Academia is not looking for a happy in-between. The men (and some women, but mostly men) who run academic institutions, the chancellors, are increasingly non-academic. They come from financial institutions, not academic ones (look at Joe-Billy Wyatt at Vanderbilt, which was formerly a bastion of Mr. Katz' dream-academe). There are so many bankers and brokers in charge of so many schools these days that it's no longer about education - it's a competition to see who's endowment is bigger.
Anyone know if Rykodisc is RIAA-affiliated? If not, they're an excellent source of good music. Even if so, they're still a source of good music, albeit evil music that must not be purchased under any circumstances.
Interestingly (or obnoxiously), NotHarvard is on the real Harvard's shit list right now for having the unmitigated gall to use the Ivy League H word in its name. What a bunch of whining jackasses.
"If they could hire lobbyists, wolves would no doubt enact stringent legislation to to protect the rights of sheep to be controlled and devoured by them."... and to prevent pigs from owning brick homes. In all your huffing and puffing, Mr. Katz, your analogies have really gone to shit.
offtopic, but... if my dinner plans happen to include a special brownie for dessert (medical or recreational), then that makes me one of the "bad people" it's OK for carnivore to consume. Carnivore will imprison another 100 non-violent drug war victims for every molester it nabs.
"I wonder if the united states would ever bomb it's own people." Yes, the US has bombed its own people. Mostly militant black groups during the Civil Rights struggle, but citizens nonetheless, entitled to their opinions, and certainly not deserving of firebombs. While we're at it, the National Guard has a history of shooting college students, and the Drug War encourages the death or incarceration of anyone who would dare believe that personal liberty trumps state-sponsored hypermoralism. Sartre had it right - "Hell is other people."
I was gratified to see Rosen/Katz mention Freedom (from ZeroKnowledge). Unfortunately Freedom does me precious little good since it's not yet available for anything other than win9x, and I'm not about to relive that nightmare. Perhaps they thought they'd start by offering protection to the most vulnerable, but let's face it - if you're using win9x, you're obviously not too concerned about privacy/security in the first place.
So this is what ATI has been doing with its time... I've been waiting for their multimedia center and dvd player software for win-dohs 2000 for many moons now. 2 months for the drivers; now how many years for the apps? Guess there's more money in a fancy new card than in supporting your existing customers...
So in the former Soviet Union some private company is spying on "public figures" and "little known journalists." Interesting twist is that in this country it's the little known journalists spying on the public figures, while the public figures stealthily spy on the public at large. To whit - check out the "G-files" section of APB.com to find out what the federal "intelligence" agencies have been secretly recording about various public figures for decades (Judy Garland's G-File is very interesting, as is Grace Slick's). And to find out about journalistic intrusion into the private lives of public figures, one need look no further than the crusty spoo on monica's dress, or the feeding-frenzy drubbing of that kiddie show hero known as Pee Wee in the early 90s. I hate to sound sympathetic to any group spying on/intruding in anyone else's business, but let's face it - both our own government and our corporate news media thrive on the same stuff here at home.
windows and communism? ok, so maybe there are shades of TOTALITARIANISM coming out of redmond, but ms is as far removed from COMMUNISM as this anonymous coward is from intelligence.
We certainly don't need the damned bibble reproduced in every language known to man! C'mon, people - give future cool-stuff-finders something decent to play with, like maybe the unabridged works of Jon Katz, or the lyrics to "Louie, Louie."
WRT your first question, your doctor's office may well have already sold certain of your records to contract research organizations (Covance, PPD Pharmaco, PRA Intl., etc.). It is not at all unusual for private practice offices to sell access to patient records to these companies who then seek to turn private patients into gold by enrolling them in experimental research studies. And while the patient-cum-research-subject never knows it, the very same doctor could be getting very rich off of these information sales. Word to the wise - ask your doctor if he or she has any such arrangements with research companies PRIOR to disclosing medical conditions. Otherwise, you should not be surprised to wake up from sedation to find that you've been enrolled in a potentially dangerous research study without knowing it, much less consenting to it. Yet another example of capitalism unfettered, harming the innocent and enriching the shady.
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One need not await the fruits of the genome to find formerly ethical scientists whose morals have been overrun by corporate greed. I direct your attention to an ongoing Eli Lilly-funded project being conducted at prestigious academic research institutions around the country in which siblings of children with schizophrenia are being given antipsychotic medication (Olanzapine/Risperidone) "in an effort to prevent them from developing the disease." These drugs are dangerous in and of themselves (side effects include tardive dyskinesia and permanent alteration of brain structures). Importantly, none of these drugs are FDA approved for use even in schizophrenic children, much less nominally healthy children, but this has not stopped Eli Lilly's quest for expansion of its market. Eli Lilly and the rest of the drug pushers have systematically melted away the ethics of much of the psychiatric profession. And guess what - they own every last drop of DNA collected from the kids suffering through their "research." What monsters might they be hatching?
FOIA applies only to federal entities, which is why you have to pay for a copy of your credit record. Private companies (the credit firms) have complete control over some of the (potentially) most damaging information that can be stored on individuals, and individuals have very few rights in determining the management of that information. "Misanthropes are people, too." GungaDan
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if we offerred Mr. Katz micropayments not to write anymore?
