Jared Diamond goes on at some length about the Greenland Vikings: http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0670033375 Summary:
If you live in Greenland like you're still in Europe, and pay no attention to the successful Inuit, then
your policies have all the likelihood of success of [no, _______ wasn't mentioned].
It's fun when rights are subdivided into tiny little sub-rights and privileges, in an increasingly byzantine array.
Each new 'right' breeds a new bureaucracy, somehow costs you more money, and cranks up the billable hours for some shark.
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, say I.
Did they sell it?
This interface has deteriorated to the point I can't figure out how to make a journal entry. http://slashdot.org/my/inbox still gets a sensible message presentation, but the journal feature is gone, AFAICT.
Clearly I'm missing something, but that something seems like it should be less subtle.
I think a better analogy is buyer===marketplace===vendor.
Gates and RMS argue about where to position the marketplace.
That the argument can proceed freely is, itself, the crucial point.
Where health care and Government Motors converge is in Progressive Utopialand.
You'll drive to your Obamacare appointment in your Transformers Edition Camaro as a result of the new Bill of Rights, as promulgated by FDR: http://slashdot.org/~smitty_one_each/journal/196922.
We've just got to shrub off this hedge of bad numbers left by Bush, raze the thicket of hate speech emitted by right-wing talk radio, and call the copse on any Tea Party protesters that show up at their Congressman's office wondering WTF.
All of the companies named form an orchestra, working within the musical system, and playing a capitalistic tune.
In that metaphor, the FSF is a highland bagpipe. Yeah, it's music, but it simply doesn't play well with others.
The FSF plays in one octave with no rests, and literally marches off to its own 4/4 tune, while the rest of the orchestra sits there wondering.
Aconstitutional order requires national attention. Conspiracies of rascals never attain comfortable official recognition. Newer authorities can only require newer.
Your notion of negotiation as a solution is predicated upon respect for the Rule of Law.
Zelaya has already demonstrated that he's willing to make up other rules.
His wad is shot, and he needs to take the loot he's stashed in Switzerland and go work on the memoir.
RazakSAT!
Well, how 'bout that?
Truly a moment to savor.
In the lee of the Earth she's a hairy boar,
But by light she's a hell of a shaver. Burma Shave
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Jared Diamond goes on at some length about the Greenland Vikings:
http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0670033375
Summary:
If you live in Greenland like you're still in Europe, and pay no attention to the successful Inuit, then
your policies have all the likelihood of success of [no, _______ wasn't mentioned].
It's fun when rights are subdivided into tiny little sub-rights and privileges, in an increasingly byzantine array.
Each new 'right' breeds a new bureaucracy, somehow costs you more money, and cranks up the billable hours for some shark.
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, say I.
No. Perhaps they want to limit JEs to people frequenting the site.
Not a bad idea, if true, but less than well articulated.
Did they sell it?
This interface has deteriorated to the point I can't figure out how to make a journal entry.
http://slashdot.org/my/inbox still gets a sensible message presentation, but the journal feature is gone, AFAICT.
Clearly I'm missing something, but that something seems like it should be less subtle.
Let us celebrate obscurity: The Saragossa Manuscript.
Or the equally excellent original: href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manuscript_Found_in_Saragossa
Palm app clunker?
A who'd've thunker.
What way could this pave,
For another DC save?
Burma Shave
Nicely done.
Some gadget, sure
You'd like to track.
What of that fur
Ever growing back?
Burma Shave
Ported game,
Crying shame.
Like lesser lather,
Endless flame.
Burma Shave
Freedom FTIR
Disinformatzia inciter
Whip up the suds
Leave the sensor still whiter
Burma Shave
Scar tissue remains after the healing.
Zero-Day attack
The coder: whack
One means to stop
The furbrained attack
Burma Shave
Why this blatant anti-middleman bias?
David Lee, a tropical botanist at Florida International University in Miami, says that although the evidence is speculative,
In this case, we can speculate on the evolution of the story as to who may originate the next round of barbs.
Linus is John the Evangelist, hacking away on Patmos.
I think a better analogy is buyer===marketplace===vendor.
Gates and RMS argue about where to position the marketplace.
That the argument can proceed freely is, itself, the crucial point.
Far from it. RMS is the modern John the Baptist. He is an important part of the overall discussion, even if you don't agree with him.
Where health care and Government Motors converge is in Progressive Utopialand.
You'll drive to your Obamacare appointment in your Transformers Edition Camaro as a result of the new Bill of Rights, as promulgated by FDR:
http://slashdot.org/~smitty_one_each/journal/196922.
We've just got to shrub off this hedge of bad numbers left by Bush,
raze the thicket of hate speech emitted by right-wing talk radio,
and call the copse on any Tea Party protesters that show up at their Congressman's office wondering WTF.
Yes, but those Rush Limbaugh fans will surely go ballista-ic.
All of the companies named form an orchestra, working within the musical system, and playing a capitalistic tune.
In that metaphor, the FSF is a highland bagpipe. Yeah, it's music, but it simply doesn't play well with others.
The FSF plays in one octave with no rests, and literally marches off to its own 4/4 tune, while the rest of the orchestra sits there wondering.
We Americans should be taking notes.
A constitutional order requires national
attention. Conspiracies of rascals never
attain comfortable official recognition. Newer
authorities can only require newer.
Your notion of negotiation as a solution is predicated upon respect for the Rule of Law.
Zelaya has already demonstrated that he's willing to make up other rules.
His wad is shot, and he needs to take the loot he's stashed in Switzerland and go work on the memoir.
RazakSAT!
Well, how 'bout that?
Truly a moment to savor.
In the lee of the Earth she's a hairy boar,
But by light she's a hell of a shaver.
Burma Shave
The lack of an obvious "Blame Bush" angle proved an impediment.