Monthly Archives: February 2002

duty to retreat

Posted on Monday, 2002 February 18 by Anton

Bill Quick complains: The notion that one cannot protect one’s property with deadly force, if necessary, essentially means that the entire concept of property ownership is a farce. It means that if a man with a knife demands my car, … Continue reading →

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battling metaphors

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 17 by Anton

A year ago, SF Weekly ran an article about go with this memorable line: Playing Go means honoring the fact that your opponent is going to exist; all you want is just a little bit more than he has. If … Continue reading →

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yet another small price to pay

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 17 by Anton

Found in my mail archive: Every time I turn around there’s another “small price to pay” in the name of some drooler’s feel-good mis-attempt to solve a non-problem. Got no patience for it anymore. (The one that peeved me most … Continue reading →

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specialize!

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 17 by Anton

on Samizdata, Brian Micklethwait writes In praise of renting and to hell with owning: In general, the relationship between owning-or-renting and freedom is surely the opposite of what it is so often said to be by British Conservatives. Renting equals … Continue reading →

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activities

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 17 by Anton

One of my friends is thinking of organizing an ‘activities day’ for our circle, and invites me to run a workshop relating to my most visible hobby, mathematical beauty. Okay, I said, but what would we do?

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nobody here but us snub tilings

Posted on Saturday, 2002 February 16 by Anton

I went looking for snub tilings and found a number of dummy pages generated by blackflag: “CGI script that generates self-referencing web pages full of fake email addresses, used to thwart email-extracting web bots”

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if it ain’t fixed, don’t break it

Posted on Saturday, 2002 February 16 by Anton

Satirewire on the breakup of Microsoft. (thanks to Bruce Schneier)

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