Day: July 27, 2011

A server lets our computer access data bases, printers, CNC machines, emails, etc. Without the server, our computer is useless. The bigger and more powerful the server we choose, the better our computer will do. We humans may see ourselves as individual, somewhat self-sustaining, self-replicating, very complicated, mobile “computers” who operate with free will. Each […]

It is popular in some conservative circles to glorify the Confederacy. Many of us go through a phase in which we piously announce various bromides, such as “The real issue of the Civil War was State’s Rights, not slavery.” Or, “It was whether Americans had the right to leave the Union.” Lincoln is blamed for […]