For some reason, whatever was wrong with the server that caused it to act so flaky is fixed now. I may regret this, but comments are reenabled.
More Of This, Please
Australia has told extremist Muslims to love it or leave it:
Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament.
“If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you,” he said on national television.
“I’d be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic law, that that is false.
“If you can’t agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country which practises it, perhaps, then, that’s a better option,” Costello said.
Sounds reasonable to me. Let’s hope that Britain, and even the US, take a hint.
Reboot A Couple Times
…to commemorate the anniversary. Windows 95 debuted ten years ago today.
Droning On
WSJ (subcription required) has an opinion piece about replacing onsite pilots with remote pilots. My contribution on the subject is here. Check out patent disclosure 20020128746 for more uses of teleoperation. Go here and search for inventor dinkin and air in any field.
Testing
This post is to check to see if my problem is fixed yet.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Nope.
[Trying again late Wednesday morning]
Want to Bet Oil Prices Will Rise?
Evisceration
As a grieving widow, I wonder if Lisa Ramaci-Vincent has absolute moral authority? Maybe she should camp out in front of Tisch Hall in Ann Arbor until Professor Cole meets with her. I’m sure that the media would give it big coverage…
Moveable Type Problems
Is there an MT doctor in the house? When I put up a post, it gets stuck on the “Rebuilding Page” page. And I’m no longer receiving emails of comments.
[Update a few minutes later]
I’ve disabled both comments and trackback until further notice by changing script names (otherwise I could be getting bombarded with spam, and I’d never know it). If anyone has any suggestions as to what to do, please email me ASAP. Also, is there some way to globally turn off comments on old posts?
[Update at 2:30 EDT]
OK, I’ve closed comments and trackback on all posts older than five days, and reenabled comments.
[Update at 3:30 EDT]
Well, I’ve reenabled comments, but it seems to be to no avail. It just times out now…
[Another update a couple minutes later]
OK, this is really screwed up now. Comments are working, but it doesn’t return any feedback that it is, so now I can expect a lot of multiple comments. And apparently they aren’t closed on older posts, so I’m going to disable them again.
Going For The Brass Ring
It’s not a surprise, really, but Virgin Galactic has publicly announced that the next goal after a successful SpaceShipTwo commercial suborbital service is an orbital system. I wonder what the projected schedule is for first service, and if it will end up beating the CEV into space?
Stuck In The Past
Clark Lindsey has a powerful rejoinder to a recent pessimistic article about our future in space in the Wall Street Journal, which they printed.