Papers, identity, and the English language
“Zeigen Sie Ihre Papiere!” A Tech Talk column on driver licenses as papers, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, and Social Security numbers as primary keys.
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Thoughts and observations.
Hard to admit when I’m wrong
It’s hard to admit when I’m wrong. A Tech Talk column on ego over reason, from consumer debt and emacs vs. vi tribalism to the Microsoft antitrust case.
Bush's steel tariff
George W. Bush: neither compassionate nor conservative. Discuss. This column argues his thirty-percent steel tariff is a bailout that raises prices.
The GPL gets its day in court
The GPL got its first test in court in MySQL AB v. NuSphere. A Tech Talk column on Richard Stallman, free as in freedom vs. free as in beer, and the case.
Proration and the ability to think rationally
A 2001 column reprinted: Alabama’s proration fight threatened football and band to sell tax hikes. Booster clubs, trust funds, lotteries, and property tax.