I am sorry to hear about your situation and what happened to you, however, I am also very sorry to hear about the unfortunate situation with your lawyer attempting to hijack the website of Katie Jones.
You and your publisher have no right too simply appropriate a domain name that has been in use since 1996. Using the deep pockets of a publishing company to abuse the rights of an individual who lacks the wealth to fight off the corporate lawyers is nearly as bad as sexual abuse... Both situations are about taking something away from someone who is powerless to fight back.
Please do the right thing and call off your lawyers' strong arm tactics and let Katie Jones have her life and website back.
and got the following response:
I appreciate your thoughts and understand them completley. It is not posted on my web site, but this issue is between Katie Jones and Penguin Putnam. They own the name Katie.com as a published book and decided to call it that. I can do nothing in my power to change it. I would suggest if you would like your voice to be heard and a chance that something is done about it, direct your sympathy to Penguin Putnam.
Best, Katie Tarbox
Here's the customer service number for Putnam USA: (800) 631-8571
To prevent the chance, however small, of any surviving terrestrial germs on Galileo from contaminating Europa or its sibling satellites, NASA decided to crash the craft.
Now the Germans want to send a radioactive probe to Europa? That won't contaminate anything will it... What happens when the probe eventually fails. What happens when the probe gets torn apart by the ice it is burrowing through?
Yup... We're going to be battling radioactive superbugs from Europa!
I have always felt this way. It's all these pansies who have overly disinfected houses, offices, cars, and so forth that end up getting sick! They got no immunity dammit!
'sides... all this disinfecting leaves surfaces with only the *strongest* bacteria surviving. They reproduce more strong bacteria and then where are ya?
Didn't know that! Haven't been there since I worked on Frankenstein in '99. That's too bad.
The drive for food isn't the easiest drive either... it's not like you hop on the highway for a straight shot to food. Lots of winding roads to deal with.
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Well, it's all part of the larger scheme to outsource IT work to Europa. It's sure going to be tough to smooth out that rough Europan accent though!
From CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/21/galileo.
Yup... We're going to be battling radioactive superbugs from Europa!
I have always felt this way. It's all these pansies who have overly disinfected houses, offices, cars, and so forth that end up getting sick! They got no immunity dammit!
'sides... all this disinfecting leaves surfaces with only the *strongest* bacteria surviving. They reproduce more strong bacteria and then where are ya?
It ain't a sterile world out there. Get over it!
Didn't know that! Haven't been there since I worked on Frankenstein in '99. That's too bad. The drive for food isn't the easiest drive either... it's not like you hop on the highway for a straight shot to food. Lots of winding roads to deal with.
Yep... The food is damn good at Skywalker Ranch... Even in the cafeteria.
They grow their own organic vegetables on the Ranch property as well. *Very* good chef there!
They also have their own fire department which is on call to support the volunteer fire companies in the surrounding communties.