Matthew Weatherspoon deserves to f*#ing die.

Sell a neighborhood security system. Put little chips/bracelets/whatever with kids. When in the street/front, lights go off in the neighborhood to alert drivers. No invasiveness on cars, good for kids, install should be easy. Little chip things should have magnets/metals/whatever that can be detected without needing power.

Heavy Rain

Great game! Especially that first scare, when your wife tells you to get the dishes from the living room cupboard. But I found them, eventually! And even put them on the table! And it feels like an accomplishment in a way that hacking apart ten thousand centaurs just doesn't.

Making an Example Properly

I was thinking about Bush logic last night.

Terrorists strike against the U.S. Some random towelhead fanatics from the Middle East someplace. They knock down a couple of very nice buildings.

So we go and conquer Iraq. One of the world's premier military powers. In what seemed to be a few weeks. With more friendly fire losses than losses to the enemy.

Why did we go and do that with Iraq? Some nonsense about WMDs that weren't there? Because Iraq smells funny? Because like father like son?

Then I thought about future foreign terrorists likely to act against the U.S.

They really only have the one good example to work from.

And that example says, "Even if you just knock over a couple of very nice buildings, we will immediately conquer one of your countries. It might be yours. We will replace your government with one we like better. We will sit there for years. And you will have nothing to say about it, nor will there be anything you can do."

So, in retrospect, maybe it wasn't that silly of a response.

Education

Just watched some new college movie. Accepted. That's the title. I had to go check. Good movie! Fun, anyhow, if not epic... I guess.

Anyhow, people are giving this guy $10,000. For tuition. For a year. To learn whatever they want. On their own, more or less.

I realize that's what happens in college for real. You give some college $10,000 or $20,000 to learn whatever they are offering. Then you sit through a bunch of big classes with entire buttloads of students and get taught and it is either boring, or stressful, or more usually, it's both.

If a student wanted to learn something and had $10,000 to spend each year learning it... It just seems to inefficient to give it to a university. If I wanted to learn, say, mechanical engineering, and I was willing to pay $10,000 a year for the privilege, I imagine I could get a much better education from working with a mechanical engineer, on-the-job, than I could from any university.

Degrees are such a waste. They have so little to do with your potential.

Nothing to Do

Why do they just stop releasing video games this time of year? GTA was fun, but it doesn't last forever like it should. Dang it! I have money to give them, but they don't have anything for me to buy!

It's depressing. I guess that's why they call it a depression when people stop buying stuff. Stupid economics.

I am almost tempted to get a new hobby.

The War In Iraq

Today I see a news article. McCain apparently believes we can win the war in Iraq by 2013. Excuse me, but didn't we already win the war? They don't have an army anymore because we shot it to bits. We're occupying the place. We definitely rule the entire area militarily. So what the hell?

We already won the war. It was a piece of cake. We won't leave because they're winning the war, because the war is over! We might leave because we decide that democracy or freedom or whatnot just won't work there... but the military warfare part of this little adventure is really done with.

The problem with a police action is that you always need police. Calling a police action a war means you lose when you eventually leave, like Vietnam, because you can't possibly defeat a non-existent army. If we'd stuck around in WWII and tried to stamp out all the crime in Europe, we'd have lost that war, too, despite having won it first.