I think if you searched 435 randomly selected American homes, and 435 Congressional offices, you just might find more evidence of crime in the latter…
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This insight into Apple Computer’s design was made by the reader Balfegor, in response to a post by Ann Althouse on the merits or otherwise of the offerings of that computer company. I myself am so frustrated with the erratic performance and system bloat of Windoze XP that I am resolved to not purchase another item of software from Microsoft, and I am tossing up between buying an Apple or building my own Linux based system. I have heard great things about Apple’s recent offerings, but I had always had an objection to the company’s products which I could never put my finger on until I read Balfegor’s comments.
Alan B. Shepard, aviator and astronaut. I also rather like his terse message to Mission Control at the time of his flight in 1961: “Why don’t you fix your little problems and light this candle”. I am sure he would be thrilled at the private sector space ventures that Dale has been tirelessly writing about lately. If I were his lawyer, I would point out that using a government office for having sex with his secretary was far less ruinous for Britain than how he might otherwise have been using it. While Prescott was harmlessly fucking his secretary, the rest of the cabinet were probably hatching schemes to make us all line up and be fingerprinted. Put it this way: would you rather he was shafting his secretary, or the nation? We got off lightly.
Isaiah Berlin, reminding us of the value of stating truths over and over, even if you fear you are just preaching to the converted. “Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely.” – Edward R. Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, computer science and statistics, and graphic design at Yale “Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.” – John Kenneth Galbraith (1984), an American intellectual who passed away yesterday. The frankly shocking discovery that this blog is being used as an educational aid for A-Level politics students is proof, if proof were ever needed, that state education is failing our children. – Guido Fawkes yesterday (knowing that no-one will agree)
– Andrew Norton, Research Fellow at the excellent Centre for Independent Studies, editor of Policy magazine and resident at Catallaxy |
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