Archive: October 16, 2005

Sunday, October 16, 2005

1. Julian Bucknall: C# generics and covariance, part one, via Adam (to finish reading). I have to see what OOSC says about this.

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2. Media utters nonsense, won't call enemy out (via LGF):

   I underestimated multiculturalism. After 9/11, I assumed the internal contradictions of the rainbow coalition would be made plain: that a cult of "tolerance" would in the end founder against a demographic so cheerfully upfront in their intolerance. Instead, Islamic "militants" have become the highest repository of multicultural pieties. So you're nice about gays and Native Americans? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of the tolerant, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti- masochists. And so Islamists who murder non-Muslims in pursuit of explicitly Islamic goals are airbrushed into vague, generic "rebel forces." You can't tell the players without a scorecard, and that's just the way the Western media intend to keep it.

   I'm aware the very concept of "the enemy" is alien to the non-judgment multicultural mind: There are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated. But the media's sensitivity police apparently want this to be the first war we lose without even knowing who it is we've lost to.

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3. TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP/2000 (via). Update: Linked earlier... still haven't played with it

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4. Mike Lin: StartupMonitor:

   StartupMonitor is a small utility that runs transparently (it doesn't even use a tray icon) and notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup.

   via.

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The Plame thing

Two years later this Plame "scandal" is still going on. It's like the Holloway story... every time I stick my head out to see what the talking heads are talking about, it's still there.

I was writing about how bogus and plainly political this story was, as well as how the media has the emphasis on the story completely backwards two years ago, but people are still talking about it.

After all this time, this post at Power Line serves as a decent update, particularly the last graph by John.

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Iraqi vote

By all accounts the voting in Iraq yesterday seems to have gone extremely well. John Hinderaker writes in response to some commentary:

Low Sunni turnout would have been worrisome, because it would have shown that Sunnis are determined to boycott Iraq's nascent democracy. Now high Sunni turnout is worrisome, because they might actually have enough votes to win in the necessary provinces. When it comes to Iraq, it's hard to win.

Here John quotes part of Bush's recent radio address, which quotes from the Zawahiri letter (link to original), and is well worth a read.

Update: Some more posts by Roger Simon. And another at Terrorism Unveiled.

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