Ticking time bombs Thu, Jul 12. 2007
So, right now, we have crazy people who have come up with a single specific example that is supposed to be justification
for legalizing torture.
The premise that there is a bomb set to explode in two hours, and that we have the guy in custody, and we need to
torture him to find out where it is to disarm it.
This is stupid on a number of levels.
Software patent rant Mon, Jan 1. 2007
Here's a rant I made some time back about software patents. It's still true:
You think I'm about to start talking about software patents and how they retard the industry. But I think that's been
amply covered. Or I could talk about how they are basically patenting math, but that's been amply covered also. Instead,
I will talk about how they don't even work like patents.