tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83242379587352804362024-03-18T20:58:05.445-07:00The Daily QuotaJohannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-601193987276806082013-06-21T07:02:00.001-07:002013-06-21T07:03:12.213-07:00Intermission <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, Daily Quoters, tonight marks my final post for about 8 weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tomorrow morning I have my final exam, which means I am not sleeping tonight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Twelve hours later I am on a flight to Madrid, Spain - as such, I am somewhat of a mess right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I dedicated my incredibly scarce time to this project in December 2012, and since 2 December 2012, I've posted every single day for over six months.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The blog has gained a respectable following, and I am confident that the exponential curve will grow in my favour in the months (or, gasp, years?) to follow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Feel free to revisit some of the old content - this material never goes out of style, its hardly contextual and the variety means that you have over 150 articles and topics to choose from at your leisure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I urge you to enjoy this blog to its fullest extent once (most of you) finish your final exams and run into some free time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I will be back in 8 weeks, with a head full of material (that I will read on the plane) and a fresh mindset with which to spilleth my creative juices unto thee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until then, take it easy - and if it's easy, take it.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-17111916743902881542013-06-20T03:35:00.003-07:002013-06-20T03:35:38.904-07:0020 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few days ago, we posted about a <a href="http://the-daily-quota.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/18-june-2013.html" target="_blank">fantastic documentary from <i>Vice</i></a> about the 'winning' of the Afghanistan War, and the subsequent formation of a piece-meal national army.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As for today's edition of Throwback Thursdays, we go back to the end of January, where we put up a very substantial post on the Syrian Civil War. It was another 3-part <i>Vice</i> documentary, but this one was far more provocative.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of the footage of this one left me shocked and disgusted. It's quite moving, and there are some pretty graphic images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spend a sobering hour on this doco, or just skip to some interesting bits. It's all quite moving, all of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Recently, a coworker received the sudden and crippling news that her first cousin had been shot dead in war-torn Syria. Like a blood-soaked butterfly effect, this supposed civil war is hitting ever closer to home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Today's Daily Quota is a consolidated collection of a six-part series titled <b>Ground Zero Syria</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This series follows <i>Vice Magazine </i>videographer Robert King and he spends some time with Syrian civilians and rebels, camera in tow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Those of you who have never heard of <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_au" target="_blank"><i>Vice</i> </a>are in for an enlightening treat. Their website, and particularly their <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vice?feature=watch" target="_blank">YouTube Channel</a>, is packed full of interesting stories, documentaries, how-to guides and general shit-talk. Each are bite-sized and very much empathetic towards the short attention spans of the internet proletariat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><b>I must warn everyone, many of these images are graphic and very distressing, even to my standards</b>. King doesn't hold back on scenes of civilian casualties, especially women and children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Each episode focuses on a different facet of the anti-Assad movement; ranging from the civilian-run hospitals, to the child victims, to interviews with representatives of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Readers must also be aware of the heavily anti-Assad position of the publication. There is a lot of conflicting information out there about the Syrian civil war. We must remember that <i>Vice</i> is an American publication targeted at<i> </i>contrarian American audiences.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Below is an episode guide. Each episode is only about 7 minutes long, but you can't stop at one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>part 1 : Assad's Child Victims </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">VICE commissioned renowned photojournalist and videographer Robert King to embed on the front lines with the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo. War-zone chaos ensued. In this episode, Assad forces hit Al Qusayr with a rocket attack while Robert is filming - it was targeted directly.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>part 2 : Burning of The Old Souk </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Amid a fierce battle between Assad's security forces and Free Syrian Army insurgents, fire swept through the old Souk of Aleppo, a historic covered market and World Heritage site. Rebel fighters and activists have reported that the blaze was sparked by the use of incendiary mortar rounds by Assad's forces. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>part 3 :The Atrocities Within Aleppo's Field Hospital </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The atrocities and war crimes currently ripping Syria apart at the seams are evident inside a field hospital in Aleppo, the country's largest city. Inside the hospital exhausted doctors indescriminately treat civilians, members of the Free Syrian Army, and captured Syrian Army troops alike.