Diversity Is The Ultimate Tech Red Herring
One of the more noble goals of our society is to give everyone an equal chance. The western world’s history has been one of inequality, from slavery and Apartheid to women not being able...
Category: Internet and Technology
Free Speech Advocates Freak Out When Judge Rules Against Them
I visit a lot of different websites and I read and consider many different points of view. That means that I can read the wacky conservative rattle trap of Rush Limbaugh on one side,...
Police Body Cams: Sad Commentary on Real Life
Technology is both a wonderful thing and a bit of a curse. The internet allows us to have all the knowledge in the world at our finger tips, yet we tend to wallow in...
Realizing that Winning Isn’t Part of the Business Game
For most of us who are business owners or work for ourselves, we have been taught that business is like playing a game of Football. The object is to score goals and win. For...
Is Saving Millions from TB Realistic or Wise?
I saw a tweet the other day from Bill Gates about TG. He says we can save the population of Paris each year if we eradicate TB. He’s statistically correct. I think there is...
What Happened to the Free Revolution?
Subtitle: What happened to the Free! Revolutionaries? It’s been a few years now that I talked about the supposed Free revolution. The idea was generally that with infinite and free online distribution, you could...
Uber Hits The Skids
Unless you live under a non wifi enabled rock, you pretty much must know of the company called Uber. According to Wikipedia, Uber is an app-based transportation network and taxi company. Basically you use...
Bitcoins Are Not a Ponzi Scheme – sort of
Some say Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme. I suggest that it is in a way, but not because of investors – but because of processing.
The Vapid Business Models Of The New Economy
I have been working in the online world in one fashion or another since pretty much before there was an online world. My first business venture with friends was well over 30 years ago,...
Why Rick Falkvinge Just Doesn’t Get It
Recently, Rick Falkvinge posted up another rather laughable article over at torrent freak, which is one of the few sites that seems to let him post with fairly free reign. Anyway, the piece, called...
How Activists Try To Use Factoids and Misreadings To Win The Publics Mind
Before I start, let me just say that I am being more than a little big liberal in the use to the word factoid. While it may in some circles mean a made up...
The Internet, The War of Words, and Snake Oil
According to Wikipedia, “Snake oil is an expression that originally referred to fraudulent health products or unproven medicine but has come to refer to any product with questionable or unverifiable quality or benefit. By...
Manning: Whistleblowing Versus Data Dump
The Bradley Manning case has become something that might be referred to as seminal or perhaps even changing history. The recent verdict, which found him not guilty of aiding the enemy but did find...
Liberty Reserve and the Anonymous Internet
Tuesday was not a good day for the operators of the Liberty Reserve virtual currency system, who found themselves indicted on various money laundering charges, arrested, and their system of websites shut down. It’s...
