Back to the origins of A.N.U.S.: I was once a small lad and would witness things that I thought were out of place. Somethings I recognized as being too large to be understood at the time, but others I saw as simply "unnatural" and confinding, as if engineered by needy people so they could dominate over others. One thing that always made no sense to me were the rules that empowered the stupid, celebrated the trivial, and created lots of justifications for mentally and emotionally needy people to have power and social status. I rebelled against these and soon found that I was facing a beast of superior strength but, unlike most of my classmates, I didn't get beat down. I took my viewpoints else- where and began reading more literature and writing stories which revealed what I saw as the truth of this society: a massive front of justification behind which socially-corrupted instincts twitched like the severed tails of lizards.

As I grew older, I became enamored of first computers and then philosophy, and my views became strengthened through various analytical methods and informational patterns revealed to me in computer networks and digital machines via analysis. What had once been a simple world view became more complex, and eventually, I arrived at the concept of nihilism - something I twisted into my own definition, perhaps, but into which my values and those of others meshed on a single agreement: there was a neurotic aura associated with every object and action in this society which prevented the truth from being seen, as well as from being acted upon. Thus as I first became aware of the world after puberty I was already a nihilist, and already had the idea for the A.N.U.S. in my mind.

Shortly after this, I expanded my activities in the computer security field by becoming involved with first, violent hardcore punk music, and second, thrash music in the style of DRI, COC and MDC. (I also witnessed my first Nazi, a 6' something skinhead who without a word pulled me out of a pit after I got knocked over and nearly trampled - my first vision that perhaps I couldn't stereotype these people. He saved me from at least some broken ribs, and probably a lot worse, and expected no thanks nor was concerned with my opinion of him - something heroic and new to my young life.) With music I found a new elation, a new method of celebration, and also, something that went with me wherever I was isolated. No matter how boring the school or home confinement it was easy to find a tape player and listen to DRI, The Exploited, and any of a number of other punk bands. I've forgotten most of the names but I was indoctrinated into this culture on my own, with nothing other than the works of the bands who shaped it as my guide. This was healthy, because as I was to learn later, the fans are mostly uninformed and vociferous about the philosophies of least resistance. Before I heard metal, mostly I had been exposed to classical music and the more melodic variants of rock such as The Beatles and King Crimson.

Quickly the A.N.U.S. organization grew around me, with several members who were into metal and hacking to help out with the chaos. We gained some notoriety for publishing the Houston Blinkie Letter, a local newsletter detailing the theft of blinking lights from signposts, and there were a few investigations of A.N.U.S. members for various things, although not at all like the political investigations we've seen of late. The organization ran several bulletin boards, some of which were well-known information watering holes in the most active part of the computer security scene in the late 1980s. It was a good time.

Somewhere after that, I became a DJ on the outskirts of Los Angeles. I loved it and started buying a ton of metal and selling other people's bodies for even more. However, people were always asking me, "what are some good bands?" and so I started writing down my opinions. First, in an e-zine; next via an FTP site; after that, in 1993 onward, from the world wide web. Eventuall in 1996 it became a full-time presence on the anus.com web site, at which point the metal mission seemed to obscure the other aspects of the site for awhile. This continued, with the expansion of the metal site in both reviews and other forms of metal journalism, until 2002 when the work began to revert to a more balanced approach. Now the A.N.U.S. is moving ahead as a website and an organization...

Speaking of A.N.U.S. as an organization, it has been a long time in the evolution, but the group continues its work as originally conceived. Its goal is subversion for a positive outcome, and so far while success has not been as visible as we'd like, there have been a number of vital points of intellectual technology (ways of programming one's own mind) and valuation (ways of discovering and evaluating goals/ideals) developed and promulgated by the A.N.U.S. group.

Do people need to be assaulted with this? I would argue that it forces people to interpret what they are reading more than to shove it into a predictable container of interpretation, and also serves as a barrier to those who are unwilling to recognize language for the basic technology that it is and thus to exploit it, whether by dictionary or reading in context. To me, this language does the same thing to everyday writing that death metal did to heavy metal and rock music, so I consider it a fair and useful tradeoff, but I know many are insulted by it or consider it to be gibberish; this is their position in the order of things and I don't dispute their view of events as relative to their own forms of consciousness. To a brine shrimp, anus.com is not useful, also.

