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Stuff I thought about bringing

Shirts that are wholly unrelated, but that I love

• Boy, you’re gonna blow my mind.
• Speaking of people doing amazing stuff.
• With all of the science scandal going around, you need an easy to use critiquing system.
• Oh, obvious parodies, (or non-obvious) I wish I knew how to quit you. But, I see no end in sight.
• If you lose your camera with all of your vacation pictures you can just borrow some from the fine people of flickr. This works even better if, like me, your pictures never contain you.
• Dogs detect cancer. That’s amazing, but at least it makes sense.
• Possessed children like eating horrible food.
• Deadly statistics. I’m thinking # 49. I know it’s got a great view, a bit of town-specific humor, and I don’t want to just be like the crowd. And hey, if I turn out to be wrong about the afterlife we 49-ers can form a group on after-livejournal.com
• Image of the space shuttle’s sonic boom.
• Now I want to play in the mud.
• Here’s an example of how Alito handles trademark cases. Now if we just knew how funny he was.
• Oh, and happy Yes, No, Maybe Day!

Pleo is a one-week old infant Camarasaurus from the Jurassic period. Camarasaurus were born and raised in giant fern forests. They evolved camouflage that allowed them to blend with their environment of ferns, moss and ruff, the detritus that littered the forest floor. The first Pleo created is a Fernback. His markings help him to survive by hiding among the giant fern fronds in his habitat.

Pleo is an authentic Life Form. Treat him gently like any other living thing. Your Pleo will let you know how he feels at any moment. That’s because he is capable of actual emotions including joy, aggression, sorrow, and fear. He can also yawn, sigh, sniff, sniffle, snore, cough, hiccup, and sneeze.

Pleo features include
– 14 servo joints (torso, head, tail, neck, legs) with force feedback
– 38-touch, sound, light and tilt sensors including nine touch sensors (mouth, chest, head,
shoulders, back, feet) and 8 feet and toe sensors
– Fluid quadruped motion
– Ability to avoid obstacles and not walk off edges
– Sound output, stereo sound sensors and music beat detection
– Autonomous interaction with owner and environment including coughing, blinking eyes,
chomping, twitching, sighing, sneezing, sniffing, growling stomach, tail drift, and yawning
– Distinct moods including anger, boredom, playfulness, hunting, cautious, cuddling,
disgust, disorientation, distress, fear, curiosity, joy, sorrow, surprise, fatigue, hunger, and
a desire for social interaction
– Upgradeable, Life Form OS and Personality System

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Praise God that He does work all things together for our good! He brought several wonderful friends into my life who led me out of my cynicism and finally helped me to see that I had been completely duped by Christian feminism. By the time I came back around to a biblical worldview, I had met my future husband and had moved back home with my parents. I quit my job before I was married and have never looked back. In fact, I constantly thank God for getting me out of that mire and putting me in my place! My lifework now is my home, husband and children, and I glorify God for the beauty of His perfect design for the family.

Why, oh why can’t we go back to the English Renaissance of the 12th century when women were treated as equals in the marketplace?

