"They're not saying these people aren't press, or that they can't publish whatever they want. They're just saying they don't get to enter the building as press."
What is being denied, follows; access to the building is incidental to this:
1) Timely Access to Content and Details
For News time is of the essence. "The early birds get the worms." Old news has no economic value, unless you are writing a history book.
2) Opportunity for Q&A
Different people ask different questions. Less risk with less diverse and limited participants may be a motivating factor. If we suspect that we will not like the questions you ask, we won't let you in to ask them.
Restricting access to information has been the mission of those that do not welcome competition in the marketplace.
In the case of institutions of higher education, they have been doing this for years, by imposing entry prerequisites, diverse degree curriculum, class prerequisites, high tuition fees and unnecessary and frequent change of course textbooks. All of these impositions, of course, combine to make higher education economically untenable to the citizen majority, many of whom are not credentialed as well. Such institutions do not want attendance by those that might require an extra effort to educate, or that show no interest in a particular subject having little to do with the education they are pursuing.
For others, the claim of plagiarism is only one means used to deter the dissemination of information. The notion that a copyright protects the facts or ideas conveyed in a covered publication is yet another absurd ploy. For patents, only the specific implementation(s) of an idea are covered, and they are supposed to be protected only for a limited time; but nevertheless, they are public disclosures as well.
Now with the presence of the Internet, dissemination of information is available to all fish and non-fish eaters alike, whether rich or poor, educated or not. Knowledge is power and the Internet conveys both. A long time ago, Intel and Microsoft with the unwitting help of IBM and the DOD, took computers off their raised floors, and out of the control of an elite minority. They then put them on the desktops and laps, and in the hands of the masses, and then gave them the freedom of the Internet to absorb and spread information far and wide. For those concerned and disappointed by this situation, they should be advised that this Pandora is out of her box, she is alive and well, and will never return to that enclosure. With our vigilance, she will be free.
1) Callers getting ferquent ATB messages for calls, to a magicJack numbers, that originate on telco land lines. What is the GOS provided by your gateway switch to the PSTN?
2) Do you have a product that will support a local loop greater than that provided by a 6' pigtail included with your product?
Regards, WHG
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Wrong Conclusion
"They're not saying these people aren't press, or that they can't publish whatever they want. They're just saying they don't get to enter the building as press."
What is being denied, follows; access to the building is incidental to this:
1) Timely Access to Content and Details
For News time is of the essence. "The early birds get the worms." Old news has no economic value, unless you are writing a history book.
2) Opportunity for Q&A
Different people ask different questions. Less risk with less diverse and limited participants may be a motivating factor. If we suspect that we will not like the questions you ask, we won't let you in to ask them.
Message to MIEs
"qui gladio ferit, gladio perit"
Of Fish, Fishermen & Pandora As Well
Restricting access to information has been the mission of those that do not welcome competition in the marketplace.
In the case of institutions of higher education, they have been doing this for years, by imposing entry prerequisites, diverse degree curriculum, class prerequisites, high tuition fees and unnecessary and frequent change of course textbooks. All of these impositions, of course, combine to make higher education economically untenable to the citizen majority, many of whom are not credentialed as well. Such institutions do not want attendance by those that might require an extra effort to educate, or that show no interest in a particular subject having little to do with the education they are pursuing.
For others, the claim of plagiarism is only one means used to deter the dissemination of information. The notion that a copyright protects the facts or ideas conveyed in a covered publication is yet another absurd ploy. For patents, only the specific implementation(s) of an idea are covered, and they are supposed to be protected only for a limited time; but nevertheless, they are public disclosures as well.
Now with the presence of the Internet, dissemination of information is available to all fish and non-fish eaters alike, whether rich or poor, educated or not. Knowledge is power and the Internet conveys both. A long time ago, Intel and Microsoft with the unwitting help of IBM and the DOD, took computers off their raised floors, and out of the control of an elite minority. They then put them on the desktops and laps, and in the hands of the masses, and then gave them the freedom of the Internet to absorb and spread information far and wide. For those concerned and disappointed by this situation, they should be advised that this Pandora is out of her box, she is alive and well, and will never return to that enclosure. With our vigilance, she will be free.
GOS & LST
Two Questions for MJI,
1) Callers getting ferquent ATB messages for calls, to a magicJack numbers, that originate on telco land lines. What is the GOS provided by your gateway switch to the PSTN?
2) Do you have a product that will support a local loop greater than that provided by a 6' pigtail included with your product?
Regards, WHG