Friday, June 27, 2003

Paul Boutin is an idiot... Read this article on Slate. The best garbage has the stentch of sweet perfume, and this one reeks of it. People using Linux may be doing it because they hate MicroSloth, but they are doing it more often as not over price. This is the same mentality that makes people pick Microsoft over Apple. People use Apple for design, style, performance, reliability, and USABILITY!! The word usability has never been whispered by anyone involved with Linux, except when explaining how to compile a new interface. It is the number one reason why Apple still lives against MS, because MS just can't get it right. Even when they steal a usability elelment, they manage to screw it up. Why will Linux be any better given it's dispersed nature? Answer me that one Paul Boutin! Oh, and one other point, you're a cheap geek, why would you ever use a Mac anyway?...mj 4:17:43 PM

I can, you can, they can't? I am pleased on several levels with the Supreme Court's Texas Sodomy Law decision. On the one front. On the one level why can I do something with a woman that two people of the same sex can't do? It might make right wing moral sense, but it makes no logical sense. On the flip side, why is it that anyone has the right to determine what goes on behind closed doors between two or more consenting adults - it's no one's business but the people involved. The most insane part of this whole case is that it was a mistake from the start. The State of Texas begged for trouble from the point of origin. A gay-hating neighbor started it all by filing a false report about a man in distress. Police broke down the door and found the two men engaged in sex. The Police arrested and charged them with violating the outdated sodomy law. I am always amazed at how quick the right wing is to stick it's nose in everyone's business, but don't want us in theirs. Of course if they had their way, woman would be home, barefoot and pregnant. Men would be masters of the house, and sex would consist of men on top, with no birth control...mj 4:02:40 PM

Gun whips up a Metal Storm Imagine a gun that fires a million rounds a minute -- enough to shred a target in a blink of an eye, or throw up a defensive wall against an incoming missile. This is Metal Storm, a weapons system that forsakes old-style mechanics for the speed of electronics....more [CNN] This would be an amazing shift in technology. The one piece that caught my eye because of my last employer was the electronic locking...mj 3:45:47 PM

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