Archive for the 'Canary In A Coal Mine' Category

Two Types of Grownups

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

I often say one of the big problems in DC is the lack of grown ups but following the SOPA/PIPA debate yesterday I realized I have been wrong. DC has grown ups, it just has the wrong kind. I see there being two types of grown ups, the good ones are the ones who take [...]

Scaling Problems

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Patents have a huge scaling problem. The fine folks at Frugal Dad put together a great graphic that demonstrates the issues, but the bottom line is that the patent system couldn’t scale when they allowed concepts to be patented. People have a lot of ideas, many of them may be impractical today, but everyone rushed [...]

Lessons In Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

The President signed into law the indefinite detention of US citizens by the US military, he said he has some objections, but signed the law anyway. If he were not lying there is an easy and quick way to end this nonsense. Detain every sponsor of the bill immediately and hold them until the law [...]

Internet Censorship. Bad. I would have thought this was obvious.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

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The Romans, The Vikings, The Normans, Then Nobody….

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Who has conquered England? The Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, then nobody until the Health and Safety Bureaucrats came. Once they ruled the world, now they can’t be trusted with balloons and party favors.

Once They Were A Land Of Giants

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

It is now too dangerous to even cross the streets in England. I expect society will soon ground to a halt and all will come to ruin, but at least it will be safe.