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POPSA Conversation With Gore Vidal Unfolds: ‘We’ll Have A Dictatorship Soon In The US’ He has crossed every boundary, I say. “Crashed many barriers,” he corrects me. Last year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he regrets his change of heart. How’s Obama doing? “Dreadfully. I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we’ve had in that position for a long time. But he’s inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters. He’s acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism.” America should leave Afghanistan, he says. “We’ve failed in every other aspect of our effort of conquering the Middle East or whatever you want to call it.” The “War on Terror” was “made up”, Vidal says. “The whole thing was PR, just like ‘weapons of mass destruction’. It has wrecked the airline business, which my father founded in the 1930s.
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POPSthoughtfulness reconsidered it's interesting too think that our technologies make us sloppy. there are advantages in being sloppy and excessive. consider computer hardware, years ago we coded economically to spare the machine but now the tables have turned. languages with higher overhead (lisp) can be indulged. another angle would be, imagine going to the moon recording and passing around information on stone tablets. NOT!
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POPSRuby, excellent programming language. I'm sure alot of people already know about this, but I'm also sure there's alot of people who don't :P Ruby is perhaps the most functional programming language as far as a "beginner" programming language. And in fact, it's NOT a beginner's programming language, it's just so powerful and simple! A pity I can't program, I'm just not motivated enough. :(
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