And it would be really cool if you guys would start using an [MMT] tag in the subject headings.

"MMT is a great halfway house for recovering Austrians." -- Noah Smith

Private debt drives the economy. And yet economists have convinced themselves and us that we can safely ignore the role of banks debt and money. This situation is absolutely insane.

You appear to have convinced yourself you can completely ignore those "economists" and figure out what they think via telepathy.

Personal opinon: on economics, you're better off reading Krugman than slashdot.

Also: blekko.com, startpage.com. There's no particular need to use google for web searches any more.

If Moose bloat bothers you, you use a stripped-down Moose. Moo is currently pretty popular. I often use Mouse at work (it's installed more universally there) and haven't seen many problems with it.

I first got disillusioned with Perl many years ago when I realized I couldn't even read my own code!

The number of people who think this is a witty thing to say still amazes me to this day. So, uh, you have no sense of discipline, you don't know how to organize code and are incapable of writing documentation, and you think this makes you a way cool hip programmer dude because, uh...

The nice thing about perl culture, though, is you don't have to deal with quite so many people who think esr knows what he's talking about.

With the protests going on every other day here in Oakland, CA and the authorities apparent need to keep an eye on them with three helicopters in the air, hovering in place, I've been thinking a lot lately about how much fuel they'd save if they got a clue about lighter-than air vehicles.

Fads in IT? Unheard of.

The idea that the risks of nuclear power are anywhere near the scale of the problem with global warming is completely deranged-- the fact that someone who can string coherent sentences together is willing to embrace blithering idiocy on that scale is a sad comment on the state of our intellectual discourse.

The bit I like:

Q: "Why did they use segmented SRBs?"
A: Because Morton-Thiokol is in Utah, without a sea-port, and the pieces had to fit on trains or trucks.

Q: So why didn't they go with a company that did have ocean access, like Aerojet in Sacramento? A: James Feltcher was from Utah.

The way this argument goes is that the shuttle would've been able to take lighter payloads to a higher orbit, but the USAF design contraints screwed that up. So we got a shuttle-to-LEO when all the action (the satellites it was supposed to service) were up in GEO.

Now now, no point in arguing with a slashbot response. "Oh who cares about this, I thought of this in high school."

Actually, I think it's a problem that the anti-systemd forces keep going on about "the unix way" and what-not... haven't they been paying attention to the way things really work? (Hint: if esr says it, it's probably not quite right. [1])

Perl kicked Bourne butt by merging nearly everything you want into one process-- that's something you'd think a sysadmin would've noticed.

It is however a point that betting your system security on a new, gigantic project is kind of dubious, and I have a lot of sympathy with people objecting to gratuitious changes that obsolete decades worth of learning on how to manage a unix box.

[1] The actual "Unix Way" is "do one thing sort-of-okay and trick it out with options, configuration files and customization languages until you can't tell if it's going to fry eggs or go to the bathroom".

No, it'll all be rolled into libgnome. One library to rule them all.

There's no way I'm going to compromise with those no-nuclear people. They say they care about climate change, but are willing to risk the planet as long as they don't have to admit they were wrong.