February 2012
30 posts
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
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David Brinkley (via itquotes)
that’s awesome.
there's battlescars
on my face and arms, but you still kiss me anyway.
(all the emo lyrics! FTW!)
you're the only song i want to hear
a melody gently soaring through my atmosphere.
Don't Stop Me Now
Queen
this is awesome!
Don´t Stop Me Now - Queen
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what is injustice?
a professor said, recently, that injustice was not a concept that the legal system liked to deal with. that it was too messy, that there was no universal formula for remedying an injustice. and then the class moved on.
and here i am, weeks later, still pondering what injustice is. certainly, we know what justice is—according to Aristotle, justice is giving one one’s dues. but, like with most philosophical issues, this is easier said than done. to really understand what one is due, you need to understand who the ‘one’ is.
perhaps that’s the problem the legal system finds itself in, to really distribute justice would require more work than a bureaucracy can provide. and thus the easy answer would be to say that since justice requires so much work, what is the point of trying to decipher the mysteries of injustice?
i am beginning to understand society’s distrust of lawyers. the world (and the people who inhabit it) are messy. there is no universal formula to solve the underlying issues of the people.
had a strange dream about a baby leopard last night
it was in the house and connor got scared. until it swished its tail near his head, which then made him laugh and play with it. he’s playing catch with this leopard kitten. suddenly i realized it was a wild animal and wanted it out of the house.
so i’m trying to get this kitten out the front door, and i can feel its claws in my back as i’m pushing it out the door. finally close the door, only to see it stalking my movements with strangely intense blue eyes.
i can’t help but wonder what it all means.
“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
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Umberto Eco (via nevver)
so the meaning is to stop trying to give the world meaning? that might actually be the most freeing thing many of us could do, maybe that’s why it’s in the creed of AA (learn to let go of the things you cannot control).
Can you copyright porn? One defendant in a BitTorrent-related lawsuit is arguing that you can't. →
torrentfreak.com
aww yeah.
But perhaps most interestingly, [Defendant Liuxia Wong] is challenging the notion that Hard Drive can own the copyright to its own work — indeed, that porn can be copyrighted at all.
“Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress: ‘To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries,” the lawsuit details, adding:
“Early Circuit law in California held that obscene works did not promote the progress of science and the useful arts, and thus cannot be protected by copyright.”
We hope this claim goes to the Supreme Court so they have to rule on this.
Top five regrets of the dying
click on more to get the reasoning behind the list, actually really motivating.
- I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
- I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
- I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish that I had let myself be happier.
