Monthly Archives: December 2007

Google Search Action for GNOME Do

Friday, December 7th, 2007

As more people are using GNOME Do, I keep getting nagged about how GNOME Do doesn’t do this or that. This is exactly why GNOME Do has a plugin system for adding to the items and actions GNOME Do provides. For example, many people have said “Launchy/Quicksilver/Katapult/my mom has a Google search action, why doesn’t [...]

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Hobbes and Freedom; Compulsion and the Validity of the Fundamental Law of Nature

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

For Thomas Hobbes, a person living in a pre-legal state, or state of nature, has a natural right to anything one deems useful for survival, including things to which other people have similar rights (L 80). Hobbes calls this set of natural rights “the Right of Nature” (L 79), and argues that as long as [...]

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