Can you believe it?! A little problem that I was struggling with in PHP for about an hour this morning, I resolved with a single line of code only moments ago. Like they say: “Live and Learn!”
I’ll keep at it until “Force 10 from Navarone” comes on the box, in about 2 hours. I think I remember part of this movie from when I was about 12 years old!
Judges and legislators seem frequently to have had quite insanely distorted views about what is a proper proportion between the crime and the punishment. For unfair, harsh and even positively barbarous practices have often enough been enshrined in law. Our moral reformer might back up his case with a short reading list, which could include, e.g. What Nearly Happened to Galileo; What Actually Happened to the Gunpowder Conspirators; A Short History of the Navy; For the Term of His Natural Life (by Marcus Clarke, 1874); and Oscar Wilde’s two letters to the Daily Chronicle (1897). by blackjack
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