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Most people who know me, know I can’t stand Macs. So it should come as no surprise that I read Steven Den Beste’s latest comments in regard to the future of the Mac with quite a lot of engineering glee.

but we spent most of the day cleaning out our tiny storage locker and moving into a bigger one, and cleaning out my Mom’s garage so she can get the car into it for the winter. So this is pretty much the first time I’ve sat down at the computer all day. If I see anything interesting in the next 45m I’ll blog a bit, but it’s bedtime at 10.

…analysed here.
However, I’m not so sure he’s right to worry. A friend who works at a local airport who is in a position to know what he’s talking about says that two of the major airlines are taking seats out of their (currently idled) planes and flying cargo to and from Asia. Naturally you can’t fly a container-ship-load of containers that way, but you sure can take a bite out of maritime trade. And when the airlines have planes sitting around idle because of the passenger slump, why not get them back in the air flying cargo?

Victor Davis Hanson has the scoop.
Now if Bush would just spit those pebbles out of his mouth, and put that damn lamp down, and fight the bloody war.

A good Junk Science report on Fox today.

[A]n October 2001 report by California state ballistics experts — hushed up by the California attorney general’s office — concludes that ballistic fingerprinting isn’t feasible right now.

It gets better:

Maryland and New York already require ballistic fingerprinting. So far it hasn’t helped convict a single criminal in Maryland despite “fingerprinting” 17,000 guns sold since January 2000. New York hasn’t had success either.

Read the whole thing.

Good.
Now string his ass up. Oh, wait, we can’t do that. We promised the frogs we wouldn’t in exchange for extraditing him.
Well…fuck the frogs, exterminate this vermin anyway.

The Professor speaks on an international right to bear arms, but with a twist — they’re protection against genocide.
Exactly the reason I’m armed. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: They’re not going to drag me off to the gas chamber like they did my Austrian relatives. The fact that having weapons is also protection against random idiots who try to break into my home is just icing on the cake.

of the latest Zogby polls by Patrick Ruffini (link via the Professor). Frankly, when I checked the polls yesterday over at RealClearPolitics, they didn’t seem to make a damn bit of sense when contrasted with other polling outlets. Ruffini is saying the same think I was thinking at the time, except that I didn’t tie the polling Zogby to his anti-Semitic brother, who writes for the Arab News and pops up every now and then as a talking head plumping for the Palestinians.
If this is true, I probably won’t ever trust a Zogby poll again. Not that I trust polls to start with.

Trying to get product out the door at work. I imagine light posting today and tomorrow, maybe back up to speed next week.

I know I’m late on this but I think this is just fantastic.
A few more such incidents and maybe even my wife will get with the “carry a gun” program.