KSR on SUVs

Reading my way through a backlog of newspaper articles — yes, I really am that much of a geeky packrat — I came across the following in an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson:

"I think the US is in a terrible state of denial," he says firmly. "Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong. Even here in California, 50% of cars on the freeway are SUVs, and they're political statements: they say, we're going to take the rest of the world down with us because we don't give a damn. Essentially they're Republican vehicles: when you see an SUV go by, you know the driver voted for Bush."

Testify, brother! Testify!

Slow moves

A slight, totally slight, gain in order: discovered that the netmask on the mac was way out, so although it could talk to localnet, the rest of the world was like shrouded in silence. Also "fixed" DNS by dumping it's nasty ass but despite yesterday's upbeat, SMTP auth is still splorking with "makeconnection... failed: Invalid argument" Probs just a wrong parameter in my client-info file, but question is which one?