Rob Helpy-​​Chalk writes on moral scales, rank­ings, val­ues and goals:

Thus we see the dif­fer­ence between the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and al Qaeda; we see why we fight. Al Qaeda delib­er­ately tar­gets civil­ians. The Bush admin­is­tra­tion launches attacks that they know will kill civil­ians, but which are intended to kill com­bat­ants, even if they actu­ally have a small chance of doing so.

We have just been pre­sented with a very use­ful and dynamic ver­sion of The 2^nd Annual SODA Busi­ness Meet­ing Drink­ing Game:

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Pro­ceed­ings Bonus Round:

This bonus round begins when some­one sug­gests elec­tronic pro­ceed­ings. Take a drink.

If any­one sug­gests elim­i­nat­ing paper pro­ceed­ings, take a drink.

Take a drink each time any of the fol­low­ing words are used: copy­right, ArXiv, ISBN, web, PDF, library, tenure, pro­mo­tion, ship/​shipping, heavy, Ama­zon, profit/​money

Take one drink for each sug­gested elec­tronic medium (CD-​​ROM, USB key, etc.)

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I note that with a lit­tle for­mu­laic revi­sion, the game could be extended to almost any con­fer­ence I’ve ever attended.