(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]
From Wikipedia: The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning “Christ's Mass”. It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038. In the Northern Hemisphere, this time of year is recognised as the end of shortening days and the beginning of lengthening days. The [...]
Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement. History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump [...]
Things are so rarely what they seem these days. Maybe it has been that way for ever… Look at this story about the “real” reason that America is in Afghanistan and wonder… The US military is in Afghanistan for two reasons. First to restore and control the world’s largest supply of opium for the world [...]
Yesterday, the Australian Reserve Bank increased the interest rate so I brought a bicycle, the first one I have owned since the age of 12, forty years ago. What one has to do with the other is not immediately apparent. Stewart Fisks (UK Independent) column today was about what we at Perceptric have [...]
Man is a competitive member of the animal kingdom. Our nature is to compete with one another for food, shelter, mates and attention. Attention? Well yes, the more attention you get the better your prospects of : Obtaining a mate and earning money. So Koltai, the attention seekers are the most likely candidates [...]
It seems like pretty much every day there in my inbox is a new message, sometimes more than one, telling me that someone is following me on Twitter…. I wouldn't mind except that I don't know the people who are following me. Which makes me wonder… First, I don't tweet because I actually have more [...]
In 1993, I started explaining the consequences of the Euro to anyone that would sit still and listen for five minutes. I said – Hey, it’s simple economics. 480 million Europeans spending a currency and only 250 million Americans spending a different currency. In 2000, I told people that the Chinese would be [...]
“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”. The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]
Everything we do, we do because of experience. When, as babies, we touch something hot and burn our hands, we learn to be careful not to touch things that may be hot. When we do something bad and get punished, it is natural to not want to be punished again, so we avoid doing the [...]