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bleg and more on screen(1)

A couple of days into this and I like it fine, but it doesn’t survive hangups when machines go to sleep. I guess that’s understandable but it would be nice if it did.

Example: I am on a laptop, wireless, and I open a sessions via screen to a wired system. I start process, drop in and out of it all day, then let the laptop sleep. When I and it awake, I can open the screen session to the wired system but the connection is dead. The screen session is OK but the ssh connection has closed.

Anyone know if this can be adjusted to that it doesn’t drop me?

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Dead:

Okay, I’m having an angry day as I got sucked into reading a bunch of liberal hawk horseshit from back in the day. Aside from the arguments they were making, what’s infuriating is the endless preening. So often they would put themselves at the center of the narrative, as if anyone does or should give a rat’s ass about their intellectual journey, or deep internal struggle, or whatever the fuck. As if any of that mattered.

And now a lot of people are dead, have holes in their heads, can’t move, don’t have legs, are suicidal, etc… because a bunch of self-important narcissists got off on the idea that they played a central role in creating history, or some such crap.

arggh

the new Maoism

Where Is He Now?:

Talk turned to the U.S. presidential campaign. Morse mentioned the pressure that Hillary Rodham Clinton was facing to apologize for her Senate vote authorizing Bush to go to war.

Makiya stared into his glass of red wine. “That’s so Maoist,” he said.

“People shouldn’t feel the need to apologize. What is there to apologize for?”

Accountability is Maoist? Accepting that the reality didn’t match the plans is Maoist?

Continue reading “the new Maoism”

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Venezuela Fact of the Day:

Mark Weisbrot and Luis Sandoval of CEPR argue that the Venezuelan economy is actually doing rather well, and poverty has decreased dramatically under Hugo Chávez. I don’t really have any opinion on this–I just thought that this bit was unexpected:

[Venezuela’s] private sector has grown faster than the public sector over the last 8 years and therefore the private sector is a bigger share of the economy in 2007 than it was before President Chavez took office.

Who knew?

The Economist Acknowledges Peak Oil

The timid iconoclast notes that The Economist Acknowledges Peak Oil:

“The world is consuming more oil than it is producing.”
— The Economist, July 14-20 print edition.

Pretty simple, but it’s out there now.

To be clear, we’re not producing oil, but discovering/extracting it. Perhaps a matter of semantics, but we can produce lumber by growing trees or steel from raw ingredients or recycling existing steel (ship-breaking comes to mind). Like land, there’s no way to make more oil. Liquefying coal or extracting from the tar sands or oil-shale is too expensive, requiring too much of the energy we hope to harvest.

In the long run, everything is finite, sometimes even in the short run. I think we’ve lost sight of that over the past couple of generations.

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bonus quote of the day

Eight Is Enough:

God forbid anything permanent should happen to the Chief Justice, but keep in mind that there is absolutely nothing written anywhere that says the Supreme Court has to have nine justices. There is ample precedent for the court only having eight and there are many cases that are heard by eight because one of the justices is recused. So there is no way in hell that George W. Bush should ever, EVER get another bite at that apple with Democrats in charge of the congress. Just saying — no more Bush Supreme Court appointees for any reason. None.

quote of the day

Where we are Frum | Campaign for America’s Future:

Is he saying that Mexicans who go through a period of naturalization of nearly a decade (“Currently, the median number of years of U.S. residence between legal immigration and naturalization is around eight years“) [UPDATE: or, as digby points out, who were born here] “lack deep attachment to the American nation”? I invite Frum, with whom I’ve had friendly exchanges in the past, to answer me this question: how is your argument different from that of the 1920s nativists, including the Ku Klux Klan, who argued that my Jewish ancestors who became naturalized citizens–as well as Catholics from Eastern Europe—likewise couldn’t possibly develop a deep attachment to the American nation?

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