http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/12/2011121222251949941.html
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Conservatives concoct their own creepy reality
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
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Crime bill threatens to undo decades of reform, former justice adviser warns
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson defends the approach. “We don’t govern on the basis of statistics,” he told Parliament last week. “If we see a need to better protect children or send a message to drug dealers, that’s the basis upon which we’re proceeding.”
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Eclipse, EGit, GitHub and headaches…
I have been using Eclipse as my Python Development Environment ever since KDevelop folks decided to abandon Python platform (which is a pitty – I liked KDevelop featureset better than PyDev in Eclipse). Anyway I’ve got multiple projects on-the-go and going through the hassle of setting up SourceForge accounts for them is not something I look forward to (especially that those are small projects). So I decided to take the plunge and explore GitHub.Now creating the account on GitHub was fairly straight-forward and I also created/imported my SSH key along the way. However making Eclipse to talk to it was one heck of a hassle. I started off following Lars Vogel’s tutorial (really you need to read all of it including GitHub section) however I couldn’t “push” back my changes to GitHub getting “Authentication error” messages. That wasn’t what I have expected so I read through GitHub tutorial, did the “manual” set up of git repo from command line (successfully), yet after removing and re-adding project to Eclipse from scratch yielded no positive results. That’s when I got to EGit Wiki and realized that since I’ve got “custom” key created for the development purposes I have to add it to the list of keys Eclipse is aware of. So, under “Window” > “Preferences” > “General” > “Network Connections” > “SSH2” I have added my key and… oh miracle! I’ve got the prompt for my password. From that point on it looks like GitHub is functioning for me, now I have to figure out how to properly use Git 🙂
