01.24.05
Posted in Philosophy at 10:27 pm by qkslvradmin
It is important to have faith, but not necessarily in God. Faith is
important far outside the realm of religion: having faith in other
people, in oneself, in the world, in the existence of truth, justice
and beauty. There is a continuum of faith, from the basic everyday
trust in others to the grand devotion to divine entities.
I don’t know why, but I’ve been slowly, unnecessarily, and
ineffectually trying to grasp this very concept, both for my own sake
and for the sake of those who may perhaps seek to understand the way I
think. This leaped off the page and I felt it necessary to quote it.
Now I need to faithfully go retrieve my laundry. ;-) But seriously,
I’ve been groping after that thought for the better part of two years
now, so it felt good to see it.
quote from here
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Posted in CHEESE! at 8:36 pm by qkslvradmin
So. AC left again this evening. I wonder if I can post up a picture of us…hmm…Blast. Have to upload to my website and I’m freakin’ out of ftp on this box. Damn. oh well. I’m sure AC will post one in a couple of days, so you may want to just keep an eye on her site. Anyway. So I’m moping, and trying to decide what to do with myself. And, as I am often wont to do, making myself resolutions to follow. Like setting myself up to do my studying more than one day ahead of time. And writing in the journal she bought me (which is sweet sweet sweet, with one of my favorite quotes.
“Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you’ve never been hurt, sing as though no one can hear you…”, and well, the rest of it isn’t my favorite quote, but is still pretty cool. Its by a guy named Souza….hold on..
Well, shit, wikipedia turned up “nothing” and google turned up an assload of wikipedia articles of which I cannot find one that references the quote. So you are left without information as to whether or not Souza of my much beloved quote is the same souza referened at wikipedia. Ahh, well. Anyone who actually knows would be welcome to lock down to my post.
it seems I need to change my sidebar to reflect my current life and reality. Perhaps I will, after I finish reading all my RSS feeds on thunderbird, and then maybe I’ll come back and play with blogger a bit more.
AC, when you read this….you are my journey and my destination, and without you I am lost.
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01.19.05
Posted in General at 4:45 pm by qkslvradmin
Which is, of course, not to be confused with the “social security crisis”, which is of course, pure bullshit [nytimes.com, requires registration, but you can give them bs].
Anyway.
As you may, or may not, know, there is a slight problem in this country (and the world) with evil corporations patenting ideas that have been or should be public domain. Mainly I’m speaking, right now, of software patents (like “scroll bar” patents…), but it applies to just about anything.
So, now, after thinking on it for some time, I have a proposed solution.
First. Do a study, and attempt to discover the “critical mass” at which a company or a person has the resources to defend a patent in court.
Second. Establish a patent office which has the resources to actually examine patents and issue them if and only if they are a valid new idea with merit. Furthermore, set length of patent to be proportionate to the time it took to develop the product. This should never, ever, be longer than 10 or 15 years. After that, the idea/product passes to the public domain.
Third. Furthermore, set a law which basically states that if the patent holder either 1) Has the resources (see step one) to defend the patent or 2) can be shown to be legally bound to some entity which has the resources to defend the patent, that the patent is either invalid or that the patent has a vastly reduced lifespan (numbering no more than 3 years).
I, personally, believe that this would accomplish two things. First, it would drastically reduce the number of bogus patent claims made by large corporations who would rather use lawyers to make money than actually producing anything. Second, it would allow the creativity of people who are working for themselves to reward those individuals, rather than only corporations who have the resources to fight the civil lawsuits, and finally, it fosters healthy competition among the giant corporations who thrive on stifling competition.
So. I’m curious to see what anyone thinks about this. Please, don’t’ post up a “punishing the successful” defense of large corporations. That argument doesn’t hold water. If you have some legitimate problem with idea, I’d love to hear it.
Cheers.
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