Full text reprinted below the break

Letters from Jennie…
On College, the workplace, etc.
By Jennie Chancey

Letter #1
I will start out on the topic of what a single Christian girl should do. It is very much on my heart and important to me.
I currently teach a weekly literature/Biblical worldview class for young women ages 15-21, and I yearn to have them understand what God requires of us as daughters, wives, sisters and friends. God’s Word is so rich and His ways so rewarding! We should always turn to the Bible (both “old” and “new” testaments!) to find out what the Lord would have us do. Unfortunately, too many modern Christians look everywhere else for answers before turning to the Word (just look at all the “Christian” psychology and counseling books in Christian bookstores). This problem is particularly acute with Christian women, since feminism has slowly but surely crept into the church and stolen our hearts while we were not feeding them with God’s precepts and commands. So many families believe that a young woman, like a young man, is “free and independent” at age 18 or age 21 and should leave home to strike out on her own. This is in total opposition to God’s teachings.
Let me tell you right off that I did go to a four-year college 300 miles from home. It was the worst decision my parents and I ever made. Mom and Dad later regretted it and asked forgiveness for pressuring me to go (I did not want to go away from home at all). At the time, they really felt I was “called” to go to college, since I wanted to build up my writing skills. My late father was a well-known author, and I begged him to teach me what he knew, since I did not want to go away from home to continue my education. To make a long story short, my parents told me that if I won a full scholarship to college (I had been home schooled for eight years), they would consider it as confirmation that I was to go. I did win a scholarship—for all but room and board. I said, “See, it wasn’t a full scholarship, so I don’t have to go, right?” But my folks said I could work at school to make up the difference, so off I went. I was able to hold my own as far as my convictions went on dating and a godly walk, but after three years, I grew very cynical and bitter. I saw little fruit in the lives of my fellow students, and even at my Christian college, kids were sleeping around, doing drugs and not pursuing righteousness. By the time I graduated, I was disillusioned and thoroughly brainwashed into thinking I was going to have to fend for myself in the world. I promptly got a full-time job working in media relations and writing magazine articles on the side. I liked my work, but deep inside, I was empty and bitter.
Praise God that He does work all things together for our good! He brought several wonderful friends into my life who led me out of my cynicism and finally helped me to see that I had been completely duped by Christian feminism. By the time I came back around to a biblical worldview, I had met my future husband and had moved back home with my parents. I quit my job before I was married and have never looked back. In fact, I constantly thank God for getting me out of that mire and putting me in my place! My lifework now is my home, husband and children, and I glorify God for the beauty of His perfect design for the family.
Since being married four and a half years ago, I have had time to really dive into the Word and find what God requires of the Christian woman. I do not claim to understand it perfectly, but I do encourage you to hold fast to what God tells us to do. His Word is true and pure, and we cannot go wrong if we follow Him! Starting in the Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy), we see that God made woman for man. As much as the feminists hate the idea, it is true. Conversely, man was made to protect, cherish and nourish the woman. Men who are not doing that and are not loving their wives as Christ loved the church are covenant-breakers. Women who refuse to stay home and obey their fathers or husbands are also covenant-breakers. They are inverting God’s created order, which is God-Man-Woman-Animals. Today we have Animals-Woman-Man-God. Just take a look at what our society holds dear and who gets the most press time! Christians must strive to return to God’s created order.
Moving on to the books of the law, we see in the case laws (these are the laws which tell us how to live the ten commandments) that God puts a daughter under her father’s protection. He is to help her to remain pure until marriage. He is to guard her from all the “Mr. Wrongs” in the world while she waits for Mr. Right. The whole purpose of the “bride price” and the bride’s dowry was not to sell women like cattle—as feminists like to assert—but to show how valuable a godly daughter is and to protect her in case her husband turns out to be a dud (heaven forbid). The bride price (one year’s wages) and the daughter’s dowry (whatever her family gave her) were hers alone. The husband could not touch that money! Isn’t that something? It was hers to invest and use as she saw fit. What an amazing principle! This is how the Proverbs 31 woman could “consider a field and buy it” and use her own earnings to plant a vineyard.
Your father is your covenantal head. He is your covering. Christ is over him, and you are under both. My husband, in the same manner, is my covering. I am protected as long as I remain under his authority. Modern women chafe at the command that wives “obey their husbands,” because they want to maintain their own autonomy. This is incompatible with the Christian worldview. “He who would be greatest among you must be servant of all!” When we step out from under our coverings and try to do things “independently,” we deserve whatever happens to us (financial struggles, family arguments, failed marriages, disobedient children, etc.). But you will note that the responsibility still rests squarely upon the male head! He takes the blame. We all died in Adam, you’ll remember. When Eve took the fruit and ate of it, it was Adam’s sin, because he failed to serve as Eve’s covering and head. It was Adam’s sin that killed the entire race—incredible, but true. This is one reason we should strive to be obedient and watchful, since our sins will reflect on our authorities. Yes, we are responsible for our sins and should confess them, but the “blood,” so to speak, is on the heads of our authorities.
Study the lives of the women who are praised throughout Scripture. Look at Sarah, Miriam (Moses’ sister), Rebekah, Esther, Ruth, Abigail, Jael, Mary, Elizabeth, Phoebe… You will find that, even though these women were not perfect in every way (Sarah!), they are held up as examples for us, because they obeyed God by obeying those in authority over them (in the case of Abigail, whose husband was a dodo, she obeyed God rather than receive the wrath of the king for her husband’s insult). Paul tells us we are to be “keepers at home,” living quiet, respectable lives, loving our husbands and children and not causing the gospel to be blasphemed. When the woman is out of her place, particularly if she is loud and strident about it, she is harming the name of the Lord. This should cause us to think seriously about what we do as daughters and wives. (Of course, the same is true for fathers and husbands, but I am addressing only the responsibilities of women here!)
So what does the single girl do? Scripture tells us that sons leave, but daughters are given. Daughters do not go out into the world to seek their place in it. They are to serve at home and sit in discipleship at the feet of older women and their own parents. Only older, “true” widows who have lived godly lives are given authority to maintain their own households, but younger widows are to return to their father’s house until they marry again (if ever—see Leviticus 22:13). Unmarried girls are to remain virtuous and to serve their father’s household.
I do not at all mean to imply that women should be uneducated, ignorant and unwise. The women hailed in the Bible as examples for us were exceedingly wise, clever, intelligent, capable and quick-witted. The single girl is not to sit around waiting for Mr. Right. She is to study to become Mrs. Right. This is more than just learning to cook, sew and take care of babies—although those things are extremely important! A man needs a “helper suitable for him.” He needs someone who can share his concerns, talk about them intelligently and help him come up with solutions. And he needs someone who will obey when he makes a decision and not be tempted to say, “I told you so” if something goes wrong. This is a delicate balance to achieve, but it is not impossible. My husband had an opportunity last year to meet with two very well known Christian authors, pastors and speakers. In the course of conversation, it became apparent that each man had married a woman at least four years older than himself. Matt mentioned that I was also older than he and asked the two men why they had chosen older wives. One replied, “I did not want to marry a ditz-head!” The other put it a bit more charitably when he said, “I needed someone who could think with me and work with me.” It is sad that so many Christian young ladies today either have a shallow piety which sees goodness in works alone or a shallow worldview which does not permit a lot of deep thinking. I do not need a PhD. to help my husband, but I do need to take care that I do not become a chain around his neck—a burden he must constantly carry along with his other responsibilities. The husband should be able to have total confidence in his wife to run the home, care for the children, teach, train, advise and encourage. She shouldn’t be an extra child for him.
Daughters need to be taught how to add to the riches of their father’s household as a preparation for enriching their own future homes. If a daughter is not called to marry (the Lord gives her no desire to do so), she should serve in her parents’ home or help other Christian families in theirs (like the servant girls in Proverbs 31 or like Dorcas). She should never venture out from under her father’s authority and protection. This sounds so backwards and servile in today’s society, but we mustn’t care what the world thinks. We must cling to God’s truth and rejoice in it! The gospel is beautiful. It is health and life to meditate upon it. It is death to reject it.

