Thursday, July 27, 2006
So I read something that made me mad today. Its a news article posted on the BBCs website about a 16 year old girl who was hanged for "crimes against chastity." W.T.F. Its insane! A girl had a crappy childhood, and was hanged for getting raped and mouthing off to a judge. Its completely unconscionable. Its the sort of thing that makes me not care if we go to war with the bastards. If it was a lynching, then it could be chalked up to a few misinformed people, but it was a state appointed judge who sentenced her, completely legally, to be hanged. There is NO WAY that a government should be allowed to do that.
Recently there has been a lot of talk about how the US shouldn't go around telling other countries that they can't have nukes. To my way of thinking, any country that is run by a bunch of fundamentalist psychos shouldn't be allowed to exist. Iran is technically a democracy. They have a president and cabinet composed of people who are elected by the people. They also happen to have a "Supreme Leader" who is put into power by a council of Islamic Elders from among their number. The Supreme Leader is the commander in chief of the Iranian military. He also gets to decide who is allowed to run for the presidency. Doesn't that seem a lot like the Democratic party getting to pick the Republican candidate? I'm no expert, but it seems to me that when a religious fanatic gets to decide who will be runing for public office, it isn't likely to be a fair election. "And now ladies and gentlemen, you get to pick between Fundamentalist-Supporter-Number-1, and Fundamentalist-Supporter_Number-2!" Idiocy. Oh, and more idiocy: "the legal age of sexual consent is nine" NINE! WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SEXUAL DECISION CAN A NINE YEAR OLD MAKE?!
In other news, I discovered that I botched the wafer that Kyle and I have put a whole bunch of time into. Turns out that the oxidation process thats required for the boron diffusion process requires more time than we gave it in BOE. Long story short, we shielded our wafer from the boron we intended to implant on it. One weeks work down the drain. Bah. Tomorrow I'm going to go home for a week, so I don't think I'll get started on another wafer until I get back.
Recently there has been a lot of talk about how the US shouldn't go around telling other countries that they can't have nukes. To my way of thinking, any country that is run by a bunch of fundamentalist psychos shouldn't be allowed to exist. Iran is technically a democracy. They have a president and cabinet composed of people who are elected by the people. They also happen to have a "Supreme Leader" who is put into power by a council of Islamic Elders from among their number. The Supreme Leader is the commander in chief of the Iranian military. He also gets to decide who is allowed to run for the presidency. Doesn't that seem a lot like the Democratic party getting to pick the Republican candidate? I'm no expert, but it seems to me that when a religious fanatic gets to decide who will be runing for public office, it isn't likely to be a fair election. "And now ladies and gentlemen, you get to pick between Fundamentalist-Supporter-Number-1, and Fundamentalist-Supporter_Number-2!" Idiocy. Oh, and more idiocy: "the legal age of sexual consent is nine" NINE! WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SEXUAL DECISION CAN A NINE YEAR OLD MAKE?!
In other news, I discovered that I botched the wafer that Kyle and I have put a whole bunch of time into. Turns out that the oxidation process thats required for the boron diffusion process requires more time than we gave it in BOE. Long story short, we shielded our wafer from the boron we intended to implant on it. One weeks work down the drain. Bah. Tomorrow I'm going to go home for a week, so I don't think I'll get started on another wafer until I get back.
posted by Nick at 7:58 PM
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