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They protect the mds, but not floss
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 10:01 PM EDT
I've found it interesting. Get some doctors to speak out and absurdities like
the Prometheus patent are deemed unpatentable. (mayo v Prometheus
and hopefully amp too). But programmers are not given the same
professional respect by the courts.

It's all abstract. Why can't they see that? It would make my job easier.

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I love it!
Authored by: jbb on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 10:12 PM EDT
While I was reading your article I smiled broadly and I felt like was reading "vintage PJ". There are plenty of places where one can get so-called "fair and balanced" reporting that pretends to be objective. It embodies everything that is wrong with deconstructionism and post-modernism. I've always felt that such reporting is more manipulative than when people tell us what they really feel. In fact, when people are honest about how they feel, they are not being manipulative.

It is not honest to pretend you have no opinion or to pretend that an editorial opinion does not shine through so-called fair and balanced reporting. I don't want someone to spoon-feed me their version of the truth. I want to hear someone's honest opinion even if I don't always agree with them (and there is no one I *always* agree with). I'm a big boy. I can make up my own mind.

---
Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay

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Professor Knuth
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 10:38 PM EDT
PJ,

Just a minor nit. It would be better to reference Donald Knuth as either Prof.
Knuth, or Dr. Knuth, rather than Mr Knuth.

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I saw a quote the other day. It reminds me of PJ.
Authored by: celtic_hackr on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 03:39 AM EDT
"I used to say somebody should do something about that.
Then I realized, I am somebody."

I don't do much here to help and support PJ, but I do from time to time help
out, or try.

There are others here who are great helpers, and Mark picked up torch and is
leading the way into the future for at least a stretch.

I get tired of all the trolls. But PJ has taught me at least one thing. I will
not be silent while the world goes to stupidity and irrelevance. I tell
everyone I know, I talk about CISPA and patents and software and these stupid
lawsuits and try to educate the people around me.

I point them to the web, to Groklaw and other places. I am a PJ follower from
practically day one, I know PJ followers and the original poster of this thread
is no PJ follower.

That's all I have to feed that troll.

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Day 2, Patent Phase, Oracle v. Google Trial -- The Most Holy Patents ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 02:39 PM EDT
Sometimes mockery is the appropriate response to people who propose the absurd
with seeming seriousness.

MSS2

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