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17 Feb 2011, 9:23 am
I wonder less whether computers will become intelligent than whether I will like them when they do. Possibly as non-primates, they could be pretty likable, like super-intelligent dogs. Just thinking out loud here. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 2:25 pm
OK, but I would not want to be married to her. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 5:14 pm
I found it on Google maps. Sounds like you don't want to live there. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 6:51 am
GPS is not yet a substitute for a map, compass and water. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 3:29 pm
A somewhat half-hearted defense of snobbery by something of a snob. I think of myself as a recovering snob, with no doubt some ways to go. I have a big (50 inches or more -- 50% off on Amazon) HDTV right smack in the middle of our family room and I love it. It's so big it overlaps the windows a bit on either side of it. I know it's declasse but it's big and has a great picture. Am I to go without seeing my television friends up close and personal just because it is sort of lower class… [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 10:46 am
Nearly a litre of Bailey's Irish Cream. Good God. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 9:44 am
Some of the nuttiness is due to regulation. Maybe it would be a good idea to make public company regulation not so onerous that you need to turn to Russian oligarchs for capital infusions. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 5:08 pm
I'm not sure which way this cuts. Then there's the whole Idaho angle. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 10:50 am
I can hardly wait. Inside Game of Thrones [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 10:48 pm
Sumpthun's gotta give. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 7:24 am
This is interesting. I know I get a special kick out of things that I know are high in quality but particularly inexpensive. The men's polo shirts at Target use a higher quality and thicker cloth than RL Polo shirts, for example, though sadly the color sense at Target is a bit lame. I love my Seiko black monster mechanical watch, sort of the Kalishnakov of the watch world. Other examples? Anyway, Tyler makes an interesting observation that networked knowledge can substitute for status… [read post]
4 Nov 2010, 5:36 pm
Corporatism and GM. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 2:13 pm
So says Ms. Rabinowitz. I agree, but I can also do without anymore neoconservative adulation of FDR as well. It may be less irrational than progressive adulation of Obama but it is still objectionable. If FDR had not been FDR, we would not be in the pickle we are in now. If the neocons had not been neocons, with "national greatness" and "big government" "conservatism", the Bush Republicans might have felt more constrained to act like Republicans… [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 4:52 pm
Well this is weird. Several times now I have found what appears to be the scat (that's poop for you city folks) of a small dog, sometimes loaded with hair, on the paving stones that lead from my lovely spa, with its water fall cascading over fake but realistic looking rocks, to my pool pump and heater. This has puzzled me as these scats are laid, almost defiantly, right down the middle of the path, as if marking it, and are left there even after times when my dogs could not have gotten in… [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 8:25 am
Here. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 10:30 am
Is there anything government can't do? Here, the good doktor professor suggests where title or the status of a mortgage is unclear, as it turns out now is often the case due to widespread lender sloppiness, a new government agency should step in and just make up new terms that are fair. This solution, so astonishing in its directness and brilliance is, as far as I know, entirely original. Why didn't somebody else think of this? Property rights can get out of whack. And so, why not just… [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 3:39 pm
This is getting too easy. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 12:50 pm
This is fairly entertaining. [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 4:28 pm
Groan. Moreover, I recall that Congresspersons and Presidents and many others besides take oaths, do they not, to behave in a manner consistent with the Constitution. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 5:00 am
Bigger than Hitler, bigger than Stalin! Mao credited with killing 45 million in Great Leap Forward. [read post]
