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negative income tax
Even though I’d prefer to go to a capitalistic system which only has sales tax, if we’re stuck with income tax, negative income tax (Wikipedia) seems a reasonable idea.
America is NOT a Christian Nation
I realize it’s more complicated, historically, than these “sound bites,” but the campaign is on the right track: New FFRF Bus Sign Campaign “America is NOT a Christian Nation”
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Tagged constitution, founding fathers, freedom, gay marriage, religion, separation of church and state, united states
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Does Not Put Me Off
I realized if I (ha ha) ever wanted to go mainstream, I’ll have to rename this site. Changing “piss” to “put” would be easy enough.
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Black & Decker GH1000 GrassHogXP [updated 1/1/2009]
My yard is larger than an average suburban yard. I tried a gas powered weed wacker (line trimmer), but it was overkill. I just got the Black & Decker GH1000, and it works quite well, considering it’s one of the … Continue reading
Little Known Software
I really liked Dvorak’s idea to let everyone know about little known software. I’m recommending Filezilla. It does FTP, but it also does file transfer over SSH which means your file transfers cannot be snooped.
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We are keeping Netflix Profiles!
(note: This is the 2nd time Netflix has listened to its customers to reverse a decision, and the FAQ has not yet been updated) At 16:13 CDT I was pleased to receive this in my email: We Are Keeping Netflix … Continue reading
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Resistentialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism Resistentialism is a jocular theory in which inanimate objects display hostile desires towards human beings. Thank goodness I know the word for this now!
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dvorak.org/blog
Tiny Laptops For Fresno Grade School Kids — I think that we do need OLPC for US kids The White Continent — Beautiful The Mainstreaming of Atheism — Sunday School for Atheists — good luck being respected for your beliefs … Continue reading
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Multiple Instances of Firefox at the same time
I don’t know if the MOZ_NO_REMOTE workaround is still necessary for Firefox 2.0, but I do know I’m at the point where I want to run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time. I kept searching for firefox instances concurrently, … Continue reading
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Piracy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s voluntary collective licensing plan is the only real way to get out of the “piracy” problems on the web today. The only problem is that the labels would receive far less of a cut than today, … Continue reading
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Open Source Software and Education
Here’s how it ought to be: Each district in the United States hires1 or 2 programmers (predictable yearly IT budget). They all use a bugzilla website to communicate on software projects. The software projects are voted on by employees of … Continue reading
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Hunters as Environmentalists
I guess it should seem appalling, and maybe it used to to me, but now it just makes sense. What hunter would kill the last of a species — a poor one. There’s already good common sense about gun safety … Continue reading
Grades and Grading
I’d say more, but Alfie Kohn pretty much said it all. (except for the full explanation of motivation theory and grades).
Would Not Piss Me Off
When thinking about a few things (Thunderbird’s shady priority for Mozilla, RoundCube, Gmail, Social Networking Sites, iGoogle, Pidgin, etc), I’ve decided that it would be best if there was an opensource project for domain owners to install that would include … Continue reading
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