Decisions: I’m supporting Ron Paul
tl:dr: I’m supporting Ron Paul. He actually knows enough to hold and argue positions, something sorely lacking from the political field.
I’ve been overwhelmingly busy with trying to start an open-source focused IT company with literally zero financing (yeah, “fat chance” right?) so haven’t had much time to pay to elections lately.
Anyone familiar with my thoughts on geopolitics, economics and political philosophy can probably guess that I perceive a significant separation between the way that establishment political parties portray themselves and the actual policies they adhere to, the way people think and the available menu of parties to choose from, and the way Americanism as a political philosophy is taught through history and the way the situation stands today.
For those who aren’t familiar with my thoughts, or aren’t able to infer just where I believe these political divides to be, you can simply read them directly. Two or three years ago I laid out how the American political landscape is removed from the current menu provided by establishment politics. The basic problem is one of uncomfortable couplings of incompatible principles.
These weird couplings lead to incoherent policies, inventive ways to sell such incompatibilities in elections and then even more inventive
read onLibreCAD Wiki Opened
About a month ago the mastermind behind LibreCAD (RVT/ries) and I were talking about the need for a new manual and we settled on the idea of using a wiki as a good place to start. So I set one up. And then didn’t have any time to do much else other than push out a few Fedora and RHEL/SL RPMs, write up a bounce page that explains why/how LibreCAD exists across the web, and put up a quick post about it before the Task Monster caught me by surprise and chained me to a huge amount of extra work in other areas (secure infrastructure expansion and ERP system development — noooo~!).
The wiki was originally closed to public edits because we were really concerned about spam being a problem. Since we weren’t really going to announce the wiki anywhere until we had a decent manual already written (or at least the promising beginnings of one) I didn’t expect any traffic to the wiki — and it doesn’t require much imagination to understand what happens to low-traffic, open-edit wikis tucked in the dusty corners of the web. So I had account creation locked and public edits disallowed.
Well,
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