According to Secrecy News there is a growing number of patents that are being deemed strategic to national security and therefore being classed as secret. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, U.S. government agencies may restrict the disclosure of a patent application whenever its publication is deemed “detrimental to the national security.” In Fiscal [...]
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 [...]
Over the last year or so, we have looked quite deeply into P2P and how it impacts content owners. We take the position that P2P is in many respects no different to radio or TV. It provides a great platform for doing promotion on a new title. For back catalogue it represents a more complex [...]
It will come as a suprise to many readers, but there are those that still watch, free to air television. Those that do, tend to watch the programming on TV and use the advertising segments as convenient toilet or coffee breaks. But those of us that think that advertising is an inconvenient distraction from observing [...]
War throughout the ages has been traditionally declared for the acquisition by one sovereign state (or Warlord) of another’s (sovereign state or Warlords') possessions. The legitimacy of the process is provided for by the Charters and Constitutions of nearly all of the World Governments.Censorship, introduced by those Governments has traditionally been in force to prevent [...]
There are strong corporate interests that want to take away our freedom. Masquerading as protecting freedom and democracy is a plan to corporatise the web and ensure that big content owners become the gatekeepers to content. The following is a quote from a blog piece by Steve Lendeman that says it very succinctly – and [...]
I was invited to the dinner last night for the Star V Conference. This is the conference where APEC Region countries look at risk and business continuity. The after dinner speech was given by John Merkovsky, from Marsh USA. Really fascinating talk and a very interesting guy. I had a chance to talk with him [...]
I came across an interesting blog called The End Of Money…. written by Dr Chris Martenson. If you are wondering whether the US economy is headed (and that also means the macro global economy – the world of money is totally interdependant), it is worth a read. Here is a snippet: Then, on January 26th [...]
The BBC reports that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have decided to move the minute hand of the concept Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. They are doing it because they feel that it is not only nuclear that is a threat to humanity and the planet but now global warming too. The British Astronomer Royal, [...]
Thank you, Congressman [Gephardt] and Senator [Hagel] for those wonderful introductions. It is really a great honor to be introduced by two such distinguished legislators. And thanks to you, Mr. Devine, and all your staff, and to the wonderful UNA chapter of Kansas City, for all you have done to make this occasion possible. [...]