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This here is the best rant I've read in ages. At Alas, A Blog, Bonnie takes down Robert's stupid comparing-GLBTQ-to-pedophilia nonsense, and lo, it is beautiful.
Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts. Comment here or there.
Nov. 14th, 2007
- Ocho is a cutiepie. B let her downstairs yesterday (*vaguely annoyed*), and was mildly hissy at the kitties, but I think it's mostly because downstairs is B's kitties' territory, so. Ocho wasn't violent, just hissy, so that's okay. She and Peaches were even, you know, in the same room. I think once they acclimate, they'd be fine.
- Whee, I just created a service! Now I can log out of the webserver and still use Instiki. *pats it*
- Boo, VMWare Player doesn't let me use snapshots! Boo cat says "boo". Stupid fucking thing. This means installing VMWare Server 2.0 Beta for Windows on my Vista box. That way, I can get my snapshots back, run it on a machine I rarely use, and just remote into the VMs. Which means I'll have something like A MILLION RDCs in my folder. Oh well.
- Vista's Automatic Updates dealie still asks you to restart, but now it gives you a length of time to wait until reminding you again, with options of 10 minutes, 1 hour, or 4 hours. Hm.
- Oh dear god I love BTN. *pat pat* I need to go make a default install somewhere with all the original files, so that if something goes awry, I can see how it used to be.
- There's some something going around about voluptuosity == intelligence, in women. My response for this is summed up nicely by Jill at Feministe. Goddamn things like this irritate me.
- Mmm, server stuff. Could have calendarstuff on there, could have lots of files hosted there, could run Instiki on there (and have a million different "web"s (as they call them), each password-protected)... ... Bubba?
- Whee, I just created a service! Now I can log out of the webserver and still use Instiki. *pats it*
- Boo, VMWare Player doesn't let me use snapshots! Boo cat says "boo". Stupid fucking thing. This means installing VMWare Server 2.0 Beta for Windows on my Vista box. That way, I can get my snapshots back, run it on a machine I rarely use, and just remote into the VMs. Which means I'll have something like A MILLION RDCs in my folder. Oh well.
- Vista's Automatic Updates dealie still asks you to restart, but now it gives you a length of time to wait until reminding you again, with options of 10 minutes, 1 hour, or 4 hours. Hm.
- Oh dear god I love BTN. *pat pat* I need to go make a default install somewhere with all the original files, so that if something goes awry, I can see how it used to be.
- There's some something going around about voluptuosity == intelligence, in women. My response for this is summed up nicely by Jill at Feministe. Goddamn things like this irritate me.
- Mmm, server stuff. Could have calendarstuff on there, could have lots of files hosted there, could run Instiki on there (and have a million different "web"s (as they call them), each password-protected)... ... Bubba?
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Nov. 14th, 2007 05:48 pmI think I just came up with a thing that'll take width of the knitted item and width of the side borders and plot a chart that shows width of an item, how often it will repeat, with how many columns between each item.
Uh, here, lookit.
Sometime in the future, I may make something that takes the input, asks for a general range of item width and betweens, and just lists options. But, I'm functionally insane.
[eta] Of course, I have been meaning to learn Javascript...
Uh, here, lookit.
Sometime in the future, I may make something that takes the input, asks for a general range of item width and betweens, and just lists options. But, I'm functionally insane.
[eta] Of course, I have been meaning to learn Javascript...
Hi! I have opinions!
Nov. 14th, 2007 10:32 pmOh boy. Oh boy oh boy.
The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.
All I can think of to say here is that while I realise that there could be some nonvocal majority of pro-lifers who aren't inherently hateful of women, I haven't seen them. And I don't mean "Abortion is sad, and I'd prefer that they don't happen" - I think that, and personally, I'm all for better sex education. No, I mean the folk who really think abortion - hell, even miscarriages - should be illegal.
Pro-lifers hate women. I have not yet seen evidence that this isn't the case.
If approved by voters, the measure would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process.
- What exactly does this mean? I want examples - how would this new law affect fertilised eggs? What sorts of rights? Let's go, people.
- Should... should someone remind them about the facts of life, perhaps? And how menstruation is not just aboutfilthy hoors unfertilised eggs? Fertilised eggs that fail to implant also come out, you know. What do they suggest? What are their plans of action?
- Someone elsewhere brought up an interesting note: Come, let us consider the 14th Amendment, section 1, first sentence - "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Fertilised eggs aren't born yet. So what happens then? Are they immigrants until they're born? Will the mothers have to get special pre-birth visas for their unborn babies?
In conclusion:
"How much time in jail should a woman face for abortion?"
The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.
All I can think of to say here is that while I realise that there could be some nonvocal majority of pro-lifers who aren't inherently hateful of women, I haven't seen them. And I don't mean "Abortion is sad, and I'd prefer that they don't happen" - I think that, and personally, I'm all for better sex education. No, I mean the folk who really think abortion - hell, even miscarriages - should be illegal.
Pro-lifers hate women. I have not yet seen evidence that this isn't the case.
If approved by voters, the measure would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process.
- What exactly does this mean? I want examples - how would this new law affect fertilised eggs? What sorts of rights? Let's go, people.
- Should... should someone remind them about the facts of life, perhaps? And how menstruation is not just about
- Someone elsewhere brought up an interesting note: Come, let us consider the 14th Amendment, section 1, first sentence - "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Fertilised eggs aren't born yet. So what happens then? Are they immigrants until they're born? Will the mothers have to get special pre-birth visas for their unborn babies?
In conclusion:
"How much time in jail should a woman face for abortion?"