I think most people are thrown off by it at first, but if they can find some reason for what is being done they will often stick with it, realizing the worst that will happen to them is a little time being spent on getting acquainted with the older words in the English language and some of the best death and black metal created. At least, this is how it appears from where I stand.

What drew me toward the culture was becoming a DJ. At the time when I was in California and the opportunity was present, I swallowed some fears and charged on down to a radio station to learn how to be an operator of radio equipment and CD players. After learning how it was - like everything else on earth - not very complicated once you got into it, I began creating radio noise and playing what I did have, which comprised about 20 CDs of assorted hardcore, thrash, speed metal, death metal and Merciless "The Awakening," an early black metal album. Luckily, there were a number of well-informed fans in the area as well as record shops like Rhino Records and Wild Rags, so I was able to learn from the other fans who weren't just self-important cognitive dissonance cases. It was an amazing experience to have the underground rise up around me and to have a radio show which reflected the new movement; it was something I'll never forget.

What still appeals to me about the style is its basic approach to musicality, namely using different melodic layers overlapping to create mood in an operatic sense, as well as its values, which to me resurrect all that I admired about ancient Greco-Roman, Viking, Teutonic and Indic civilizations. In our society today, convenience/technology is the highest goal and there is little space for people of spirit or collective action, consequently most things are valueless, numbly conformist, and uninspiring. People are bored and miserable at a level that is so subtle they can't even express it, so they become more dead to the passion and living beauty of existence, thus feeding themselves deeper into a hole. We have better medical care, machines, et al, but do we live better than the ancients? We are cowardly people in a culture that is increasingly turning us into mass-produced creations from a Platonic archetype of generic human, and while we can go on all day about "individual rights" and "justice" we're destroying our natural environment at an unprecedented pace for profit! In short, modern society has no values or spirit to speak of and thus those with lower motivations have risen to the highest positions, degrading all that remains which has any balls at all; thus I celebrate black metal for hauling from the depths of the human psyche a desire for the days of blood, honor and natural pride, and for bringing back the idea that the highest man is not the man "moral" in the Judeo- Christian sense but the man who asserts what is true and right and of beauty for the collective, including that which exists outside of humanity, whether abstract concept or natural ecosystem. This applies to women also but in a different form and one which I can't go into much here.

On the left, we have the "heart people," who because they want to make themselves feel more important decide to celebrate all that is NOT black metal within black metal, thus you get postmodern bands such as Sigh or Ulver and a fanbase who sit around talking about how "open-minded" they are, while the music that integrates the bassoon solos, ska- inspired tuba riffs, techno beats and hip-hop interludes is the same tedious generic black metal that they claim to dislike. These people are like the American left closet Christians; they believe nature is somehow horrible and congratulate them- selves for making it "moral" by equalizing it and removing all of what allows it to move and produce actual diversity.

On the American right-styled section of the genre, we have the "rule people," who believe that what has been established is a template which must be followed closely - and in my opinion, this is their only error, one arising from their partial liberalism and thus desire to treat symbols as absolutes - they follow it too closely. These types tend to make stuff that so adheres to formula and an aesthetic concept similar to that of the third Darkthrone album that it degrades itself by having no room to move; it forgets the "diversity" which occurred without stylistic changes in the formative works of black metal. The style does not make that which makes a band unique; it is the music within; however, the style can become oppressive in how it constrains what one is willing to write, sort of a form of symbolic allegiance interfering with the process of making music itself! When one is too focused on the conclusion, one can only build from templates in which that conclusion was triumphant, and the result is too often corrupt in its own slavish emulation. Most of this music sounds to me like later hardcore punk, and similarly to the way that community degenerated, the metal community is now an entity where 90% of the "fans" have an mp3.com band, a half- hearted zine or webzine, or a label that puts out product indistinguishable from any of the other bands which are fanboy projects.

The result is, in short summary, that the carny hipsters and itinerant con-men have burnt down the black metal scene - apologies to William Burroughs, or perhaps none are needed, for ripping his line.

