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Onelshy.com personality test

Monday, February 27th, 2006

From http://oneishy.com/personality/, a temperament test that uses the categories of “sanguine” “melancholy” “choleric” and “phlegmatic” that I am more accustomed to reading.

Luke Schierer,

Your personality is Melancholy Choleric

Melancholy Strength:7 Weakness:9 - 40%: Phlegmatic Strength:2 Weakness:3 - 13% Sanguine Strength:4 Weakness:1 - 13% Choleric Strength:7 Weakness:7 - 35%

You may want to review the definitions

The Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

TheFactIS is an incredible publication which I highly recommend. Thanks to its permissive copyright statement, I again choose to quite an article here, in its entirety. This time, we shall look at the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban.

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear a case on the constitutionality of a [...]

A pro-life Democrat

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

It is easy to be upset with the Republicans. There are rumors that they regret the fight to get two pro-life Supreme Court Justices confirmed. They have failed to reform the tax code. They have largely failed to even reduce taxes without reform. They failed to reform social security. They launched us [...]

A look at the data

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

I thought this “Friday Fax” worth reading.[1] Nations with permissive abortion laws do not experience lower rates of maternal mortality compared to nations with restrictive abortion laws according to new data published by the United Nations Populations Division. Pro-abortion radicals have long argued that the right to abortion should be guaranteed by international [...]

SciFi to reality

Friday, February 17th, 2006

This[1] is incredibly cool. It reminds me of the interface used in the movie Minority Report

Mr. Jefferson Y. Han. “Apple’s Multi touch screen movie” 2006-02-09 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923853181774&q=apple+touch

Listening to music my way

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Personally, I am not much of a CD player. I find that about the only time I want to listen to the contents of just one CD is when I am listening to classical music, where a single work may be multiple tracks. Nor are the multi-disk changers an optimal solution. There [...]

Trusted Networking, but by whom?

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Today, ars takes a look at Trusted Network Connect (TNC).[1] This is the next step in the progression of Trusted Computing, and follows along in the shadow of the deployment of Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) in computers. In short, TNC allows computers on a network to query the state of their fellows and determine what [...]

Harddrive encryption

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Ars takes a look at the hard drive encryption option slated to be in Microsoft Vista in light of the fact that talks between the United Kingdom and Microsoft have occurred on the subject of backdoor access.[1] In short, the UK is concerned that its police forces might not have access to hard drives when [...]

Catholic Hospitals need money too

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

If a Catholic Hospital is truly concerned about money collection to the point of neglecting its mission to save lives regardless of the financial state of its patients, then something is clearly wrong. Equally obviously, any such wrong should be addressed and fixed. Something does not add up however. The bill being pushed in [...]

RFID Authentication

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

It has been a while[1] since I last wrote about RFID. The most recent article I have read on the subject is substantially more of a concern than the others that show up in the recent history if you search “Random Unfinished Thoughts.”[2] This is because I now read about tagging people, not products [...]

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