You will need:
To hit the bullseye:
You’re done!
Lessig, quoting Gates: “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. The solution . . . is patent exchanges . . . and patenting as much as we can. . . . A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that someone’s reaction to a travesty of justice is “take advantage of it” rather than “make it right” but it’s not the way I was raised.
We’ve known for years that these laws are irrational and cruel and so, well… we keep them because they are popular. Because irrational cruelty is, despite all they might say, a deeply held American value: torture, intolerance, hate, murder. Ooh, but it’s unpatriotic to point out flaws in our moral complexion.
Sorry.
Brad DeLong often rages at the poor quality of our national press corps but even the people he criticizes seem to have quite high standards, compared to the technology press. Legitimate newsmedia don’t have the problem of articles that quote blogs and pretend they’ve conducted an interview or journalists who do no research whatsoever and just write down any criticism they can find, no matter how blatant the lie.
Well, maybe the mainstream and political press do have problems with the blatant lying part. But I haven’t seen the mainstream press use such sloppy attribution that it quotes a website and implies it’s actually spoken with the writer.
I have finally gotten around to placing yet another order at Father’s Country Hams, makers of some of the best salty, smoky pork and beef. All I need to do now is find a pot big enough to cook it, and people to eat it with: the ham on its way is between thirteen and fifteen pounds, dry.
Date suggestions begin now. Eveyone is welcome. Extra bonus for anyone who volunteers to bring collard greens, hoppin’ john, spoonbread, pecan pie, pralines, crayfish, bourbon, corn whiskey, biscuits, blood pressure medication, cardiac defillibrators or angioplasty equipment.
Pro-torture judge and new attorney general Alberto Gonzales apparently counts as a moderate in our world today. “Why is President Bush betraying the babies? ” ask our Culture-of-Life theocons (tip to Andrew Sullivan for the phrase and for the courage to scratch his butt in public). Well, perhaps for the same reasons he’s betraying the adults whose torture and execution Gonzales condones and expedites. Oh yeah.
As Tarantino says, Dick dick dick dick dick dick dick. For a man who quit smoking only after his fourth heart attack, Cheney seems to be packing some meat. Or perhaps just a funny camera angle and some baggy pants.
Not to be confused with the Evolution Groupware Suite Blog, the Evolution Blog is about the ongoing process of change over time, and whether it and other basic science CAN BE TAUGHT IN OUR SCIENCE CLASSES. I can’t believe we’re reliving the Scopes trial. How many years has William Jennings Bryan been in the cold cold ground? Are we going to revive the gold standard for monetary policy now? (Note that William Jennings Bryan was on the correct side of the monetary, but not the scientific, debate).
One on animal hoarding just because I love the subject so.
And one for Leah in Detroit because she is so awesome: Muskrat stew, delivered hot to your door. Only in Detroit.
Punks, hardcore rappers, and hillbillies have a lot more in common than they would admit: self-sufficient badasses who ain’t too proud to take a bargain meal when it presents itself. Especially one with plenty of spicy goodness like a muskrat stew.
Yet another Provigil trip report masquerading as journalism.
I can’t wait til it’s OTC.
The educated elites look down on you because you refuse to educate your children.
Who will the leaders of tomorrow be? Not your kids, because you tried to hide sex from them and so instead of getting through school and becoming leaders, they get knocked up and drop out. Thank god for that– we’ve had enough idiot Texans in the white house to last us a lifetime.
I know nobody likes to be condescended to. But on the other hand, it’s hard not to look down on people who really believe stupid things, or, for that matter, people who read books like “He’s Just Not That Into You” (scroll down to second review– it’s vicious). It’s hard not to look at someone who actually likes Bridget Jones and not think “you poor thing. I’m so sorry.”
Secretly Ironic 