Letter #2
All of the things I am going to share with you in this letter come from my own experience as well as from Scripture. Because I did go away to college and experienced many hard knocks as a result, I can speak from experience. I would not want any other woman to go through what I did in order to learn the same lessons. I wish I had just learned from God’s Word and had not disobeyed Him, but I am thankful that the Lord has hammered home the truths of His Word in the past six years as He has brought me out of the negative results of leaving home and becoming a “career” woman. None of these lessons have come easily; but I pray that I can share my thoughts with other girls who are struggling in this area and spare them a lot of pain and doubt.
Let me address your concerns in an orderly fashion:
1. A single woman belongs in a home, under a godly authority. As “medieval” or backward as it may sound, she should not go away to college for an education (or leave her God-given authorities for any reason except the few outlined in the Bible). This is not because the Bible says, “Young women shall not go away to college.” The Bible does not directly address many sins or improper choices, but we can find our direction from various principles in Scripture. For example, as we mentioned before, sons leave, but daughters are given (Gen. 2:24; Mark 10:7). And the father is the covering for his daughter—he can even cancel vows or promises she has made (Num. 30:3-5), just as a husband can do for his wife (Num. 30:6-14). Besides the father’s direct authority to instruct his daughter and give her away in marriage, older, godly women are given authority to be “teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed” (Titus 2:3b-5). Blasphemy is a grave and serious sin from which we should flee with all haste. Most churches today do not teach that it is blasphemous for women to be working outside of the home and obeying other men (which is what you are doing if you are under a male boss). We need to return to this Scriptural truth and embrace it in spite of the world’s scorn and the clucking tongues even of fellow Christians.
2. Let me address your concern that you would need “something to fall back on” if your husband died or was unable to provide for you. This thinking is a crafty lie from Satan that has crept so stealthily into the church that most Christians think it is wisdom. Let me encourage you to get into the Word to find out the provisions God has made for these cases. Young women who are widowed are not to support themselves, but are to return home (Lev. 22:12), remarry (I Tim. 5:14) or receive their support from the church (I Tim. 5:16; James 1:27). There is never, ever a situation where a young, single woman will have to support herself if she is part of a God-honoring family or church. If she finds no support, it is a judgment on the family and the church, and she needs to seek help from godly brothers and sisters in Christ. This is what the body of Christ is for! We pray, “Lead us not into temptation,” but we rather expect to find ourselves in situations where we will have to sin in order to keep ourselves from starvation or ruin. This is a lie. Rebuke it! Tell Satan to get behind you. He is “cast out” and has no power over Christ’s children, so his lies should carry no weight with us. But we often have to expose his lies, because we’ve been taught they are “reasonable” or “necessary.” That leads me to my next point:
3. We must always think biblically—not according to our own “wisdom” or “gut feeling” about things. The modern cliché is “What Would Jesus Do?” as if our own inner feelings or reason can accurately tell us how Jesus would respond to certain situations. The real question is, “What DID Jesus Do?” since all of His actions and responses are already recorded in Scripture. We do not need to guess at His actions or responses. Our reason and our judgment are clouded by sin. We need God’s Word to thoroughly train our intellect and direct it. When I run across a confusing situation or something with which I am not certain how to deal, I should not ask myself, “What seems reasonable or correct?” By chance I might arrive at the right answer. But if I ask, “What is BIBLICAL?” and I thoroughly strive to study the Word and understand God’s principles, seeking godly counsel at the same time, I will be assured of godly direction and blessing. This is so neglected today! Too much of the “Christian” teaching out there tells us that “God will just tell us” when we are doing wrong by making us “feel” it in our souls or our hearts. Scripture tells us “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things] and desperately wicked; Who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9). We know that the Lord has taken away our hearts of stone and given us hearts of flesh (Ez. 36:26) and that He has written His law on our hearts (Rom. 2:15). However, this does not mean that we will always know exactly what is right. Paul exhorted Timothy to “study to show yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). Like the Bereans, we are to “search the Scriptures daily” (Acts 17:11). A mind that is captivated by the Word of God will feed a heart that is eager to obey His commands. This is the only way to know what He commands us—to study His Word and to seek to apply His principles to every situation. Not just in church. Not just in “Christian” work, but in every single, minute area. We are to “bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5). Every thought—about every action we can imagine taking. God has guidance for all of it! Praise His name!
