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Although this post may be slightly technical for some people not overly familiar with technology and patents, I think it still serves the purpose of enlightening the subjects of rights and property and why they are important. We need to understand legitimate rights better and the implications of violating them, even when it seems to be for a good purpose. Hopefully this helps a little in bringing these issues to light.

My employer uses a social network for companies, called Yammer, where all of us employees can interact and share links and discuss topics within our company. Since we are a software development company, the issue of patents comes up quite a bit and there are some major patent disputes going on in the technology world right now. It seems like every major technology company is suing and counter-suing one another. It’s a big mess and it has led a lot of people to question: What’s wrong with our system that would allow this kind of thing to happen?

Recently someone shared a link to an article titled: Should software be patentable? That’s the wrong question to ask. The author of that article contends that since hardware processes are patentable, and nowadays more and more processes are implemented with software instead of hardware, then software should be patentable too. The ensuing discussion within my company revolved around speculating at where patents went wrong. In response I made the following comment:
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As you know, I post to my blog periodically, but I’m most heavily active on Facebook and Twitter. I share many links, videos, and comments and engage in conversations on topics I feel are important. Most of my blog readers are not people who I am associated with on any social networks, so my blog readers (that’s you) don’t see the majority of my online activity. So, from time to time I like to bring stuff back from those networks to my blog readers.

Today I read the following comment on Facebook:

People complain that the economy sucks… Keep buyin crap from china and it’s gonna suck worse. It’s simple, buy American and Americans work. Remember when we use to build quality [stuff]? let’s bring it back each one of us is responsible make an effort.

The comments that followed were equally, if not more erroneous. I decided to chime in and here is what I said:
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Lately the media has been promoting Herman Cain more than before. One of the media’s previous favorites, Rick Perry, has been declining in popularity (with good reason, he has a bad political record, but so do all the other candidates, excepting Ron Paul). In the polls, Ron Paul has been in various positions within the top 3 most of the time including #1 a handful of times. Now that Rick Perry is losing favor, the media should be talking about the new “two-person” race of Mitt Romney vs Ron Paul. But Ron Paul, a front-runner? They can’t have that! Instead, they’ve really been boosting coverage of Herman Cain as coming out of nowhere and “skyrocketing” to be a top contender. I have no doubt that many who were previously Rick Perry supporters have switched to Herman Cain, but the media is sure trying to make sure people don’t switch to Ron Paul. Here’s a video that demonstrates that very well:

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I recently read a book review on byupoliticalreview.com about Connor Boyack’s upcoming book, Latter Day Liberty. The reviewer mentioned that he was a “vehement anti-libertarian” but he did a pretty good job of reviewing the book fairly. One comment he made though was this:
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I wrote this letter to my Representative (Rep. Jeff Flake) and Senators (John McCain and Jon Kyl), regarding the “Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011″:
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Here’s another great video showing the principled record of Ron Paul and how he always sticks to principle and does what he says. It also highlights the flip-flopping of the other two top Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney & Rick Perry. I’ll post the video and make a few comments below:
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I’ve posted a few times before showing how accurately Ron Paul predicted the economic collapse we are currently enduring. The man understands economics and it is one of his two top issues that he is concerned with. The 2nd serious issue that Ron Paul is very concerned about is foreign policy. The other republicans and the news media always try to say he is “weak” on foreign policy because he doesn’t want to intervene everywhere all the time. However, just as with the economic issues, he has been spot on with foreign policy and accurately predicted the consequences of our pre-9/11 foreign policy, stating what was and is going to happen if we continue bombing and occupying other nations. Look at this series of clips showing his predictions and explanations of our foreign policy, before 9/11:
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Here’s another example of the…I don’t what other word to use but…deception that the mainstream media is engaging in to hide Ron Paul’s success. This time around it’s CNN.

This happened after CNN hosted the republican presidential debate a few months ago. In discussing who was considered the winner of the debate, based on polls taken, CNN showed some results that had Ron Paul at 0%! What they didn’t tell you was that on CNN’s own poll, Ron Paul actually won overwhelmingly with around 78%. So why the huge discrepancy? It turns out the poll they showed on the screen was actually a poll from the website National Journal that only had…get this…54 votes total! So, instead of using their own poll, where Ron Paul demolished the other candidates, none of which even got into double-digits, they took a tiny poll with a handful of respondents and showed that instead. Here’s a link to the video of CNN reporting the misleading poll numbers with a picture of the actual CNN website poll at the end.

The internet went crazy spreading the news of CNN’s little trick and the story was all over non-mainstream news networks. Adam Kokesh on RT America did a good report on it and brought up some other interesting facts, like that Ron Paul won ALL of the major news polls, not just CNN’s, and by a long shot. Take a look at that report:
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I wanted to share a good post by a “search marketer” whose job it is to know what people are looking for. Major news media outlets have been losing credibility with more and more people lately as they see them ignore Ron Paul or give him very biased, limited coverage. The media have tried to explain away their lack of coverage by saying that people aren’t interested in hearing about Ron Paul and that he’s unelectable anyways, even though he continually scores at or near the top of most polls, including the news outlets’ own. This search marketer looks at some data to see if there really is interest in Ron Paul or not.

The results will likely be surprising to some.
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Hello everyone,

I just wanted to write a post to let everyone know that I’m making a change on my site so that future posts that I write will not be sent out in their entirety. Instead, just a short excerpt will be included in the emails and feeds that go out with a link at the bottom, as with this one, to visit my site to read the full post. The reason is because I often include videos and other items that do not work properly when the posts go into people’s email inboxes, onto Facebook or in news feeds. I believe there are many times that people read my posts and don’t even realize there is supposed to be a video clip included and they might get confused as to what I’m talking about.

Please continue to read my posts in their entirety by clicking the link at the bottom to read the full post on my website. I hope this helps to clear up my posts and doesn’t cause any confusion or hassle for anyone.