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George Takei (Mr. Sulu in Star Trek, for those of you who don’t know…) responds to homophobic comments by some basketball player:
…I want you to know…that despite your ugly words, we don’t hate you. As a matter of fact, we like you. We like you very much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hgg_qsU-8E
Incidentally, I found it rather amusing to see the number of male commenters who had to clarify their "this video rocks!" messages with "but I’m completely straight!". Insecure much?
Happy St. Skeletor’s Day, everyone.
The generally-accepted (by insano-Christian types, anyway) date for the creation of the universe is Archbishop James Ussher’s calculation of September 22nd, 4004BC. This makes the universe 6011 years old as of last September.
Assuming a 90-year copyright, the universe would have passed into the public domain in September 3914BC, or 5922 years ago as of last September.
Traditional Hebrew calculations of the age of the universe are slightly more favourable, since they place the Creation at sometime in September/October 3761BC (can’t really be more accurate than that without more research on my part). However, this still would have the universe passing into the public domain in 3671BC.
Of course, this assumes that the copyright period is 90 years; obviously, if it’s 75 years then it’s even less favourable.
This also ignores the fact that the universe was written in Perl and Lisp, which suggests that God is in favour of free software; in fact, since he’s a Lisp hacker with an obvious interest in artificial intelligence, he probably has quite a bit in common with rms.
A bit of seasonal satire for you: It’s That Time Of Year Again.
On IRC, it was suggested that "the US needs exposure to sensible politics for once". I think this is a great idea, and since the US public seem to like their reality TV shows so much, here’s my suggestion:
Government Swap
For n months (where 1 < n < 12), the US government doesn’t run the US. Instead, it runs some other country, and that other country runs the US. I’m not certain exactly how much should be swapped; certainly, the Senate and House of Representatives, plus the various important-ish types (whoever’d be replaced in an election, basically). Possibly the Supreme Court, too, for good measure; can’t have them spoiling all the fun.
For best effect, I suggest switching them for the government of a country that’s actually sane. The Netherlands, maybe; I’m sure the US public would really appreciate gay marriage and (semi-)legal cannabis.
Just to make it clear, I have no interest in the city of Reading and its future or lack thereof. It’s the practice of reading that I’m concerned about. kthxbye.
"You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem." Nobody seems to know who Edwards was, but pretty much the entire system administrator profession rests on the implicit assumption that he/she was egregiously mistaken.
From Rick Moen’s site.
…I use the word "incidentally" too often.
This is a somewhat worrying example of the bad things that happen when you separate geeks from their computers for extended periods of time (>2 hours).
Poor joeyh.