Flexner's multi-volume life of the great man changed my life. It will make you thoughtful about integrity, ambition, resolution, courage, and patience.
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Thomas Gray, Elegy...
As an old, my hope is for that MOOC courses will help many "mute, inglorious Milton[s]" find their voices and improve the human condition, for no better reason than that it seems like a good idea.
Sixty-two year old babe running for Senate from Massachusetts. Straight shooter, smarter than me and probably you, too. Also tough as nails. If you like Senator Franken, you will like future Senator Warren.
Announcing the ruling, the council of the European Union said: "Performers generally start their careers young and the current term of protection of 50 years often does not protect their performances for their entire lifetime.
"Therefore, some performers face an income gap at the end of their lifetimes."
This stinks. Maybe they should not have stopped recording. Most of us do not collect for our performances 50 years ago.
Medical education is indeed expensive. But why would someone lend a twenty-something a quarter million dollars unless they expected him or her to get rich? The only poor doctors I know are those who are addicted to substances. The only middle-class doctors I know live and work in Europe.
All the health professions are trying to jump on this bandwagon. My dermatologist walks into the room with his nitrogen bottle, shooting randomly on my arm and back while his nurse keeps score at $14 per squirt; my dentist, learning that I got some dental insurance after 20 years of cash visits, starts ordering $45 half-ounce shots of fluoride mouthwash; my veterinarian wants to do "blood work" whenever I bring my old dog in for diarrhea or a sore paw. The combination of insurance companies and the barriers to entry into the big-money professions has ruined health care. One great new trend is the quickie clinics that are going into drug stores. No appointments, not much waiting around, see a nurse practioner for most routine needs, and paying the cost seems a little more like a free-market experience.
The dark side is when you stop being a programmer of ones and zeros and start wrestling shiny objects written by Microsoft's programmers. When you call that "programming", you are over the hill at 30 or at 60.
Please Dan, take a deep breath; I can see the veins popping out on your neck. Count to 10. As a cowardly and snakelike liberal, I can guarantee that the liberal movement is not in favor of censorship. This guy is not a "liberal"-- he is an "attorney", and some might say, a "lunatic." He is going to be spanked, and life in this great republic will go on. Put your weapons back on the shelf and do us and yourself no harm.
Some wise ass violates criminal statutes and is found guilty; he gets a humane punishment and a lesson. That's how the system is supposed to work. I hope he will foreswear lawbreaking in the future.
So, again, why are these corp people upset about deeplinking when it effectively refers customers to them?
Well, Prof, it's not the corp people so much as it is the special monopoly people like Ticketbastard. Exempt from the law of supply and demand, they don't think like normal folks.
Go ahead, do it! That's what Yahoo is doing, profiting from the work of others. We should all benefit from each other's work. The Web is the place where this can happen. Lawyerland is where this cannot happen.
Site publishers have some information you want. They don't owe it to you. In an ostensibly-free society, they are entitled to decide under what conditions they're willing to share what they've created. You, in turn are free to decide to accept the conditions and access the information, or reject them and do without. So say you, Exquire! They put it on the Web, they have shared it, and thanks to 'em. It's what the Web is. If they don't want to receive phone calls, they shouldn't pick up when it rings.
Well, this is why it's good to have a dispute resolution process that sidesteps the legal system. If you settle intellectual property disputes in court, then Disney wins, you lose. It's refreshing to read some of the arbitration proceedings; they show wise-asses getting it in the neck; and sometimes a sincere little guy just trying to get ahead gets his break.
Problem is, Mike Whatshisname didn't put up a defense. If you want to profit from the formalities of domain name registration, you have to be willing to put up with the formalities of defending them in arbitration.
This list makes fascinating reading if you care about the subject. It appears to be extremely important to get the right arbitration organization to hear your case. If you are arbitrated by WIPO, you get careful, clued-in consideration of the facts. English words have their normal meanings. The small entrepreneur has a chance. And bullshit gets detected.
