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September 7th, 2010I hate it when people argue like this:
But it brings to mind a question my pal Greg over at Rhymes With Right raised a while ago: If you can burn a flag, why can’t you burn a Qu’ran?
The answer of course is that you can.
It’s revealing that the Left is absolutely bat bonkers about the Qu’ran barbecue but has always been totally supportive of burning the American flag as a matter of Constitutionally mandated free speech if nothing else. Quoted in “Emotional Puberty and Wingnuttia”
See what he did there? He took one position: (“hey, let’s go to a flag burning party!”) and confused it with another issue entirely (“is there a legal right to burn the flag?”). I don’t have any friends on the left who have burned a flag. People who burn things in protest are jerks. This guy who wants to burn a lot of Qu’rans? He’s publicizing being a jerk.
But that’s his right.
Recognizing that someone has a right to be a jerk is an entirely different thing from supporting the actions of jerks. This particular jerk seems to have missed that subtlety.
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September 6th, 2010Memory Lane: Old computer ads
September 6th, 2010This site has collected a set of old computer ads from the late seventies and early eighties. Some of the goodies include:
- A 20 Mhz 80386 PC that sells for a low, low, low $8,499.
- A modem the size of a toaster oven.
- A 15 meg (yes, meg, not gig) hard drive for $2,495 and a 10 meg hard drive for $3,495.
- An ad for the venerable Heathkit H8 with 4K of memory; a real bargain for $1244.50!
Good for a chuckle, and an indication of how far the computer business has come in 25 years. The $199 iPod Touch is more powerful than the multi-million dollar mainframes of the seventies.