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Patent Trolls Force Removal of Export Function from WhatsApp in Germany : A Case in Point About the Foolish Granting of Patents for What Should be Non-Patentable Items

Posted on October 15, 2020
We were going to give ZappTales a try via an export of a WhatsApp chat (the exchange of postings between two parties over a period of time, which can run to months and years) -- for purposes of printing a book containing the postings of that chat.After all, it is OUR chat, and WE decide what we do with it-- and not some third party...

U.S. Congress: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination Brings Up a Legendary Moment: Where Are Your Notes?

Posted on October 14, 2020
At The Daily Wire, Amanda Prestigiacomo headlines her article on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings regarding Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court Justice nominee:?Legendary?:Barrett Asked To Hold Up Notes She?s Using To Answer Questions...

Overbloated Writing in Science: Acronyms, Jargon, Wordy Text: When More Fluff is More than Enough

Posted on October 11, 2020
Nature Index tells us that"Science is getting harder to read : From obscure acronyms to unnecessary jargon, research papers are increasingly impenetrable ? even for scientists."

Post-Oral-Argument : U.S. Supreme Court October 7 Google v. Oracle America, No. 18-956 : Android Java Software Interface Copyrights Fair Use Juries

Posted on October 09, 2020
This is the post-oral-argument update to our pre-oral-argument posting titled U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument October 7: Google LLC vs. Oracle America Inc. : Android Java Software Interface Copyrights Fair Use Juries.We found oral argument in this case to be marked by highs and lows, the unexpected high being the continued, surprising participation of Justice Thomas, who seems to be thriving in the highly structured, telephonic, teleconferenced proceedings, where Justices are currently asked to speak in the order of their Court seniority...

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The Disorganized WordPress Block Editor is a Disaster Worse than Blogger's New Add-More-Clicks Editor

Posted on October 09, 2020
Not pleased with the new but in our view totally unnecessary and less helpful editor (than the old) being forced upon Blogger writers by Google, we were in the process of thinking of porting LawPundit permanently to WordPress ....But suddenly -- also at WordPress -- blog writers are now forced to use a new wildly disorganized editor -- their so-called WordPress "Block" Editor, which appears to be a much greater disaster to use than Blogger's new blog editor, where the latter has added to the interface many more mouse clicks needed to achieve the same thing previously achieved with fewer mouse clicks...

Google LLC vs. Oracle America Inc. : Android Java Software Interface Copyrights Fair Use Juries : U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument October 7

Posted on October 08, 2020
Please Note: We have edited our original October 6 posting on October 7, but prior to oral argument.__________At the United States Supreme Court, oral argument is scheduled for October 7, 2020, in the landmark case of Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc...

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity Confirmed Convincingly by the First Astrophysics Photograph of a Cosmic "Black Hole"

Posted on October 05, 2020
The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic once again drives home the recognition that humankind inhabits a universe harboring many mysteries at microscopic but also macroscopic levels. "Viruses" that are 1000 times smaller than a human hair and that are by definition not even "alive" can wreak havoc on our "living" biological organisms...

Improving Education in the Modern World: Teaching The Dry Facts Prior to the Teaching of Conceptual Ideas and Cognitive Concepts

Posted on October 02, 2020
"Bad Teaching is Tearing America Apart" is an article by Naomi Schaefer Riley at the Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2020, reviewing "How to Educate a Citizen", by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., a timely book just published by HarperCollins, in which Hirsch examines important aspects of the teaching focus of the American educational system and its connection to problems of culture and race...

Connect the Dots: The Midheaven Plaquette of Les Varines, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK: Perimeter Stars, the North Celestial Pole and Carved Figures in Stone

Posted on September 07, 2020
Connect the Dots: The Midheaven Plaquette of Les Varines, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK: Perimeter Stars, the North Celestial Pole and Carved Figures in StoneThis is a follow-up on our previous posting A Lesson in Critical Analysis for Archaeology and Astronomy: The Midheaven Plaquette (Plaquette #2) of Les Varines, Jersey (near St...

A Lesson in Critical Analysis for Archaeology and Astronomy: The Midheaven Plaquette (Plaquette #2) of Les Varines, Jersey (near St. Helier) ca. 7600 B.C.

Posted on August 29, 2020
Plaquette 2 of Les Varines, Jersey (near St. Helier) is deciphered here in this posting as representing the stars of Midheaven ca. 7600 B.C., marked as points, figures or lines of joined stars, just as modern stellar constellations are drawn.The Midheaven Plaquette of Les Varines, JerseyPlease click on the image to obtain a larger, resizable image...

