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

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

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.

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

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

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

Everything takes longer and costs more.