Comments on: More than fifty surprising things that I believe

By: Ragged Clown

Ragged Clown — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:14:09 +0000

In reply to Janet.

There doesn’t seem to be any downside to same-sex marriage and it gives a lot of people an opportunity for happiness that was previously denied them.

My current company is majority female. It’s just nicer having women around and we make better decisions as a result.

Affirmative action as it is currently practised in America is counter-productive but there needs to be a better way to create equality of opportunity.

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:00:17 +0000

In reply to Ragged Clown. Which two? And in the past five years have you changed your mind about any others?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 13:37:33 +0000

In reply to Ragged Clown. The one about xp. I see you explained it in another comment.

By: Ragged Clown

Ragged Clown — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:18:57 +0000

In reply to Julio. You never did tell me which ones shocked you.

By: Ragged Clown

Ragged Clown — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:18:27 +0000

In reply to Matt. Which one, Matt?

By: Ragged Clown

Ragged Clown — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 17:00:25 +0000

In reply to dan.

open source software confuses and terrifies you?

There's a market for Very Expensive Software but I'm not very good at that. There's a market for free software with expensive consulting but I'm not very good at that either. Selling useful software at a reasonable price used to be an honourable profession but has been wiped out by open-source. I'm not sure what my place is in this world.

By: Ragged Clown

Ragged Clown — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:56:03 +0000

And here are a couple bonus things:

57. Parliamentary systems of government are better than presidential systems.

58. Separation of powers is stupid.

By: Ragged Clown

Ragged Clown — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:45:45 +0000

Message from the future: I no longer believe two of these things. Maybe three.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:15:57 +0000

just stumbling through. what people believe always surprises me because of the amount of ideas that seem to conflict in my mind. much of what you believe is the same as me. only one point of confusion on my side: open source software confuses and terrifies you? i also find it disquieting how readily people accept the idea of more taxes. i don’t make that much, but i work for more than three months out of the year before i am making money for myself, paying for $400 hammers and the like. good post.

By: Bruce Oksol

Bruce Oksol — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:29:40 +0000

“Military service deserves no more honour than teaching, nursing, road-sweeping or a host of other professions.”

I challenge you to come down to San Antonio, Ft Sam Houston, medical center, where all the soldiers who have lost one, two, three, or four limbs in Iraq are getting their prosthetics and tell them that to their face.

Or tell that to the faces of the parents who have lost their children in that same war.

If you are one of those victims, a former soldier who has lost a limb or two or three or four, then you have a bit of credibility. But I would still disagree.

I’m not a big ambivalent about same-sex marriage (fine with me, except I would prefer to call them civil unions) and I am not a bit ambivalent about my feelings for soldiers and marines, seamen and airmen, who have faced death.