I've seen a joke, maybe on a t-shirt, along the lines of "Every day a vegan skips meat, I'll eat three extra burgers." It's interesting because it exposes the question of whether the vegan is really trying to minimize animal deaths, or just seeks personal sanctity.

I wonder if a similar thing could be made with a Koran-burning machine. The machine is configured so that every time the internet has a new message from Islamicists, the machine automatically dips a Koran in pig blood, burns it, posts the video on YouTube, and sends a Tweet giving credit to the Islamicists who triggered that action.

Darn noobs! I remember having fun making the MCC Interim distribution work...

They're also moving the low-level courts to use a lot more technology to support them, things like video links so remand prisoners do not need to be brought to court, tablet computers with the legal texts on them in searchable form, that sort of thing. These are the sorts of things that technology can definitely help with, even though they definitely change the nature of justice somewhat.

The real key is that there is a body in Canada (other than the ordinary Joe on the street) who wants prices to be kept down, and which has the power to actually make that happen. Because keeping charges down is a priority, use of generic drugs will be more widespread, as will the use of programmes to improve general public health (because they tend to be very cost effective overall) and the more rapid progression from diagnosis to treatment. That last point can be both good and bad: good because if they got it right, you're getting treated sooner instead of having more expensive (and possibly invasive) tests done, and bad because if they got it wrong, you're not being treated for what's wrong at all.

Something's definitely up if they're getting valued at $40 billion! That's 4 times the UK's annual agricultural output!

Yeah, seriously UK farmers, WTF? Get off your arses and plough some hectares!

Actually, they need to be criminally charged with hacking. And copyright violations, for creating unauthorized derivative works of whatever web pages they messed with. And breaking wiretap laws.

But that won't happen. They're a corporation.

Maybe I can get a Lenovo laptop at deep discount and put Mint/KDE on it.

But can you trust their BIOS firmware? I guess the NSA already taught us that all computers can be assumed compromised, so maybe Lenovo isn't lowering the bar any. So maybe it doesn't matter either way.

Thanks for reminding me of that theory about the origin on Judaism. I'll try to check into how Christian theologians accommodate or dismiss that theory.

Well, I figure the first step is to try to understand what literary form its authors appear to have intended for its interpretation: allegory, wisdom literature, factual history, etc.

If it's apparently meant as factual history, then the question is, "well, did this really happen?" I'm not going to simply assume that they didn't, as that would be begging the question.

Buying their services as consultants, or as civilian employees of DoD agencies, sure; cut them a check and they'll show right up;

That works for a while. Eventually many of the best software developers working for the Navy installation I was at quit because of the senseless bureaucracy. When you're spending more time fighting your network administrators and purchasing agents than you are actually developing software, only the most committed, desperate, or indifferent developers will stay.

It was broken for me for a minute or two.

Also, once in a while I've been getting SSL certificate errors regarding ./ from Chrome.

Is that lipstick makes a woman look hot, but it's kind of gross when you actually kiss them.

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yeah, sorry, I'm not sure how I missed that. Must be time for me to go to bed.

Yes, somehow I missed that when reading it.

Clearly I missed that detail from the story, but your response was extremely rude. I think you owe me an apology.