaire at
http://www.politicalcompass.org/questionnaire

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes