Some of you (well, me) may be interested in a follow-up to my entry from
last October: I never did attend one
of those conferences, but I know where they would have taken place.
[...]In a free society, people should be allowed to do what they want
wherever possible. The loss of liberty incurred by any alternative principle is
too high a price to pay to stop people making dicks of themselves. But, if
people are using their freedoms to make dicks of themselves, other people
should be able to say so.
As I was starting up my VMWare virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 r2
(Unity mode rocks, by the way) which was running on my RDP connection launched from a Citrix
desktop in a first-class train ride from Berne to Geneva, I had to launch an
unconfigured Internet Explorer, which had a default start page pointing to MSN.com.
With all the doubt that comes with developing solutions to needs that
didn’t exist two years ago, I still strongly believe in medical
advancements that save the people who entertain us every day. It’s just
far more difficult to draw a line here than at other luxury goods
(of course I don’t need an iPhone 4, even though Apple loves me).
“Computer Science aficionado Sebastian’s page: or how I stopped
mindless web surfing and learned to love analyzing and writing programs. As I
don’t have much time to do it non-professionally anymore, you will
currently mostly find photos of weekend activities here, plus the odd rant.