So, is Apple a "buy?" At $75/share (roughly) it's fully priced.

At the heart of patent reform must be the publication of patents. Patent applicants must disclose what they're patenting, and this should be public information. Existing patents also need wide publicity, so they can find their market.

More is what we need. More books, more music, more films, more of everything. Any law which stands in the way of the production of more needs to be changed.

Through the coming crisis (and the crisis has barely started) values will be our North Star. Openness, connectivity, and consensus are the words to remember, because that is what we seek.

Who defines the "ad-supported" and "paid" tier for all media, and how will the resulting money be apportioned among artists, producers, and others?

We're not talking here of point-to-point signals that only travel a few feet, but of point-to-multipoint signals which, by their nature, are directional. The good news is they come into the house. The bad news is that they take power to produce, and can thus only be produced by a limited number of people before the interference makes the whole thing worthless.

Were it not for the continuing, overt racism of white southerners, these black southern megachurches would have told their flocks to switch sides long ago. Even despite that racism, preachers like Long have detached themselves from the Democratic Party, and wish to be considered independent, hopeful of being wooed rather than taken for granted.

The Democratic Party can be reformed, and is being reformed. There are Internet-savvy Republicans. When presented with an Open Source Thesis, emphasizing Internet values, this coalition can be made.

Folks have long understood that you either have a competitive market or a regulated one, and with the threat of Whitacre Tiering, the Bells and cable head-ends seek the very same power over you that railroads held over the farmers so long ago. An unregulated monopoly that lets them crush who they want and squeeze the rest. Just as the railroads had.

We have to find a cure for Democrat-itus. And we have to spread that cure, which is the lesson of this era, to democracies throughout the world.