The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by jeffk:

Re Aconite @ #30, who wrote

Oh, yes. If you dare point out what's being done, you'll be beaten up for that, too, because it's about destroying your will as well as ability to defend yourself. It is exactly analogous to police screaming, "Stand up and stop resisting!" at someone they've repeatedly Tasered.

I watched this be done in a forum I used to love, by people I used to respect. And the soul-killing aspect is that you know that if you speak up and object, you're the next target--and the length of time you hesitate because of that makes you hate yourself. And that's part of the whole dynamic.

That's how bullies, wife abusers, and child abusers work, and that's what these people are. They're abusers, plain and simple. Point that out, and anyone who isn't totally cowed by them or drinking their kool-aid will realize it. That's what we have to do to break their power and get some of our freedom back.

In Oregon, the county named Coos does indeed rhyme with goose.

A number of years ago in Oregon, a friend of a coworker was hit and seriously injured by a black SUV while riding her bike, and I don't know that the driver or the SUV was ever tracked down. I was struck by the vehicle similarities between that case and this one.

The Firefox crop circle is the latest Firefox-promoting project by the Oregon State University (OSU) Linux Users Group (LUG). Their first such project was to chalk-paint the Firefox logo on the OSU quad, and the second was to launch a balloon satellite carrying a Firefox banner. The crop circle was project 3, to celebrate 200 million Firefox downloads.

Please see here for details: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/index.php/Projects/Firefox

Disclaimer: I don't go to OSU. Never have. I'm a Duck (U of O). I'm just stuck working in Corvallis. :-)

The problem I have is with his definition of "prudent". Yeah, after 9/11, I wanted to hit something (with, say, a bomb), and we went into Afghanistan and did that. That was, to my mind, both prudent and sufficient. For Cohen and others of his ilk, it was only a good start.

It was after that that things went to hell.

Serge wrote:
If someone came from the Future to that month of that year, armed with the knowledge we now have, there might be a way to short-circuit the election-stealing. And if Gore had won....

If Gore had won, 9/11 would likely not have happened, because Gore would have read the PDB that said "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" and thought "Hey, we should do something about that!".

Comment statistics for jeffk on the Making Light blog

Total: 5 comments. View all these comments on a single page.