The Boxgrove, West Sussex, United Kingdom (UK) Reconstructed Flint and the Boxgrove Bone Hammer are Megalithic Astronomy

Posted on August 17, 2020
As written long ago by Eusebius, "It is all astronomy".__________In our previous posting, Prehistoric Astronomy on the British Isles: Mapping Midheaven Stars at the Cove Stones of Avebury Henge, we presented further convincing evidence of the astronomical purpose of the Avebury megaliths...

Prehistoric Stargazers on the British Isles: Mapping Midheaven Stars at the Cove Stones of Avebury Henge

Posted on July 27, 2020
The Cove Stones of Avebury Henge mark the stars of Midheaven ca. 3000 B.C. in a Decipherment by Andis Kaulins, Traben-Trarbach, 2020 to Commemorate the Passage of the two-tailed Comet NeoWise in 2020 A.D., which awakened a world-wide interest in Astronomy in the Era of the Coronavirus COVID-19...

Two Tails of Comet NeoWise Photo by Astrophotography Expert Gerald Rhemann at UK's AstronomyNow Magazine

Posted on July 18, 2020
Perhaps the best online photograph yet of the two tails of the Great Comet NeoWise, a photo by Gerald Rhemann, an expert at astrophotography, has been presented at the UK AstronomyNow magazine https://astronomynow.com/2020/07/17/dont-miss-comet-neowise-in-the-evening-sky/ in an article by Mark Armstrong titled "Don?t miss Comet NEOWISE in the evening", an article which also has a useful chart of the positions of Neowise in coming days with respect to the Big Dipper...

Comet Neowise Two Tails Featured at NASA via APOD's Astronomy Picture of the Day Photographed by Petr Horalek

Posted on July 17, 2020
Our comment to photograph and material below from APOD and NASA: The two tails of Comet Neowise, visible to the naked eye, may have been seen similarly by megalithic builders in the previous 5th millennium passage of Neowise near Planet Earth. Those ancient stargazers could have depicted the two tails by a figure that modern researchers have guessed to be the rather improbably gigantic spout of a whale at the focus of the megalithic site ofMané Lud, Locmariaquer, Morbihan bei Carnac, Brittany, France...

Comet Neowise over Stonehenge Astronomy Photograph by Declan Deval Picture of the Day via APOD NASA

Posted on July 17, 2020
Comet Neowise over Stonehengephotographed by Declan DevalFabulous photo.Image linked via APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA

Was Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) Depicted ca. 6800 Years Ago at the Megalithic Site Mané Lud, Locmariaquer, Morbihan bei Carnac, Brittany, France ?

Posted on July 10, 2020
And now,directly relevant to our immediately previous Mané Lud decipherment posting ...is the question ofwhether the Mané Lud (Mane Lud) megalithic dolmenand its passageway stonesin their total "comet-like" form were erected ca. 6766 years ago(the orbital period of Comet Neowise calculated by our modern astronomers)to commemorate the then similarly close Earth passage ofComet NEOWISE in the stars of Auriga...

Mané Lud, Locmariaquer, Morbihan bei Carnac, Brittany, France, Dolmen Passageway Stones Deciphered as Megalithic Astronomy (plus) The Newly Discovered Durrington Walls Shafts Teach the Archaeological Community to Make Substantial Revisions in Their Dogmatic Thinking

Posted on June 23, 2020
Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences,and the contemplation of the heavens,with their periodic regularities,gave men their first conceptions of natural law.-- Bertrand Russell (later Nobel Prize winner for Literature)in Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Simon and Schuster (Clarion Books), New York, 1948...

Microsoft and the Background Command to "Uninstall 20.052.0311.0011" What Is That? Was ist das?

Posted on June 12, 2020
We have Win Patrol installed on our system to make use of WinPatrol's "Scotty the Windows Watchdog", who watches over background system changes and alerts the user about them. Scotty just alerted us to a background command to "Uninstall 20.052.0311.0011", an uninstall which required our OK...

Who Needs Cash??!! The Myth of Federal Debt in Modern Monetary Theory, Where Money is a Public Monopoly

Posted on June 11, 2020
Stephanie Kelton writes at the NY Times about"Our country's myth about federal debt, explained"in her articleLearn To Love Trillion-Dollar Deficitswhere she puts forward the observation of Walter Mosler,author of the book ?Soft Currency Economics?,in explaining Modern Monetary Theory ("M...

