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- Rawr! It’s a New Operating System!
- The Delivery Presents – A Cornucopia of Politics and Geekery, Plus a Big Glass Thing!
- Will President Obama Force Us to Swallow the Totalitarian Pill?
| Rawr! It’s a New Operating System! Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:17 AM PST
If you’re not a developer, you’ll still have to wait a little while to get your paws on the new Mountain Lion, but that’s not a bad thing. You want the OS in the hands of developers first, so they can build shiny new apps for your desktops and laptops. Given the popularity of the App Store with both developers and consumers, I’d say we’ll have some very nice programs sitting there, all optimized for the new hotness when it’s available to the rest of us. You can get a good video review at the above link. I’d also recommend this article by John Gruber, which is not only a solid short review of the new OS but is also a review of how Apple presented it to him. I’m a fan of how Apple rolls out its products — the PR and Marketing end of the process — even if I’m not always enamored of its products. I don’t have the Lion OS yet. I didn’t get it when it first came out, though I thought long and hard about it. Snow Leopard works just fine for me and I don’t really need or want my desktop computer to act like my iPad. They do different things, so I expect (and in some cases want) them to act differently. It didn’t help at all that the early reports on Lion (NSFW) said that it was buggier than the set of Arachnaphobia. Snow Leopard works well for me. It does what I want it do do and stays out of my way. Why would I want another operating system? On the other hand, if Mountain Lion sorts out all the previous problems, and gives me a couple compelling reasons to change my operating system, I’ll jump on it in a hot second. I like Snow Leopard, and Leopard and Tiger before it and, assuming Apple gets back to it’s normal solid software track record, there’s no good reason to think I won’t also like Mountain Lion.  |
| The Delivery Presents – A Cornucopia of Politics and Geekery, Plus a Big Glass Thing! Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:04 PM PST
Not that I have multiple personalities. I mean, that would have made last week truly dramatic! Things weren’t so bad that I developed a mental disorder, though I admit that sometimes my rants on the podcast make me wonder. I spent a couple days out of pocket and a couple more days with a chest cold that stole a good chunk of my energy. That all happened on top of each other, so I never had a chance to rest and recover, and life didn’t relent until, well, yesterday really. So I felt the better part of a couple weeks feeling decidedly out of sorts. Am I whining? I am not, because this happened Thursday night after CPAC. That, folks, is the first-ever “Best in Show: Podcast” award given by the newly-formed National Bloggers’ Club, which first public effort was this year’s CPAC Blog Bash. The other finalists were also very find podcasts hosted by friends of mine: Andrew Lawton and Ben Swenson’s “Strictly Right” and Fingers Malloy’s “The Snark Factor”. I am elated that The Delivery won and want to give all due credit to the amazing SuperMegaProducer Mike for giving the show such an amazing and professional sound. Oh, and Andrew and Ben had me on their show a couple times. You can hear my appearances here and here. And speaking of amazing and professional sounds, here are the podcasts now! Go listen, especially to the last half of Episode 134, wherein I completely degeekify role-playing games. You home-school parents might find something interesting there. [audio:http://www.takethatproductionsusa.com/podcasting/td/TD133.mp3|titles = The Delivery - Episode 133] [audio:http://www.takethatproductionsusa.com/podcasting/td/TD134.mp3|titles = The Delivery - Episode 134]  |
| Will President Obama Force Us to Swallow the Totalitarian Pill? Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:25 PM PST
How in the world can I describe just how disgusted I am that our President believes he has the power to force you to engage in any activity simply because he believes it is good to you to do so? Let’s not be coy here. Today, the President intends to force Catholics to provide abortion and contraceptive services in direct opposition to their beliefs. Soon, you will have to buy a health insurance policy approved by his minions, or face the full coercive power of the government. The day after that…what? Let’s also not be coy about why the President decided to take a Cloverfield Monster-sized dump on the First Amendment this week. He believes he has the power to push his ideology down your throat and if you object, you are not protecting your innate rights as a free citizen of the United States but a “cynical” foe of “women’s health”. If this isn’t totalitarianism — your life lived in accordance to the government’s whims — then I don’t know what is. And while we’re not being coy, let’s also get a clear vision of the President’s “accommodation” (which, incidentally, will raise the cost of health insurance for everyone, so add that to the rapidly rising cost of Obamacare we’ll have to pay when all the taxes, fees, rate increases, and rationing hits us over the next couple of years). He replaced his mailed fist with a velvet glove not because he had some sudden moment of Constitutional clarity but because one of his political allies who, above all else wanted to preserve “health reform”, suggested that his clumsy exercise of raw power was politically idiotic. This new rule put all of his political allies behind a very large, angry 8-Ball and he was too blinkered by his progressive ideology to see it. So he changed, again not because he understood that he was blowing a three-foot hole in the Constitution but because he risked destroying health reform, which has been the progressive Holy Grail since before the time of FDR. In the end, his “accommodation” didn’t solve the problem, but set it back just long enough for him to mollify those in his camp who call themselves Catholics. The problems still remain. America is, despite the President’s efforts to make it otherwise, a free country. We still have certain inalienable rights that belong only to us. Our government is only useful to us so long as it acts as the guarantor or those rights. The moment the government acts as if it has the power to grant those rights to us, it becomes our enemy. Right now, Barack Obama is acting like our enemy and we would do well to remember that in November.
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I’d like to officially shake the dust of the last week and a half off my sandals and get on with a little bit of normalcy. 
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