This is a true story of how I got a Message From The Swedish Prime Minister.
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All the unbuffered error messages
This is a true story of how I got a Message From The Swedish Prime Minister.
Look at the From: address. There is nobody here that is so concerned with assisting enlightenment.
Before the dumpster service came to pick it up and take it away, we had several days of driving rain and fog. That sort of weather energizes me; I have no idea why.
The Fuel Rats are continuing their galaxy-conquering glorious romp in the limelight!
Traffic in Sao Paolo is impressive. Worse than Moscow!
When your GPS says it’s going to take 2hr to go 25km, and gives you an 81km alternate route… well nobody’s speeding. Or moving, really.
“Does anyone here know anything about ‘firewalls’?” asked Steve Walker, the CEO of Trusted Information Systems (TIS). If you read Mechanizing Proof [stderr] stw crops up a couple of times – he was one of the proponents of trustworthy design through formal verification, and TIS produced an evaluated version of UNIX known as Trusted Xenix.
This weekend (Sunday morning, specifically) I’ve got travel plans, heading from Washington DC to Sao Paulo for a conference. [mts]
Don’t you wonder what kind of bolt-holes the wealthy and powerful are building, now, against the new crop of threats? Other than the ridiculous “let’s colonize Mars with rich white people!” meme, they have to know the global warming hammer is going to drop soon and the die-back and displacement is going to be violent. They’ll want a “mineshaft gap.”
It’s wonderful when things out of your past crop up, if they bring good memories.
I always enjoyed the dictum (favored by Hitchens) “What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence” – itself asserted without supporting argument. One of the great masters of the art of passionate, soaring, assertion was Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche comes to mind, today, because Jordan Peterson appears to have absorbed a form of Cliff’s Notes version of Nietzsche, as most of us did in college.