the crypto anarchist manifesto

yes, son, yes, i do know it was reported that when thomas doubted his identity, he asked thomas to to put his hand within the hole that the roman's spear had made. but this does by no means allow the conclusion that jesus is the subject of the earliest record of someone requesting to be fistet.

i wouldn't have had to learn about the xkill command the embarrassing way, i.e., in this case, by asking how i could kill that fucked up instance of netscape (which crashes three or four times before mozilla has even loaded), if i had known that [CONTROL][ALTERNATE][ESCAPE] is the x equivalent of [COMMAND][OPTION][ESCAPE].

love would be easier to handle if you could put it in a small carton box and leave it at your loved one's door without em knowing whom it's from; so e could enjoy it and be happy about it without worrying about the fact that there must be some poor idiot, whom e likes and would like to be happy, but doesn't love, thus fearing the possible dilemma of being loved by em and not feeling the same way about em, which e would be worried about because e would be the reason for em not being happy.

it is estimated in the united states that approximately 50% of the retail price paid for a commodity is made up of the cost of marketing.

in amiland, you couldn't rape the good names of large fast food franchisers. if you opened up a McDork's or a Booger King, they'd sue you out of business. but you'd be surprised how many of those funny shops exist in pakistan.

one good property of the english language is that the set of terms considered by native speakers to sound stupid is exceptionally small. when a new thing needs to be named, existing words or parts of words are forged together and an odd sounding combination of syllables is no reason not to use it.

for example, a concept that in other languages can only be described as the ratio of the peak rate to the average rate, in english is simply called burstiness.

there's not enough re-use of intellectual property in this world. information wants to be free, but people are too afraid of "theft", i.e. usage which is not financially compensated for. as a result, i end up writing most primitive things from scratch for my current project.
and i'm biting my ass because that particular work is not being financially compensated for at all. and i have to write stuff that surely exists on hundreds of other computers already.
this is so stupid, money can't be the only reason. i guess people want to do things from scratch. it's such a nice feeling. and they lose interest in their own work the moment it's advanced enough to suit their own needs. working just a little bit more on it to make it available and re-usable is not a nice feeling at all.

giving things away for free is not a nice feeling at all. why help others? so their genes make it into the pool and repress my own? oh no!