- Use the freakin extended copy box!
- 3!? Can you count to it!?
- Desertion and mutiny
- Why can't I co-create money?
Out of 12 stories on the diary page right now exactly one - ONE! - uses the extended copy. The rest have the whole lot in the intro copy box. This is fine if you only have a paragraph of material but it's a PITA if you're pounding out a thousand words and stretch the page to incredulous length. While this is something of a peeve of mine, it does have it's practical aspect: the more you put in the intro box the more bandwidth it takes to load the main diary page. If you care nothing for my sanity at least give Kos a millicent break (per pageview, it racks up) on his hosting charges.
Do people fear complexity so much that they will endanger themselves in order to prolong the illusion of simplicity? Yes, that's a rhetorical question. The answer is an obvious yes. My side your side, right or wrong, good or evil, with us or against us... ad infinitum. And when applying such falacious logic to reality results in setback after setback and horrors nearly unthinkable do those who prefer such an illusion examine their preconceptions to see if perhaps they might have helped cause such a thing?
Naaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.
I was in a pissing match over Israel and Palestine with some guy and I just couldn't get through to him that I neither support the Israeli colonialists nor the Palestinian terrorists. Since he supported the Israelis, any argument I made that the Israelis have a lot to take blame for themselves meant to him that I supported the Palestinians.
What can ya do? These folks can't count to three.
Reading about the possible AWOL soldiers this morning prompted me to look up some info on the phenomenon of desertion. The most interesting thing I found was this. Sure the source is suspect (and I say this as an anarcho-syndicalist myself), but the information is fascinating if true. How many body bags will it take before these weekend warriors we've dumped in the sand for a year - or more - start getting a bit unruly? What will happen if Bushco flub such a situation as badly as they've managed to fubar everything else their palsied hands have touched?
"You would see this wonderful society destroyed,"?