Wow... a real
rappin' rabbi. I thought these things were only a legend.
best spam email title ever: "amorphous reproach"; it ended up being about new medicines available due to a scandal in florida
not a huge southpark fan, but they had a couple of good episodes where they criticized appeasement of muslim threats against cartoonists. the first episode announced they would be having a mohammed cartoon in the second part (via an episode of family guy in south park) and essentially challenged comedy central to censor it. lo and behold, comedy central did indeed censor it, after a straight hour of cartoon ridiculing that very action and telling them beforehand why they'd be such pusses to do it. well, they did it, and they are indeed big pusses. fuck them. i hope south park can think of something clever to do about it
Wow. V for Vendetta is as good as everyone says it is. It hits major philosophical points like no other; moral responsibility, law of identity, fear as the weapon of dictators, and others i can't remember off the top of my head. probably as close to atlas as we're going to get any time soon. yeah, it has some weird, seemingly bad things in it, but they really aren't a part of the main drive of the movie. majorly awesome movie.
some tv show called "lincoln heights" is filming at the school across the street. so... if you watch that show... i might be in it. it sounded dumb, though. i chatted with some of the extras, who had to keep walking back and forth in front of my house, acting like they were just randomly walking. i could hear them talk to each other about the weird things they tried to accidentally sneak in
man, i never thought i'd find a data structure cooler than heaps. in fact, binomial heaps are even cooler. they do inserts, deletes, and find-min's in log n time; what more could you want from a data structure?
article i wrote for the paper, but didn't get submitted since a different logic member beat me to it:
In Daniel Atherton's article "Insurance's claims give shallow comfort", he demonstrates his fundamental misunderstanding of economics when he claims "insurance is a different enterprise from normal sales-oriented companies; the service it provides is crucial yet often unaffordable". Insurance is *exactly* like any sales-oriented company; they must sell a product and make a profit. If insurance companies were forced to obey Atherton's emotional whims of what they ought or ought not to do, they'd go bankrupt in a month. They can not make a profit selling fire insurance to people whose houses are on fire. But they "make plenty of profit" he claims; how much is enough, Atherton? As much as you say so? Companies must be free to pursue as much profit as they see fit; that is the fundamental drive behind all productivity. To force them to insure non-profitable customers prevents them from insuring anyone by sucking out the profits they need to run their company. Further, they are not trying to get government to shoulder insurance costs; all government insurance would do is reduce demand for their own product. Any sort of existing government insurance stems from the flawed idea that insurance is a magical device that everyone just *needs* without cost or effort. Insurance is no differant than any other service; free men take an enormous amount of risk upon themselves to create and manage a company that betters the lives of all who can use their services and earns them their own well-deserved profits. The last thing this country needs is more statism in the form of legislating slavery in the form of corporate restrictions; well, maybe the absolute last thing it needs is whiny liberal students complaining that they can't have their cake and eat it too.
hehe, some funny and weird comics, for those of you who don't see them
http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html
http://www.qwantz.com/