Academia is not looking for a happy in-between. The men (and some women, but mostly men) who run academic institutions, the chancellors, are increasingly non-academic. They come from financial institutions, not academic ones (look at Joe-Billy Wyatt at Vanderbilt, which was formerly a bastion of Mr. Katz' dream-academe). There are so many bankers and brokers in charge of so many schools these days that it's no longer about education - it's a competition to see who's endowment is bigger.
Anyone know if Rykodisc is RIAA-affiliated? If not, they're an excellent source of good music. Even if so, they're still a source of good music, albeit evil music that must not be purchased under any circumstances.
Interestingly (or obnoxiously), NotHarvard is on the real Harvard's shit list right now for having the unmitigated gall to use the Ivy League H word in its name. What a bunch of whining jackasses.
"If they could hire lobbyists, wolves would no doubt enact stringent legislation to to protect the rights of sheep to be controlled and devoured by them." ... and to prevent pigs from owning brick homes. In all your huffing and puffing, Mr. Katz, your analogies have really gone to shit.
Not only is $1 mil a drop in the bucket, but did you notice how many times "Bill Clinton" has signed the petition already? Maybe 30,000 sigs...
offtopic, but... if my dinner plans happen to include a special brownie for dessert (medical or recreational), then that makes me one of the "bad people" it's OK for carnivore to consume. Carnivore will imprison another 100 non-violent drug war victims for every molester it nabs.
"I wonder if the united states would ever bomb it's own people." Yes, the US has bombed its own people. Mostly militant black groups during the Civil Rights struggle, but citizens nonetheless, entitled to their opinions, and certainly not deserving of firebombs. While we're at it, the National Guard has a history of shooting college students, and the Drug War encourages the death or incarceration of anyone who would dare believe that personal liberty trumps state-sponsored hypermoralism. Sartre had it right - "Hell is other people."
I was gratified to see Rosen/Katz mention Freedom (from ZeroKnowledge). Unfortunately Freedom does me precious little good since it's not yet available for anything other than win9x, and I'm not about to relive that nightmare. Perhaps they thought they'd start by offering protection to the most vulnerable, but let's face it - if you're using win9x, you're obviously not too concerned about privacy/security in the first place.
So this is what ATI has been doing with its time... I've been waiting for their multimedia center and dvd player software for win-dohs 2000 for many moons now. 2 months for the drivers; now how many years for the apps? Guess there's more money in a fancy new card than in supporting your existing customers...
Instantaneously slashdotted. Now get back to work already so I can read it.
M$ could learn a lesson from these guys - an "off" button for visual basic scripting in outlook...
So in the former Soviet Union some private company is spying on "public figures" and "little known journalists." Interesting twist is that in this country it's the little known journalists spying on the public figures, while the public figures stealthily spy on the public at large. To whit - check out the "G-files" section of APB.com to find out what the federal "intelligence" agencies have been secretly recording about various public figures for decades (Judy Garland's G-File is very interesting, as is Grace Slick's). And to find out about journalistic intrusion into the private lives of public figures, one need look no further than the crusty spoo on monica's dress, or the feeding-frenzy drubbing of that kiddie show hero known as Pee Wee in the early 90s. I hate to sound sympathetic to any group spying on/intruding in anyone else's business, but let's face it - both our own government and our corporate news media thrive on the same stuff here at home.
control issues aside, it sounds kinda like a fun toy. and it should be a boon to the arthroscopy industry.
windows and communism? ok, so maybe there are shades of TOTALITARIANISM coming out of redmond, but ms is as far removed from COMMUNISM as this anonymous coward is from intelligence.
We certainly don't need the damned bibble reproduced in every language known to man! C'mon, people - give future cool-stuff-finders something decent to play with, like maybe the unabridged works of Jon Katz, or the lyrics to "Louie, Louie."
WRT your first question, your doctor's office may well have already sold certain of your records to contract research organizations (Covance, PPD Pharmaco, PRA Intl., etc.). It is not at all unusual for private practice offices to sell access to patient records to these companies who then seek to turn private patients into gold by enrolling them in experimental research studies. And while the patient-cum-research-subject never knows it, the very same doctor could be getting very rich off of these information sales. Word to the wise - ask your doctor if he or she has any such arrangements with research companies PRIOR to disclosing medical conditions. Otherwise, you should not be surprised to wake up from sedation to find that you've been enrolled in a potentially dangerous research study without knowing it, much less consenting to it. Yet another example of capitalism unfettered, harming the innocent and enriching the shady.
One need not await the fruits of the genome to find formerly ethical scientists whose morals have been overrun by corporate greed. I direct your attention to an ongoing Eli Lilly-funded project being conducted at prestigious academic research institutions around the country in which siblings of children with schizophrenia are being given antipsychotic medication (Olanzapine/Risperidone) "in an effort to prevent them from developing the disease." These drugs are dangerous in and of themselves (side effects include tardive dyskinesia and permanent alteration of brain structures). Importantly, none of these drugs are FDA approved for use even in schizophrenic children, much less nominally healthy children, but this has not stopped Eli Lilly's quest for expansion of its market. Eli Lilly and the rest of the drug pushers have systematically melted away the ethics of much of the psychiatric profession. And guess what - they own every last drop of DNA collected from the kids suffering through their "research." What monsters might they be hatching?
Every moronic jackass is entitled to his own opinion...
FOIA applies only to federal entities, which is why you have to pay for a copy of your credit record. Private companies (the credit firms) have complete control over some of the (potentially) most damaging information that can be stored on individuals, and individuals have very few rights in determining the management of that information. "Misanthropes are people, too." GungaDan