Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.