"Only a Sith deals in absolutes" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
Disagree?
Callahan: Gender: Boy; Origin: Irish; Meaning: Strife
Strife:
1.
vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
2.
a quarrel, struggle, or clash: armed strife.
3.
competition or rivalry: the strife of the marketplace.
4.
Archaic. strenuous effort.
Because that's the sort of tone you want to set for an infant's life.
Diablo 3 has been around for one year. How did Blizzard decide to celebrate? Why, by releasing patch 1.0.8 with an integer overflow error that resulted in gold duping.
Because programming is difficult.
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act House vote by name
Call your senator, damn it.
Which conclusion do we inductively reach?
1) Cat's eyes work
like ours, and it perceives the illusion of a moving snake.
2) This particular
cat dislikes pieces of paper with circular patterns, so tries to rip it apart.
3) Seizure cat be
seizuring.
At some point we'll need to realize, as a species, that
notions of "property" and "owning" are really quite dumb. Until that time, I guess we'll just keep doing stupid shit.
Dude voices a dog who drinks martinis. He has to know how to make them properly.
Mom: I don't like
shopping at Wal-Mart, but the prices are so much cheaper. How can I not shop there?
Me: Well, you
recognize that the prices are lower as a result of their exploiting human
beings. For example, they deny most of their employees health insurance, and so increase suffering. So,
you shop other places in order to decrease your contribution to human
suffering.
Mom: And we need to
spread money around, because if Wal-Mart doesn't have any competition their prices
will go up!
Me: ...well,
yes. There's that, too.