4. In an article I recently read about these same issues, I found a statement that stood out glaringly to me. The author wrote, “I am not saying all women should avoid college. What I am saying is, for the vast majority, God has called women to serve in the home.” I disagree strongly. God does not rule by majority. He does not say, “teach most of the younger women to be keepers at home….” His standards are absolute, and to depart from them is to invite disaster (not that He is waiting to hit us with bolts of lightning or wrathful fire and brimstone—don’t misunderstand me—but when we depart from His ordained path, we can expect to pay the natural consequences). Women who go out into the workforce are “open game” and always lose—they are either defeated and subdued by the men with whom they compete, or their femininity is destroyed by their competition with other men and they are “consolidated” into the world of the working male. I will go ahead and put my neck on the line here. I do believe that all women should avoid going away to college (notice I did not say “avoid higher education altogether”). I say this in all humility, since I believe I disobeyed the Lord’s Word in this area myself and have repented of the choice. I am not trying to be hypocritical or holier-than-thou. My parents made the wrong choice, and I followed along. They repented of it and asked my forgiveness for the years of bitterness I endured during and after college. I also repented of becoming bitter and hardening my heart to the Lord—it took me two years to be cleansed of my cynicism and anger. Praise God for His grace, which “restored to [me] the years that the swarming locust had eaten” (Joel 2:25).
Now, all of that said, let me assure you again that I am in no way opposed to education. It is a good thing to be instructed. It is a wonderful thing to learn. But my questions for you are these:
1). Who is in charge of your education? (Scripture gives authority to parents for the education of their children; it gives church elders/pastors authority to teach the flock; it gives godly older women authority to teach younger women—only young men may go out as apprentices or start their own households).
2). For what purpose is your education? To bring glory to God? Then it must be in line with His commands and standards, lest it cause His name to be blasphemed. To bring financial security to yourself? Then you are looking in the wrong place for your security—God is your security, and He gives it through His Body, the Church.
3). What would you plan to do with a degree in nursing or business, given that it is unbiblical for a woman to work outside of her home and out from under her father’s or husband’s authority? This is antithetical to Scriptural principles and God’s commands for a woman.
As a side note, there are “occupations” in scripture which are for women. Midwifery, for example, is only for women, since a man is not to uncover the nakedness of another man’s wife or a sister. The Hebrew midwives were praised in Scripture for saving the babies that Pharaoh wanted to destroy. Midwives appear frequently in Scripture, assisting women with births and giving God glory through their work. Midwifery is a “job” that can be practiced from the home and under a godly authority without compromise. It is an ideal job for a single woman or an older woman (my mother is now studying midwifery and serving as a birth assistant). Next, look at the Proverbs 31 woman. “Christian” feminists like to take these verses and shout from the rooftops that this ideal godly woman was working outside of the home as a realtor, manufacturer or what-have-you. This is pure self-deception. The Proverbs 31 woman is our ultimate ideal, and she does it all from home. She knows how to purchase land, plant crops, organize the home, order servants, cook, clean, clothe her family, create garments for the merchants, import food and bring praise to her husband because she is under authority and makes him look good. Her children call her blessed, not because she is off slaying dragons and winning the world for Christ, but because she is a “worker at home” with her children, capably handling a multitude of tasks and talents with great ability. What a lot to emulate! And the example of Dorcas is another good one. She was a seamstress, making garments from her home for the poor. Everything that a godly woman needs to do or learn can be done or learned at home. In our age of easy internet access and correspondence studies, no girl can ever honestly say that she will not be educated if she “just” stays at home. I have learned more during the past four and a half years of marriage than I ever learned in college. I have read more books, listened to more lectures, talked with more learned and well-studied men and women, received greater counsel and felt more fulfilled than I ever did when I was away from home and “independent.”
I just want to encourage you that the right decision—the godly, Scriptural decision—as hard as it may be to make, will be worth it in more ways than you can even think to count. The blessings and benefits will be positively LEGION!

