random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them.
tagged: Judaism, religion, superstition, chosen people, Jewish people
—Albert Einstein, Letter to Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954 (discussed in Guardian, 2008/5/12).
Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
how on earth does blizzard keep winning these horrible cases? do they bribe the courts? Patry covers the new case on software cheats, MDY Industries v. Blizzard. How one might ask can there be a violation of the Copyright Act if no rights granted under the Act have been violated? Good question. To get to [...]
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copyright,
bad decisions, Blizzard, computer games, copyright, licensing, litigation, Ninth Circuit, World of Warcraft.
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
in the middle of a blogging break (for good reasons! welcome ada marie) i bring you this article from salon.com which is scary as fuck and makes me fear for little ada’s future: Apocalypse Now by Mike Davis. Davis does not buy any of the Gore-style cheerleading that we might avert a climatically disastrous future [...]
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environment,
capitalism, economics, environment, future, geology, Global South, hell in a handbasket, personal, politics, poverty.
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