Well I’ve been staying up working on Tacky because I wanted to post this using the Preview mode. KParts itself was surprisingly painless. Making KHTML render the fonts like Konqueror was a little harder, but I’ve got that problem solved (Hint: Copy konquerorrc’s Fonts settings from the HTML Settings group to your own KConfig file first).
The other reason I wanted to blog was to say that this essay should be required reading.
In related news, I spent a bit of time on IRC today unloading because someone had tried to downplay the severity of what happened at Abu Ghraib. I sympathize because it’s hard to hear about what the insurgents have been doing to the people they capture in Iraq and still remain dispassionate. But those who downplay what happened in Abu Ghraib assume (or at least, I hope they’re assuming) that all of those in the prison were guilty of something, which was in fact hardly true, even according to the U. S. Army report on the abuse.
Things like that are especially distressing to me as a servicemember. Although the specific branch of the military that I joined makes it unlikely I would ever be taken prisoner, I still don’t appreciate having the Geneva Conventions flaunted so flagrantly, because they are realistically the only thing that would be keeping me safe if I were to be captured. You might assume that whoever captured an American would just ignore the Conventions anyways, but that’s not really the case. History is full of examples of two warring sides that treated their prisoners well as long as the other side did the same. Even the spate of beheadings in Iraq didn’t start until after the torture at Abu Ghraib was revealed.
Anyways, it’s getting late, so off to bed for me.