All of a sudden there's this very loud noise all around. People in neighboring homes, shouting, cheering?, jeering?, it's 11pm at night, this is not usual behavior in my usually quiet neighborhood.
Then I flip to ESPN.com and I understand: the Marlins have won the Series.
(I guess that means the owners will be coming back to the taxpayers again, to demand we pay for their stadium.)
Here's a trial balloon that deserves not only to be shot down, but shredded, dispersed, and probably exorcized:Pentagon wants 'mini-nukes' to fight terrorists. Imagine what happens when other nations build these and then they fall into the wrong hands. (Due to the nature of their likely uses, tactical weapons tend to be more dispersed and less well guarded than strategic ones.)
And, oh yes, might there be a moral issue about a national policy of envisioning and thus encouraging (in the sense of failing to maintain our stand against) the casual use of nukes? Or maybe a strategic cost to those of us living in a target-rich environment about undermining the international norm against the use of nuclear weaponry? Hello?
Administration Faces Supoenas From 9/11 Panel.
Key quotes from Co-Chair Max Cleland,
“It's obvious that the White House wants to run out the clock here,” he said in an interview in Washington. “It's Halloween, and we're still in negotiations with some assistant White House counsel about getting these documents — it's disgusting.”
“As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted.”
For years, I've been lugging an aged and heavy Dell around, hoping it would break so I could replace it with something lighter. But they build them tough. And I had a good warranty. The first major collapse came a month before the 3-year warranty lapsed, and they came and fixed it almost as good as new.
Then one of the Alt keys died. But you can't replace a laptop just because one redundant key goes.
But now, finally, I've run into a problem I can't solve, which means I need a new laptop.
Top vendors fail on top Linux notebook support.
Is this because
I'm generally surprised at how few firms sell pre-configured linux machines. Even desktops. And even fewer sell dual boot (Linux & Windows) machines. You'd think there would be a market for those.
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