China declined to join an earlier coalition, Russia reveals

The saga of France’s liquidation sale continues (read our previous report). Diplomatic correspondence released yesterday by Russia in response to China’s communiqué reveals that China was asked to join an earlier coalition to acquire South Africa’s nuclear arsenal (an acquisition China mentioned in its communiqué as evidence of a conspiracy), but China declined. This seemed [...]

France goes down, its nuclear weapons, and China

So France is going belly up. Kaput. Thankfully not after a civil war, the strife is more on the political side, though a few unfortunately died in some of the riots. But after regions like Corsica, Brittany and Provence unilaterally declared independence, after Paris declared a real Commune in defiance of the government, and Versailles, [...]

In support of the Lodsys patent lawsuit defendants

If you’re the kind of person who reads this blog, then you probably already know from other sources that an organization called Lodsys is suing seven “indie” iOS (and beyond!) developers for patent infringement after it started threatening them (and a few others) to do so about three weeks ago. Independently of the number of [...]