Asymmetrical Information

Is this like a Zen theme today?

Yeah Jane, you seem to be repeating yourself...and then removing the evidence.

I think it's a conspiracy!

did you miss a markup tag or something? the text of the post is weirdly embedded in the html source.

So, is the immediate deletion of a post linking Karl Rove to Harriet Miers's lesbian ex-lover's cocaine habit proof that VRWC really can control the news?

This moment of silence has been brought to you by Jane Galt . . . Jane Galt for a more contemplative America.

And yet, still more interesting and substantive than a typical Maureen Dowd column.

JimN observed:
And yet, still more interesting and substantive than a typical Maureen Dowd column.

Yes, absolutely.
Much easier on the blood pressure and limbic system, too.

After "will"'s comment, I looked at the source & there was really something there!

Dahlia Lithwick on the Miers nomination:

So I am begging now. This is embarrassing. End it. Karl Rove: Either plant the 500 pounds of cocaine you keep for such occasions in Miers' car, or trot out some actress to play her bitter, gay ex-lover. You have the power to end this. So do whatever it is you do. But end the unnecessary pain and suffering now, before someone really gets hurt.

I'm Soooooo confused! :)

The problem is that the Dahlia Lithwick anchor tag has an href attribute which opens with a single-quote but 'closes" with a double-quote, at which point everything fails until a matching single-quote is found:

href='http://www.slate.com/id/2128304/"

This is the sort of thing that is only supposed to happen to those of us who type our HTML in vi on Linux...I hadn't thought Jane was in the group.

"us who type our HTML in vi on Linux"

First they make you a UNIX, then they teach you to LISP.

I type in my own HTML all the time in the Moveable Type edit screen rather than take my hands off the keyboard and oorts around with the mouse. Sometimes I miss tags. Thats why PIMCATF.

There are many times that I realize I know a guy who knows a guy. Why can't this be one of them?

those of us who type our HTML in vi on Linux

I type my HTML, tho' not in Linux. But surely any serious Linux hacker would be using emacs, no?

If the rumor mill is to be believed, Karl Rove is on the outs anyway. This is W's pick, his decision, made against the advice of Cheney, Rove, and just about everyone else.

If the rumored indictments come down, Rove will be too busy to worry about the Supreme Court nomination.

"First they make you a UNIX, then they teach you to LISP."..."Linux hacker would be using emacs..."

Actually I learned MTS-LISP (Michigan Terminal System) in 1975, my first year as a CS grad student at UPenn; I didn't see Unix and vi until 1980, my first year as a CS asst prof at UDel. So I guess I'm a counter-example of sorts. And I tried emacs and liked lots of things about it, but my fingers seemed to retain vi better. So I can't be a Linux hacker--I didn't install Linux until 1992 or 1993, anyway. (Sorry for off-topic, but that's what happens when you mixmatch quote-marks.)

But surely any serious Linux hacker would be using emacs, no?

You whippersnappers with your fancy new editors, always having to have the latest toys.

Actually I prefer EDT, but I don't know if you can get that anymore.

If they couldn't find a way to plant a crude nuclear device in Iraq, what makes you think they could frame Miers?

I hear Rove will soon reveal that Miers is a covert CIA agent only pretending to have been nominated to the Supreme Court. Her lack of a paper trail is due to her extensive absences gathering intelligence and killing people with her bare hands.

I type my HTML, tho' not in Linux. But surely any serious Linux hacker would be using emacs, no?

Having watched the vi-versus-emacs flame wars occur regularly for more than 20 years, I beg of you: never ever ask any question that even hints at a comparison of those two text editors. It is always uglier than what I imagine Karl Rove and James Carville locked in a room would be.

EDT, Angie? Either you are showing your age or your love for VMS. :-)

If you've not looked at it, you could try SEDT.

EDT? I was an EVE fan, myself. But before, EVE, EDT was my editor of choice.

vi is good, though, when you don't have a VMS system to work on, or even X. On Linux I mostly use nedit, which rocks in all the ways emacs fails to. My main problem with emacs is that nearly all my wetware memory is virtual, so I have a hell of a time remembering the non-intuitive control sequences used to command the thing.

When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
*and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like,
'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor
that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
---

Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem$ ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their
"edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely
you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

Justin, ed is a waste of resources; you should edit in your mind and just type the file you want, after

cat - > fileName

[remember to end with ^D, the way all files are supposed to end.] I did love ed in the early 80s, and part of my first book [the renowned best-seller http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013283474X] came from a class project of implementing part of ed in Modula-2. Hmm... triticale, if you prefer some other HTML editor, whether vi or nvu or html output from OpenOffice.org, remember you can create your post as a local file and copy/paste it just once. But what is PIMCATF? Google fails me. (BTW, I do have a conspiracy theory on Miers at http://mistakesbytjm.blogspot.com/2005/10/miers-for-supreme-court-soccer-theory.html which is probably just as good as my other theories.)

Crank: "Her lack of a paper trail is due to her extensive absences gathering intelligence and killing people with her bare hands." Dang, you figured out the evil plan. Get her in closed chambers with the justices, and zip, they're carrying out five bodies. Meiers would have to disappear and change her name and appearance, of course, but a huge offshore bank account makes up for it. W gets to nominate 6 justices - and the longer the Dems filibuster, the more cases get decided by Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas!

Now we have to kill everyone who might have read this blog...

I beg of you: never ever ask any question that even hints at a comparison of those two text editors. It is always uglier than what I imagine Karl Rove and James Carville locked in a room would be.

Well, sure. That's because the users of that editor (and we know which one that is) are basically just religious fanatics whose can only argue from an emotional position while the users of the other editor are rational users seeking to maximize their editing experience, making their choice solely on facts.

Come to think of it, very similar to the Rove versus Carville situation.

Again, it's so obvious to all of us which is which that I won't bother pointing it out.

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