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Oct. 18th, 2007 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexI foresee a lot of little things being posted. Today is a scatterbrain day and most of my cycles are consumed by The Big Thing.
Nice article on how to spot and respond to political ads that are full of hot air: http://www.factcheck.org/99_fact-free.html
I'm trying to remember the formal name of the logical fallacy involved here, where a person declares himself to be in favor of something when nobody is proposing the (obviously absurd) opposite.
No lunch meet today due to suckful weather and my laziness and also The Big Thing.
I am again considering trying Twitter, in part due to a TidBits article by Adam Engst: http://db.tidbits.com/article/9228
Last night I had to reboot my Linux box and, due to a missing library link, GNOME wouldn't come up. Somehow that caused the box not to be able to reach the network (localhost worked for everything, but no access via any other interface - network unreachable errors). I can't wrap my brain around how a missing graphics library could cause this situation; at the very least it's unforgivably bad design. It reminds me of the old days of working on SGI machines where the graphics rendering pipeline was also the main OS loop so a trivial error in a user program could lock up the whole machine. Once again![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ariesd to the rescue.
I apologize in advance if I end up cluttering your friends page today.
Nice article on how to spot and respond to political ads that are full of hot air: http://www.factcheck.org/99_fact-free.html
I'm trying to remember the formal name of the logical fallacy involved here, where a person declares himself to be in favor of something when nobody is proposing the (obviously absurd) opposite.
No lunch meet today due to suckful weather and my laziness and also The Big Thing.
I am again considering trying Twitter, in part due to a TidBits article by Adam Engst: http://db.tidbits.com/article/9228
Last night I had to reboot my Linux box and, due to a missing library link, GNOME wouldn't come up. Somehow that caused the box not to be able to reach the network (localhost worked for everything, but no access via any other interface - network unreachable errors). I can't wrap my brain around how a missing graphics library could cause this situation; at the very least it's unforgivably bad design. It reminds me of the old days of working on SGI machines where the graphics rendering pipeline was also the main OS loop so a trivial error in a user program could lock up the whole machine. Once again
ariesd to the rescue.I apologize in advance if I end up cluttering your friends page today.
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Date: 2007-10-18 03:02 pm (UTC)Tomorrow?
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Date: 2007-10-18 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-18 03:27 pm (UTC)It's a little bit like a straw man argument, though that typically involves explicitly articulating an opposing position that nobody actually holds. (eg, "I for gun control because I don't believe everyone should be walking around with flamethrowers and machine pistols")