Welcome in all on Fri, Aug 10. 2007
Well, I've finally installed some blogging software instead of using straight HTML. We'll see how it works out.
This site is going to be a confusing combination of talking about some vaguely progressive politics, configuring a moderately-sized mail and web server, some PennMUSH stuff, and random rants about whatever I want. I'll also be putting up stuff I've written in the past in various places, with a randomly chosen date of the state of the year.
I'll try to actually have useful categories so people can just read what they want, and I plan to start each category with a sort of overview post that will tell people what to expect.
Usually I'll have comments off, except when I am actually using this thing like a blog and commenting about someone else's blog posts. I'm not planning on requiring or even allowing user-registration.
This site is going to be a confusing combination of talking about some vaguely progressive politics, configuring a moderately-sized mail and web server, some PennMUSH stuff, and random rants about whatever I want. I'll also be putting up stuff I've written in the past in various places, with a randomly chosen date of the state of the year.
I'll try to actually have useful categories so people can just read what they want, and I plan to start each category with a sort of overview post that will tell people what to expect.
Usually I'll have comments off, except when I am actually using this thing like a blog and commenting about someone else's blog posts. I'm not planning on requiring or even allowing user-registration.
Ticking time bombs in politics on 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.
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 in politics on 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.
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.