Most software patent discussions on Slashdot, Reddit or elsewhere on the Internet infuriate me. They infuriate me because, in my opinion, they fundamentally confuse the issues relating to whether software should be patentable. 1. “Software shouldn’t be patentable because it’s obvious.” You’re talking about multiple legal concepts as if they were one thing. There are [...]
… a Burning Man 2009 travelogue … Down a wandering road in northwestern Nevada there is a place that doesn’t have many things. Sure, it has sky and ground, but you might be struck by an absence of things most of us consider ubiquitous, such as people, trees, plants, animals, rivers, lakes or even the [...]
Outward appearances aside, Houston rapper Slim Thug and I have somewhat of a shared history. We both hail from the great state of Texas. We both know our way around the section in the club nominally reserved for Very Important Persons. And, though ours may occasionally be rough exteriors for the purposes of intimidating ‘haters’, [...]
Once, a very long time ago, a follower of Jesus drew a sword in order to defend his prophet against the Romans, only to be summarily rebuked. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Book of Matthew, [...]
Paharganj, New Delhi Delhi was where I started my trip in India, and, in one way or another, it’s where my trip would end. I was staying in a small, haphazardly built guest house in Connaught Place, a big busy double sided ring of posh shops lining a large traffic circle with a park in [...]