Very cool: Raymond on morality in military SF! Two great tastes that taste great together. And yes, of course there’s Heinlein involved.
Day: November 15, 2002
Save Us, Jane!
Despairing that the Department of State is full of idiotarian appeasement monkeys? The good news: Galt has been accepted into the Foreign Service! The bad news: that means she’s not allowed to write on foreign affairs anymore. And oh yeah — she’s resdesigned her site. Spiffy.
To the Pain
Is it me, or do the ‘quality feedback agents’ associated with tools like Mozilla and Netscape which pop up to cheerily quiz you after a crash bear a distinct resemblence to Rugen?
[Mozilla crashes, taking with it my last few minutes work]
Feedback Agent: “The Netscape Quality Feedback Agent has captured information that Netscape needs to help improve Communicator’s quality. Describe what you were doing when Communicator failed.”
Count Rugen [To Wesley, as he is being tortured by The Machine]: I’m sure you’ve discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. At present I’m writing the definitive work on the subject. So I want you to be totally honest with me on how The Machine makes you feel…Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest — how do you feel?