Yesterday, I commented on how I'd tried the latest round of HMDs and discovered that none of them were quite to my liking. A friend of mine today mentioned that while she was on the metro the woman next to her was openly writing what could only be considered trade secrets or intellectual property. "Exactly my point," I said. "Why haven't the ( Read more... )

Libertarianism and Communism are two oxen that deserve to be yoked together and set to mill corn. Each is "That One Weird Trick!" that will somehow usher in a great new world of freedom and prosperity, and each is presupposed on the notion that that human beings aren't human beings; the Great Libertarian Man and the New Soviet Man are more or less ( Read more... )

House Bill 4569, entered by the apalling James Sensenbrenner this season: PROFESSIONAL DEVICE.-- (A) The term "professional device" means a device that is designed, manufactured, marketed, and intended for use by a person who regularly employs such a device for lawful business or industrial purposes, such as making, performing, displaying, ( Read more... )

This evening I wanted to watch Someday's Dreamers. I've been watching the series very slowly and had finally finished the first DVD, so I popped in the second. No Disc. I tried it in all of my DVD readers, and none of them would read it. And when I went to go find the originals I discovered that they were missing ( Read more... )