Monthly Archives: March 2006

Collections, Sets, Lists, and the Deep Existential Question of Equality

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 28, 2006

Okay, this is getting ridiculous — Java’s got an admission of fundamental brokeness built right into their API.

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Useful Idiots

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 25, 2006

In the face of an opponent who knows no ethical bounds, deep skepticism is necessary to prevent becoming a tool of that which you oppose.

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The IRS, the GOP Congress, and the Bush administration plan to sell your tax returns to, well, whomever wants to buy them. This is what they call a “safeguard”, and “not a significant regulatory action”. There’s a simple, beautiful understanding to any words used by the modern GOP… just take the dictionary definition of the words they use, and they mean the opposite.