On the other hand, if you are judged by NAF, it is all naked power. You are in Lawyerland. You know who wins every case in Lawyerland.
At work I have a large basket of cotton balls that I lie in. I have a small boy to do the actual typing so that I don't hurt myself. He is instructed to put his ear close to my lips to receive his instructions so that I don't strain my voice by calling out. It seems to work pretty well.
Along with the technical and legal ends, don't forget the administrative end. For this excellent idea to succeed, it also needs to be well organized and efficiently run.
May I suggest that along with a strictly factual database of prior art citations (as a service to the USPTO and anyone who has to defend against the patent pirates), the web site also include a collection of philosophical writings that discuss the common intellectual property of mankind and corporate attempts to sieze it for private gain. It might also be useful to have a Ridicule section that exposes the unscrupulous, the selfish, and the sly in colorful language that will draw the attention of popular media.
The whole idea of insurance is that you are paying someone to accept risk that you would rather not bear yourself. If you pay UPS to assume some extra risk beyond what is covered by their normal delivery contract, who cares whether they pass the risk on to someone else-- an insurance company-- or assume it themselves? So long as they pay off legitimate claims, it seems like they should be in the clear on this. Their actual intake/payout seems to say that their service in assuming risk is over-priced, but we are free to assume the risk ourselves or lay it off to some other party. The story of the scamming postal clerk is a different thing entirely. He was skimming from his employer. The money that the USPS received for assuming the risk of loss and damage was being diverted to his pocket and the case is no different than if he had tucked some stamp money in his socks.
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He should have nominated FCC babe Jessica Rosenworcel.
Flexner's multi-volume life of the great man changed my life. It will make you thoughtful about integrity, ambition, resolution, courage, and patience.
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Thomas Gray, Elegy...
As an old, my hope is for that MOOC courses will help many "mute, inglorious Milton[s]" find their voices and improve the human condition, for no better reason than that it seems like a good idea.
Sixty-two year old babe running for Senate from Massachusetts. Straight shooter, smarter than me and probably you, too. Also tough as nails. If you like Senator Franken, you will like future Senator Warren.
Thanks to Ritchie I had the tools to support my family for the past 25 years. Thanks to Ritchie, I enjoyed the work. RIP
Announcing the ruling, the council of the European Union said: "Performers generally start their careers young and the current term of protection of 50 years often does not protect their performances for their entire lifetime.
"Therefore, some performers face an income gap at the end of their lifetimes."
This stinks. Maybe they should not have stopped recording. Most of us do not collect for our performances 50 years ago.
OK, they don't hate Science but they don't love it as much as they love money. Hey, me too! But I neglected to get my money-license when I was young.
Medical education is indeed expensive. But why would someone lend a twenty-something a quarter million dollars unless they expected him or her to get rich? The only poor doctors I know are those who are addicted to substances. The only middle-class doctors I know live and work in Europe.
All the health professions are trying to jump on this bandwagon. My dermatologist walks into the room with his nitrogen bottle, shooting randomly on my arm and back while his nurse keeps score at $14 per squirt; my dentist, learning that I got some dental insurance after 20 years of cash visits, starts ordering $45 half-ounce shots of fluoride mouthwash; my veterinarian wants to do "blood work" whenever I bring my old dog in for diarrhea or a sore paw. The combination of insurance companies and the barriers to entry into the big-money professions has ruined health care. One great new trend is the quickie clinics that are going into drug stores. No appointments, not much waiting around, see a nurse practioner for most routine needs, and paying the cost seems a little more like a free-market experience.
The first corporation that can hunt this guy down, throw a net over him, and patent him will get rich.
Standards are nice, but it's NO PLACE for government.
It's NO PLACE for a government in thrall to corporate interests, that is.
On the other hand, consensus standards are good, and democratic government could be a way to express consensus, so long as it is open and honest.
