You hire a crew of roofers to fix your roof. Several of them fall off the house, dead drunk, still clutching empty whiskey bottles. You carry each worker back up the ladder, and provide each one with a fresh bottle.
Posted on January 28th, 2009 by pwyll
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I ran across an interesting collection of speculations about so-called Unthinkable Futures. I quote the ones that caught my attention, and append a brief comment to each.
Computer power plateaus. The expected doubling of power and halving of chip size slacks off. More computer power can be had, but it costs.
Already happened.
American education works. [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2009 by pwyll
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I don’t normally watch Stewart, but this was great.
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The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c
Changefest ‘09 - Obama’s Inaugural Speech
Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview
Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by pwyll
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Chris “I felt a thrill going up my leg” Matthews (in drag), asks Obama some tough questions. Sometimes a man has to push the boundary to get what he needs…
That particular video is going to be a huge time saver for me. If ever I feel an urge to watch television coverage of [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by pwyll
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I was asked to comment on the current war in Gaza. I will quote Eric Raymond, whose opinion I share.
My position is this: if there’s an archetype of a “just war”, this is damn close to it. The Israelis are responding to a clear, present, and lethal danger to the mass of their citizenry - [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by pwyll
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HJ 5 IH
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 5
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 6, 2009
Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to [...]
Posted on January 17th, 2009 by pwyll
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