Graham Hancock has written several books, probably the most well-known is Finger Prints of the Gods. I would highly recommend reading it. BTW- it has about 50 pages of footnotes, so it is not like he is pulling his theories out of his butt.
He does provide an interesting link between alot of facts...and goes into detail about which facts are accepted, and which are not...and then provides usually compelling evidence for either side.
For example:
Probably the easiest thing to point out is that the Pires Ries Map (I know I spelled that wrong) has a landmass drawn upon it that fits extremely closely with antartica...only problem is the the Pires Ries map was drawn up in the 1500's based upon a collection of older maps. Antartica was officially discovered in the late 1800s and has still not been entirely surveyed (to my knowledge at least) but enough major points of interest match to say it is a rendering of antartica before 2 miles thick of ice covered the continent.
Another good example would be water errosion found on the Sphinx in egypt. (the evidence is accepted by geologists, but denied by egyptologists) The last time enough water was in egpyt to account for that level of errosion is guessed to be about 10,000 bc or thereabout.
Some of it may be crap...but alot of these facts are extremely conspicous. I hope the reseachers find some more questions to ask based on these new ruins.
I think it is wonderful that Cornell is suing for damages in excess of 100 million based on the effort of one of it's professors that is no longer there.
At issue is a patent awarded in 1989 for a computer instruction processing technique created by Professor Emeritus H.C. Torng, who taught at Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1960 to 1999.
"Professor Torng devoted much of his professional life to developing this highly innovative approach to high-speed processing," he said in a statement. "We cannot stand by while Hewlett-Packard profits from Professor Torng's contributions in this field in violation of Cornell's patent."
Is the patent-owner at all involved, is he even still at Cornell?
Sounds like another case of the lawyers being the ones to truely benefit.
I know we have been around the block on the whole legal vs right issue, so as much as I agree with the principals of the question, I do not think it actually matters.
What does matter is the fact that it revolves around control. Remember in Dune when Paul says something to the effect of "that which can be destroyed can be controlled" or some such. What we are dealing with is the fact that corporations have piracy in mind when they are compliling software they will attempt to place stricter and sticter controlls on usage
I firmly believe that is is not actually a question of right vs wrong, and paying royalties on copywrites is an incidental argument to make the whole issue sound fair/unfair to the unwashed masses. What is going on is methods to get popular opinions set for legal changes towards the government's attitude to piracy.
Could it be that someday piracy will be/resemble a form of terrorism
I really dislike the spin that seems to always be present in the media...so here is what I think:
Untill the man can absolutely controll piracy there will be piracy. All of this whining and complaining is a means to control/influence investors (in said corporation)/legislation inititives and be 'PC' in an executives environment.
For example in a non-related industry: Do you think that if the government was serious about speed limits, and how illeagal driving over the speed limit is, that they would require cars to be manufactured that were incapable of exceeding the speed limit? Maybe they just forgot about that small fact. If you have a child in the house do you leave glasses full of toxic household chemicals around for them to play with, or do you lock them up in a garage?
It sounds to me like they are desparately whining about something...and that is their lack of control. Some of you may have been fooled, but dont be.
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Great how the speed of the web is such that an editorial /. picks up on 4/11/02 is actually dated for May 2002.
Graham Hancock has written several books, probably the most well-known is Finger Prints of the Gods. I would highly recommend reading it. BTW- it has about 50 pages of footnotes, so it is not like he is pulling his theories out of his butt.
He does provide an interesting link between alot of facts...and goes into detail about which facts are accepted, and which are not...and then provides usually compelling evidence for either side.
For example: Probably the easiest thing to point out is that the Pires Ries Map (I know I spelled that wrong) has a landmass drawn upon it that fits extremely closely with antartica...only problem is the the Pires Ries map was drawn up in the 1500's based upon a collection of older maps. Antartica was officially discovered in the late 1800s and has still not been entirely surveyed (to my knowledge at least) but enough major points of interest match to say it is a rendering of antartica before 2 miles thick of ice covered the continent.
Another good example would be water errosion found on the Sphinx in egypt. (the evidence is accepted by geologists, but denied by egyptologists) The last time enough water was in egpyt to account for that level of errosion is guessed to be about 10,000 bc or thereabout.
Some of it may be crap...but alot of these facts are extremely conspicous. I hope the reseachers find some more questions to ask based on these new ruins.
I think it is wonderful that Cornell is suing for damages in excess of 100 million based on the effort of one of it's professors that is no longer there.
At issue is a patent awarded in 1989 for a computer instruction processing technique created by Professor Emeritus H.C. Torng, who taught at Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1960 to 1999.
"Professor Torng devoted much of his professional life to developing this highly innovative approach to high-speed processing," he said in a statement. "We cannot stand by while Hewlett-Packard profits from Professor Torng's contributions in this field in violation of Cornell's patent."
Is the patent-owner at all involved, is he even still at Cornell?
Sounds like another case of the lawyers being the ones to truely benefit.
I know we have been around the block on the whole legal vs right issue, so as much as I agree with the principals of the question, I do not think it actually matters.
What does matter is the fact that it revolves around control. Remember in Dune when Paul says something to the effect of "that which can be destroyed can be controlled" or some such. What we are dealing with is the fact that corporations have piracy in mind when they are compliling software they will attempt to place stricter and sticter controlls on usage
I firmly believe that is is not actually a question of right vs wrong, and paying royalties on copywrites is an incidental argument to make the whole issue sound fair/unfair to the unwashed masses. What is going on is methods to get popular opinions set for legal changes towards the government's attitude to piracy.
Could it be that someday piracy will be/resemble a form of terrorism
I really dislike the spin that seems to always be present in the media...so here is what I think:
Untill the man can absolutely controll piracy there will be piracy. All of this whining and complaining is a means to control/influence investors (in said corporation)/legislation inititives and be 'PC' in an executives environment.
For example in a non-related industry: Do you think that if the government was serious about speed limits, and how illeagal driving over the speed limit is, that they would require cars to be manufactured that were incapable of exceeding the speed limit? Maybe they just forgot about that small fact. If you have a child in the house do you leave glasses full of toxic household chemicals around for them to play with, or do you lock them up in a garage?
It sounds to me like they are desparately whining about something...and that is their lack of control. Some of you may have been fooled, but dont be.
Whatever.
Right...? Wrong....? I'm the guy with with gun.