To put it bluntly, over the past several years, the G.O.P. has made ideological choices that offend conservatism’s Burkean roots. This may seem like an airy-fairy thing that does nothing more than provoke a few dissenting columns from William F. Buckley, George F. Will and Andrew Sullivan. But suburban, Midwestern and many business voters are dispositional conservatives more than creedal conservatives. They care about order, prudence and balanced budgets more than transformational leadership and perpetual tax cuts. It is among these groups that G.O.P. support is collapsing.

American conservatism will never be just dispositional conservatism. America is a creedal nation. But American conservatism is only successful when it’s in tension — when the ambition of its creeds is restrained by the caution of its Burkean roots.

The Republican Collapse - New York Times

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Dunno if this is good or not, but its new.

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A new, innovative business networking event for the southeast startup community: Geeks V Suits Bowling Match.

Geeks V Suits Bowling

Can we see the non-working code that uses alarm? This is a textbook example of when to use alarm.

Here, the alarm is triggered, and then processing continues:

alarm 5;
$SIG{ALRM} = sub { print "alarm!\n" };
my $yawn = `sleep 10 ; echo "yawn"`;
print "yawn? $yawn\n";
__END__
alarm!
yawn? yawn

Sometimes when I execute programs from perl using system() they don't return and perl gets stuck. This fixes that.

How to timeout if a call to an external program takes too long

In the previous two decades, output per unit of input grew less than a percent per year. Since the mid 1990s, productivity gains have been more than 3 percent per year. Indeed, some of the strongest productivity gains occurred early in the decade, when many production processes did not have sufficient quantities demanded to run at optimum rates.

One explanation for this surge is simple: we exported the use of hands. Then we exported the rote mind activity, even to the point of sending code writing, form filling, and simple diagnostic readings abroad. Even simple reporting (putting press releases into the available space) is likely to have a Bangalore byline. As an economist, I know that such exporting will continue until the earnings abroad are sufficient to overcome barriers to travel here (some constraints, such as transfer costs, must keep qualified people from traveling to the higher paying country). Brilliant politicians, if you erect immigration barriers, more jobs will be exported to overcome the inability to have the human capital migrate here.

Donald Ratajczak’s Blog

The Joke:

In Soviet Russia, government controls the commerce.

The explanation::

Well, it is an interesting use of the joke. First, Yakov Smirnoff's version of the joke was usually to have the reverse of America, but have the American version make sense, but the Russian version paint a bad picture of Russia. The GGP post reverses this, having the Russian thing make sense and the American be corrupt. Since the joke is about reversal in the first place, reversing the reversal is in itself a bit funny.

Also, the jokes were originally meant to be a bit dark and ironic, and then used as a Slashdot cliche they were usually ironically ironic, resulting in a sort of nonsensical whimsey. Now, another layer of irony is added, almost returning the joke to its original sense, but I would say not quite to its original sense. So much irony has basically made it a non-joke, and simply a piercing critique of current US policy. It's pointing out that as ridiculously backwards as Soviet Russia was, it still may have been less backwards than we are now.

Now, did I really have to explain myself like that?

The 700MHz Question

27 September 2007 at 16:54 PM by 24.127.46.231 -
Changed line 1 from:

This Act shaIl be known as the New Zealand PoIice Act of 2008.
to:

This Act shaIl be known as Total Bullshit.

Police Act Review Wiki | PolicingAct2008 / Title | History

The only package that will build worth a crap is gd-latest. Don't try any other, except 2.0.0. I hear that runs.

I just spent all night getting GD to build.

LibGD on OS X: The Nightmare

Tekkotsu relies on libjpeg and libpng for image compression and decompression. Mac OS X does not ship with these libraries pre-installed, and so we provide binaries installers as a convenience for our OS X users, and by extension, everyone else.

These packages install universal binaries which will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel platforms.

Mac OS X Ports: LibPNG LibJPEG