Posts by Stephen Judd
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to merc,
Interesting choice of authorities there, merc.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=theme&themeId=18
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Legal Beagle: Election Fact Check #3: It…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
TXT or social networking sites could fill the vacuum.
You can start the process of updating your address via TXT. But the process still involves the post eventually.
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Legal Beagle: Election Fact Check #3: It…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
only 73% in the 18-24 bracket
I suspect that in part that's to do with the great mobility of that age group, as almost all the processes in getting enrolled and staying enrolled are implemented by letter and paper forms. I have had some involvement with dealing with the issues around returned mail for EEC correspondence and while it's amazing what they do to try and stay in touch, there are limits when people move from flat to flat and don't leave forwarding addresses.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Hebe,
Wow. That is damning stuff if true. I don't have the background to assess it properly either, mind.
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Deborah,
Small talk is in some respects a learned skill, for some of us. However, I'm not sure that it's a skill worth acquiring
It's one of those interesting skills where being bad at it can be a positive disincentive to further practise. Like falling off the bike so much you can't be bothered learning to ride, or your first attempts at a new instrument making people laugh at you so you are too embarrassed to touch it again.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to kiwicmc,
I spent a long time with the Lions book trying to figure that one out.
It's such an odd comment too. Much of the rest of the code in V6 Unix is commented sensibly and explains what's happening. But in that one place that's so crucial and so mysterious, you're told you're on your own.
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I see that Dennis Ritchie died today. If we are to liken Jobs to Napoleon, then Ritchie and his partner Brian Kernighan’s impact on computing could be compared to that of Mikhail Kalashnikov on modern warfare. 99% of the technology that enables me to post this and you to read it is depending on code written in C and computers running Unix. It is hard to imagine the modern computing landscape being recognizable without them.
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Incidentally, the forgiveness from mistaken oaths inherent in Yom Kippur is interesting in the light of what I’ve been reading recently by David Graeber about the origins of money and debt in bonds of moral/religious/social obligation.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to BenWilson,
I was reading up on their policies and thinking it sounded quite reasonable, until it hit the whole antisemitic part.
(Maybe I misunderstood who Ben meant by "they").
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Lilith __,
Other people labelled them ‘criminal’
I honestly don’t believe violent crime is a matter of semantics.
The violence is a fact. Whether people should get a mark of Cain thereafter is a different question. I think that's what David is talking about when he says "label".
*POOR IMPULSE CONTROL*