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Over the mid-week hump.
Mar. 16th, 2006 12:28 amWe start with a moment of clarity, presenting by far, the best comment about why one should not pass gay marriage bans. (Although, according to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thewayne's journal, the quotes may not be precise. Unfortunately, the people in charge don't seem to have come up with anything clear or interesting, as they've changed the rules of security clearances so thatorientation might be used in conjunction with some other possible disqualifier to deny a clearance request.
The warmongers may want to have a read at The Prayer, somethingprzxqgl provides, attributed to Mark Twain but unpublished. It sums up the mentality of war well. And beyond that, some quites, arguably taken out of their contexts, but in number enough that point out that religions have a history of espousing violence.
That bit we excerpted yesterday about Jerry Falwell denying Jews the right to go to heaven. Well, here it is, in all its full-fledged glory. Falwell still believes all Jews go to Hell.
An interesting pairing - the article is about hyper-perception and the insights it can gather, the comments are vicious about differing opinions, claims of a hive mentality, defenses and attacks, ripostes and counters. The comments are far greater in volume than the original post. I'm not entirely sure why it strikes me as profound and fascinating, but it does.
Ah, yes, it was the Ides of March. The Madness will soon be upon us. Those who pick their brackets will do well or poorly by their own hands... mweh-heh-heh... I on the other hand, have very little invested in it, other than trying my hand at semi-random guessing and trying for a nice high score.
One other thing, and it seems an odd request. If anyone has experience in building, buying, or designing information collection and analysis systems, can I pick your brain for a bit? I want to know what's important, what sort of materials are needed, and how much the thing is likely to cost...
Tucking in now. Tomorrow, go print off a sheaf of papers, and actually do some more work on the blasted papers...
thewayne's journal, the quotes may not be precise. Unfortunately, the people in charge don't seem to have come up with anything clear or interesting, as they've changed the rules of security clearances so thatorientation might be used in conjunction with some other possible disqualifier to deny a clearance request. The warmongers may want to have a read at The Prayer, something
przxqgl provides, attributed to Mark Twain but unpublished. It sums up the mentality of war well. And beyond that, some quites, arguably taken out of their contexts, but in number enough that point out that religions have a history of espousing violence. That bit we excerpted yesterday about Jerry Falwell denying Jews the right to go to heaven. Well, here it is, in all its full-fledged glory. Falwell still believes all Jews go to Hell.
An interesting pairing - the article is about hyper-perception and the insights it can gather, the comments are vicious about differing opinions, claims of a hive mentality, defenses and attacks, ripostes and counters. The comments are far greater in volume than the original post. I'm not entirely sure why it strikes me as profound and fascinating, but it does.
Ah, yes, it was the Ides of March. The Madness will soon be upon us. Those who pick their brackets will do well or poorly by their own hands... mweh-heh-heh... I on the other hand, have very little invested in it, other than trying my hand at semi-random guessing and trying for a nice high score.
One other thing, and it seems an odd request. If anyone has experience in building, buying, or designing information collection and analysis systems, can I pick your brain for a bit? I want to know what's important, what sort of materials are needed, and how much the thing is likely to cost...
Tucking in now. Tomorrow, go print off a sheaf of papers, and actually do some more work on the blasted papers...
