The new New Space News is out.
Big Fat Law Suit
I hope you’re sitting down, so you won’t fall down in amazement when I tell you that Michael Moore has been accused of using an interview out of context. The interviewee is unhappy to the tune of eighty five megabucks. It should be an entertaining trial. Unless, of course, it’s settled out of court.
Revisit
On the occasion of Peter Diamandis winning the Heinlein Prize, I thought some of my readers might want to reacquaint (or introduce, if they haven’t had the pleasure) themselves with some of the great man’s books
And yes, if you’re wondering, I do get a cut (assuming that enough people purchase some to get me to the minimum). Think of it as an alternative means of tipping me, while getting in some good SF.
Missing Dependencies
Latest update on the Fedora upgrade saga:
Error: missing dep: libebook.so.8 for pkg openoffice.org
Error: missing dep: libedataserver.so.3 for pkg openoffice.org
Error: missing dep: libdb_cxx-4.2.so for pkg openoffice.org-libs
Error: missing dep: /lib/security/pam_loginuid.so for pkg openssh-server
Error: missing dep: gcc for pkg gcc-g77
Why is yum telling me this? Why doesn’t it just go out get the packages and fix it?
[Update about 11:15 AM EDT]
The Morality Of Human Enhancement
Ron Bailey has a report on a conference this past weekend.
New Fedora Update Problem
OK, I got through the update, but got the following error messages at the end:
Disturbing
I’m number three on a Google search for “wife s3x gropies.”
No, I didn’t find this by searching on those terms. It was in my referrer logs.
What Is Wrong With These People?
Anyone who would want to do this just seems like an alien being to me. Of course, I never understood mosh pits, either.
But then, maybe the wikipedia entry explains it:
In many Western cultures, there are very few outlets for a youth’s natural inclination toward violence…
That’s why it is alien to me. I have never in my life, not as a kid, not as an adolescent, not now, had a “natural inclination toward violence.” I don’t even like to squish bugs (except the computer kinds). Perhaps I’m “unnatural.”
And in rereading the article, it makes me wonder about the perspicacity of the people involved:
“You get to be a superhero for a night,” Klimanis said. “We have to go to work every day. We’re constantly told to buy things we don’t need, and just for a couple hours we have the freedom to do what we want to do.”
He’s “told every day to buy things he doesn’t need.” Really? If so, so what? Is someone holding a gun to his head? Has he no willpower? Is his house filled with things that he bought via this mindwashing? Is his only recourse to advertising and having to make a living to go out and beat people up?
What a maroon.
NASA’s Supposed Risk Aversion
Clark Lindsey has some thoughts.
NASA’s Supposed Risk Aversion
Clark Lindsey has some thoughts.