I wrote the following post in 2009. I received a call from a close friend the other day. After “catching up”, he shifted to the reason behind his call. He and his wife were bothered by the debate on health care. Knowing that I was involved with the Republican Party, he called to express his concerns. His concerns were simple. In all of the reports on the Health Care debate, he did not see a true debate. He heard over … Continue reading →
OK — Color me clueless, but I simply do not understand the government’s position. They simply do not appear to know what it takes to decrypt an iPhone, so they are taking the easy way out. Make someone else do it. 1. If you have too many failed attempts, using the iPhone to access the data, the phone will erase the disk. So, trying different passwords is not an option. 2. The first thing you do in a case like … Continue reading →
I first started playing the original version of EverQuest back in October of 1999. I moved to EverQuest II with it’s release in 2004. Over the past eleven years, the EverQuest II design team has added many revolutionary MMORPG features, which were inconceivable back in the EQ1 days. Some features that are relevant to my proposal are: Instanced Housing, so everyone can have their own home to decorate without impacting other players Mounts that you can ride or place in … Continue reading →
Those of us who played Dungeons & Dragons and its many successors, well remember a concept called alignment. It was a way to measure a character’s ethical and moral positions. You had to place yourself on two distinct and orthogonal scales — whether you respected the law, and whether you would strive to do good or evil things. These two scales were unrelated, but intersected each other. Today, many people view life in the real world as a choice between … Continue reading →
In the past, I have disagreed with some of Chris Christie’s positions, but today, this talk puts him at the top of my list of candidates. On Oct. 30, while campaigning during happy hour at Shooter’s Tavern in Belmont, New Hampshire, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie related a pair of personal anecdotes to elucidate why he thinks the United States should change the way it handles drug addicts. I have been against the War of Drugs since the beginning. It … Continue reading →