your piteous whining annoys me

[waider]

I can't really feel annoyed by the whole Google API flap. It's like, "oh jeez. they're not giving us our free milk and cookies any more. THEY'RE EVIL!" I mean, seriously. "But not nearly as evil as providing a powerful development tool to people who are loyal to Google and then discontinuing it without any warning or regard to their users (evilapi.com)" Loyal to Google? How about using Google soley because they've got the best damn search engine on the block, and if someone else came up with a better one people would drop Google in a heartbeat?

Hello, hands up who remembers Altavista?

(updated to add: I'm reminded by this of the Bill of No Rights.)

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[mopti.livejournal.com]

The central plank of that Bill of No Rights looks irritatingly familiar. But it seems different. [pokes odd corners of brains] Of course! Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, who developed the model in the early 1900s of rights and duties. Only his was broader in scope.

(Checked: he has a short and accessible Wikipedia entry.)

[waider.livejournal.com]

Hohfeld is much less funny, though.

[mopti.livejournal.com]

My thesis supervisor will love that line.