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RIP Margaret Thatcher
The only Prime Minister in my lifetime that had a backbone, the rest are spineless worms. This country needs a few more Prime ministers like Margaret Thatcher.
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Banish Patents to history and restrict “Copyright”
I believe that for the common good the current patent system should be abolished, no replacements. Copyright should should be for the life time of the individual or 50 years for a commercial concern.
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No Such Thing As “IP”
Patents and Copyright are Government granted monopolies, hence the idea of Intellectual Property is a fiction. Except in these two cases monopolies are generally illegal, are these two monopolies now out of control and should they be reined in.
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Scoundrels
Scoundrels without the wit to fit A word or two of verse together Are daunted not a whit to sit In judgement on the abstruse poetry of another. Such men will listen with attentive mind, Alert to see how many faults they find. And if they’re vexed because they fail to grasp the sense Of…
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The biggest Human gathering on Earth
After visiting the Kumbh Mela of 1895, Mark Twain wrote: “ It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is…
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To be a free man
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. – Mark Twain
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Latest Book
I have just finished Ian M Banks latest SF novel “The Hydrogen Sonata”, as ever an awesome read.
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Happy New Year
Happy new year to every one! Live Long and Prosper!
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A Song of Kabir
Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his lands! He has gone from the guddee and put on the shroud, And departed in guise of bairagi avowed! Now the white road to Delhi is mat for his feet. The sal and the kikar…
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Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas every one reading this and a happy new year. When I am busy, the mountain looks at me. When I am at leisure, I look at the mountain. Though it seems the same, it is not the same, For busy-ness is inferior to leisure.