I'm actually physically ill right now, an ear infection that hasn't gone away and the antibiotics haven't kicked it's ass, yet. I'm confident they will, but until they do I've got weird hearing, balance and feel generally poopy ( Read more... )

I'm not actually sure that the Internet is spreading knowledge. I've come up against a lot of Wikipedia scholars who will cherry pick quotes to back their point, who will C&P definitions from Dictionary.com in substitute for a real argument - there are a whole list of Internet fallacies that I've never seen in real life (my "favorite" being the ( Read more... )

The French just passed the National Assembly that will basically allow huge media corporations to disconnect people from the Internet. No one doubts it will soon be signed into law. The reason for the law are all the normal reasons - it's stealing (tho' I'm still unsure how copying is stealing, because if you don't deprive someone of the use of ( Read more... )

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