Jennie Chancey is the wife of Matthew Chancey and the mother of three sons (3½-year-old John Nathan, 22-month-old Alex and newborn Thomas). She enjoys reading, writing, cooking, entertaining guests, traveling with her family, corresponding with pen pals, and living in the country. She runs “Sense and Sensibility,” a custom sewing and pattern design business, from home and enjoys creating old-fashioned dresses and gowns that reflect the grace and femininity of times past (http://www.sensibility.com/).

Here’s the Morning session:

EDIT: Actually, given the brevity of the afternoon session, and the fact that the first part was unremarkable, and the second part is available for download from the Tech law section’s web site, I’m not going to have a followup post.

First panel – Digital Media Rights Panel
First of all, during the entirety of the panel discussion I never heard a cross word about the use of DRM.  The most negative analysis of DRM discussed the efficacy, and even that was blamed on the lack of DRM in the source media.  These are people who just do not get it.  It’s is not entirely surprising given that these people would much rather see the IP business go to what they already are comfortable with.  Of course, wishful thinking is something that the client can do for themselves at a significant discount isn’t it?

My largest complaint is that nobody in the panel discussed or even tacitly admitted that DRM nesicarially means that you are delivering a lesser product.  DRM means that you are not buying, you are leasing.  DRM means you are giving up your rights under the First Sale Doctrine.

Worst Ideas from the Panel
Marty Lafferty
Lafferty was the most frustrating because he got so many of the underlying premises right, only to come crashing down at the last conclusion.  For example, he talked about how the response to new technology follows a pattern of useless terrified thrashing by the rights-holders, moving to a profitable use of the technology.
By way of example, the VTR technology like VHS and Betamax was initially feared, but now represents 5x the revenue of theatrical release.  So, reasonably enough Lafferty argues that the industry should use the technology which is already delivering the content to home users to give consumers simultaneous release of movies in theaters and at home.  The fumble?  Lafferty suggests a price of $100 USD.  One hundred dollars.  How on earth they can in one breath acknowledge that they are competing with free, and in the next suggest tripling the price of an already bloated theater ticket is far beyond me.
His other great idea?  subsidize music downloads with advertising paying for a subscription model.  I have personal issues with the idea of renting my music, but the idea seems to have some traction, so I can’t fault him there.  Where I can fault him is that the kind of advertising he wants is adding in an audio ad into the audio file itself.  This is not objectionable, but it is foolish.  Nobody will want ads on their cds, even if it is no-cost.  DRM makes the file less useful and advertising makes it less appealing.  True, you are fighting free with no-cost, but you are firing rubber bullets.

