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. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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