Some of my favorite works for all time, usually at the earlier stages of the band before the reactionary impulse and self-critical neurosis of dealing with fans, bands, labels and critics has come in: Sepultura, The Exploited, Discharge, Amebix, Absurd, Graveland, Burzum, Morbid Angel, Skrewdriver, Bathory, Sacramentum, Dismember, At the Gates, Atheist, Bad Brains, Deeds of Flesh, Possessed, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, DRI, COC, Angel Witch, Slayer, Merciless, Sarcofago, Beherit, Darkthrone, Immortal, Belial, Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Ancient, Emperor, Therion, Amorphis, Antaeus, Atrocity, Unleashed, Varathron, Rotting Christ, Necrophobic, Havohej/Profanatica, Impaled Nazarene, Prong, Incantation, Goreaphobia, Immolation, Cryptic Slaughter, Godflesh, Deicide, dead horse, Behemoth, Autopsy, Voivod, Gorguts, Sammath, Infester. These are in the metal/punk genres only.

Early in my days as a DJ, I noticed that of the up- and-coming bands, it was easy to spot the half- hearted ones. Not being able to conceive of a concept of the grand level they desired, these bands would throw in the towel and instead come up with something "fun," or "whacky" or "provocative" in the way that most marketing firms like to pitch products that aren't good for you but need to be sold anyway. Similarly, these bands are uniformly vapid; they can on the average play their instruments better than other metal bands, but are lost for compositional ability or any reasoning behind what they do, which suggests to me an aimlessness and desire to advance themselves in ways unrelated to the music. Uniformly they've made crappy music and have fallen into dust and obscurity faster than any other type of band, but there were still people, usually very scared and existentially confused people, who would seize on these things and talk them up, usually with some reward for having been the ones to "discover" such new and exciting acts. The same is true of activities.

Those who can think of nothing better than headbanging, beer drinking/dope smoking, and "having fun" are in essence evaders: they want to run away from what life is, something that includes responsibility and some seriousness in planning. Death is real. The limitations on your time are real. This doesn't mean to be cowed by such things, but to make your time worthwhile. Partying is something best reserved for meeting people and spending quality time with friends; in metal, the genre has never been fully about these things, although rampant hedonism has been part of the picture. Metal like the ancient cultures stresses above all a clarity of mind and a health of spirit, and secondarily a hedonistic excess; what I learned from the lyrics and interviews of the metal bands I respected was they were in many ways responsible people who weren't complainers in the liberal sense, but leaders who wanted to affirm positive values in life even in the music of destruction and hatred. When I say positive values I do not refer to Judean morals but to things such as honor, pride, naturalism and bravery, as well as a sense that society is inescapably a collective endeavor in which we will all benefit if we all aim for intelligence.

Similarly, the bands I respect take their art seriously. They may party - as I do, having smoked more indica than the rest of the underground combined, and spent a good portion of my wild and reckless ongoing youth in deviant and hedonistic behavior - but above all else, they take their art seriously, as well as the thoughts and ideologies that inspire their art. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum; it isn't a purely sensual thing, or it quickly becomes commerce, being of the first form of art, that which is only aesthetic and designed for distraction more than communication. Art made by intelligent people communicates something, usually a worldview of the artist abstracted from learning and impressions of the world around him or her, and in doing so doesn't limit itself to something linear like hedonism, but includes hedonism in a broader worldview. Thus, I see the intelligence in metal and all that has ever made it attractive to those who aren't already beaten down sheep, in its distillation, as being something which lies independent from the neutralizing and mutely incoherent path of pure hedonism, which in many ways is giving up on life and trying to get your kicks before dusting off - something useless to any individual of personal bravery, conviction or vision.

Is there a USBM scene? Most of what is called "USBM" is either warmed over death metal or warmed over hardcore punk music and either way, almost all of it succumbs to the definitions I put forth a few questions ago regarding the nature of art and communication. If I had to pick a definition of the elite in the USBM scene I would say it is those who understand black metal musically and ideologically, in its passion anti- humanism and disdain for Judean morality, and with a spirit for life and in the mentality of the ancient cultures of earth, create bellicose and intelligent metal. Among these are the bands Krieg, Averse Sefira, Havohej, Demoncy, Weltmacht, Yamatu and some others.

