Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.