looking down the Iron Alley steps (at Iron Alley Steps)
Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class - Salon.com →
Is there something dissonant about the fact that the greatest fortunes in human history have been created with a system developed largely by taxpayers dollars? Military research and labs at public universities. And many of the people whom the Internet has enriched have become libertarians who earnestly tell you that they are “socially liberal and fiscally conservative,” and resist progressive taxation because of it.
Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office? →
> The postal service is not a federal agency. It does not cost taxpayers a dollar. It loses money only because Congress mandates that it do so. What it is is a miracle of high technology and human touch. It’s what binds us together as a country.
Private Prison Company Used in Drug Raids at [Arizona] Public High School →
Every time I see something crazy like this happening in Arizona, I think of this lovely quote: “If you want to live in a Republican state with very conservative right-wing laws, then there’s a place called Arizona,” [Calif. Governor Jerry Brown’s] spokesman Gil Duran said [in response to Southern Calif. Republican nutjobs who proposed the creation of a “South California”]
Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends
We support gay marriage. Here’s why you should too.
…because it’s too long or twitter…
Hey @joyent !
Aside from appreciate, value, & lifetime, what other words do you woefully misunderstand?
“We appreciate and value you as one of Joyent’s lifetime Shared Hosting customers … your lifetime service will end on 10/31/2012…”
Time and seasons are simply ways by which we measure the tenure of existence. We can’t “manage” time any more than we can stop the seasons; we can only make decisions about what we do while swimming in time’s relentless current. Try replacing the word “time” with the word “existence.” Or think of “time” as a linguistic scapegoat, sacrificed in substitution of this truth: we can not spend time, waste time, or invest time … We can only spend, waste, or invest our existence.
