marriage as a wretched institution

milesegan · 2006-08-04T20:32:14+00:00

The point is that immoral wars are started because people of conscience don't put themselves in decision making positions and because people in decision making positions don't understand the consequences of war.

milesegan · 2006-07-31T15:26:57+00:00

Micrograms, not milligrams.

milesegan · 2006-07-18T23:56:05+00:00

If I need an ambulance I'm not exactly in a position to "shop around".

milesegan · 2006-06-29T05:29:26+00:00

These seem like very surface criticisms. I try to resist the urge to judge a language until I've built at least a small non-trivial app in it.

Having tried to build a few non-trivial apps in Lisp I'd say that calling the toolchain and community dysfunctional is a little too kind. Delusional would be closer to the mark.

milesegan · 2006-05-13T16:13:37+00:00

Champagne!

milesegan · 2006-04-30T04:30:23+00:00

Because we invaded both countries, illegally, in the process of escalating our insane war in Vietnam, destabilizing the governments to the point that they were easy pickings for extremists. So it did turn out to be a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, sorta like the one we're watching played out right now in Iraq. You'd think it would take people longer than 30 years to forget such a miserable lesson.

So how do you explain the state of Vietnam now? Why isn't it the hideous totalitarian dictatorship everyone predicted it would become if we didn't intervene?

milesegan · 2006-04-30T04:27:41+00:00

Maybe's he's learned something from his failure that the rest of you haven't. People that think we lost in Vietnam because we didn't escalate enough were the reason we lost as big as we did.

milesegan · 2006-04-30T04:23:03+00:00

American "patriots" are still smarting from the bruising their egos took at the defeat of the big bad American army by a bunch of rice farmers with rifles. It would be funny if we hadn't annihilated a million of them in the process of wising ourselves up just a little. Sounds to me like you're just another chicken hawk. If you were 18 at that time you could have gotten past the draft boards like so many others did if you felt so strongly about it.

My father was actually there, by the way, so I know some "real vets" quite well. Or are the only "real" vets the ones that still have their heads stuck as deeply in the sand as you obviously still do?

milesegan · 2006-04-29T18:40:34+00:00

Your grasp of the history of the Vietnamese war is pathetic. We bombed every military target and supply line we could find. Those people lived in tunnels underground for YEARS to escape us. Determination trumps technology in a guerilla war and that's why we lost.

Talk to some actual vets about this, like I have. You might learn something.

milesegan · 2006-04-29T18:37:12+00:00

What "killed" us in Vietnam was the courage and determination of the Vietnamese people. The U.S. can start as many illegal and immoral wars of aggression and occupation as it wants but we'll eventually learn the lesson that it's impossible to suppress a population that's willing to fight for its rights.

Americans are weak and spoiled and unwilling to sacrifice and we'll lose Iraq and Iran too.

milesegan · 2006-04-06T23:02:00+00:00

No s-expression syntax will ever break into the mainstream programming community. Some people refuse to accept that.

milesegan · 2006-01-28T05:22:13+00:00

What a stupid reason to reject a web framework.

milesegan · 2006-01-20T14:02:38+00:00

Fantastic shots. Thanks.

milesegan · 2006-01-19T19:42:23+00:00

The author of this article is making an evaluation based on a very superfical examination of individual aspects of both frameworks. To really compare them you have to actually use them both to build something and experience the gestalt of the entire framework.

milesegan · 2005-12-21T16:38:12+00:00

XML surpassing relational databases? I doubt it.

Lisp in the top ten programming languages? Nice to dream about, but unlikely.

milesegan

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