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11:45:26 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2007
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11:44:30 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2007
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Yay George Bush!* The farm bill has reached the Senate, and Bush has threatened to veto it. There's an alternative that's been proposed, called the FRESH act, that would repeal the subsidies and replace them with insurance. If you felt like writing your senator, now is the time. Here's Oxfam's press release. I've talked about it before, but the way we do our farm subsidies isn't just unexcusable government waste, but it does real harm to agriculture around the world. Don't be fooled by all the nice liberal-sounding garnish they've stuck around it.
*It may be that Bush wants to veto it for the wrong reasons, but I'll take what I can get. I had given up hope once it got to the senate, in which farmland is better represented than people.
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04:54:36 PM,
Wednesday 7 November 2007
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Teasing out the inversions of Ron Paul, Alan Moore and Guy Fawkes. I'm glad this was puzzling for other people as well.
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04:31:12 PM,
Wednesday 7 November 2007
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I just spent 2 hours trying to save the server a couple minutes on a one time query, because I just couldn't believe that SAS's PROC SQL statement doesn't allow for either SET ROWCOUNT 1000 or TOP 1000. You can do PROC SQL INOBS=1000, but that doesn't stop SQL running against the whole shebang, it just doesn't pull it all into SAS.
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12:09:32 PM,
Tuesday 6 November 2007
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Why there are hyphens in katakana.
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08:52:42 AM,
Tuesday 6 November 2007
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Go aphorisms should not be auto-translated:
Bad shot (stem end to the Depression)
Bad decisions and failed.
Make a move (to depression), preempt (not in a depression)
(First) means.
No (No)
Own land and other lands not express their eyes from the extension, unavailability, and the carpet.
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10:41:45 PM,
Monday 5 November 2007
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My cat's name is あたり
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10:22:38 PM,
Monday 5 November 2007
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An interview with Obama about the Clinton legacy, transparency, drivers licenses, Hamas, torture, etc. The whole thing is far better than the excerpts, and there's only one ad. It's actually a kind of fascinating example of what is lost when excerpts are made. That said, an excerpt:
Do you think the majority of the American public is in favor of giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants?Myself, I'm on the fence about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants. I think the entire american system of ID is a mess, and this is just one of the problems, but I don't know what to do about it. I'm on the fence about most things. This stuff, the boring stuff that matters, is over my head. But this doesn't mean I want to vote for someone who doesn't know. I want to vote for someone who has thought about it honestly, as a matter of policy, not politics. This is the sort of thing I mean, when I ramble on about Obama. All his talks are shot through with things I just don't expect a politician to say, things that change my mind, or try to, that engage with the problems of government, not politics. I can listen to him. He doesn't do 3 minute hates. He talks differently, I feel talked to, not manipulated, and that's what a change in politics is, it's talking differently. A lot of this is perception. I listen to him, and here a different sort of politics. I listen to Clinton or Edwards, I hear the normal desperate scrambling to avoid the petty traps of our politics, Obama walks into them. It's only political suicide if we let it be. _
Absolutely not. I'm sure they aren't.
But you are in favor.
What I have said is that it is better off that we know that people who are driving know the rules of the road, are subject to insurance, are making sure that we know we can track them if they get in an accident. A lot of security experts agree with me on this issue. It's not optimal. What we need to do is make sure that we don't have undocumented workers coming into the country in the first place. But here's the more important point: people know where I stand on this and we can have a serious conversation and debate about it.
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04:31:52 PM, Monday 5 November 2007
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All else being equal, is it better to have the leader of the free world have two way conversations with the christian God, or space aliens? I think God, on the whole, just because I have a better handle on the sorts of things God is generally is held responsible for saying. UFO's are more of an unknown quantity. Though Kuchinich gets all kinds of style points for admitting it.
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04:25:19 PM,
Monday 5 November 2007
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More Bonfire Night blogging: Has Ron Paul become our Guy Fawkes? I'm sort of flabberghasted. I think it's thrown my irony-meter out of whack. I keep tapping it, but it isn't registering anything.
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02:18:09 PM,
Monday 5 November 2007
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We're planning a trip to Berlin, and I can't decide if May Day riots are a feature or a bug. It sounds like they've been practically peaceful the past few years. But you know things have reached a sad state for the revolution when would-be revolutionaries could even possibly be considered a tourist attraction.
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12:17:27 PM,
Monday 5 November 2007
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