Thomas James has some thoughts on ridiculous license agreements for software use.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Too Visionary?
With less than a week to go until the centennial celebration, Dwayne Day has an interesting bit of space history about Robert Heinlein over at The Space Review.
Raves
I’ve seen several reviews of Ratatouille. I’ve not seen a bad one. Lileks was very impressed.
More Giggle Factor Decline
TGV doesn’t get as much attention as some of the other NewSpace firms, but here’s an article about a recent successful engine test, from Norman, Oklahoma, where it’s based.
Is Orion In Mass Trouble?
“Anonymous” over at Space Politics thinks so (see sixth comment):
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Perspective
Today is the hundred and forty fourth anniversary of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. In the three bloody days of that battle, on the Union side alone, we had about as many casualties, killed and wounded as we’ve had in over four years in Iraq.
More Glove Prize Publicity
Here’s another story on Peter Homer, at the International Herald Tribune. Not much different than yesterday’s offerings, but it’s nice to see this getting so much play in the press.
“No Sign Of The Sacred”
Michael Yon has a gruesome report from Iraq, with graphic photos:
Soldiers from 5th IA said al Qaeda had cut the heads off the children. Had al Qaeda murdered the children in front of their parents? Maybe it had been the other way around: maybe they had murdered the parents in front of the children. Maybe they had forced the father to dig the graves of his children.
This isn’t civil war. It’s a war on the Iraqi people, and on decency itself, by a mindless, butchering hateful ideology. And in their savagery, they use our own decency against us, booby trapping bodies because they know that we, unlike they, honor the dead.
“No Sign Of The Sacred”
Michael Yon has a gruesome report from Iraq, with graphic photos:
Soldiers from 5th IA said al Qaeda had cut the heads off the children. Had al Qaeda murdered the children in front of their parents? Maybe it had been the other way around: maybe they had murdered the parents in front of the children. Maybe they had forced the father to dig the graves of his children.
This isn’t civil war. It’s a war on the Iraqi people, and on decency itself, by a mindless, butchering hateful ideology. And in their savagery, they use our own decency against us, booby trapping bodies because they know that we, unlike they, honor the dead.
“No Sign Of The Sacred”
Michael Yon has a gruesome report from Iraq, with graphic photos:
Soldiers from 5th IA said al Qaeda had cut the heads off the children. Had al Qaeda murdered the children in front of their parents? Maybe it had been the other way around: maybe they had murdered the parents in front of the children. Maybe they had forced the father to dig the graves of his children.
This isn’t civil war. It’s a war on the Iraqi people, and on decency itself, by a mindless, butchering hateful ideology. And in their savagery, they use our own decency against us, booby trapping bodies because they know that we, unlike they, honor the dead.