Kevin Lapidus – YellowBrix
Kevin is scary.  First of all Kevin’s bread is buttered with pointless content arbitrage.  His company is attempting to profit from providing a service available for free through RSS aggregation.  They do this by licensing re-use of text media for display in places outside of the realm where the end user has the right to read the content for free.  They push this content to places like elevators, lobby info displays, corporate web pages, and corporate intranets.  With the exception of the web pages these are places where the information is at best a questionable value to people given that the information is being filtered by someone else based on keywords chosen by someone else.  Even worse, some of these examples will likely be seen as an intrusion into their life.  Someone generating their own news feed using RSS is a better solution whenever available. As for the web page syndication, this has some value, but I don’t know how much someone would want to turn over editorial control of their web page to someone else.  In that event, it would be much better for there to be an easier licensing scheme which would cut out the long and winding YellowBrix road.  (Perhaps some sort of statutory licensing for derivative works)
Kevin’s most bile-churning claim is that you should not look at intent when it comes to P2P or any other technology evaluation.  The technology should be evaluated by the majority use of the technology.  By way of example of his theory, automobile sales will end to stop the illegal majority use of speeding.  Too bad America’s shipping and interstate commerce.  I hope you didn’t want produce or anything.  Suffice to say, this does nothing to help consumers and is an atrocity of the ideas upon which IP was founded.

Second Discussion – Merger and Acquisition in the IP age
There’s not much here that is interesting for general consumption.  The Main focus is that the intangible goods are things with which courts have trouble.
Personally, I blame the pervasiveness of analogous reasoning in Legal scholarship.  Analogies are very useful when a concept is first being introduced, but the value drops precipitously as familiarity increases.  This should not be suprising.  Discussing something which is definitionaly different than the subject at hand must have some problems.  For whatever reason, the Law artificially extends the use of analogies far beyond their usefulness.  This could be the influence of learning to deal with juries, PR, and clients; could be the fact that it is easier to work on solid ground and then copy-paste the work to the field of battle; could be that lawyers are scared to death to place their own thoughts under peer review; could be something entirely different.

Third Presentation – Issues with Open Source licensing

Jim Harvey – GPL 3.0
The Educational licenses (BSD) are different than the Bilateral (GPL) because the former is not “viral” in that is does not attach to the product and all derivative uses down the line.  The viral licenses are a new concept in IP licensing which is dramatically different and forces the
The SCO v. IBM case is widely discussed.  A more interesting case for the acceptance of UNIX in the world are where SCO is suing end users.  SCO has sued Daimler-Chrysler under breach of contract for not certifying that the use of UNIX is in compliance with the license.  Nobody can find the license, so that was dismissed.  SCO v. AutoZone, however, has not been dismissed, only stayed.  It is currently in the discovery phase, waiting the results of the IBM case.
GPL 3.0 is the next revision from the free software foundation.  Thanks to the viral aspect of the GPL, this will propagate very rapidly.  The linux license Linus Torvolds worked out allowed for distribution under any future GPL licence.  60% of the open source software out there is subject to upgrade.
The issues to be addressed in 3.0 are:
The internationalization of the license (Jim has a running bet with the developers on if that will happen)
What constitutes a distribution?
The Trusted Computing Initiative
What is a derivative work?

Certificate of Origin: the idea is that the work submitted to a process is affirmed to be free from Copyright and Trade Secret property.

Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss told a wonderful story about trying to get money for his Open Source software, being laughed out of the Venture Capitol firms and ending up moving to Atlanta to live with his in-laws because he was ahead of the wave of OSS community support.  If that story is not on the interweb somewhere we ought to petition him for it.
As far as a OSS business model, there is the standard answer that the big revenue is software development is service anyway, so if you drop the overhead on everything regarding development and distribution.  The alternatives include is dual licensing like mySQL does (they claim to own all of the © in their code, but offer the code without warranty of either property or function – possibly not on firm legal ground) or the “bait and switch.”

Fourth Presentation – Technology Litigation
He worked hard to keep our attention, and 80% of it was looking at animated slides so I didn’t write anything down.

Lunch was half decent.  Some sort of beef tenderloin sliced over small greens.  Too much garlic, too much rosemary. The legal humorist was not that decent.  He seemed totally off his game, but then we’re a tough room.  From his résumé, testimonials, and reputation he might be really funny, but then as far as I know those were all self-provided.

You will note that I have a lot of content considering that I only started ten seconds ago. (mostly from before this blog existed) Well, as a method if cheating I am copying things from a partial birth abortion of a LearnLink Conference. The name of that now gives the name to this blog, but I suspect I will change it soon. I had sketched out Storyarium, Rumoratrix, Logmyrhythms, Body Doubles, and Nacient Flexibility. Only some of these can be adapted to a broadcast medium, and those that can will be. I’ll explain what they are as I add them, but for the time being the only one you need to know is Logmyrhythms. It’s for the E/N crap that is now known as blogs. (You kids did know that “blogging” had a rich, boring, and mocked history long before the word blog was used, right?)

And now I will do my best to never say the word blog again.

