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Monthly Archives: December 2008
We Deserve to Lose
We are accountable for commands from God as found in the Bible. It helps if you have some grasp of the context in which that Bible was written. Jumping into the narrative with Western philosophical assumptions will simply get you … Continue reading
Retirement Will Retire
Used to, only the wealthiest folks retired. Others simply died working, or got too infirm to make their own way, and moved in with family so they could die in peace. Most folks didn’t talk about retirement. A few got … Continue reading
Marketing Equals Lying
Back when Fred Reed attacked pitchmen, I rejoiced at the good sense he conveyed. In the process, he offers a very graphic lesson in economics: The Industrial Revolution was the real villain. Supply — of virtually everything — outstripped demand. … Continue reading
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Half-right: Linux Complaints
Actually, he’s only got one valid complaint: big projects are never fixed, they just keep releasing new versions with a whole new set of bugs. The GNOME Desktop has never ever been crash free since the birth of 2.x series. … Continue reading
openSUSE: Linux for the Lazy
There was a time when I would spend hours, even days, exploring all the ins-n-outs, chasing down the various slick tricks and secrets of an operating system. I’ve run a half-dozen brands of Linux and four different versions of FreeBSD. … Continue reading
All Too Soon
As mentioned previously, all this prognostication is just a guessing game. But you’d have to be completely blind to think we aren’t going to experience significant misery here in the US, and quite likely the whole world. One of my … Continue reading
Dire Predictions: Guessing Game
We are in recession; that’s official. Actually it’s far worse than that, but our government is notorious for torturing statistics, among other victims, and these statistics will confess to anything the torturer wants to hear. To the government’s advantage, the … Continue reading
Rape, Pillage and Plunder
Oklahoma Gas and Electric — a monopoly utility selling electricity to most of the State of Oklahoma. That word “gas” refers to their being the single greatest consumer of natural gas in this state, which happens to produce a whole … Continue reading
If Thine Eye Offend Thee
Logical errors abound. Context: For all purposes of this discussion, I’m a Christian fundamentalist. However, I am certainly not a member of the “Christian Right Wing” in America (nor the left, but let’s not chase rabbits). The point is, I … Continue reading
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Open Virtues
One of the most damning accusations against anything today which involves three or more people is secrecy. We on the outside of any thing are suspicious of what is hidden, and rightly so. The primary reason for hiding things is … Continue reading