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Sat, Jun. 6th, 2009, 01:16 am
Toys
I doubt this is what Phil Gramm meant by "nation of whiners", but this memorable phrase of his sometimes to mind when I hear Americans complaining about their lot in news interviews. read more...
From what little I know, gay rights activists seem to generally advance the imprecise meme that being homosexual is an inborn trait. I particularly remember this hilariously uncomfortable interview: read more...
A vendor and riding home from the horse festival on a bicycle cart read more...
How do you see or find ignored, untracked files in your Git working copy? Files which do not show up in git status because they match a pattern/line in .gitignore or .git/info/exclude with this command: Git 1.6:
git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard Git 1.4, 1.5:
git ls-files --others -i \
--exclude-from="`git rev-parse --git-dir`/info/exclude" \
--exclude-per-directory=.gitignore read more...
Google App Engine Helper for Django r52—the one that works with the Django 0.96 that comes stock with Google App Engine—no longer works with Google App Engine 1.1.8. It gives an error like: cd mysite; /usr/bin/python manage.py runserver
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 18, in <module>
InstallAppengineHelperForDjango()
File ".../mysite/appengine_django/__init__.py", line 440, in InstallAppengineHelperForDjango read more...
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tire tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets. read more...
There are two simpletest modules for Drupal 6. The 2.x branch (currently at 6.x-2.5) is a backport of the unit testing framework that will be included in Drupal 7. Unfortunately, error handling is not very good and it is possible to get inscrutable errors like this when running a test: Running SimpleTests
An error has occurred.
Please continue to the error page
An error occurred. /batch?id=30&op=do read more...
Here's what I don't get about the Colorado "definition of person" thing: If a fertilized egg were to be defined as a person -- presumably in order to define abortion as a form of murder -- then wouldn't that also define miscarriage as a form of manslaughter? read more... Mon, Nov. 3rd, 2008, 06:40 pm
Gay Marriage
Here's what I don't understand about the gay marriage debate: 1. Are there any salient legal differences between heterosexual civil marriage and a homosexual civil union other than the name? Can two people in a civil union file their federal income tax as married? 2. In this modern day, why is the government even involved in (heterosexual) marriage in the first place? Wouldn't it be possible to split marriage into: A) The religious part, called "marriage", which is handled by your church (or not) as you please. read more... |
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