I enjoy some of the bands participating in this movement also, but I think they're treading on thin ice if they don't create something new by their second release. If they don't, anyone serious loses any concern for their product. I find also many of these bands embrace the couch- sitter philosophy, which is essentially a bitterness and resentment toward all forms of action or accomplishment, a belief that is very Christian in the essence of its construction. Like many metalheads, they will see an immediate "wrong" in Christianity but in turn will argue against it using the same liberal and passive principles that brought Christianity into power. This to me isn't an argument; it's buying time until one's own failures recreate the original object of complaint.

The (last) generation of metal is dead = long live the (next) generation of metal.

It's important to remember that metal isn't that old. In 1969, Black Sabbath fired the first shots with support from King Crimson, Black Widow, Led Zeppelin and Blue Cheer. Ten years later, after hardcore punk, the removal of metal from something which anyone could hear on the radio had begun. Ten years after that, metal was removing itself from the blues and reaching toward black metal, a new neoclassically- styled and melodic art form. Now ten years down the line after that, black metal is waning and something must challenge metal from within metal; as kings were once chosen, so must a successor be.

Some time ago, I was upset by the possibility of this occurring but now I have accepted it, probably in the same way one finally stops struggling against the inevitability of death. All that has been meaningful and significant in this time is passing into the background of history, albeit on the small scale of this observable (to us) postmodern era, and it will never have the same impact, power or relevance again. As the events in the background change, so does the focus. A newer generation with more problems has arisen, but with them the extremity has become more needful and they are closer to desperation, to an actual breakdown, than were the more comfortable and less ill-prepared previous generations. Perhaps something will come out of this, or maybe metal is dead and its final gift was the culmination of an ideological awareness from a counterculture leftism to a brutal rightism to an affirmation of ancient cultures and desire to crush the hamsterlike instinct toward socialization in all of us.

If I were to exert control, it would be this: I would remove the influences of the aimless and destroy that which is trivial or entertaining. But mostly I would use the power I had to encourage useful values over crap and to expound upon the utility and brilliance of the notable metal bands so far that don't suck. With enough emphasis behind these value systems I doubt I would ever need any more stringent form of control.

Once again, as weird as it sounds, all I would need for the most part would be the power of media to compete with the "bad values people" who preach degeneracy, helplessness, masturbatory convenience, unenlightened self-stimulus, pity, and sentiment... they currently own a multibillion dollar media industry which I would crush and supplant with programming which would benefit the intelligent and make it clear to the others that their input is not needed.

To many this may seem like a simple division, and it is, but it is something forgotten in a panicked and product-oriented society. Even the simplest class- ifications, "good" and "evil," divide up so much of what we do that it becomes impossible to see events and objects clearly through the fog of valuations that exist as assumptions before we even begin the perceptual process. It is as if we have allowed tokens - our conclusions and the words we use to express things - confuse the process of actually living through some- thing and finding value within that experience.

Instead, I am a collectivist, and not on the humanistic level but one in which nature and humans and even the motions of the universe itself are seen as a form of intelligence, or "that which calculates with a relatively specific objective state as its goal." There are no lines between myself and the whole, nature and humanity, and death and life for me to see any longer. All that is left is a continuum which endlessly calculates a vast cycle for the purpose of maintaining itself, even through the mechanism of incorporating what is not-it into what it is so that the two may create an equilibrium of inequality. Quite an amazing system, one that is wonderful to discover in the short lives we have.

The Buddha once said, "Life is suffering"; when one thinks on this for a long time, what becomes clear is that worrying about or trying to avoid suffering is pointless, because what is more important is the raw experience of life and the value that is held by living it and making the difficult if not impossible choics we make, asserting that which is against that which is not, and yet embracing both as part of a balance of both our cognition and that which generated us.

Islamic terrorism to me serves a purpose that no one else in politics has yet addressed: pointing out the unequal treatment Arabs recieve at the hands of the United States, the United Nations and Israel, and identifying the breakdown of partisan loyalties in the New World Order that America is proposing with her globalist policies, support for multinational corporations, and usage of the United Nations to achieve her aims. One might look at the names and charters of the United States and United Nations and realize they are the same concept: the creation of a marketplace out of states forced to bend to the political will of a central authority. This will mean a destruction of all ethnic cultures as economies and not ancestry determine national makeup, and the obliteration of ancient earth cultures in favor of a timeless, placeless and valueless consumption culture like that of the United States.