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>part 4 : Under Fire for Bread in Alepp </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Every day the men, women, and children of Aleppo, Syria, must risk their lives to stand in line and hope that they can buy a kilo of bread to survive another day. Many of the bread factories in Aleppo have been destroyed amidst fighting between the Free Syrian Army and Assad's troops. The few that remain are staffed by brave souls who risk their lives every day to ensure the local population has basic sustenance. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>part 5 : The Bombing of Aleppo's Dar al-Shifa Hospital </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">On November 21, Aleppo's Dar al-Shifa Hospital was bombed and destroyed by the Syrian Army. This is the same makeshift hospital where, weeks ago, VICE and videographer Robert King reported on human rights abuses and war crimes against patients (including children) being treated inside. It was completely leveled by the rocket attack, and Robert was on the scene to document the fallout.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>part 6 : The Free syrian Army </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">During his time in Syria throughout much of 2012, videographer Robert King followed Aleppo's Al-Tawhid Brigade as he dodged bullets and rocket fire to learn more about the largest brigade of the Free Syrian Army. Somehow Robert managed to track down Haji-Mara, the Al-Tawhid Brigade's commander, for a rare interview, during which the former-businessman-turned-freedom-fighter espouses the many difficulties the rebels face against the alleged brutality of President Bashar al-Assad's regime.</span></span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_147389&feature=iv&index=2&list=PLDbSvEZka6GF1rFGRDuV-BX2XpSE7qZM0&src_vid=7CeP81s1KdM&v=aWSOIXS5o3c" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">WATCH IT HERE</span></a><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-30508541162279306602013-06-19T06:20:00.003-07:002013-06-19T06:20:33.214-07:0019 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today we look at a topic that has completely blown out from its niche community and gained enormous interest amongst young and old - mixed martial arts, but in particular, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is a series of videos from some of the titans of the sport. Today's contributor Marko is a long-term trainer, competitor and advocate of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I've seen him talk about this sport with such passion that it's hard to hide your respect for it - even with as little knowledge about it as most.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check out Marko's contribution below, and watch these videos to gain a better understanding of a sport that we're bound to see a lot more of in the years to follow:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you have ever seen the UFC or ‘Cage Fighting’ then you have
witnessed the evolution of Jiu Jitsu. Originally from Japanese origins,
<u>Brazilian Jiu Jitsu</u>, as of the last 50 years has been lead by the Gracie family
of Brazil. BJJ is a grappling Martial Art, somewhat similar to Judo, Greco
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why have all these forms of combat been so valuable to society’s for
thousands of years? Martial Arts is one of the only direct forms of contact we
have with our ancient ancestors. If you are a Martial Artist you understand the
value of constantly developing your mind and body... it’s the time of day where
you face reality, you leave your ego at the door and put your <b>skills, training
and honour</b> on the line; if you have earned victory then you receive victory, if
not... you get your ass kicked. <b>Simple formula with no political influence, no
strike of luck and no bullshit. </b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Note</b>:</span></span></div>
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Arts world, he has been an ambassador of BJJ and a great fighter with over 400
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpogEkrV9wQ" target="_blank">VIDEO THREE</a></div>
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-7091045857272421522013-06-18T06:10:00.001-07:002013-06-18T06:10:41.352-07:0018 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Long-time Daily Quoters will know that we've discussed <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vice?feature=watch" target="_blank">Vice</a></i> in the past, especially their <a href="http://the-daily-quota.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/21-january-2013.html" target="_blank">geopolitical pieces on Syria</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, these are turbulent times we live in, and one can be forgiven for holding the notion that the world is turning to absolute dog shit - to put it in eloquent terms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota jumps back into the <i>Vice</i> archives, albeit a more recent piece. It's called <b>'Afghanistan - This is what winning looks like'</b> (a cheeky allusion to Obama's famous words, which were, funnily enough, pretty similar to Nixon's 'victory with honour' when the US lost the Vietnam War)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This full length documentary that follows a British journalist behind the scenes of the debauchery and corruption that plagues the US effort to train up a new Afghan Army from villagers and volunteers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This Is What Winning Looks Like" is a disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bottom Line : This doesn't look like Winning at all.</span></div>
