Hi welcome to hypersynergy! These pages contain various news items, quotes, postings and brief essays of mine and other such items that in one way or another related to our liberty, spirituality or technology. The long term purpose of the site is to explore how the hyper acceleration of knowledge and the synergy of many different technologies and soci-political ideals may be applied for the best or worst of ends. In this quest I hope is to use the power of the internet to explore these ideas and provide warnings of dangerous trends or hopefully indications of better ways to live.

I am an active advocate of the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, GNU/Linux and the K Desktop Environment. I am learning more every day and hope to use this site to share my knowledge and software projects. Free as in speech AND free as in beer, GPL copyleft licensed tools to empower and enhance your internet experience.

There is an old saying that goes "May you live in interesting times, but not too interesting". We live in an truly amazing time. There is so much promise implicated by expotential gains in knowledge and applications of technology. At the same time the knowledge and technology unleashed could destroy our civilization or possibly even our species. Social and religious orders once isolated by time and distance are now intimate. Internal social contracts are being broken wholesale. Nations worldwide are splitting along religious and ethnic lines. I have the general feeling that we can make it through these times, but I do not think such is a sure thing. I believe we all owe a debt to our ancestors and have a responsibility to our descendants. We all have the opportunity to do our basic part in how we live each day. I believe that one should also as per their abilities do more, this effort is my attempt to do more.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is gone April 12 2007.
One of the few people I would have ever considered giving up lifespan equal to double the time I could spend with them in conservation over a frosty bottle of Markers. Hope you have a good time in eternity ya ole rascal. So it goes ...

RIAA infiltrates the Democratic Party!

Bruce Perens Counters Claim of GPL Legal Risk.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Winston Churchill

"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." George W. Bush

"I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something. Words do not pay for my dead people. They do not pay for my country, now overrun by white men... Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises..... You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. ...I have asked the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
Let me be a free man -- free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religon of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself -- and I will obey every law, or submit me to the penalty"
Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph) of the Nez Perc'es

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks will deprive the People of all property until their children will wake up homeless in the continent their fathers conquered."   Thomas Jefferson

"Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue, and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free."   Thomas Jefferson

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."  Samuel Adams

"The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government."   Thomas Jefferson

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."   Thomas Jefferson

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."   Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"   Benjamin Franklin

"We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."   Benjamin Franklin

When the people fear their Government, there is tyranny. When the Government fears it's people, there is liberty.."   Thomas Paine

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."   Benjamin Franklin

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."   Abraham Lincoln

"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly"   Henry David Thoreau

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."   Hebrews 11:1.5

"Faith-is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not-." Emily Dickinson

"Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it." Georges Bernanos"

"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity." John Donne

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason." Blaise Pascal

"The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation." Simone Weil

"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."   Eric Hoffer

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."   Eric Hoffer

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."   Henry David Thoreau

"It was the schoolboy who said, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." Mark Twain

"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief . . . for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.  " Mark Twain

"Philosophic argument,especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be Divine Reality. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a mere human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it."  Daniel Webster as Spoken on the eve of his death and carved as his epitaph.

A brief summary of The Bill Of Rights as applied today. How much MORE are YOU willing to trade for a little security? Heck it's been pretty much wrecked as it is.

Amendment I (1791). First of the Bill of Rights amendments (I-IX); prohibits government-established religion; guarantees freedom of worship, of speech, of the press, of assembly and to petition the government.

Amendment II (1791). For the purpose of maintaining a well-regulated militia, preserves the right to keep and bear arms.

Amendment III (1791). Prohibits peacetime quartering of troops in private dwellings without owners' consent.

Amendment IV (1791). Guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure.

Amendment V (1791). Guarantees against violations of due process in criminal proceedings. No person may be compelled to testify against himself. Grand jury process is required for criminal indictment. Double jeopardy is prohibited. Public taking of private property without just compensation is prohibited.

Amendment VI (1791). Guarantees speedy, fair trial, impartial jury, right to counsel in all criminal cases.

Amendment VII (1791). Guarantees jury trial in all major civil (noncriminal) cases, and prohibits retrial of adjudicated matters.

Amendment VIII (1791). Prohibits excessive bail or fines and cruel and unusual punishment.

Amendment IX (1791). Declares that the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution does not imply that the people do not retain all other rights.

Amendment X (1791). Reserves to the states powers that the Constitution does not give to the federal government or prohibit to the states.

Amendment XI (1798). Declares that the federal courts may not try any case brought against a state by a citizen of another state or country.

Amendment XII (1804). Revises presidential and vice presidential election rules.

Amendment XIII (1865). First of three "Civil War" amendments; prohibits slavery.

Amendment XIV (1868). Defines U.S. citizenship. Prohibits states from violating due process (see Amendment V) or equal protection of the law.

Amendment XV (1870). Guarantees rights of citizens against U.S. or state infringement based on race, color, or previous servitude.

Amendment XVI (1913). Authorizes a federal income tax.

Amendment XVII (1913). Provides for direct popular election of Senators.

Amendment XVIII (1919). Makes probition federal law.

Amendment XIX (1920). Guarantees women the vote in state and U.S. elections.

Amendment XX (1933). Changes Congressional terms of office and the inauguration date of the President and Vice President; clarifies succession to the presidency.

Amendment XXI (1933). Repeals Amendment XVIII, ends prohibition.

Amendment XXII (1951). Limits presidential tenure to two terms.

Amendment XXIII (1961). Permits District of Columbia residents to vote for President and Vice President.

Amendment XXIV (1964). Outlaws the poll tax in all federal elections and primaries.

Amendment XXV (1967). Provides for procedures to fill vacancies in the Vice Presidency; further clarifies presidential succession rules.

Amendment XXVI (1971). Lowers voting age in federal and state election to 18.

Amendment XXVII (1992). Postpones until after the next Congressional election the effect of any law that alters the compensation of members of Congress.