Obama’s Patent Office Director was David J. Kappos. Before coming to the Patent Office,Kappos was chief intellectual property counsel for IBMwhere he had worked for a quarter century. Kappos is a disciple of James P. Chandler, III, Bill Clinton’s national security advisor and author of the...
On Snowden, despite all the people now claiming “we all knew this”, the extent was worse than the worst case I considered possible, to the point where I hesitated to discuss it online for fear of being accused of being a conspiracy theorist. So, although my priors were broad, an...
Rabinowitz’s 2012 assertions that narratology has even now only recently begun taking up “more sophisticated questions about space and setting and to give them the attention they deserve” (84). Narrative was seen by and large by theorists of Zoran’s time as an “art of time.” This ...
The euro project is about as far removed from a “spontaneous order” as you can get. It was dreamed up by unelected bureaucrats in countries like France, and rammed down the throats of the European public. It artificially fixes the exchange rate between countries with vastly different economi...
For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon asGoogle Chromelaunched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com. ...