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-1475132140867975092013-06-17T07:39:00.003-07:002013-06-17T07:39:57.949-07:0017 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One thing that a lot of my Greek friends pride themselves on is ancient Greek storytelling - Homer and his epic stories (see, that time it was used correctly); Aristophanes and his tastefully backhanded insight into gender politics; the philosophical workings of Aristotle, Plato, oh the list goes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ah yes, good times.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, does every story have a <i>structure</i>? Are we arrogant enough to believe that we can encompass a finite list of ways in which a story can be told? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Author Kurt Vonnegut seems to think so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below we have the rather condensed and rather colourful adaptation of his attempts to graphically depict types of storylines. The original explanation is brilliantly explained by <i>Lapham's Quarterly</i> <a href="http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php?page=all" target="_blank">here</a>, but as you can see, it has been simplified and colourful picture have been inserted to pacify the masses whose next distraction is but a notification away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have a look, and maybe even read the article above - it's a great bit it knowledge to have stored in the ol' intellectual piggy bank (which, hopefully, is flourishing!) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The full resolution image can also be found below.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-8268178589842316032013-06-16T07:12:00.002-07:002013-06-16T07:12:30.500-07:0016 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well Daily Quoters, this is the last edition of Superficial Sundays for almost two months.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why? Because your faithful and reliable broadcaster is heading to Europe 12 hours after his final exam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As such, The Daily Quota will be on hiatus till mid August!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although I don't anticipate anyone missing me <i>too </i>much (one can hope).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever the case, today's trivial Daily Quota is dedicated to all law students who are in the same boat as me - the Procrastination Boat. It's kinda like the Titanic, except its intended destination is a Distinction average. Needless to say, it shares the same fate as the one that was heading to New York City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The folks over at <i><a href="http://survivelaw.com/" target="_blank">Survive Law</a></i> often post funny, informative, and sometimes trivial stuff that law students might find interesting. Today, it posted <b>The Semester Summarised in Memes</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Very appropriate that it will actually <i>proliferate </i>procrastination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ah well, set the sails!</span><br />
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<a href="http://survivelaw.com/index.php/blogs/procrastination/1317-the-semester-summarised-in-memes" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">VIEW THEM HERE</span></a><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-81980144148341629672013-06-15T06:21:00.001-07:002013-06-15T19:23:34.121-07:0015 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As if being in my third week of exam mode, and thus third week of 5-hours sleep a night, wasn't enough reason to be sardonic, we reach yet another edition of Sardonic Saturdays on The Daily Quota!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is a super-short film titled <b>Journal of an Epidemic</b>. It's a pretty freaky 3-minute 'timeline' of a global epidemic that has wiped out the human race, short of one man. This video serves as, what appears to be, an introduction to a future series narrated by the (only) protagonist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's chilling, engaging, and for an amateur short film, very, very well done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The end is nigh, folks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/66213035" target="_blank">WATCH IT HERE</a></span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-64934855549976858162013-06-14T07:32:00.000-07:002013-06-14T07:32:04.951-07:0014 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today we have a very special edition of Filosophy Fridays for all of you Daily Quoters out there.<br />
Philosophy os a strange kind of profession - it can be undertaken by anyone, <i>is</i> undertaken by everyone in a huge chunk of our conversations, yet it is widely dismissed as a real <i>profession</i>.<br />
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How can something to widespread, so retrospectively influential to our ideologies and social systems, be dismissed as such? What kind of people become philosophers <i>by profession</i>?<br />
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Today's Daily Quota comes from contributor Nick - a close friend of mine, an philosophical sparring partner, and the perfect man for the task.<br />
Take it away!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When looking back at human achievement, one can see that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Appropriately, humans have become more
interested in “higher” aspirations -Water from a tap, electricity from a
socket and shelter built by contractors (called contractors for very good
reasons); all for the purpose of achieving other things. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Education has pushed
and pulled this idea along, creating opportunities to produce better planes,
medicine, and bridges, though arguably at some cost to our self worth. What has
been taken by universities and morphed into an idea?: University = Job. True to
say Lawyers, Doctors, and Engineers cannot operate in their chosen field unless
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This weeks article is related to the debate of <b>philosophy as a
profession versus hobby</b>. <i>The
Philosophers’ Magazine</i> recently published an interview it conducted with
Nigel Warburton, a newly resigned Professor of Philosophy at the Open