The Insouciance of The Wall Street Stock Market Which Just Had its Biggest 50-Day Rally in History

Posted on June 11, 2020
The current insouciance of the Wall Street stock market is a mystery.Or is it?Spencer Bokat-Lindell headlines at the New York Times:Why Isn?t the Stock Market Reading the Room?writing:"The nation is in crisis, but it?s not the market?s job to care",and so,the stock market just had its biggest 50-day rally in history...

A Tectonic Shift in the Computer Landscape? Linux Open Source Operating System Rising as a Serious Workstation Desktop Alternative

Posted on June 10, 2020
We have been looking recently for an alternative computer desktop solution to escape the destructive self-serving privacy-invading data-mining and other-focused unilateral decadence that in the last few years seems to have engulfed the major players in the digital industries, to the great detriment of PC users...

New Blogger Interface Soon To be Forced upon Bloggers by Google is a Design Flop Contrary to Author Interests

Posted on May 28, 2020
Google's official Blogger blog has announced a new Blogger interfacesoon to be forced upon Blogger portal bloggers.Thank you, but no thank you.We have looked at it.The new interface is nothing for us.As a result, even though we have been with Blogger from its first beginnings,we will have little choice but to transfer our main blog(s) to a different blogger platform soon...

Stonehenge in the News: English Heritage is to Digitally Livestream the 21 June 2020 Summer Solstice at the Ancient Megalithic Standing Stones

Posted on May 20, 2020
The traditional live celebration of the annual astronomical Summer Solstice (Midsummer) at the Stonehenge megalithic standing stones has been cancelled for 2020 by English Heritage, but, according to Robb Report, the event is nevertheless to be made available digitally for the first time ever by livestream...

God and Corona

Posted on May 14, 2020
 This is a true story taken recently from the pages of life in the coronavirus era:Young daughter, age 3, to mother: "I would like to see God".Mother: "God is not visible. No one can see God."Daughter: "Can one visit where God lives"?Mother: "No...

The United States Supreme Court Enters Totally New Territory with Oral Arguments per Telephone

Posted on May 05, 2020
That the world will never be the same as the result of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is clear from the Topline at Jack Brewster's yesterday article at Forbes at "Here?s Why Today Is A Groundbreaking Day For The Supreme Court" which states:""For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments via telephone ? not in-person ? and allowing live streaming of its audio, another sign of the profound effect the coronavirus outbreak is having on our even most tradition-bound institutions...

Legal Coronavirus-Related Questions Affecting Large Businesses: Stanford Law School Launches a COVID-19 Memo Database: Example: Paul|Weiss Relief and Resource Centers

Posted on April 25, 2020
The April 24 Law@Stanford newsletter contains a link to Stanford Law School Launches COVID-19 Memo Database in Collaboration with Cornerstone Research, an article by Stephanie Ashe, SLS Director of Media Strategy, at News & Media: SLS [Stanford Law School] News and Announcements...

U.S. Coronavirus Bill Largest Relief Deal Ever: Paul Krugman Tweets "Not perfect but pretty good"

Posted on March 27, 2020
The Coronavirus Bill is in focus at "The New York Times" inIt?s the Largest Relief Deal in U.S. History. Is It Enough?an article by Spencer Bokat-Lindell,quoting tweets, among others, from Paul Krugman.If Paul Krugman supports the bill,and economics IS after all the Nobel Prize winner's specialtywhere he is often right in his analysis(while however too often erring on political topics),then Congress AND Trump have pulled off a winner:"not perfect, but pretty good"...

Individually and Collectively Surviving the Corona Virus Crisis

Posted on March 19, 2020
How do we individually and collectively survive the corona virus crisis?To start, it is essential to keep the faith ... in humanity and in ourselves!Humankind is a very resilient species.Over many thousands of years of recorded history and surely for perhaps hundreds of thousands if not millions of years before that, our primate and human ancestors, male and female, have been facing and ultimately dealing successfully with all kinds of untold dangers, natural disasters, predators, calamities, wars, health plagues, economic and food uncertainties and physical and mental challenges of every kind and description...

Power Hand-Washing Against the Corona Virus: How to Wash Hands Properly

Posted on March 17, 2020
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Why Soap Against the Corona Virus? Externally Yes, Internally No

Posted on March 17, 2020
SeeThe science of soap ? here?s how it kills the coronavirus, by Pall Thordarson at The GuardianUnfortunately, this is no solution internally, since soap is toxic to lungs. See https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318437

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