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Still having trouble coding, which means I spend too much time reading Internet posts.

Lori Drew Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case -- Updated -- the things people do to each other
Report: Government's Cyber Security Plan Is Riddled With New Spying Programs -- is anybody surprised? Really? While it's about time that governments figure out that the Internet infrastructure is now as vital to national security as the highway system or the telephone network, is anybody really surprised there's more stuff in there than just securing networks, and that they're going to pay too much for it? It's the government.

This last one I've included here, because I want a copy of it no matter what happens.

( Selling Your Life For a Quarter at a Time... )

Tags: interesting links, philosophy

Sometimes, it's hard to play music (or do any sort of art thing), when you see the real professionals and talented amateurs do it, and you think "Sweet Jesus, why the hell do I bother? I'm never going to be that good."

Today, however, I saw something on a friend's blog, which reminded me that even professional musicians like BNL can't do everything perfectly in a single take. Though, after seeing the Double Dippers show on S&D 3, you would think I would have been reminded of this earlier. (8-)

Keep playing, performing, dancing and singing. In the end, it's not about what other people think of what you do -- it's about what you think of what you do.

Tags: philosophy

People at various times over the past ten years have asked why I don't go into business for myself. I've always taken it as a compliment, that the people involved think that I've somehow got the intelligence and drive and discipline to work for myself.

But I've always known inside that I'm missing some key skills to make it work. And reading this (Entrepreneurship - A Reckoning) only underlies it even more. I can't market myself or products very well, I don't disseminate very well, and I just lack the idealism that an entrepreneur needs to get off the ground. My ability to see potential problems and adjust course accordingly works great when you're an I.T. manager, but, you need a certain willful blindness when working for yourself. Otherwise, the stress of knowing most businesses implode in the first 5 years will just kill you.

Tags: interesting links, philosophy

You know, if a group of people can't frigging come to a compromise over a UI function in a stupid IM program, how the bloody hell can we achieve compromise on anything else?

Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork

Tags: philosophy

A character on this week's NUMB3RS remarked that, while talking about another character, that the challenge in building a balanced picture of them was "separating the ugliness of their dogma from the sincerity of their faith."

I think that's one of the more succinct ways of expressing a challenge we all face, on one level or another. But we have to face it, otherwise, we do not know if we are truly dealing with dogma -- or simply the expression of our own fears and prejudices, projected on to others.

Tags: philosophy

Cdn freed in Sudan being refused help getting home: lawyer

Assuming this is true, then what the bloody good is Canadian citizenship? Either freaking prove Abdelrazik was guilty of something, something so heinous that he no longer deserves to be a Canadian (you'll note that even Paul Bernado, that sick damned bastard, is still a Canadian citizen), or given him the full level of assistance a Canadian citizen, innocent of any crime deserves, and bring him home -- especially if you're the people who suggested he should be put in jail in the first place.

Either legal protections mean something to all people, or they mean nothing. You can't have this half and half shit, justice defines what's right -- because the nature of justice and morality changes, usually to suit the powers that be. Or, as I like telling defenders of Bush's attempt to gain extended executive powers -- all those executive powers that you wanted to grant to George W. Bush. Well, unless something radically changes between now and Jan 2009, now it looks like a Democrat (or McCain, who's as bad as a Democrat according to some 'proper' Republicans) is going to have access to those powers as well, for warrantless wiretapping and all those other things. Yes, the godless heathens can now read your email without a warrant. How does that make you feel?

The limits on government power should be defined by how much power you want the OPPOSITION to have. Because, at one point, the opposition is going to be in power, whether you want to believe it or not. And if you take measures to make sure the opposition never gets into power, it's no longer a democracy, and this entire argument is moot. Because, in that case, it's now the law of the jungle -- and I don't think most political pundits and supporters out there truly understand the ruthlessness required to survive in that scenario.

Tags: philosophy, politics - general

In the last post, I wrote "companies act indifferently." Most people are willing to assign a moral 'good' or 'evil' judgment on corporations, but, after thinking about it for a while, I think neither applies.

( A reminder about the uses and abuses of free markets... )

Tags: philosophy, politics - general