>>>>>>>>http://boingboing.net/2011/10/08/wipo-boss-the-web-would-have-been-better-if-it-was-patented-and-its-users-had-to-pay-license-fees.html
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>>>>>>>>Those scamps at the UN just get more and more relevant each day...
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>>>>>>>Perhaps if there were some kind of patent on something like genocide the UN would be able to find some legal reason to be a bit more zealous in cases like Rwanda - or at least generate some fee revenue.
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>>>>>>>Maybe he was just impressed by Apple's business model ... <bg>
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>>>>>>The cheap shots at me are really getting old. I say that knowing and freely acknowledging that most if not all of them have been brought on by myself. They're still getting old.
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>>>>>>One might almost think there is an organized effort going on.
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>>>>>>I am not claiming to be persecuted. I have never claimed to be a victim or blamed anyone else for my shortcomings. Those are all on me. There is just something less than admirable in bear-baiting.
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>>>>>Ummm.. Huh??
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>>>>The bear-baiting part or the irritation at cheap shots? (You are not one of the ones doing it, in case you were wondering).
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>>>Both.
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>>>I didn't notice anythng directed at or related to you in the posts. Maybe I'm missing something..?
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>>There are a number of prominent members of this site who regularly insult me, belittle me, or refuse to even speak to me. As I said, I know I am far from perfect. It still stings to be treated like pond scum by people you considered friends.
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>>(Oddly enough, I don't seem to be having any problems with the non-U.S. members here. It's my "fellow Americans" who have been giving me a hard time).
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>>I will shut up about it now. I don't want to sink into an ongoing poor-me thing.
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>>Change of subject (you're welcome), this is one of the first nights in nearly three months here that I have regretted the absence of television. The Brewers and Bears are both playing and I can't watch. Boo hoo, poor me ;-) I am staying in the basement bedroom of a woman at work. She got divorced earlier this year and wound up paying the mortgage on one salary. To make ends meet she cut expenses to the bone and rented out the spare bedrooms. When I was looking for an inexpensive place to stay here one of the women I work with said you should talk to K, she has a room for rent. I went over one day after work and basically interviewed with the two of them. They evidently decided I am all right and not an axe murderer so now we all live here. We get along very well, somewhere between buddy-buddy and three people living their separate lives. They both had birthdays last month (ages that seem old to them and young to me, LOL). I took them out to dinner and we all had an enjoyable time. A couple of ballgames are not that much to give up.
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>That's probably as nice an arrangement as you can get for an extended road contract.
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>I spent 6 months in a Holiday Inn in San Diego several years back (client paid everything). I built up enough Priority Points so I was in a suite from the second month on and any vacations my family went on for the next several years were free Holiday Inn stays.
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>I'd have jumped to a real house in a second.

Was that Holiday Inn On The Bay? I stayed there for about one week, from September 13th 2001. After 9/11 I had no way to go home, so I moved from the pricy Sheraton hotel where the FoxPro conference was, and to the cheaper Holiday Inn downtown San Diego. I spent about one week there before I got a flight back home. No criticism of your country, but I felt like I was in the world's largest prison. I could go everywhere, but not home.