For me also, on a personal level, there is great respect for Osama bin Laden and Doctor Al-Zawahiri, one of his cohorts. These are brave and honorable men with an understanding of where politics, religion and warfare meet that is to my mind not only at a genius level but also insightful in an artistic context. Like other leaders from the past, they desire a return to the values of ancient civilizations and a trashing of the plastic beliefs and lifestyles of the current time. So yes, I support Islamic terrorism and al-Qaeda, as I support many other extremist groups and "terrorists" including Timoth McVeigh, Theodore Kaczynski, Andrew MacDonald and Charles Manson. They each thought they were leaders in politics or philosophy, but they were wrong: they are religious leaders. They are our shamans.

I still feel the same way. The lines of war have been drawn. Despite the American president, Israel, the United Nations and the Judeo-Christian American media attempting to tell us otherwise, it became clear to the educated out there that America's support for Israel had its enemies. And that our actions had been one-sided and continued to be so, and that perhaps a foreign power is in control of the American state...

Today I've read about Irv Rubin, leader of the Jewish Defense League, dying of a suicide which his wife says was not something he would do. If someone whacked him, why wouldn't it be the Mossad or the CIA, to remove a troublesome vision of those of a certain religion as politically active? The Christians in Europe and their guests, the "Chosen People of God" from Israel, have long been waging war to recapture the middle east. I know their religion is death worship and brings nothing but death to all that is beautiful, natural and independent in this world... how could I care about a few thousand dead when there is so much more expressed in an act of beauty like the 9-11 attacks?

I recall a news item from Jane's of London, one of the most reputed military research firms in the world, which said that Israel was working to make an biological agent which would infect Arab Semites but not Jewish Semites (both the Jews and the Arabs are Semitic in origin, with Ethiopia as their place of origination). Who can blame Saddam for keeping up with the Joneses?

To me, there is no greater threat to life on planet earth than the human wholesale disregard for our environment. By one study, we have claimed 98% of the habitable land on earth; other sources confirm that humans have poisoned air, water and ground with industrial byproducts. While poisons exist in nature, they do not exist in this diversity or these concentrations, and the effects are being seen. Frogs mutate. Species die. Ecosystems fade away and the climate changes from lack of regulatory systems as diverse as trees, blue-green algae and forest groundfloor growth. We have strewn trash across the oceans so thickly that it is now impossible to travel a mile on the open seas without seeing plastic floating past, oil slicks and sewage. We have overkilled many species and persist with industrial methods of farming that weaken the very resources that feed us. In our own species, we have destroyed evolution, allowing even the weakest and stupidest to live and nurturing them at the expense of potential leaders and independent thinkers; we have crushed ancient ethnic groups and supplanted them with humans of generic heritage. As a whole, it is disres- pectful and destructive toward all that has created this planet and exists within it.

Ecoterrorism is a wake up call for the rest of them. Environmental awareness is too important to be left to the ineffectual hippies and pothead college students, nor should it be given to politicians or easily flattered academics. It is the right of every warrior to stand up for his land, tribe and honor, and in this ecoterrorism, racism, and anti-humanism join hands as not noble causes but a single, *necessary* avenue of action and change.

Christianity and Judaism entered Europe at the same time, and brought one of nature's proudest peoples to its knees by sneaking in through the functional lower levels of society and convincing proud warriors to have guilt, and thus to lay down their swords and begin following the imaginary super- natural world of Jesus Christ and his "purity." Included in this was laying waste to anything which was not Christian. Thus the virus spread...

America and England were both religious zealot states, and within their territories spread Christianity but even more hideously, a secularized Christian dogma which fit hand in glove within the needs of the "industrial revolution" and those corporate entities which profitted from the conversion of natural resources to refined products (which eventually become landfill). While the new dogma took on names such as "humanism" (created during the Renaissance by European thinkers adapting Christian thought to secular demands), deism (a loosened form of Judeo-Christian dogma), or flower power and the counterculture, it had at is essence the same liberalizing, equalizing, revengeful impulse.

So Christianity started the ball rolling... F.W. Nietzsche, whose ideas are incorporated above with those of others and my own observations, called Christianity the one great evil of humankind, but added that had it not occurred, it might have needed to be invented. Like the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, the tale of Christianity suggests this evil exists so we can consciously form a choice to take the other path... no matter how much *more* grim it initially appears to be.

