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- Technology (law) is everywhere!
- How to save a drowning business
- Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era
- Opening the Scope of Employee Contribution
- On Virtual Travel
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- Laws for the Virtual Universe
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- Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him
- Does WOM or Social Network Marketing Create Agency?
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Category Archives: Humanities
Library Manifesto
the risk of common cultural property becoming the puppet, through digital means, of copyright holders rather than the protectorate of library gatekeepers Continue reading
The Value of Liberal Arts in a Recession
The New York Times recently published an article, “In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth.” The division between science and the humanities is a recent contrivance, and its maintenance has no good historical precedent. The humanist training, the whetting of mental faculties that not only separate us from the animals but allow us to weigh and manage the fruit and potential fruit of our technical wizardry, is as essential to a growing society as the freedom that makes it possible. Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Humanities
Tagged aristotle, Civil Liberties, democracy, economic crisis, Humanities, new york times, recession, sarah brophy, Virtual Worlds
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Remembrance Day – Poems by Wilfred Owen
I wrote a paper on these two poems a number of years ago. I found them much more powerful than In Flanders Fields. Wilfred Owen was a British soldier who died a week before the Armistice that ended World War … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities
Tagged Anthem for a Doomed Youth, Exposure, Remembrance Day, Veterans' Day, Wilfred Owen, World War I, WWI
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Leadership Qualifications in a Democracy
Power to the people, right? That’s the rallying cry of democracy. A government of peers, the message of Gov. Sarah Palin, is not a new message. Stephen Harper rode that message to the Prime Minister’s Office here not long ago, … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Legal Explorations
Tagged canada, dion, education, election, elitism, harper, liberals, oct. 14, palin, prime minister
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George Carlin, free speech advocate, gone at 71
I was talking to my father-in-law on Sunday morning about which show George Carlin ws likely to bring to his upcoming night at the River Rock. Would it be the silly and hilarious poke at absurdity that generates his funniest … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Humanities
Tagged freedom of expression, Freedom of Speech, George Carlin, Seven Dirty Words
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Servamus – Fearing the Image of the Vancouver Police
Drivers – non-criminal citizens from whom the police derive their power – are having their fear of being ticketed isolated, transformed into a fear of the police, and capitalized upon to drive a policy goal that in and of itself should never pass Section 1 muster.
Could the momentum of enshrining the police vs. citizens paradigm lead to the political annihilation of servamus? In other words, could the potential transformative effects on society of engendering a public fear of police be out of proportion with traffic safety objectives? Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Humanities, Legal Explorations
Tagged big brother, Civil Liberties, democracy, fear, oakes, police cutouts, servamus, vancouver police
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Where are you, Bobby Kennedy? The Mindless Menace Continues
I was listening to CBC Radio 2 tonight on my way home, and they played Senator Robert Kennedy’s speech, “On the Mindless Menace of Violence,” about the plague of violence that was making the United States sick, in his view. … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Legal Explorations
Tagged kennedy, mccain, mulroney, obama, trudeau
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Of Mortar and Wine: A Passover Lesson in Law
Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the Exodus from slavery in Egypt and the emergence of the Jewish People as a free nation under Mosaic Law, is now upon us. The tradition of the Passover seder, the traditional feast and … Continue reading
What did Fairmont pay for my “protected” view?
I wrote in an earlier series of posts that laws exist as a combination of policy and imperative, operating either to curb antisocial behaviour that can damage the fabric of society or that can alter it. We have some laws, … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Legal Explorations
Tagged marine building, price of progress, vancouver
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Nine Inch Nails in the RIAA’s Coffin
According to Prof. Larry Lessig, Nine Inch Nails’ latest album has been released under Creative Commons. Kudos to Trent Reznor! http://lessig.org/blog/2008/03/nin_goes_cc.html I tried to comment but Prof. Lessig’s blog is giving me some sort of SQL error. Here is my … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, creative commons, Lessig, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, RIAA
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