University UK, and co-creator of Philosophy Bites podcast.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The question I want raise on this week’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Filosophy Fridays</i> is: <b>Who ought to do philosophy? </b></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is it simply a matter for academics to ponder and squabble over
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The most recent advances in
philosophy have tended to rely on mathematics and logic, descended from
Aristotle and slightly harder for mere mortals to comprehend, though not out of
reach. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What really is in question is people’s commitment to philosophy i.e. how
interested they are. As Socrates said, </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“the
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-15934051077164429172013-06-13T03:42:00.001-07:002013-06-13T03:42:20.413-07:0013 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another edition of Throwback Thursdays on The Daily Quota, where one can be grateful that I didn't empty my recycle bin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today we go back to the end of January 2013, onto a light-hearted, albeit <i>dark</i> topic - the evolution of The Dark Knight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Batman fans, rejoice!</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">28 January 2013</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I fucking love Batman. I don't know how else to say it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My bookcase has an entire tier dedicated to Batman comics, graphic novels and memorabilia pieces. Batman statues accompany Lionel Hutz statues in my study.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As such, today's Daily Quota is an article I dug up from the July 2012 edition of <i>The Atlantic</i>. It's titled <b>How the Dark Knight Became Dark Again</b> and explores the evolving image of Batman from the Golden Age of comics, through to the Adam West caricature of the 60's, up to Nolan's most recent revamp.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For those of you that have read the comics before, you'd know that most of them are very dark indeed. Any Joker adaptation since Alan Moore's <i>The Killing Joke</i> has been melancholy, psychotic and outright disturbing. Batman has to keep up with his foes, lest the <i>Biff!</i> and <i>Pow! </i>days return.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What I love about this article is the articulation of an otherwise 'childish' fictional character; who is often dismissed as one without merit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nolan has done much to resurrect Batman from the postmodern shambles of the 90's; his sole intention being to restore the 'Dark Knight' character that first emerged in the 1980's through such writers as Alan Moore and Frank Miller.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This article is fantastic. It's on the ball, it's well researched and it's a real treat for any Batman fan - Nolan or otherwise.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-73250036092259672072013-06-12T07:39:00.002-07:002013-06-12T07:39:13.951-07:0012 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.quotesvalley.com/images/06/old-age-only-occurs-when-regrets-take-the-place-of-dreams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="241" src="http://www.quotesvalley.com/images/06/old-age-only-occurs-when-regrets-take-the-place-of-dreams.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you look back on your life, what are some of the regrets that you have?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you have any? Or, are you like me and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps you're still young, or perhaps you just aren't a very nostalgic person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever the case, it's always an interesting topic - although ironically, the advice is swept aside by the young and useless to the old. Such is life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For today's Daily Quota, we take a look at a recent <i>Slate</i> crowd-sourcing initiative titled '<a class="slb-post-title-link" href="" style="outline: none;"><b>When People Look Back on Their Lives, What Are Some Common Regrets They Have?'</b></a></span><br />
<a class="slb-post-title-link" href="" style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It basically only provides two readers' opinions, but it opens the gates for more thought-provoking self-reflection.</span></a><br />
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<a class="slb-post-title-link" href="" style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the contributors split his 'regrets' into three categories:</span></a><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Things that you did that you wish you hadn't.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Things that you didn't have but wish that you did.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The heavy cost of the time you've wasted.</span></li>
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-22498777754922646542013-06-11T07:31:00.001-07:002013-06-11T07:31:21.204-07:0011 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This August, I'll find myself prolonging my Euro trip (at the expense of my second semester) to tour Paris and other parts of France - in particular, Normandy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Normandy in Northern France is famous as the 'drop zone' for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings" target="_blank">Allied D-Day Assault</a> on the Germans in June 1944. As a modern history buff, I'm very much looking forward to this leg of my trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is a recent publication in <i>Life</i> <i>Magazine</i> titled <b>'The Ruins of Normandy: Unpublished Colour Photos From France 1944'</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This series collects 17 rare colour photos from Normandy, including some great shots of the beach landing boats - famously included in all depictions of the bloody Omaha Beach Landings - and some vibrant shots of French villages after they've experienced Allied bombing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A fantastic collection, and a real treat for history buffs or curious parties alike.