Tim O’Reilly has a good one on Piracy, Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution. And the observations also apply to software.
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Why Government Sucks
Just a glimpse why government sucks from the soon to be former CIO of Utah.
Here’s the deal: to achieve results, you’ve got to do something. If you do something, you’ll make mistakes. Mistakes are, by definition, a process violation. So the only way to reverence process at all costs is to do nothing or, at the very least, proceed with the utmost caution. You’ve probably wondered why government service is so slow. This is the reason why: people are being very careful. They have to be, because any misstep can be deadly.
Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog
Similarly I have heard the same thing from those in large corporations, becoming if not already governments unto themselves.
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Why Government Sucks
Just a glimpse why government sucks from the soon to be former CIO of Utah.
Here’s the deal: to achieve results, you’ve got to do something. If you do something, you’ll make mistakes. Mistakes are, by definition, a process violation. So the only way to reverence process at all costs is to do nothing or, at the very least, proceed with the utmost caution. You’ve probably wondered why government service is so slow. This is the reason why: people are being very careful. They have to be, because any misstep can be deadly.
Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog
Similarly I have heard the same thing from those in large corporations, becoming if not already governments unto themselves.
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Europe on the U.S.
Old and In the Way an intresting read on Europe and U.S. relations and where it is all heading. Not sure if the dude gets it right or now but as engel is fond of saying, “probably 10% of the problem/situation.”
BTW, don’t remember where I found the link but the blogger had something resembling the following quote, “Europe keeps calling the U.S. the toilet seat, but I’m beginning to think they are what is inside the bowl.”
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Europe on the U.S.
Old and In the Way an intresting read on Europe and U.S. relations and where it is all heading. Not sure if the dude gets it right or now but as engel is fond of saying, “probably 10% of the problem/situation.”
BTW, don’t remember where I found the link but the blogger had something resembling the following quote, “Europe keeps calling the U.S. the toilet seat, but I’m beginning to think they are what is inside the bowl.”
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What is a Just War?
I’m glad to have found St Thomas Aquinas’ Conditions for a Just War which I first remembered encountering during the first U.S. vs. Iraq War baci in ’90 and ’91. At the time I wanted to go on the record as being a concious objector, simply put my religon had to all for concious objection and I had to be on record with some leader of my religon that I was one. Being Roman Catholic concious objection is allowed if the War was an Unjust War as defined by the above link.
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What is a Just War?
I’m glad to have found St Thomas Aquinas’ Conditions for a Just War which I first remembered encountering during the first U.S. vs. Iraq War baci in ’90 and ’91. At the time I wanted to go on the record as being a concious objector, simply put my religon had to all for concious objection and I had to be on record with some leader of my religon that I was one. Being Roman Catholic concious objection is allowed if the War was an Unjust War as defined by the above link.
George W. Bush does not lie about sex, I suppose–merely about war and peace.
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What I want to know is why this kind of lying is apparently OK. Isn’t it worse to refer “repeatedly to intelligence…that remains largely unverified”–as the Wall Street Journal puts it–in order to trick the nation into war, as Bush and other top US officials have done, than to lie about a blowjob?
The heart of the matter of why I don’t like Bush Junor, he lies about shit that really matters. The most unfortunate part is that Americans are believing his lies.
George W. Bush does not lie about sex, I suppose–merely about war and peace.
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What I want to know is why this kind of lying is apparently OK. Isn’t it worse to refer “repeatedly to intelligence…that remains largely unverified”–as the Wall Street Journal puts it–in order to trick the nation into war, as Bush and other top US officials have done, than to lie about a blowjob?
The heart of the matter of why I don’t like Bush Junor, he lies about shit that really matters. The most unfortunate part is that Americans are believing his lies.
Thomas Paine
You walk a constant fine line between annoying and entertaining. And you’ll get carpal tunnel syndrome someday from all that typing! You aren’t a natural leader, but accumulate an audience because its fun to wtch you rant. You aren’t a mover and shaker, but without you, nothing would ever get done.