AK-47 or Turing machine — which would you rather have when you’re under attack?

Attack is a word that needs a good adjective — verbal, military, viral, bacterial.

Let’s go in another direction, instead — the debate about Calvinism.

No, let’s go one better — the extended order of human cooperation (aka capitalism).

Twice in a lifetime

Only twice have I read writing by the inimitable Bill Gates, the first of which I have kept in my library, when William waxed poetic about the value of software in BYTE magazine lo many decades ago.

The second is here — will it have the same impact?  I don’t know.  I’ll give the man a benefit of the doubt and hope it does.

If college is a scam, what about social inequality of college-educated, married parents on their kids?

Two data points to ponder on the day of days to give thanks:

  1. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/27/the-links-between-education-marriage-and-parenting/
  2. http://www.salon.com/2013/11/24/millennials_rise_up_college_is_a_scam_you_have_nothing_to_lose_but_student_debt/

In other words, why call an extinct phone booth a Tardis?