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Written by Hash
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 00:00 |
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The 26 November terror attacks in Mumbai have provoked outrage and widespread "condemnation" from all quarters. Everybody's calling for the government to "do something", "enact stricter laws", and "send a message" to the terrorists.
What most fail to realize is that attacks like the one in Mumbai are entirely facilitated by the Indian government, through its long-standing policy of keeping civilians disarmed.
It is a testament to the government's propaganda power that the statement above will provoke indignation from most Indians, who tacitly accept the government party line that guns cause crime and terrorism. Most Indians would be inclined to ask for stronger gun control as a means to fight terrorism.
But this is precisely the opposite of what's really needed. |
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Written by Hash
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Monday, 21 April 2008 11:30 |
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Just read a great article over at Classically Liberal, which neatly exposes the hypocrisy of those who claim to be "Libertarian" and yet favor immigration controls on the basis that as long as a welfare system exists, immigrants get something for nothing and so must be controlled and limited.
The article begins by pointing out the obvious, that further assaults on liberty are no solution for the problems caused precisely by previous statist assaults on liberty. It then takes off on a train of thought that blows away all the smoke and mirrors around the issue of immigrants and welfare, in much the same way as Bastiat puffed away the gaseous sophisms used to justify trade protectionism. |
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Written by Hash
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Friday, 18 April 2008 05:29 |
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It's official. As reported by IWR, "Google's board is asking shareholders to vote down attempts to set up a review body to examine the company's role in human rights and to take any steps to stop web censorship." |
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Written by Hash
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Monday, 07 April 2008 10:15 |
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My trusted Nokia N800 developed a serious screen malfunction, just about 6 months after purchase. It started with a few vertical stripes down the left edge of the screen, and soon progressed to full fledged mayhem on the screen. In the few months that it worked fine, I'd already become quite dependent on the N800, and am sorely disappointed about the screen crapping out so early in its operating life. I see that a lot of people who bought their N800s from Amazon had similar screen issues. The N800 is within its warranty period, so I'm going to ship it back to Nokia for repair. Meanwhile I'm now the happy owner of a Nokia N810, which is even cooler than the N800, thanks to its smaller size and its slide-out keyboard. |
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 15:32 |
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Written by Hash
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Friday, 01 February 2008 06:40 |
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The OS X bug which was the subject of my last post turned out not to have anything to do with Parallels after all, but with Airport. In certain ad-hoc networks, joining the network makes kernel_task eat up real memory very fast, till the machine becomes unusable. On Panther, it would also cause mouse and keyboard freezes, but on Leopard this hasn't been happening. Turning off airport stops the memory leak, and even releases a chunk of real memory, but doesn't release all of it. I've found that if I create the ad-hoc network through the MacBook, and then have the Zaurus join it, I don't trip up this bug, but if the Zaurus is already connected to the network, and I have the MacBook join it (or create it - in case it isn't detected) that sends kernel_task gobbling memory. It's irritating, but as long as I'm careful about the order in which I have the machines join the network, I can avoid it. It does feel great to have Parallels back in action. |
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