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The point of the book isn't so much to argue against war in general as to argue against the idea that war is inevitable. The idea that war and specific acts of war are unavoidable …

Some of the most heated, seemingly-intractable arguments I've participated in have led me later upon reflection to change my mind. I'm thankful the other party didn't take this vie…

Probably to keep them from being broken by the styling on the article's page, which could change in unknown ways at any given time in the future. Better to keep the example on its …

What's crazy is thinking that someone necessarily agrees with the contents of a book she's reading.

According to this page https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/merc... ; "you must have documented 501(c)(3) status or you will not receive the reduced nonprofit tr…

I'm experiencing the same issue with Chrome 7.0.517.41 beta on Ubuntu.

The fact that people did bad things at one time doesn't imply that what they did was accepted generally or approved by moral standards of the time. For example, many contemporaries…

Read "Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace" by Joseph Williams. It is not one of those books like Strunk and White's that teaches you a set of arbitrary rules. Rather, the autho…

I have a great amount of respect for Richard Stallman, but I don't understand how he reconciles his concerns about a large "surveillance state" (#24) with his insistence that gover…

People walk because their parents absolutely, positively would not give up teaching them to walk. Citation, please? All three of my kids have taken the initiative themselves to lea…

You might appreciate "Life: The Movie" if you haven't already read it. The author details the ways in which entertainment has become the metric by which many Americans judge their …

Slightly O/T, but can someone explain why with JavaScript disabled this blog post is completely invisible? I can't see any technical reason or understand why one would penalize NoS…

The title plays off the ambiguity of "hacked" to be needlessly sensationalistic. Someone has modified and redistributed GPL-licensed code in an apparently shady way. That doesn't s…

If this is more than just hyperbole on your part, it reflects poorly on your guests. There are badly-behaved people on television shows around the world; to conclude that such peop…

Trying to get my head around this. What does "keeping one's job" even mean? isn't there still a mutual contract, and both parties can break out of it? So the boss can act on behalf…

That's funny, because "subordinate" has replaced the previous generation's "inferior" as the commonly-used term for an employee down a step in the org chart. However, to answer you…

But even people who have unchecked that box show up when I make the same request authenticated as a Facebook user.

That's not really fair. There have been very few exploits in up-to-date versions of WordPress, and the ones that are found are quickly patched. The news-making hacks of WordPress a…

I can't get the site to load, but if he's using the Atkins diet it's well-known to cause odors due to ketosis.

Restriction? Henceforth, demonstration. You'd thought, "what person couldn't workup contrived composition?"

The Slate article struck me as a tongue-in-cheek dig at the Obama administration. For example: "Drupal's defenders are eerily reminiscent of those movement Democrats who were const…

Or use the element with the text-indent background image trick. That works in IE6.

And, although our long-term memory for images and words that we've assigned meanings to is quite good, we don't do as well with passwords, which (ideally, at least) should look lik…

"Beaten" exaggerates what happens, which according to the book is a single "spank" by a smiling man holding what appears to be a slender reed. Yeah, I've been reading it to the kid…