On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
Since income is only a very incomplete measure of human welfare, I include below the World Bank figures for life expectancy.…
President Bush (43) has decided to hit the campaign trail instead of the golf course this August. Bush Schedule: August 2001--Vacation--Golf/clearing brush/boa…
The Sudanese catastrophe has continued far too long without active intervention by the rest of the world. It's far past time to plead with the Sudanese gov…
I'll take a look at this blog by Brad Hill from time to time.…
Derek Slater at A Copyfighter's Musings is all over the eBay digital download experiment, exploring whether the first sale doctrine can apply to digital cop…
The new World Bank country statistics book offers the following breakdown of the world's population, according to average annual income per capita.…
The 9/11 Commission may suggest the creation of a new intelligence czar to coordinate the intelligence from various agencies. But such a position already exis…
The 9/11 Commission will report on possible connections of Iran to the 9/11 hijackers. As per a CNN.com report: The commission has found that eight to 10 of t…
The Governator refuses to withdraw his denunciation of his Democratic legislative opponents as "girlie men." How about the female legislators who opp…
Joe Gratz…
Kudos to my old friends from my New York days, Russ Falconer, Steve Gustavson and Paul Reilly, who just won a trademark case and successfully proved "smart…
Ernest Miller has annotated the RIAA's letter to the senators supporting the INDUCE act. The letter's on the long side and the comments- some astute,…