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="goog_308042412"></span>VIEW THEM HERE</span></a><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-32736961455218993072013-06-10T04:37:00.005-07:002013-06-10T04:37:35.866-07:0010 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i> - </i>Edmund Burke </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The quote above is often attributed to the famous quote "evil prevails when good men do not act" - the origins of which nobody seems to know conclusively. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've always said that apathy will be the death of us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, it depends who is being apathetic - if the bad guys are apathetic, happy days; but they rarely are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of you would have heard of the recent leak of a classified US surveillance program called <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/06/what-is-prism/" target="_blank">PRISM</a>. This has been the biggest exposure of US government surveillance since Wikileaks and <i>Cablegate</i> back in 2010. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Given the gravity of this information, The Daily Quota will dedicate a huge post to this leak within the week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, what <i>really</i> distresses me is that no one seems to know about it - or if they do, they are either quiet about it, or they just don't care. Not a single comment. Half a day of mainstream media exposure. Obama even admitted they were doing it - but it's 'okay because it's legal'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apathy will, indeed, be the end of us - and we probably deserve the fate that we will be dealt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is a comical prequel to this week's upcoming PRISM post. It's a light-hearted comic from the folks over at <i><a href="http://tapastic.com/series/288" target="_blank">Joy of Tech</a></i> which highlights the hypocritical nature of everyone's response. The sad this is it's not only true - it's a significant rarity. </span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-65555937200034231612013-06-09T04:33:00.001-07:002013-06-09T04:33:58.525-07:009 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nothing brings out the pursuit of the trivial in a human being like procrastination - particularly for Tort Law. As such, all of you lucky Daily Quoters will gain an insight into what is making me procrastinate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is a webpage that hosts some of the most famous tongue-in-cheek comics on the internets -<i> Cyanide and Happiness</i>. The humour is dark, inappropriate or so-bad-that-it's-good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Flick through the collection via the link below.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-14604521616472208002013-06-08T01:31:00.000-07:002013-06-08T01:31:01.031-07:008 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome back to the long-weekend edition of Sardonic Saturdays - <i>where every silver lining has a cloud</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every time I leave Sydney I notice something about the people sitting around me in a restaurant, cafe or cannabis clinic. No one is on their phones. I'm very much used to the smartphone being glued to my hand, the only organ outside by body - probably a sign of a Type A Personality...or OCD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's contributor David doesn't hold the same attitude to the smartphone. Or perhaps he does, but he just writes to well to the contrary. His blog <i>TakeMeToYourReader </i>provides an avenue for a very coherent rant, and proves what I've told him a few times - his best writing comes out when he's shitty.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>You see, instead of exposing the world to your ignorant braying on yet another topic, you can look at the ubiquity of the mobile phone as an opportunity for some self-reflection – even if all that means to you is turning on the front-facing camera. Sure, you might have the latest Smartroid from that chink company in Korea, but you still can’t manage to make a phone call without fumbling open at least seven other apps, can you? To paraphrase Maurice Switzer, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and confirm that you are indeed just another garish blot on the genetic landscape.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ah yes, it appears that Saturdays are Sardonic for others too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check out his blog post via the link below!</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-86370787905867895932013-06-07T06:48:00.003-07:002013-06-07T06:48:34.374-07:007 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you want to recite philosophers in casual conversation, but just don't know where to start?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Would you love to get a crash course on some of the big names in three minutes?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What if the crash courses are somewhat vulgar, offensive and existed solely to take the piss? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Definitely yes? Well, okay then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">S Peter Davis has released a number of such videos on his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CollegeBinary?feature=watch" target="_blank">Youtube Channel</a> under the title <b>'Three Minute Philosophy'</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They are pretty amusing to watch, and conjure up a giggle every now and then. He basically goes over some of the main theories from some of the heavyweights of philosophy - in amongst racism, profanity and consistent swipes at the validity of their theories in a modern context.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These videos even come with the disclaimer <i>'</i><span style="line-height: 17px;"><i>Warning! Not a viable alternative to an actual philosophy degree!'