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Delete the error log

Delete the error log

Just to add to the knowledge base, this is a real winner. You might have noted problems on the blog today. No one could figure it out. It was a mystery. Experts scratched their heads for 14 hours.

Finally, someone noticed something odd. The error log was too big, over 2GBs. The sheer size was causing the errors which were being logged, growing the size of the log, which was causing more errors, and so on. Delete the error log and all problems go away.

The end.

Come to think of it, many of the world’s problems could be solved this way. Delete the laws and legislation, and you get rid of lawbreakers and the enforcers, which un-stuffs the court system, takes pressure of government, reduces the need for taxes, and so on.

Most of the problems the state seeks to solve are of its own creation, a result of previous attempts to solve problems, which generates more problems, and so on. The state is an error log growing out of control.

The ultimate solution: delete the state and all problems go away.

Thank you Israel Curtis for thinking outside the confines of convention. So should we all.

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