Monthly Archives: November 2004

go read

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 30 by Anton

Radley Balko: Who Is Being ‘Unserious’ on the Terror War? They hate our policies, not our freedom The Case for a Partitioned Iraq

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heard on the wind

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 30 by Anton

Gary Becker and Richard Posner have a blog (any day now)

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three extropian items

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 30 by Anton

Mike Linksvayer attended a lecture on “Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the Twentieth Century”. Perry Metzger shares a report (pdf) on infrastructure in Somalia. (Later: Michael Tennant comments on it at Strike The Root.) … Continue reading →

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pointless papers please

Posted on Friday, 2004 November 26 by Anton

I[dentifying]D[ocument]s and the illusion of security, op-ed by Bruce Schneier. Identification and profiling don’t provide very good security, and they do so at an enormous cost. Dropping ID checks completely, and engaging in random screening where appropriate, is a far … Continue reading →

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boarders repelled

Posted on Thursday, 2004 November 25 by Anton

Some little while ago, I changed the name of a file used in the comment process, and submission of comments by spambots ceased. Comments are now open, until another wave breaches the battlements. I’m betting that the number of good … Continue reading →

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we become our parents

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 November 24 by Anton

Spent yester evening with stepbrother and his rentmate. Conversation was largely about mathematics, and at some point they both got the giggles because (they said) I was manifesting mannerisms that they recognized from having taken physics from the same professor. … Continue reading →

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but you can, it seems, temporarily withhold the sky from me

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 23 by Anton

The opening of Serenity has been postponed from April 22 to September 30. Joss Whedon says: April got crowded with a lot of titles aimed at a similar demographic, and the studio [Universal Pictures] decided September was a clearer corridor … Continue reading →

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