</i>. Well, that's a shame.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">Whatever the means, they do give a very entertaining insight into some of the big philosophers and their respective theories. Despite the malarkey. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">Below we've provided the 3-minute take on Aristotle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">Have a look, and hope that you learn something in-between the involuntary lols.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">Filosophy Fridays for your Saturday mornings - only on The Daily Quota.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-14229083764933314842013-06-06T00:30:00.002-07:002013-06-06T00:30:48.972-07:006 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Another Throwback Thursday on The Daily Quota, where we pay homage to some of the classic posts from the past.<br />
Today, we have dug up a Sardonic Saturday post from 27 April. We here at The Daily Quota love monkeys, and we also love pictographs, so that better way to convey our disdain for society than by encapsulating it as a monkey experiment?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome, Daily Quoters, to another edition of Sardonic Satudays - <i>where every silver lining has a cloud</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is a delightful little piece that, I believe, is a great anecdote for many things in society - approaches to science, approaches to religion, but most notably, society itself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Note that the image below was used to apply to 'Marine Corps' - but it's one of those things that can apply to many situations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although the pretty little pictures outline the experiment, the link below is to the book where this experiment was initially conducted. There is, however, some uncertainty as to the book's sources - with one viable solution being that the entire experiment was hypothetical!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Quite interesting, nonetheless. Have a read!</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-83412248486280798322013-06-05T06:21:00.001-07:002013-06-05T06:21:04.362-07:005 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMHe1-2rMPJ0VkROsTrov79L6xDeTNQftG8eyrSJx8vPRP3cOqhbFLsFpV-HgWjRHt14yLIwmJrUpnURsdjGG64QFeptwXBGPXq1rc6sNAP4WOvSWiPIFyrx57qAadKY65gMWhErhwcr9Q/s400/2010-04-22-Insults1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMHe1-2rMPJ0VkROsTrov79L6xDeTNQftG8eyrSJx8vPRP3cOqhbFLsFpV-HgWjRHt14yLIwmJrUpnURsdjGG64QFeptwXBGPXq1rc6sNAP4WOvSWiPIFyrx57qAadKY65gMWhErhwcr9Q/s320/2010-04-22-Insults1.jpg" width="223" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wednesdays - they're the 3pm of the week. When it isn't very close to home time, and you're starting to crash from lunch and coffee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You need a quick pick-me-up!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have just the thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the most popular videos on <i>CollegeHumour </i>is one titled <b>'100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time'</b>. Again, it speaks for itself. It's a 10-minute collection of 100 of the greatest insults in the history of cinema as assembled by <i>CollegeHumour</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They range from playful jabs from <i>Monty Python</i> to some serious streams of profanity in <i>Goodfellas</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The one which makes me giggle every time is from <i>Bad Santa: "You're an emotional f**king cripple, your soul is dogsh**, every single thing about you is ugly"</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another is Alec Baldwin's 'always be closing' speech from <i>Glengarry Glen Ross - </i>this was his <i>only</i> role in the entire movie and it won him an Oscar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Warning: <i>very</i> course language in some parts. But I think that was obvious, wasn't it?</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-9437097889793988162013-06-04T07:22:00.000-07:002013-06-04T07:22:26.657-07:004 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They say that perspective is everything.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Make everyone else poorer, and we feel richer; slow everyone else down and we seem sped up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In today's Daily Quota, we give ourselves a reason to count our blessings the only way Westerners know how - comparative wealth. Recently, <i>TIME</i> posted a photo-reel titled <b>'What the World Eats, Part 1'.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's basically a collection of photographs from families around the world, in front of a week's worth of food. It's quite interesting to see what each culture's diet consists of (especially the colourful and excessive Americans). However, separate from all the intrigue lies a very sobering lesson - we are a very lucky country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have a flick through the album via the link below, and let us know what you think about Lucretius' statement.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-44393375205153443542013-06-03T06:45:00.001-07:002013-06-03T06:45:32.465-07:003 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once in a while an area of scholarship is shaken up by a big new <i>thing</i> - an item or discovery or theorem or experiment or <i>something</i> that either gives everyone a new reason to get excited, or is provocative enough to incite publicity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It could be in physics with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, or in nutrition with the Paleo Diet and acidity trends, or in micro-biology with new research on nano-technology and stem cells, or even in fashion when one artist pushes the boundaries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, we discuss the newest fad that's gotten everyone excited - from geologists to miners to chemists to entrepreneurs - <b>graphene, the super-mineral.