I’ve mostly kept my discussion of gun issues in the last week restricted to twitter and social media, but had a few thoughts I wanted to get down. First, I’m going to be breaking this up, instead of dealing with one large and thorough mega-post like Larry Correia’s epic post [http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/06/23/an-opinion-on-gun-control-repost/]. Second, there are several assumptions I’ll be making, axioms, if you will. The first of these is that we all have a natural right to self-defen…
I’ve posted before [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/speaking-of-losing-daring-fireball-and.html] on why I believe [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/sjw-convergence-and-apple-redux.html] that Apple, despite some ongoing technical inertia from their glory days, is slipping [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/when-youve-lost-daring-fireba.html]. I’ve also said that it’s not like any of their windows based competitors are actually “getting better”, for the most part. Take Microsoft. … What,…
Have a good weekend, guys.…
Not content to sit on their laurels re: the Galactic Civilization series, Stardock also has rights to the Star Control franchise (though that is being somewhat contested) and is testing out features of their upcoming Star Control: Origins [https://littletinyfrogs.com/article/487813/Star-Control-Origins---My-trip-to-Jupiter] : > There are 69 known moons of Jupiter. Jupiter is the first planet we’re sending Star Control’s prototype ship to visit. Powered by the Darius Robotics Emdrive MK I, the…
OK, so you’ve read Larry Correia’s bit on setting up a kitchen for dirt cheap [http://monsterhunternation.com/2018/02/12/fisking-the-stop-telling-poor-people-to-cook-doofus-with-special-guest-my-mom/] , complete with fisking of idiots, and you’ve gotten yourself a good knife [https://thelastredoubt.com/2018/02/a-fisk-on-a-whisk.html] and cutting board (look, most food prep requires cutting, not everything requires spatulas, serving spoons, cookie sheets, or even skillets…). So… while I strongly…