There is no such thing as ‘Intellectual Property’, it’s a politically contrived concept meant to provide legal economic privilege for some at the expense of others – as is the case with all political economic intervention. IP is the concept that physical property represents ideas and those ideas are also property and they deserve protection …
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Artificial Intelligence?
The definition of intelligence is a philosophical question for which there is no one, objective answer so if we don’t really know what intelligence is, we can’t know what the concept of Artificial Intelligence is either. The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used in popular culture is a marketing slogan to sound impressive, technologically advanced …
Is Government Productive?
Some people will argue that just because the government does something, anything, that it’s being productive. But whether someone, an organization or government is productive or not depends on the value of what is done and the costs to do it. If the costs are greater than the value then it’s consumption. Productivity means taking …
The Argument of Nothing
I can create, invent, make up straight from my imagination any phenomenon I want. Since I just made it up, obviously it doesn’t exist in reality, it’s not real. And because it doesn’t really exist, its existence cannot be proven or disproven, so any argument made in terms of its existence can be made with …
Is Morality Objective?
Objectivity means the absence of subjectivity, a universal standard applied to everyone equally. Gravity is an objective physical law, jump up in the air and you will come falling back down to earth. In this context, can we say that morality is objective, is there a universal moral standard that can be identified and applied …
What’s Wrong with Public Education?
The problem with public education is that it has nothing to do with education, it’s politics. Public school systems are political institutions, administered, run and funded by bureaucrats for political expedience. Is there anyone who doesn’t understand the inherent inefficiencies, half-truths and political horse trading of politics? People you wouldn’t trust to babysit your kids …
Male-Female Wage Gap?
Depending on which ‘study’ you read, some believe that there is a systematic difference in the amount of money companies pay men and women for the same work and they claim the difference is due to sexism. Let’s distill the issue of emotion and consider it rationally, reasonably, logically and with some common sense. First …
Nonsense – The Short List
Why do people make their bed every morning?Why do people wash their hands before they eat but not after?Why do people wash their hands after they use the bathroom but not before?Why is it disrespectful to wear a hat indoors?Why are some obscenities considered offensive but others aren’t?Why do men stand when a woman sits …
Textual Encoding of Numbers
I always felt like there should be a way to read numbers like we read words and have them make sense and easy to remember. Every now and then, when I had some free time, I’d try to come with a method to do so. I tried assigning a consonant and a vowel to each …
A Healthy Lifestyle
Habits as a Lifestyle A habit is just something that you do on a regular basis without thinking about it, it’s something that has become a part of your life through repetition, it becomes a part of who you are. Your lifestyle is just a collection of habits, good and bad. What, when and how …