Summer ’04
1. The name did indeed change. Where once it read Under Constructionaria, it now reads Artisinal. While both are pretty much inside jokes, the current name has the advantage of being more deducible as it does not require that you were on LL in 2001. Also, it does a much better job conveying my attitude about this blog and all blogs in general.
2. I have started to add ” –NM– ” to indicate that there is nothing more to be found in the “Read More” link. Just disable it for those posts you say? Yes, well, it’s a feature not a missing feature.
3. I have violated my effort to never say blog again, by using it many times in this update.

Winter ’04
I have fixed most issues with the software, but for some reason individual post’s pages display both the full body and the list excerpt making large portions of the post repeat. Also, comments are not working.
I’m looking into fixing it. And also changing bloging software. Any suggestions? Anything that imports from iBlog?
- Update –
The repetition was fixed by magic elves in the night. The comments are mostly fixed, though they seem to not discern which post they were attached to. I’ll do more work on it. . .

Spring ’05
Did more work on it. Comments seem to be fixed. I added an RSS feed for the comments.
Added the Flickr Feed

Use the Message Board to tell me other stuff to do.   ]]> http://blog.piratenews.net/bienvinededos-tu-gusta-parkfurer/feed/ 0 http://blog.piratenews.net/2005/03/16/flickr-feed/ http://blog.piratenews.net/2005/03/16/flickr-feed/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:02:30 +0000 RM http://piratenews.net/wptest/?p=55 I’ve added the bit of geist to the sidebar as a place for photos that don’t deserve a whole entry. The other cool thing is that I can upload these photos directly from the phone so you stalker types can see what I see every day. Up to 10 MB a month anyway. . .

Sunday, July 18, 2004

I just saw the movie ?Supersize Me? and I have to say that I liked it. It was fun, irreverent film making on a shoestring and it?s good to know that filmmakers can still pull that sort of thing off.

What shocked me about the movie wasn?t what it said, or. Heck I already new most of that stuff. What shocked me were the gasps I heard from the audience, most of whom seemed generally surprised that big business could be so?well?business like.

Here?s what it comes down to kids.

Alright: out with it.

Well, If someone would make some farking phone calls. .

.Am I the only one with advanced knowledge fo telephone dialing.

No, but the only one with the phone numbers.

Am I the only one with advanced knowledge of phone book reading?

Phone-what reading?

the phone can only be used by people who know how to use the phone. and those who don’t.

Is there a reason that I have been disallowed send access to the hall of fame? Not that you know who I am, what with it being anon and all.

well, whoever i am, i am just lazy. try now.

Now Â?Â?”I” can post, but I forgot my really witty wording. The new version kind of bites. Shame on “Â?Â?you”

Â?Well “Â?Â?You”Â? can take a step lader and jump up “myÂ?” butt. Whitchever butt that may be.

Even assuming you are taller and larger than me, I presumably come up past your asshole, unless of course, you are an assface. So shall I get the ladder?

I wasn’t talking to âÂ?Â?YouâÂ?I

‘d like to see you try.

I’d like to see you cry.

Did you just respond to yourself? Should we meet some chefs soon?

Yes to both.

Well, let’s get on it. And by let’s I mean do something, for I am lazy. Or tell me what we ought do. I like my cutsom color, don’t you? It’s like Lavender with the brigthness set too high. Yes. I still say that we should do a pilot with the DUC chef. So lets get on that instead of making hard to read colors.

Guess who volunteered tonight to be our first interview? I’ll give you a hint: he offered to do it as âÂ?Â?a sillyâÂ? and say he had viagra in the food.

I thought it was Paolo, but now it sounds like Emeril.

Would you trust a sit-com star to make your gelato?

Touche. Gelato and essence are a dengerous mix.

I would insult your spelling, but you would just fix it. Besides, who am I to talk? no. really. who am I? </anon humor>

OK, so now with my f*ed up monitor, I can define cutom colors but not see what they look like. What color is my parachute? </resume submittal humor>

I’m cold.

I ordered the wrong dish when I went to the restaurant tonight. Few things bother me more. At least I ******* a donut. Man, its a good thing this is anonymous.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. . . (this color is named �mildew� in the color picker.

THis color is called Sangria.

As a preemptive measure, I am warning you to never make a joke about Barium flavored gelato.

San Antonio has good mexican food. Margaritas are sour. I like pie. Hats are good.

Uh oh! Anonymous sounds drunk!

If I was drunk i would call Sangria Samosa, or gelato, or mastretta.

Don’t worry. The new STAR WARS trailer is horrible.

But word has is that Monsters Inc was quite delicious.

