Quick politics link
Nov. 4th, 2004 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Over in Electrolite's comments, Greg London explains why elections are like a game of Thing [*], making a point I've tried once or twice to express myself, only doing it much much better.
[*] How to play Thing is explained here at Making Light (also look for Teresa Nielsen Hayden's comments further down that thread, at October 11, 2004, 11:27 AM).
(Oh, and the people he was playing Thing and Mafia with, in the example he was giving? Are really smart. Just to clarify.)
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Date: 2004-11-04 06:21 pm (UTC)I read it and I still believe that 51% of this country are bad scientists. Maybe I'm too harsh a judge, but there you have it.
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Date: 2004-11-05 08:42 am (UTC)Sometime I need to figure out exactly what happens on my system to make Making Light unreadable - my browser stops rendering at "Commercial Airspace". :-(
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Date: 2004-11-05 08:55 am (UTC)(In Opera, that happens on really long comment threads, and can be fixed by hitting Ctrl-G.)
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Date: 2004-11-05 09:02 am (UTC)IIRC, I can turn off Privoxy and then everything renders properly.
At some point I've got to get around to getting something other than IE on this machine. But it will mean giving up my smart-card - I've got all my internet passwords on it, and its got this nifty IE plug-in that will auto-fill userid/passwords on web pages. :-(
As long as I have to use IE for work, I might as well get some benefit from the horror!