Daily Archives: June 1, 2005

Do You Care….

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…that IE 7 will not run on Windows 2000 machines?

Microsoft has confirmed that it won’t release a version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 7 for Windows 2000, putting an end to speculation — some of it fueled by Microsoft — that the Redmond, Wash.-based developer would offer a more secure, revamped browser to users of that the aging-but-still-used operating system.

Well, no, I don’t care! Firefox runs just fine on the one W2000 machine we still have as well as on the XP SP2 machines we have.

Education and Science

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There is plenty to learn and think about at The Carnival of Education and the Tangled Bank!
Add Zombyboy’s article Why the Schools Won’t Change to your education reading list!
And, don’t go to the Discovery Institute to learn anything. As PZ Myers reports

…their earlier implications of legitimization have been shown to be crass spin, and it has been sharply and unambiguously criticized as “not consistent with

Summer Reading

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Tyler Cowan’s class is in the fall but I know you are all eager students so this reading list should make a good addition to or replacement for your current summer reading list.
Arnold Kling has a few suggestions for additional material.
Perhaps in the fall Tyler will post/link his lecture notes and we can all participate in a little on line discussion.

Non

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Eugene Volokh does not appear to think highly of the French non vote on the proposed EU constitution:

As best I can tell from what I’ve read recently, the substantive arguments for the French “no” vote weren’t very sound, either; and peevishness at the political classes’ seeming arrogance doesn’t strike me as a great reason to vote no.

He does not go into detail on what those substantive arguments were but there is one argument that I find quite compelling: the document is 485 pages long. Only a lawyer or a judge could love a constitution of that size.
Consider the brevity of the US Constitution and the huge bureaucratic and legal bloat that has occurred in a modest 200 years. Heck, with 485 pages to start with the EU will need bariatric surgery before it even leaves the starting gate.
Related notes:
Lynn Kiesling “…concluded that it was a curate’s egg.”
Steeph has probably already voted no today in the Netherlands. He has studied it much more thoroughly than the average voter!