Let's see if I got this right: the guy buys some domain names. When people type in one of his URLs they get advertisements they don't want?
And this is a violation of what, exactly?
The other day, intending to buy some Dr. Pepper, I accidentally picked up some Mr. Pibb instead. I am so scammed!
The dark side is when you stop being a programmer of ones and zeros and start wrestling shiny objects written by Microsoft's programmers. When you call that "programming", you are over the hill at 30 or at 60.
Please Dan, take a deep breath; I can see the veins popping out on your neck. Count to 10. As a cowardly and snakelike liberal, I can guarantee that the liberal movement is not in favor of censorship. This guy is not a "liberal"-- he is an "attorney", and some might say, a "lunatic." He is going to be spanked, and life in this great republic will go on. Put your weapons back on the shelf and do us and yourself no harm.
Some wise ass violates criminal statutes and is found guilty; he gets a humane punishment and a lesson. That's how the system is supposed to work. I hope he will foreswear lawbreaking in the future.
So, again, why are these corp people upset about deeplinking when it effectively refers customers to them?
Well, Prof, it's not the corp people so much as it is the special monopoly people like Ticketbastard. Exempt from the law of supply and demand, they don't think like normal folks.
Go ahead, do it! That's what Yahoo is doing, profiting from the work of others. We should all benefit from each other's work. The Web is the place where this can happen. Lawyerland is where this cannot happen.
Site publishers have some information you want. They don't owe it to you. In an ostensibly-free society, they are entitled to decide under what conditions they're willing to share what they've created. You, in turn are free to decide to accept the conditions and access the information, or reject them and do without. So say you, Exquire! They put it on the Web, they have shared it, and thanks to 'em. It's what the Web is. If they don't want to receive phone calls, they shouldn't pick up when it rings.
Well, this is why it's good to have a dispute resolution process that sidesteps the legal system. If you settle intellectual property disputes in court, then Disney wins, you lose. It's refreshing to read some of the arbitration proceedings; they show wise-asses getting it in the neck; and sometimes a sincere little guy just trying to get ahead gets his break.
Problem is, Mike Whatshisname didn't put up a defense. If you want to profit from the formalities of domain name registration, you have to be willing to put up with the formalities of defending them in arbitration.
This list makes fascinating reading if you care about the subject. It appears to be extremely important to get the right arbitration organization to hear your case. If you are arbitrated by WIPO, you get careful, clued-in consideration of the facts. English words have their normal meanings. The small entrepreneur has a chance. And bullshit gets detected.
On the other hand, if you are judged by NAF, it is all naked power. You are in Lawyerland. You know who wins every case in Lawyerland.
At work I have a large basket of cotton balls that I lie in. I have a small boy to do the actual typing so that I don't hurt myself. He is instructed to put his ear close to my lips to receive his instructions so that I don't strain my voice by calling out. It seems to work pretty well.
May I suggest that along with a strictly factual database of prior art citations (as a service to the USPTO and anyone who has to defend against the patent pirates), the web site also include a collection of philosophical writings that discuss the common intellectual property of mankind and corporate attempts to sieze it for private gain. It might also be useful to have a Ridicule section that exposes the unscrupulous, the selfish, and the sly in colorful language that will draw the attention of popular media.
The whole idea of insurance is that you are paying someone to accept risk that you would rather not bear yourself. If you pay UPS to assume some extra risk beyond what is covered by their normal delivery contract, who cares whether they pass the risk on to someone else-- an insurance company-- or assume it themselves? So long as they pay off legitimate claims, it seems like they should be in the clear on this. Their actual intake/payout seems to say that their service in assuming risk is over-priced, but we are free to assume the risk ourselves or lay it off to some other party. The story of the scamming postal clerk is a different thing entirely. He was skimming from his employer. The money that the USPS received for assuming the risk of loss and damage was being diverted to his pocket and the case is no different than if he had tucked some stamp money in his socks.