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blanka-heronoon Ao is a tool for programmatic computer-aided design using Scheme

What about it is impressive? Could you elaborate?

blanka-heronoon Ao is a tool for programmatic computer-aided design using Scheme

Again:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg0002...

blanka-heronoon Ao is a tool for programmatic computer-aided design using Scheme

This was on guile-user and no one seemed interested.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg0004...

blanka-heronoon Ao is a tool for programmatic computer-aided design using Scheme

Nobody ever listens to me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12033059

I don't get it, has he given up on Guile or not:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg0002...

blanka-heronoon Streetfoto founder Ken Walton arrested at gunpoint

Privileged or not, I suggest every one living or working in the U.S. read this publication periodically:

https://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english.pdf

It may save your life. After learning what was going on in this country, I read it several times before the stasi's forcible, warrantless entry into my home in the middle of the night. I believe it has saved my life on more than one occasion. The reach of the police state in the US has extended to the more fortunate of us, I'm afraid. If you don't think it could happen to you, please reconsider. I'll tell you my stories some time.

blanka-heronoon Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt

I disagree, although I personally don't believe in the death penalty. He wasn't advocating vigilantism. American states that have the death penalty do so lawfully, in part as a deterrent.

Perhaps you should have asked him to clarify under what circumstances he would support the death penalty rather than admonishing him.

I don't believe in censoring opinions I don't happen to agree with. I think that is one of the ideas of the original article.

blanka-heronoon Kansas's Conversion into Brownbackistan, and Its Failure

When I was a teenager in Kansas, my boss in the boat store where I worked had a saying:

"Kansas is a good place to say you are from."

It took a while for me to understand the pun, but even this saying is no longer true. Now it should be:

"Better to have never lived in Kansas at all."

Wichita, in particular, has been pushing an "innovation economy" and trying to attract entrepreneurs like it used to have (Bill Lear, the Carney brothers, Beech, Clyde Cessna). But the reality is that Wichita is on a cultural as well as an economic downturn (along with the rest of Kansas):

http://www.kansas.com/news/business/article36236142.html