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Jonathan Turley
Well anon, your impassioned plea has been met with a stunning indifference. Maybe you can become a pirate–you’ve already got plenty of experience at lying… in any case, now we’re all aware that no one cares about your Quixotic personal jihad against me. Although I am curious to see where the goalposts move next… or are you man enough to admit that you were wrong about me?
anon wrote:
“Mike A, rafflaw, et. al.
So here’s your chance to tell Kevin that you approve or disapprove of his software, his database, and his behavior as well as his $200 fee to remove individuals or otherwise not let them opt-out.”
et. al. chooses none of the above.
Slarti, tall tales are his specialty. One of his tales is about plying the fjords of Ohio, looking for plunder. We were having an exchange about lying and he said I had given him an idea for a skit. I will let you know. Here is another one where he mentions both redheads and lawyers:
raff,
Don’t worry, when I get my one trillion dollars there will be sharks with fricking laser beams…
OS,
But how can you be sure that he isn’t practicing his lying on you ;-P
OS,
Thanks for the timesunion article….. Cool…..
Slarti,
Don’t forget the sharks shooting laser beams!
Slarti, you and my friend Cap’n Zeph ought to get along just fine. I got an email from him earlier. He is going to opine on lies and liars. A topic I am sure any good pirate captain ought to know a lot about.
Kevin,
Well your old price was $50,000 from me or from Professor Turley or from anyone else.
If you, Professor Turley, or anyone else wants me to destroy them or in any way cede my control over them or rights to usage, then they can pay me for my time. My price is $50,000 (a reasonable fee for something that took six months of my time to create)
That you have now dropped it to a polite request from anyone else is a true bargain for everyone that comments here, and a valuable contribution to the discussion.
Mike A, Nal, rafflaw, Otteray Scribe, Gene H, Woosty, Professor Turley, you all now have the ability to ask Kevin to destroy his database and his code and promise not to rebuild either. (Or to release his code as open source.)
OS,
The evil I may or may not embody is beside the point–which is that anon is an irrational twit who is prejudiced against me–I assure you that the full depth and scope of my evility has yet to be sounded.
anon,
Putting a price on it was just a way of pointing out that a significant amount of work went into this–I certainly don’t think that you or anyone else will pay me for my data or software. In any case, the new price is 10^12 US dollars for you or a polite request from anyone else.
Now might be a good time for you to explain why you have the right to demand the destruction of my property even though you can’t explain the injury which it caused you or anyone else. Or why you wish to subject me to different standards than you apply to yourself. Or you could just stop trying to smear me with your lies.
By the way, I notice that you frequently tell myself, other posters, guest bloggers, and even Professor Turley how we should be behaving yet you never seem to listen when anyone else suggests that, say, anonymous unfounded allegations are not a part of civil discourse. Why is that?
“And we have Gene describing it as his intellectual property and Otteray describing it as a proprietary product.”
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Can we purchase a clue here? The key word in both terms is property. What is so hard to understand about that?
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/property
http://jonathanturley.org/corrections/#comment-272335
Kevin K
1, September 28, 2011 at 6:11 pm
I will, of course, comply with any and all of Professor Turley’s wishes regarding my conduct or behavior with regard to posting on this blog, but my code and my database are my work product done on my own time while unemployed (i.e. completely at my own expense). If you, Professor Turley, or anyone else wants me to destroy them or in any way cede my control over them or rights to usage, then they can pay me for my time. My price is $50,000 (a reasonable fee for something that took six months of my time to create). If you don’t want to pay this, then you have no right to ask me to destroy property and data that I collected in a completely legal manner.
Otteray, Nal, Mike A, rafflaw, Kevin
It is not clear to me reading this that Kevin is merely pulling my chain and is not in fact serious. Especially not after we have Kevin repeated describing how I am trying to attack his economic freedom. How it is his business product.
And we have Gene describing it as his intellectual property and Otteray describing it as a proprietary product.
Kevin, now might be an appropriate time for you to say that you hadn’t understood completely the privacy implications, or perhaps that in respect to my sensitivity about this, that you are deleting the database and either deleting the code or releasing it and that you have no intention of using it again in the future here.
I know that once you demonstrate an appreciation of what happened, that there is no need for me to remind you or anyone of it again.
Nal, Mike A, rafflaw, now might be a good time for you to suggest that as well.
“Somehow I seem to have become the embodiment of evil…..”
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You mean you are not? I am disappointed.
Woosty,
I’ve changed my mind on pricing: If anon wants anything he can give me one trillion dollars and if anyone else wants to know something they can just ask.
OS,
Now either anon figures it out or I get $1,000,000,000,000.00. Bwa-ha-ha-HA-ha!!!
Cool pix.
OS,
Ooooo, very pretty. That’s a nice toy the Russians have there. We could have toys like that if we weren’t engaging the a perpetual war for Exxon and Halliburton profits.
leejcaroll,
This isn’t your fault–anon would have just found a different excuse to smear me. Somehow I seem to have become the embodiment of evil to him.
Speaking of pixels, did anyone see the 121 Megapixel pictures of earth taken by the Russian satellite? This is not a patchwork such as Google maps and Google earth uses, but single shots by a single camera. The satellite is in a geostationary orbit at about 22K miles from earth. it is on a number of web sites. This one is the Times Union from Albany, NY. A simple search will turn up many more.
http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/amazing-121-megapixel-shot-of-earth-courtesy-the-russians/10114/
for $200…
🙂
anon:
If you want others to respect your anonymity, it would help if you show the same respect.
* Then all you have to do is color each pixel according to the root that the associated point in the complex plane converges to under Newton’s method. What kind of resolution do you get on a quilt?
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no, I don’t (haven’t yet…) designed w/software…..but if i ever get to it I’ll take a picture and post it… 🙂