Gerard Baker says that Condi is playing a losing hand on Iran.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Something Long Needed
Not that I’m a conservative, but I think that many of those who are will find it useful. A petition for conservatives against Intelligent Design.
Mac’s Witnesses
This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:
What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?
- Just hide and hope they go away.
- Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
- Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
- Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
- Try to convert them to Linux.
- Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
- Put them in the Trash.
Mac’s Witnesses
This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:
What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?
- Just hide and hope they go away.
- Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
- Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
- Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
- Try to convert them to Linux.
- Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
- Put them in the Trash.
Mac’s Witnesses
This is pretty funny (given the proselytizing I’ve had to recently endure in my Fedora upgrade thread). Be sure to take the poll, too:
What would you do if Macintosh’s Witnesses came to your door?
- Just hide and hope they go away.
- Welcome them with open arms and an open node.
- Get down on my knees and praise Jobs!
- Join them in their crusade against those Redmond devils!
- Try to convert them to Linux.
- Nitpick about Macs being more expensive and how you think there’s no software for them.
- Put them in the Trash.
Busted
Radley Balko has Greenpeace dead to rights on their anti-nuke demogoguery.
Equal Opportunity Politicizing
And you thought there was a Republican war on science? Check this out. Iain Murray has more thoughts.
Ahead Of Schedule?
Bigelow Aerospace seems to be making good progress in developing private orbital facilities (a key component of a spacefaring infrastructure). Alan Boyle has more.
Fedora Update Update (Part N)
For those few of you who are fascinated/horrified by my computer travails, here’s the current status.
After removing Open Office and a Fortran compiler to resolve some otherwise unresolvable (at least by me) dependency issues, I finished the upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Core 4 via yum update (at least I think I did–how do I know?). I rebooted, and it rebooted. I haven’t attempted to reinstall Open Office yet, so I don’t know if that will work, but flush with seeming victory over the machine, I decided to push my luck and go from Core 4 to Core 5.
Fight! Fight!
Scott Burgess dismantles Johann Hari on the subject of Bjorn Lomborg and global warming. I share Scott’s take on both issues. And it’s another demonstration of scientific ignorance, innumeracy and illogic, and agendas over reality, on the part of some (too many) members of the press.