“Perhaps the meek shall inherit the Earth, but they’ll do it in very small plots . . . about 6′ by 3′.”
Robert Heinlein, quoted at this excellent legal website with stacks of quotations about self defence.
|
|||||
|
We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people. Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house] Authors
Arts, Tech & CultureCivil LibertiesCommentary
EconomicsSamizdatistas |
Samizdata quote for the dayDecember 15th, 2005 |
 8 comments to Samizdata quote for the day |
Who Are We?The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling. We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe. CategoriesArchivesFeed This PageLink Icons   |
|||
All content on this website (including text, photographs, audio files, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. |
|||||
“…in very small plots . . . about 6′ by 3′.” Actually, much smaller than that. I went to a church in Munich last year and couldn’t figure out how so many dead bodies could be buried in the church yard throughout the centuries. I was told that the ‘new’ bodies were buried on top of the ‘old’ ones.
Pity the page is rendered almost unreadable because of the grey/yellow colour scheme….what were they thinking?
I thought the colours were awful too, pollo. Why can’t someone devise a markup language that separates the meaning of text from the presentation of the text, so that you could have the document laid out in a manner that suited the device you were looking at it on? Although ‘creative’ people would complain about how their fabulous page designs were being mucked about with.
Not totally on topic, but it is to do with self-defence – has anyone here been following the Cory Maye saga? What is the general opinion on the case?
The Agitator seems to have been the catalyst for all the talk. As far as I can see someone is going to be put to death for shooting a policeman who had smashed the door down in the middle of the night with precious little, if any, warning or reason. I’ll be the first to admit I know little about the case, but it certainly seems to be debatable whether the death penalty is appropriate for someone with no previous criminal record who claimed to be acting in self-defence.
(Apologies if this is covered somewhere else, but no reference to it came up when I searched Samizdata).
Wikiquote also has an excellent and enjoyable selection of Heinlein quotations.
It may – for all I can tell – be an excellent site, but what idiot decided to make it yellow text on a pale grey background?
I always preferred “We meek shall inherit the earth-
Er if that’s all right with the rest of you”.
To make the page readable: Use Ctrl+A to highlight the text. Or, alternatively, your browser may have a feature to over-ride the site’s extremely stupid color scheme.
This situation reminds me of an earlier post on this site about HTML email and how it can be a bad thing because people can do stupid things like choose dumb colors for the foreground and background.