Of Calvin and Computers

Somewhere along the line Americans have decided they are the epitome of morality. And Christians have bought into this idea wholesale.  "Oh no, no one is good but Christ" you might say to yourself. And that's the problem right there. The Christian flavor of virtue signaling. We feel like we are justified by how much more "Christian" we are than the next person. We can't chew up the meat and spit out the bones anymore. If there are any bones, if there's any cartilage, if the fat isn't lean enough, if the meat is lower quality, if we have any opportunity to make a correction at all, then we must. And we can write off those who don't measure up to our perfection since they obviously had flaws.  You can't quote Thomas Jefferson, he read the Bible with a pair of scissors. You can't appreciate Christopher Columbus, he ushered European colonialism into the americas. 4 people were burned for heresy in Geneva while John Calvin was the prominent el...

Authority does not mean control. Authority means responsibility. Most people think having authority over something means they get to control it. This is not true. Not even God tries to control our lives, even though he totally can. God gives us choice. Man has decided he can control other people's lives. From government to religion to parents. Man has taken authority structures created by God and twisted them to control people instead of serving them. Authority is given as a position of servitude. Government’s express job is to condone good and punish evil. Using scripture as the standard. Good and evil defined by God. Punished as God prescribed. Church is supposed to hold families accountable to scripture. “This is what scripture says. This is good theology. This is how scripture says to deal with this situation”. Church must hold people to only scripture. Family is supposed to operate as scripture commands. Children are to honor their parents as they learn ...

All these AMD Graphics execs that Intel has been poaching is going to end like this: My prediction: AMD's next graphics architecture is going to be really good. The one after that will take the performance crown from Nvidia, at least at launch. Intel's dedicated GPU is going to suck, like all Intel GPU products. It'll be actually good at one or two workloads and games will laugh at it. BUT, because...... well, Intel. It will be forced down our throats as the next best thing to sliced bread and an Intel H CPU and all the "off the shelf" machines will come with one. Even though AMD's cards will actually offer performance at lower power consumption. Just watch. This is how the AMD V Intel war has gone for the last 3 decades, I don't see it changing.

App stores, or binary repositories, have been a part of the operating system world for over 2 decades. Just, maybe not a mainstream one. Linux, my favorite OS, has had binary repositories (repos) for ever. Or at least, for over 2 decades. Needed a library? Find it in the repo. Need a game? Repo. Updates? Repo. All your software in a centralized place. From Firefox updates to system updates everything was in the "software center" of your Linux distribution. Sure, you could Google search your program, but why? That seems like a lot of work finding the one you want. Not to mention the risk of getting a virus riddled application. Apple saw the success and genius of a software repository when they rebuilt MacOS with Mac OSX. And it's been an integral part of their OS ever since. Not that they ever give any credit back to the source, but that's a different issue. With Windows 8, Windows is finally trying to get into the software repository business. Now, "We're...

PowerShell attempts to solve the problem of Windows being GUI oriented and having little to no CLI controls. The trouble is PowerShell sucks. The syntax is inconsistent and there is no verbose option for 90% of the commands. Compared to the POSIX consistent shells, PowerShell is still very, very, VERY immature.

Yep. I broke a rule of the open source community. I brought politics into the discussion. We can't get along as it is guys, just admit we like disagreeing and read on. But that's kinda my point. The Open Source philosophy is "You know what's in it. You like it: Contribute. You don't like it: Fork and make your own" That is libertarian at its core. Do what you want, I don't care. If I don't like it, it doesn't matter cause I don't use it. I'll fork and make my own community. Do we need morality? Yes. Do we need some sort of societal order? Not really. Hear me out. What is better because the government touched it? What has actually improved after the government got involved? People breaking the law being punished? Yes. People doing what they want and the government saying they have to do it differently? No. Murder? Government should be involved. Insurance? Fork and make your own. See, the reason insurance is so expensi...