Lighting is a serious environmental concern in the autistic community. Many of my friends and family members have some form of autism including Asperger's. Fluorescent bulbs and autistics / aspies tend not to get along - they can hear and see the flicker in the bulbs. I've watched a younger cousin get fixated on the flicker and seizure. A few minutes of exposure can trigger a migraine in my siblings. A couple of years ago at a retreat for autistics and Aspies, one of the criteria for selecting the conference hotel was their willingness to turn off fluorescent bulbs.I am hoping that in this legislation does take into account the needs of the autistic community and make allowances.
I'd feel dirty if I had to smuggle in bulbs from out-of-state.
Perhaps we could learn from BT. I mean I remember a time when AT&T pursued any firm that was trying to work on telephones for violating AT&T's patents. Between the passage of time and the anti-trust lawsuit, almost all of AT&T's telephone patents have become public domain. However, AT&T could pursue royalties on a whole range of technologies and terminologies today based on dormant copyrights and patents. Out of sanity AT&T refrains from doing so.
Perhaps BT should be brought to its senses by being subjected to licensing of all sorts of patents and copyrights that we've come to consider common. This includes such things as the word telephone, the basic concept behind networks, fiber optic cables, transistors, et al. I'm sure that AT&T, Lucent, AOL, MCI, TI, Intel, Motorola, Cisco and others could recoup the cost of royalties on BT's hyperlinks quite easily by the enforcement of their patents.
If this sounds crazy, it's just an idea. But, if your major company makes use of it to defend itself from BT, then I'll let you know who to make the royalty check out to...
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Nah, it will be called the wired and schoolgirls will disappear into it as the lines between reality and cyberspace are blurred....
Lighting is a serious environmental concern in the autistic community. Many of my friends and family members have some form of autism including Asperger's. Fluorescent bulbs and autistics / aspies tend not to get along - they can hear and see the flicker in the bulbs. I've watched a younger cousin get fixated on the flicker and seizure. A few minutes of exposure can trigger a migraine in my siblings. A couple of years ago at a retreat for autistics and Aspies, one of the criteria for selecting the conference hotel was their willingness to turn off fluorescent bulbs.I am hoping that in this legislation does take into account the needs of the autistic community and make allowances.
I'd feel dirty if I had to smuggle in bulbs from out-of-state.
Perhaps we could learn from BT. I mean I remember a time when AT&T pursued any firm that was trying to work on telephones for violating AT&T's patents. Between the passage of time and the anti-trust lawsuit, almost all of AT&T's telephone patents have become public domain. However, AT&T could pursue royalties on a whole range of technologies and terminologies today based on dormant copyrights and patents. Out of sanity AT&T refrains from doing so.
Perhaps BT should be brought to its senses by being subjected to licensing of all sorts of patents and copyrights that we've come to consider common. This includes such things as the word telephone, the basic concept behind networks, fiber optic cables, transistors, et al. I'm sure that AT&T, Lucent, AOL, MCI, TI, Intel, Motorola, Cisco and others could recoup the cost of royalties on BT's hyperlinks quite easily by the enforcement of their patents.
If this sounds crazy, it's just an idea. But, if your major company makes use of it to defend itself from BT, then I'll let you know who to make the royalty check out to...