My contributions are summarized best as a better understanding of nihilism, an understand of complex causal context, and a conception of materialist mysticism in which a universal Will is given expression. Could I call this unique? It is mine, in its formulation, no matter how recombinant, but I see myself as a product of many other things that came before, thus I will simply say: what comes from "me" is the same as what comes from any source, the output of one thread of an environment that multiprocesses independent and oppositional forces to derive a heuristic of contextual, rule-based understanding. One might say that another way: in the forest many creatures act in their own interests to produce an ecosystem.

When I went through the collegiate level, I finally undertook the study of philosophy for almost two years, but abandoned it once I realized that the calculations I needed to perform to verify and integrate each idea into the worldview growing within me would require separation from the politics of the classroom and the leftist dogma of universities of that time. Consequently, I continued my reading of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger, and some others who expressed their ideas in literature and music, but my primary study has been and always will be walking in a natural or semi-natural setting and thinking on that which perplexes me, or pushing myself into a meditative state in the calm of my room in which I contemplate the issues which require manipulation of complex matrices of factors. To me this is both something existentially satisfying and something fun, in that it requires one pit oneself against problems of vast complexity and intensive subtlety.

In learning to think philosophically, those that are capable - and these are few - learn to see through the artifacts of appearance and chronological coincidence and thus gain a greater understanding of how what they know as reality is produced, and thus, what their role in it may be.

It seems to me this form of thought is an ongoing discipline... it will never be exhausted and, at the moment the last truth is conceptualized and the last piece of the puzzle falls into place, it will either expand outward or detonate and recreate itself on a higher level of complexity.

The prozak unit is an odd one; he is highly sociable and succeeds where necessary at diverse and random tasks within this society, yet often prefers his own company and the isolation of intense thought to spending too much time out in the world. He enjoys reading, the music of classical composers and some underground metal and ambient bands, and finds solace in emotions derived from terraced conclusions of multiple vectors of convergent thought. Mostly nocturnal, he ventures into the day mostly for sustenance, but keeps an irregular schedule to avoid boring himself. While for an intoxicant he prefers sinsemilla, he is no longer a consistent user, as too much of anything physical detracts from the purity and clarity of mental focus and emotional strength. A hard worker, he is also one of the world's biggest goof offs, and sometimes can be found posting inflammatory dialogue to the internet when he could be doing other tasks. He likes to cook extravagant foods and engage in provoking and often disturbing conversation with friends, and is known by some to have an emotional openness toward them and celebration of their lives. While a total nerd who uses computers and pursues information obsessively, he is also a violent malcontent with the state of organization of computer technology, seeing the industry as experts in inefficient and illogical application of otherwise potent base technologies...

A word on drugs: They are nothing more than an effect which one plugs into the brain. Like a handgun, this effect can be pointed at anything, which results that vary from delicious humor to horrible dismay, often in overlapping or sequential appearance. Use, but do not obsess or become dependent; they will swallow your life and, in the case of hallucinogens, can drive you into a self-destructive schizophrenic mental state.

Some time later, it became a place where one bought a computer off a shelf in a Best Buy or Office Depot, plugged it into the phone line at home and called up AOL with a free disc included, having to know nothing but a credit card number where $25 in allocatable cash existed. As a result, people have flooded the net under the pretense of wanting "information" but have turned it into a playground for the damaged, neurotic, self- stimulating ego of a citizen of the modern globalist state, or America as it is currently called. As a result the net is now nothing more than entertaintment, and is seen by these people as television + a little bit of yellow pages function + the same kind of internet messenger activity that occurs on SMS-enabled phones. It is consequently no longer an environment where infor- mation comes first, but a virtual place where entertainment and ego come before all else, increasing the amount of noise and decreasing signal as more and more people shout "equally" loudly with vastly similar messages.

The 'heat-death' of the universe is when the universe has reached a state of maximum entropy. This happens when all available energy (such as from a hot source) has moved to places of less energy (such as a colder source). Once this has happened, no more work can be extracted from the universe. Since heat ceases to flow, no more work can be acquired from heat transfer. This same kind of equilibrium state will also happen with all other forms of energy (mechanical, electrical, etc.). Since no more work can be extracted from the universe at that point, it is effectively dead, especially for the purposes of humankind. -- Andreas Birkedal-Hansen, M.A.