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Jun. 23rd, 2004 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taerowynThis is what comes of catching up with my communities: A link-filled post.
This had me grinning all day when I heard about. Grinning during the commute when it was on the radio. Grinning at work when I read about it online. Grinning now. I don't know why it makes me this happy, it's just nifty. "SpaceShipOne, GovernmentZero"
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I'm suprised that there wasn't more ranting about this on my friends list. You guys are usually a pretty privacy conscious. More and more I think of the Lazarus Long (aka Robert Heinlein) quote "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere." Conveniently tied to the story above, no? Just, you know...in time and all.
Another good one..."If you are part of a society that votes, than do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for .. but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule, you will rarely go wrong." Oh just go read them all.
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On a much less serious note, I just can't see any of these guys as Superman. But then, I'm biased. I absolutely adored the Superman movies when I was growing up and it just seems a betrayal to want anybody but Christopher Reeve.
This had me grinning all day when I heard about. Grinning during the commute when it was on the radio. Grinning at work when I read about it online. Grinning now. I don't know why it makes me this happy, it's just nifty. "SpaceShipOne, GovernmentZero"
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I'm suprised that there wasn't more ranting about this on my friends list. You guys are usually a pretty privacy conscious. More and more I think of the Lazarus Long (aka Robert Heinlein) quote "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere." Conveniently tied to the story above, no? Just, you know...in time and all.
Another good one..."If you are part of a society that votes, than do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for .. but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule, you will rarely go wrong." Oh just go read them all.
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On a much less serious note, I just can't see any of these guys as Superman. But then, I'm biased. I absolutely adored the Superman movies when I was growing up and it just seems a betrayal to want anybody but Christopher Reeve.