The new-er trailer sucks too. it took the �Creepy factor� from Episode one and raised it an order of magnitude. I drove 23 miles to a theater that was sold out, thought I would have good food as a consolation prize but they had a 2+ hour wait, ended up eating at Red Lobster and the only good part is I found a Yankee Candle Workshop. Oh yeay, and when I ordered Ice Cream they spread it all over a marble slab first. Just to make it really unsanitary I guess. . .

You ate at Red Lobster? That seems SO not you. One of my brother’s friends is now a waitress at Pricci. Exciting, isn’t it? Don’t make any jokes about her flirting with me.

Aparently I wasn’t clear. . . I was trying to express why that night SUCKED. So, um, does that mean that we have to go back? if si I’m ordering the cheap gnocci. maybe that will be good. . . If you (Whoever you are) keep placing operatives in Pano’s places eventually you can just screw education and hold a coup.

Hopefully a coup will work. I can probably wait to go to pricci until my brother comes to visit and see if she is working then. Other than that, it’s not TOO urgent. BTW, the manager at Pricci told her that she would be fired if she didn’t know the wines.

Hopefully everyone will ask her to reccomend a strong one.

I wonder how they are supposed to enforce that. I understand that Red Lobster is bad, but i didn’t figure there was any condition underwhich you would eat there. I mean, if you said you ate grilled sewer rats I would agree it was bad, but be suprised you did such a thing. If you’re wondering why I use this analogy, its because Red Lobster owns Sizzler.

They have passible biscuts. . . and I’d rather be there now than writing this paper.

If your standard is âÂ?Â?passableâÂ? than you shouldn’t have TOO much trouble with the paper. I have never been to Red lobster. Maybe I should try going. It would be âÂ?Â?fun.âÂ? How was Iron Chef USA? Of course, I don’t know what paper you are referring to since I don’t know who you are.

Iron chef was preempted by some sport. at least that is what I hear. Whoever I am I was at the movies at the time so. . . Happy Turkey Brining to whoever all of you are that read this.

I aint brinin no turkey. Are you deepfrying? Enjoy the food and the flight. Assuming you are flying to your home.

No Mon Charie, I ain’t frying. I value my eybrows thanks. . .

Did you know that Jeremy and Matt measure deep friers by the amount of turkeys they can hold? You are pretty excited about that Jamaican spice, ain’t you? I’ve got about two hours more of being âÂ?Â?culturalâÂ? and then whoooosh. . . away I go.

Jamaican ALLspice, yes. and vietnimean cinnamon, AND hungarian paprica, AND some rib rub that swears it is delicios. It was like christmas in WINTER!

Don’t be silly. Everyone knows the first day of Christmas is Nov 1st. Vietnamese. I wouldn’t eat a product that claims to be âÂ?Â?deliciosâÂ? but then again I won’t take my clothes to dry cleaners that swear to get them Brite N Kleen either, so maybe its just me.

Let’s say fo the sake of argument that you are a senior who is considering staying in Atlanta afer this year and who has an apartment. Isn’t it high time you got some kittens?

Why start over when I have a perfectly good finnished cat in storage? The real problem is that whoever I may or may not live with is literally frightened of my cat. And I finished the Act bumpers, the intro, and some of the first segment, but we need to film more asking people about what it is when we are away from music, roads, etc. . .

Turkey update?

Terry dropped by. Rob burned some peas and declared that he would be in a funk unless he could eat some turkey as recompence. he ate (No hyperbole) half the turkey. After John returned I am left with only one drumstick and enough white meat for one sandwitch. I am turning my cranberry sause into jam as I type. Tomorrow I build cake. Turkey is SO DAMN good.

Oh, and Grimey and I came up with a good (easy) show Idea

I ate a whole lot of food this weekend, twice the bill came to 50+ per person. I feel so fancy, and decidant, and bloated. I want to try to make a lot of pan-seared fish now. I have finally eaten lamb (encrusted with celiantro stuff). It was pretty good. I have a new favorite wine: �Pouy Fusse� or something like that. Oh, and I know what you are getting for christmas (Yeah, I know. this is the ribs thng all over again. but I am not the only one. whoever I am) I mean, from more than just me.

Well, if pan seared fish is the goal, you will be excited to know that I got a hard-anodized Calphalon 9-ince chef’s skillet for Chanukkah and have had preciousn little opportunity to use it. In fact, I’ve been so busy I haven’t used it at all save a spontaneous omelette of joy I made after opening the package.

you are correct.

The Pirate is impatient.

Impatient and wanting you give people their presents.

So. . . can’t go to see Stien, Can play spades. . .

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