There's a blog post in me about the album Amused to Death [en.wikipedia.org] and how when I shared it with my best friend at the time, he just didn't get it. It was also probably the beginning of the end of our friendship.

that's just fucking rude.

a more fundamental question to answer is: who decides what is in the public good and whether the government should be the one providing for that public good?

Also it's worth noting that most people in a political party aren't in total lock-step with the party platform (i.e. they agree with many planks of it, but might quibble over the details). In general, I'm for LESS government (thus why I tend to identify more often than not as a Libertarian) but there are places where someone without a profit motive should probably be in charge (e.g. prisons, which are being privatized in the US).

that hasn't happened so far…

Some others: Fleetwood Mac, Frampton Comes Alive…

Clearly I'm a child of the 1970s. :P

I have plenty of fond memories of album art. Earliest ones I can remember are:

  1. Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
  2. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
  3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John

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in a good way?

Great to see people are still using ADN. However, it seems a lot of my clan can be found elsewhere these days…

If I wanted to stay safe at BlackHat or Defcon, I'd have to get a new SIM card with a burner phone with all new iTunes/Google accounts on it. And I'd probably have to throw it away at the end of the trip because it'd be goatsed six ways from Sunday.

Suddenly, the thought of going doesn't seem all that fun. :P

I really don't like these Ethernet over Powerline boxes. They just randomly fail for no reason.