Today, I heard a sermon by our Pastor at Church. Our Pastor is not really a very effective sermon giver as he rambles and never gets to a coherent point. Today was no different. But today, I did get one bit from his sermon. I’m sure it wasn’t exactly what he intended but I’d still [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Soapbox’
Debt and People
I read something in the paper a bit ago and also was talking to some friends and it got me thinking about a topic I don’t completely understand. Basically, people in general want things and people in general earn money to buy things and buy necessities. This I understand and I think everyone understands. The [...]
Bush asks for more teachers in Science and Math
I know I’m late to this (I’ve been busy – I’ll make a post about it in a bit) but in President Bush’s state of the Union, he asked for more teachers in advanced Science and Math so that we can maintain and increase our competitiveness in the global marketplace. Does anyone else find this [...]
Analog Hole Bill Would Impose a Secret Law
Congress is scary sometimes. Right now they are considering a bill that would require technologies to be imposed on analog transfer methods to prevent illegal copying. Or at least, that is what they would like you and me to believe. What they really want to do since they have effectively shut down all fair use [...]
Another Call to Action
OK, the EFF needs our help. We need to get out there and stop the next effort by Hollywood to re-instate the already failed Broadcast Flag. Please go to EFF Action site and send a comment to your representative to stop this action. Remember, that Hollywood wants to stop you as a user from doing [...]
A cool story about keeping balance
I had heard this story quite a while ago (well before I was a full time dad) and always thought that it was a really good way to represent life in some simple terms. A friend (thanks Kari) emailed me a version of it so I thought with that bit of a reminder, I’d post [...]
Impact our government has on us…
I was watching the news last night and it became increasingly disturbing at how the choices that the Bush administration – our government – has made are impacting our lives with regards to our worldwide neighbors. Watching the demonstrations in Argentina, which are all targeted at sending a message to President Bush, tell us that [...]
Practice what you preach!
Today in Church, Father Mike (who is my favorite sermon giver) gave a short but related (to the readings in Mass) sermon. He talked about how when he prepares for a sermon that he sometimes wonders whether he should talk about something because it is so hard to live up to certain ideals. He also [...]
Another example of DRM hurting consumers
Here is another post about a user trying to make home movies but having technology which is trying to protect the overzealous movie industry gets in the way. It?s amazing that they don?t understand or maybe it?s worse and that these companies (people at these companies, actually) don?t care. ——————– Glenn
RIAA abuses power
As you?ve seen from posts, I have issues with Copyright and Patent law because they are biased too heavily towards corporate advantage rather than citizen?s and almost ignore the actual inventor who should have the true intellectual rights to the material or process but instead care about the company sponsoring the inventor/creator. I also have [...]
Having attended the UC system…
I attended the UC at both and (both have great campuses for different, very different actually, reasons). I?ve read several different posts about this lawsuit against the University of California for discriminating against a group because of their stringent academic requirements specifically in biology. The group believes that because their biology course dismisses generally accepted [...]
Assasination – or not!
It is utterly bewildering to me that a leader, much less a religiously associated leader would advocate assassination (murder!). I saw many posts in other blogs but one line said it best ? Would Jesus advocate assassination? It is also utterly bewildering to me that the same leader, would then try to say he was [...]
Anti-war Protests
Since, I haven’t posted in a few days I?m using these posts as a chance to catch up some thoughts that have built up over the past few days. Some of them are just me letting off steam. This one is on Terry Shehan (did I spell her name right?) and George and this anti-war [...]
Music Industry is Wacked!
Here is another example of the music industry doing absolutely the wrong things to retain or even better, grow their customer base. Yes, they start out where almost everyone agrees that we should crack down on pirates who copy and then try and sell illegal copies. Next, they go after customers who do pirate the [...]
Nobel Economist says Copyright Policies Harm Inovation
I found a post on Boing Boing which discussed Joseph E Stiglitz’s editorial criticizing copyright monopolistic policies. The economic rationale for intellectual property is that faster innovation offsets the enormous costs of such inefficiencies. But it has become increasingly clear that excessively strong or badly formulated intellectual property rights may actually impede innovation – and [...]