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to this introductory video below, it holds next-to-miracle powers for daily consumption, including super-conductivity, strength, weightlessness, the ability to filter <i>everything except for pure water</i>, and a wealth of other attributes that might make this the most valuable mineral for modern life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, <i>Gizmodo</i> had recently burst everyone's bubble when it revealed a potentially <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/04/graphenes-achilles-heel/" target="_blank">fatal flaw</a> in graphene's composition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever the case, a very interesting thing to know - especially if one is thinking of investing in a mine anytime soon...</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-68307361317552164742013-06-02T03:17:00.001-07:002013-06-02T03:17:54.729-07:002 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A lazy, rainy end to the week - a perfect backdrop for Superficial Sundays, where we pursue the trivial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Due to an upcoming Administrative Law exam, I've been doing nothing but studying and drinking coffee (one of those is enjoyable). It has taken quite a toll on my well-being.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact, to quote myself, <i>"this is why I drink macchiatos - in case I get the sudden and uncontrollable urge to drown myself in my coffee"</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But fear not, Daily Quoters, I am still here. For now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the spirit of my crapulence, Today's Daily Quota is a fun pictograph from <i><a href="http://thedoghousediaries.com/5053" target="_blank">DogHouseDiaries</a></i> titled <b>'What Your Coffee Says About You'.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's trivial, it lacks any substance, but hey, it's Sunday.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-11453581212577120122013-06-01T07:27:00.001-07:002013-06-01T07:27:34.849-07:001 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sardonic Saturdays on The Daily Quota - where every silver lining has a cloud!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is short and sweet - well, given the theme, it's somewhat bitter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's an article from the glorious <i>Cracked</i> titled <b>'14 Smart-Sounding Movie Lines that are Actually Total BS'</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's basically a collection of movie quote nitpicking. Here <i>Cracked </i>is the annoying guy in your group that corrects the most trivial of errors in a movie - and if you don't know anyone like that, then it's you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They've picked up some errors in Fight Club, Back to the Future and, of course, Star Trek.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just the thing to liven up your Saturday night. Ahem.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-74085432067173732552013-05-31T06:38:00.001-07:002013-05-31T06:38:23.591-07:0031 May 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today we look at a famous, albeit brief, motivational speech from the most Western Eastern philosopher in recent times. The Daily Quota has <a href="http://the-daily-quota.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/29-march-2013.html" target="_blank">alluded to his work before</a>, but this is a much more well-known speech.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's called <b>'What if Money were no Object?'</b> and it bascially asks that very question - if money were out of the equation, what would you be doing?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What would you <i>like</i> to be doing - either as a profession, or with the free time you have from not working as hard?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's a simple question, but remarkably weighty in its requests. We often pick a comfortable lie over a harsh reality, and it is often because we're afraid of answering this very question...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watch the 3-minute recording below and start your weekend with a dash of enlightenment.</span>
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-10502114401834853002013-05-30T07:31:00.001-07:002013-05-30T07:31:18.317-07:0030 May 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome back, Daily Quoters, to the second-ever Throwback Thursdays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's time again to go back to the Recycle Bin and restore some of the crème de la crème.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is from the end of December 2012 and it discusses the philosophical and social differences between Orwell's <i>1984</i> and Huxley's <i>Brave New World</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which dystopia do we live in now?</span></div>
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Welcome to Sardonic Saturdays, where every silver lining has a cloud!<br />
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What if I offered you a device that I said will make your life easier. What if this device was able to track your location, record everything that is being said, even when it is switched off?<br />
What if this device was able to construct an identity that knows you better than you know yourself? Your curiosities, your vices, your favourite foods, your thoughts, your friends and your enemies?<br />
<b>What reasonable person would accept such a gift?</b><br />
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Now what if I were to offer you a brand new smartphone.<br />
It has GPS for your convenience, and your favourite location and history is tracked (again, for your convenience). You can do all of your communication through your phone - emails, texts, calls, Snapchat...<br />
It also gives you direct access to social media like Facebook, so that you can share your thoughts without filter, share your location without concern, voice your ideology and carve yourself an extroverted identity. Everything will be in your phone. Your life.<br />
