COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR
Jerry Pournelle
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004 03:33 PM
A long disquisition on Digital and Other Rights
Author of "Eye of the Storm" now published
Digital Rights Management Debates: The Issues
Microsoft Windows XP SP-2 Release Candidate 2
A serving army officer on Iraq
TSA : are we safer for their impositions?
Was the Iraqi Invasion Justified?
Colin Powell's Memorial Day Address
A new page on Copyright discussion
A Serving Officer's Views of the War
Alternatives: Incompetent Empire or Isolation?
Democracy, Iraq, and human nature
The President's Speech and the future of the US and Iraq
Republic, Empire, Iraq, and Democracy
A Few Words About Iraq from on the ground
Setting the Cat Among the Pigeons
Hacking, the elections, and other matters.
Discussion: Clarke, Clinton, Reno, and Bush
The Education Mess: All Children Left Behind
What is Empire (a theoretical speculation)?
Greg Cochran on Intelligence before the war
Democracy in Iraq? With Followup letters and essay.
More On Liberty, Security, and the Rule of Law
CHAOS MANOR USERS CHOICE AWARDS
Can NASA get us back to the Moon?
Football and Political Science
New Pictures and News from Baghdad
How Republics Die (With Continuation)
Thoughts on Iraq (With Revisions and additions)
The Golden Rule of Predictive Modeling, and Homeland Security
Feeling Safer: What good is TSA? (Begin Thread)
Does the CIA need adult supervision?
Creative Destruction and Government
Free Trade and Strategic Planning
Education Productivity: abysmal
Want to teach anyone to read English?
Want to teach your kids to read?
How the Ashkenazi Got Their Smarts
How To Occupy Iraq
Parts One and Two
Greg Cochran on Overclocking the Brain
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How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.
SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX
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BURNING TOWER, sequel to The Burning City by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is done and turned in to Simon and Schuster. This is a series that makes up a big heroic fantasy (well the characters think they are in a heroic fantasy) about a time 14,000 years ago just after Atlantis sank and the magic is going away. If you don't have a copy, buy one! There will be three books in the Golden Road series, but each is stand-alone; the connection is in continuing characters, not a continued story line.
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