Posts tagged “Copyright”
What I’ve Noticed
Dollhouse is over. It was a great show. When Americans say they want to cut NASA’s budget, they think they’re talking about a budget of more than 600 billion instead of about 15 billion. Female orgasm described as ‘abhorent’ and banned on film in Australia along with small breasted women. Unsurprisingly, the standard does not […]
What I’ve Noticed
It doesn’t say anything good about our culture that sexual violence against women is eroticized and mainstream, but women choosing and enjoying sex is just too much for us. A few songs are worth more than your life. A lot more. (via Michael Alan Miller) Oh, and Sweden took down pirate bay. Well, this should […]
What I’ve Noticed
We’re cutting all the wrong things. If I ever live somewhere humid enough, I’m going to grow these in my house. How to stifle innovation and piss off your customers. Dr. Isis might be the best mom in the world: if … Little Isis does grow to prefer silver metallic heels to black wingtips, then […]
“free trade”
Techdirt on the US’s interpretation of free trade and what it’s doing to poorer countries: the US is using free trade agreements around the world to force US-style intellectual property rules on the rest of the world — often at tremendous harm to those countries. It’s doubly ironic when you realize that intellectual property rules […]