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| So i've been doing some thinking about startups, and I've posted about it in my other blog. The post is entitled Thinking About Startups and I'd like y'all's thoughts on the matter.
In particular, I've decided to hold a hack day (see the blog post for the definition) in one month's time, March 15. I need a place to hold it - somewhere with free WiFi, coffee, and room for a bunch of geeky types to get together and collaborate. Any suggestions? | comments: Leave a comment   |
| | Kansas City Dilettante. Yours truly, trying to make a little extra dough blogging about whatever strikes my fancy. I'm going to try very hard to keep it somehow KC related. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| A couple of good articles (read the comments, too) about the hype surrounding thermal depolymerization (TDP), and how it's worked out in practice.
Article discussing problems with the management of Global Resource Corporation, the folks with the microwave-based process for turning stuff into oil. Followup. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/09/paper-or-plasti.html
The article suggests that, if using a debit card to pay for a thing, to have the merchant "run it as credit" - i.e. process it as a signature-based transaction, rather than a PIN-based transaction. I've always held with that advice since my banker first told me about it. However, the article goes on further to suggest that one not use a debit card to pay for things at all, and only use it as an ATM card. Rather, one should pay for everything with a credit card and pay it off at the end of the month. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Mostly brought on by this article: "more than nine out of 10 Americans believe they will be attacked again on US soil."
Yes, the attacks of September 11, 2001 were horrific. But not only for their immediate physical effects, and not even for the lasting health problems caused by the fallout from the attacks for those who lived or worked in the vicinity. And not even because they attacked civilians on U.S. soil. No, these attacks are horrific because they inspired the "War on Terror" - including the Patriot Act, state-sponsored torture, warrantless wiretapping, and an unprovoked attack on a sovreign state - Iraq. And they may be used to try and justify an attack on another sovreign state, Iran.
This administration is using fear to increase its power at the expense of the people. The people are afraid, and so, by means of the government, they lash out at what frightens them. The government, in turn, plays upon that fear. But I, for one, am not afraid. I am not afraid of the terrorists. And I will not remain silent while the country I grew up in is devoured from within by the greedy, the violent, and the venal. Though it be only a candle against a sea of darkness, I will speak out. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Hi, I'm a.... (possibly NSFW for exposed boobs)
Various and sundry OSes in the style of "'Hi, I'm a Mac.' 'And I'm a PC'" | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I sure as hell hope not, but I wouldn't put it past President Bush's administration. And there are rumours...
Taking a page from ![[info]](http://www.inksome.com/img/userinfo.gif) jaberwockynmt's manual of posting style :)
Yes. We're gong to hit Iran, bigtime. Whatever political discussion that are going in is window dressing and perhaps even a red herring. I see what's going on below deck here in the hangars and weapons bays. And I have a sick feeling about how it's all going to turn out. -- via Daily Kos, an anonymous LSO1 on a carrier attack group in the Gulf of Hormuz.
THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. -- from The Sunday Times
... European observers, and some in the American government, believe that [President] Bush has resolved to "do something" about Iran before he leaves office -- from The Telegraph.
Let me emphasize again that these are only rumours - hearsay. I have personally seen no conclusive evidence that the United States is planning to attack Iran. That said, I do not believe that an attack on Iran is justified. I urge all my U.S. readers to contact their Senators and Congressmen, for whatever good it will do. If you oppose this attack, make that opposition clear. If there is an attack in the offing, even if ultimately it does not prevent that attack, at least the truth will be in the right place, and that's got to count for something. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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