Main DMCA Supporter To Lecture Elementary School Kids On Copyrights
from the sounds-insanely-boring dept
As a sixth grader, there's probably nothing more boring than being lectured by the director of the US Patent and Trademark Office about evils of downloading music. Don't expect a "balanced" presentation either. Jon Dudas is the same guy who was a big part of getting the DMCA law passed, and his big contribution at the USPTO so far has been to come up with plans for reform that are only likely to make the patent system worse. Oh well. At least when the kids are done hearing him speak, they can go back to their MPAA sponsored lectures. Whatever happened to critical thinking, where kids are taught multiple sides of an issue and taught to think for themselves?
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/magazine/22OCD.html
In one experiment, OCD kids with an irrational(?) fear of doctors had huge tubes called cannulas impaled into veins under their groins, had gallons of their blood sucked out of them with a huge vacuum pump, filtered, and then pumped back in for 5 days, which improved their symptoms.
If the theory is correct, then plasmapheresis could become the standard treatment for OCD. Will it cure youngsters with their addiction to music?
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"...Gentlemen, we have done it. We have cured the scourge of internet forums everywhere. It is my deepest hope that someday soon people will have forgotten the plague that was dorpus..."
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Not much. I don't recall having that, here, at all. After all, "just say no" to drugs ... but I seem to recall getting the impression that people still do drugs every so often.
Psst. Let's not tell this guy that 6th-formers can be wascally webbels. Then when they all do the opposite of what he says, normality will be restored. :)
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Luckily I had parents who believed in critical thinking and took the time with me. I fear that is even more rare these days.
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