I worry about A.I
The Hoyts theatre chain has an appalling website.
I'm hanging out for an Android phone
Telling people they deserve the laws they get for not paying attention to politicians is just short hand for saying only politicians have rights.
Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....
The nonsense the media says
Markup and styling are inseparable in web technologies, so they ought interact appropriately
The pace of technical developement is ferocious, and the diffilculty in keeping up is especially troubling for computer Operating Systems.
Prescriptionists who insist 'man' is gender neutral as talking bollocks, not English
Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?
Bloody Ldap nonsense!
What sort of ignorant coward advises others not to go to Gallipoli because it scares them?
Eclipse sucks.
I just checked out Firefox 3.5's geolocation feature, expecting it to maybe get my city and it pinpointed my home address.
It's quite easy to compel standards compliance
A long time ago I took Economics 101 at university and dropped it as a load of bollocks.
Websites that rely on flash should be added to a black list so we can all go about blissfully ignorant of their existence
Pricks tugging on a knee jerk rope of patriotism annoy me again
Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?
Every computer language has flaws.
I chose Ruby over Python
I'm thinking people who bang the Law and Order drum do it to drown out the voice of dissent and liberty.
NATO's aid to a successful rebellion does not give it ownership of the success.
Would someone, please, pay a good designer to work on desktops for Linux.
Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.
I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.
How many movies do we see that end satisfyingly?
Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...
New Zealand has the worst government it's had since the nineteenth century.
Aren't some of the connections between some scientific studies a bit obvious?
The very concept of patents on software is ridiculous, even more so the preposterous idea that prior art means anything.
Fantasies about reality and authority may comfort some, but have no place in civil governance
Corporate entitlement has gotten ludicrous
The mainstream media keeps whining that the world needs them to keep a check on power.
Mother Earth can be a real Mutha
Companies that abuse openly available standards (even if proprietary) really get on my wick. For instance...
Remeber the Jetsons? A world where automation meant people only needed to work an hour or two a day to afford a comfortable life. Who ever thought economics could work that way?
The National Party of New Zealand wants to make NZ citizens bitches for wealthy people; peasants servile to their needs.
The single most important thing for civil society is the rule of law and repression of corruption.
I am not scared of the wider world attacking me, my government oppressing me is the more credible danger
What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?
Why did Fox's attempts to emulate Jon Stewart fail?
People eager to constrain their identity within a recognisable national sterotype are pissing me off
In Canada a religious sect known as the Hutterites has been granted an exemption from having photos included on their driver licenses.
Apparently most Hutterites take the Christian first commandment instruction against graven images very seriously and think it is wrong to render pictures of people (while others aren't so worried, as long as the images aren't idolised).
Now, I don't have a problem with photos on a drivers license, it makes sense to me as a way of confirming the person with the license is the person it was issued to. But I do have a lot of very strong objections to other ideas a government might have about regulating me.
But I'm not a member of any religious organisation, so if I make an objection to some requirement - let's say routine finger printing - I won't be doing it by saying 'my faith does not allow it'. Even though in practice that's equivalent to my saying 'my ethics do not allow it'. I have to argue as an individual for my position.
Arguing as an individual doesn't get you very far against entrenched interests, ever. I'd need to band together with others who agree with me into a pressure group and functionally behave as if we were a religious denomination. Which to my mind is all any religious sect is (and probably ever should be) to authorities - a well delineated group of specific opinions, easy to identify and count.
Does this mean it would be a good idea for any sizeable group of dissenters to form an ad hoc religious body for the express purpose of being recognized? Screw electing a president of your society, appoint a pope!