I believe I can see the future Cause I repeat the same routine I think I used to have a purpose But then again That might have been a dream (…) Every day is exactly the same Every day is exactly the same There is no love here and there is no pain Every day [...]
Tagged health care, quotes, Science/Technology, wtf?I’ve spent most of the evening working on a new router to get the Head Rat’s laptop hooked up wirelessly. It’s a new Linksys router and it set up just fine on the desktop. It even connected fine via cable to the laptop. Unfortunately, every time I tried to turn on the wireless adapter, the [...]
Tagged Computers, wtf?From time to time I mention Tor.com. This time it’s because they are serializing Cory Doctorow’s new book (due out this fall, I think), The Makers into 81 episodes and all of them will be available on the website. As of this week they are up to #9. I don’t really know how to describe [...]
Tagged wordsmithingI haven’t written about the Health Care bill because I’ve been tired, depressed, distracted, busy, and I’ve been keeping up with the buzz, but haven’t gotten into the details. I assume most of my readers will not have read the 1000 pages, so as a public service I am posting a link to a few [...]
Tagged health care, Nanny State, wtf?John Derbyshire, as quoted at Unenlightened Commentary I’ve shot fish in a barrel before, but dealing with Economist.com commentators is more like shooting tortoises in a glue trap. Oh, and go read the Derbyshire interview. Conservative pessimism. My kind of guy.
Tagged quotesWhat is necessary for the very existence of science is just the ability to experiment, the honesty in reporting results-the results must be reported without somebody saying what they’d like the results to have had been – and finally,an important thing, is the intelligence to interpret the results, but: important point about this intelligence is: [...]
Tagged global warming, quotes, Science/TechnologyHaving more money than God has certain advantages. You can use your chump change to pay for anti-trust rulings against you. You can make people forget you are actively, purposefully attempting to achieve a monopoly by contributing gazillions of dollars to politically correct causes. You can afford to support ridiculous political positions. But, it also [...]
Tagged Science/TechnologySpaceX put a satellite into orbit successfully today. If you haven’t been paying attention, SpaceX has been building, testing and now using privately built rockets. Video of the launch is here.
Tagged Science/TechnologyI don’t spend much time at PJTV, but I stumbled on this video on Canadian Healthcare. It’s amazing what you can find out about a system when you aren’t a big name Hollywood activist.
Tagged health care, Nanny StateRatlands is using WP-Gravatar