Terminally Incoherent

I just discovered Komodo Edit from ActiveState (the same dudes who make that windows based Perl Package. Review Time!

I liked Quanta Plus, but this is just much better PHP IDE. At least for my needs.

The politics category haven’t had much use lately. Let’s talk politics. No, I’m not going to go on a rant again and start with Orwellian parallels again. All conspiracy theories aside, the NSPD 51 is worrisome to say the least. Go skim through that thing - it is intentionally verbose and vague.

The way I understand it, it gives the president overreaching power over the house and the senate in case of a national emergency to “ensure constitutional government”. In other words - when the shit goes down, president can claim dictatorial powers - you know, to preserve freedom.

I doubt anyone in their right mind would use this directive to seize power or overturn government but leaving such a thing uncontested in the body of our laws seems unwise. Is that directive even constitutional? But how do we contest this? Who do we write?

Oh man I’m getting hit hard. Digg already killed my server once today. I’m hoping to get this post in before I go down again. If this site phases in and out of existence all day, keep in mind it’s because of the Digg effect. My host is going to fucking hate me after today. LOL

Btw, welcome Diggers - I’m thrilled to have ya here! Just go easy on my poor battered server.

I have to say that I actually like this Russian version of Winnie the Pooh better than the Disney one. Check it out for yourself. The Disney Pooh is a likable, gullible dofus. Vinni Puh on the other hand fucking rules - he is one clever, fast talking awesome bear.

Vinnie Puh @ youtube

If you liked it, here is moar. Or maybe it’s just me. I grew up on cartoons from the eastern block, so shit like that reminds me of childhood. What do you think? Do you like it? Hate it? Don’t care for it?

I am impressed! I always thought that you can’t really post a blatant troll in a respectable, renowned, mainstream magazine like NY Times. And yet Mr. Mark Helprin has proved that a crafty writer can sneak a clever troll just about anywhere. His article is a masterfully crafted flamebait. If NY Times was a forum, it would be set ablaze in a matter of seconds. Most of forum trolls are more or less a precise, laser guided hits. This one is different. It’s like a napalm drop - designed to heat large area and infuriate as many people as possible. It’s subtle enough that it passed through the NY Times editorial BS filter, and yet arrogantly stupid, and needling enough to solidly piss you off. Just check out the title:

A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?

Blam! I’m already annoyed, and that’s just the title. It get’s better from there. You start reading the article and you go:

“Come on Helprin, you must be joking! No one can be this stupid, and short sighted!”

And then it hits you! It’s like an instant epiphany:

“Oh! I see what you did there!” It’s a troll! A NY Times troll!

Mr. Helprin - I salute you. Posting a blatant, vacuous, anti-intellectual, shallow flamebait in NY Times is quite an achievement - and this is why you get a link from here. Your trolling ways have impressed and amused me.

Anyway, if you see any other articles or publications by this dude, make sure you take them with a grain of salt. Mark Helprin is a Troll and so standard troll handling procedure should apply here: ignore it.