Tim's Bits and Pieces

Marko Kloos is so very good at expressing why gun control sucks, so rather than explain it myself I'll just link to him.

As with most things there's a right way and a wrong way to ford a river. This is the wrong way:

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Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD), the bane of the Linux "evangelist", is not restricted to anti-Linux materials: Iran Uses Novell and Microsoft Software to Make Bombs. Oh, noes! Microsoft and Novell must be evil!

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You might be wondering what a web comic, Narbonic, and an intelligence organizations, ASIO, have to do with each other; the answer of course is absolutely nothing whatsoever, I simply don't have enough to say for two separate posts.

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Since I haven't posted for a while, I thought I'd share a couple of interesting posts from other blogs that are well worth a read:

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For your reading pleasure may I present A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.

The Mises Institute presents and article on Underwriters Laboratories which is well worth a read, particularly if you're the kind that believes that without the Government there would be nothing stopping companies from simply producing unsafe products as a cost cutting measure. While the article in question is certainly biased, it is still worth giving the issue some consideration rather than simply assuming that there would be no protections in place without the Government. Also while such an organization would be prone to bribery and corruption, only the most naive believe that the Government is not prone to such things already.

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AKA: Revenge of the Sith. This is hilarious; I find myself wondering if I could pick up a copy from somewhere.

I was away camping out in the Richmond Ranges with my family and didn't get anything written for the weekend so instead I've just got a few links that I figured I'd share:

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Looks like the sharks demanded a rematch, which they promptly lost. That's two-nil in favour of the crocs.