Semel's rhetoric goes to show how well-balanced he is: he's got a chip on both shoulders.
This is my idea of how IP should work.
It is my opinion.
I will try not to use works like property and owner since they make it seem like it is the same as physical goods.
First it is my guess, though of course I could be wrong, that the US founders, or at least Jefferson, would agree with me.
So, it's already the end of 2006. That means it's been ten whole years since I worked at Cybersmith. I can't believe it. My life is just whipping by. But, be that as it may, I've always been into nostalgia, so I think I'll write down as much as I can remember about the place and see if anyone else has anything to add. Feel free to comment if you ever worked at one or visited.
There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world. It comes out on DVD today.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." -- Karl, as he stepped behind the computer to reboot it, during a FAT
