Gun Control and your rights to personal security in South Africa

A very important topic in South Africa is to do with firearms and our rights to our personal security. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not in the belief that everyone should have the right to bear a bazooka, M82, or AK-47 * – not unless you have to defend yourself against an army **.
However, I [...]

Anger, dude

How can someone be so angry and so vicious, to push someone, to push them far beyond where they’ve already told you they’re not willing to venture. And when the buck gets stopped, to then just drop that person and accuse them of the worst.
You’re hurting someone who you should be caring about. Life sucks [...]

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of Quacks and snake-oils

I recently came across this article about how we should be a lot more concerned about alternative medicines than we’ve been. Perhaps I should be more outspoken about this myself. Very few of the people I know actually bother to lobby for the causes they believe in. And it is a shame.
Reiki recently came up [...]

That which is not yet present

“You can experience only happiness when you know you have everything to look forward to.”
– No Attribution

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To fail at failing

To fail at failing. I recently came across a discussion where a user was advised to run a fail command. The result was, luckily, as follows:
[user@user-desktop ~]$ cd ~/.Trash; sudo rm -rfv *
bash: cd: /home/user/.Trash: No such file or directory
bash: sudo: command not found
[user@user-desktop ~]$
The command cd ~/.Trash changes the directory (or present working directory) [...]

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