Book Published
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NPR critiques patents
An excellent NPR story on patents has been getting attention, and Forbes uses it to argue in favor of invalidating software patents.
You Think We Live in a Democracy?
Slate reports on the Senate Finance Committee’s vote against a public health option. “Even among Republicans, opposition to the public option (42 percent) is outweighed by support (47 percent).” In an Indirect Democracy, “The people elect government officials who then …
Do you have any ideas?
I believe that the average person has six original ideas in their lifetime. By “original idea”, I mean a new view of how the world is or could be. “Why don’t we go to Hawaii this summer?” or “”Let’s paint …
More Patent Insanity
Timothy Lee writes eloquently about the stupidity of a company that exists only to think up patents and use them to sue – no actual creation of product required. How is this of the slightest benefit to society?
Hypocrisy or lack of Empathy?
Firstly consider this quote (color emphasis added): “Clearly, we’ve got to find Mohammed Omar, we’ve got to find Osama bin Laden, and we’ve got to find other key leaders of the al-Qaida network, or we will have failed. We’re not …
Race in America
There has been much comment that this was a post-racial election. Yes and no. Look at the electoral shifts since 2004. A broad swath across the center of the country voted MORE Republican than in 2004, and I can see …
McCain’s fatal mistake?
It’s looking more and more as if McCain’s V.P. pick had almost zero research behind it: “According to this Republican, who would discuss internal campaign strategizing only on condition of anonymity, the McCain team used little more than a Google …
Does Christian Morality Benefit Society?
The average Christian in the US believes that society’s social problems are due to poor application of Christian morals. A paper published by the Journal of Religion and Society finds just the opposite; it measures homicide, youth suicide, STDs, teen …
World falls to pieces; more news at 11
The latest report on global warming says that “[w]e were stunned by the similarities between the observations that have been recorded at sea worldwide and the models that climatologists made,” said Tim Barnett of the University of California’s Scripps Institution …