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Affirming a world view

It really never ceases to amaze me that there are people who think that their world view is right, and unquestionably so, giving no quarter to rational or reasonable debate.

If one had suggested in 2005 that a single natural event could shut down airspace in most of Europe for about a week you would have been looked at strangely.

In 2010 we now know a single volcano in Iceland can stop planes leaving Lanzarote, and a lot of other places as well. People now are aware, at least in the back of their minds that this could happen.

Lets extrapolate this a little,  five suitable volcanoes with the correct prevailing winds and almost all air transport could stop on the planet.

Welcome to a potentially disconnected world!

The other thing to take away from this notion is that we are not in control of our destiny, we can strive as best we can, after that it is in the lap of mother nature.

Software And Business Method Patents Are A Bad Idea

In a world of business method patents this is possible:
A Great Business Method Patent Joke

Business method patents allow the state to give someone a monopoly on a how they might do business.

Those pushing for their acceptance and those considering their acceptance should be aware of the fact that in the US the landscape has changed somewhat since a Supreme Court Judgement in a case commonly known as the “Bilski case”.

Groklaw article on Bilski.

It has been said that the patents and copyrights are heading  in a direction that might be compared with buying a car from a garage and finding you might only be able to get that car fueled in a garage of that brand. Work out how restrictive that would be, do you find that acceptable?