All of this is stored for you by Google, and is offered for free. Because hey, they're a charity.<br />
<b>Who would say no, right?</b><br />
Why look a gift horse in the mouth?<br />
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There's a reason why authorities love iPhones - they don't have removable batteries.<br />
Happy Days.<br />
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In recent times, a lot of attention has been given to online privacy; whether it be on social networks or financial institution or the authorities granting themselves power to monitor your browsing.<br />
These are the times we live in, and I guess this movement is a product of its context.<br />
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Whatever the case, an equal amount of attention has been given to two works of literature that best encompass people's fears for the future; Orwell's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" target="_blank">1984 </a>and Huxley's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World" target="_blank">Brave New World</a>.<br />
These works are multiple posts in themselves.<br />
Both depict (contextually) futuristic dystopias where populations are kept in check, where classes are formed in stone and where order is maintained.<br />
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Today's Quota is not a summary of these works, but rather an interesting comparison between them.<br />
Activists worry about a future where we are all watched, monitored, and kept in order by coercion. However, they have neglected to see that we willfully succumb to such a future.<br />
It is not the Illuminati that is to blame, but rather...us.<br />
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Until tomorrow, keep those smiles beaming.<br />
The cameras can't detect you if you're smiling.<br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-1934545638595261802013-05-29T05:58:00.000-07:002013-05-29T05:58:22.147-07:0029 May 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here at The Daily Quota, we only ask life's big questions - <b>What hurts more: giving birth or being kicked in the balls?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A tough one, but not without some resolve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today's Daily Quota is a video from <i>ASAPScience</i> titled 'Childbirth v Getting Kicked in the Balls' - it's pretty self-explanatory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my favourite myths 'busted' is one that's been floating around the internet as of late - 'the most a human body can take is 45del of pain (the 'del' isnt even a real measurement...), and giving birth is 57dels while a very hard kick in the balls is 9000dels'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yep, none of that makes any sense; from a scientific view <i>or</i> a logical one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The video goes on to draw links between the different pains, and how they may send nerve signals to other organs (thus why you can throw up sometimes after a hard kick to the balls).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although it comes to a somewhat underwhelming conclusion, it's a pretty good view if you have 5 minutes to spare.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check it out below.</span><br />
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Johannes Climacushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469858703206494605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324237958735280436.post-19720698547955062002013-05-28T05:33:00.000-07:002013-05-29T16:39:53.149-07:0028 May 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As long-time Daily Quoters might know, cyber warfare is a <a href="http://the-daily-quota.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/23-march-2013.html" target="_blank">recurring theme</a> on The Daily Quota - partly due to its relevance to future geopolitics and partly because some of the resources at my disposal are just <i>so </i>good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We've been hearing a lot about Chinese hackers recently, especially in the </span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/blueprints-for-new-asio-headquarters-stolen-20130527-2n7kz.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Australian news</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. However, think-tank </span><a href="http://www.mandiant.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Mandiant </a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have put together some limited resources and great methodology, joined the dots, and have identified what appears to be the elusive cyber-warrior division of the Chinese PLA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mandiant began researching one particularly sustained cyber attack on the US and other Western countries which it had code-named APT1 (Advanced Persistent Threat 1). Combining quantitative data and some intelligence, it had discovered that a lot of the activity from this group (ranging from a few dozen operators to a few thousand) was coming from a vicinity suspiciously close to the PLA's 'Unit 61398'. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Could this be the infamous PLA cyber division?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's their succinct conclusion:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The sheer scale and duration of sustained attacks against such a wide set of industries from a singularly identified group based in China leaves little doubt about the organization behind APT1. We believe the totality of the evidence we provide in this document bolsters the claim that APT1 is Unit 61398. However, we admit there is one other unlikely possibility:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's interesting to see how some joining-the-dots can yield very important results for Western military, civilians and businesses - and all made public via the link below. Have a read of the report (I recommend the Executive Summary and the first few dot points for the time-stricken).</span><br />
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