Hesh Wiener
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Mad Dog 21/21: Blowing Up Buddha
October 16, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreBeginning in the third century, craftsmen in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, carved and decorated two giant figures of Buddha. In March 2001, six months before Al Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center, the Taliban razed the statues. Two years later, the United States bombed Baghdad. And looters hit the National Museum . Their acts were so vile that even the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was moved. He said, “Stuff happens.” More recently, the board of the world’s second largest computer company was taken over by cannibals. They toppled two of the greatest images in high technology, those of
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Mad Dog 21/21: Blowing Up Buddha
October 16, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreBeginning in the third century, craftsmen in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, carved and decorated two giant figures of Buddha. In March 2001, six months before Al Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center, the Taliban razed the statues. Two years later, the United States bombed Baghdad. And looters hit the National Museum . Their acts were so vile that even the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was moved. He said, “Stuff happens.” More recently, the board of the world’s second largest computer company was taken over by cannibals. They toppled two of the greatest images in high technology, those of
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Mad Dog 21/21: Blowing Up Buddha
October 16, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreBeginning in the third century, craftsmen in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, carved and decorated two giant figures of Buddha. In March 2001, six months before Al Qaeda brought down the World Trade Center, the Taliban razed the statues. Two years later, the United States bombed Baghdad. And looters hit the National Museum . Their acts were so vile that even the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was moved. He said, “Stuff happens.” More recently, the board of the world’s second largest computer company was taken over by cannibals. They toppled two of the greatest images in high technology, those of
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Mad Dog 21/21: Frequent Deniers Club
September 5, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreLots of people join clubs. They join social clubs whose members work together for their individual and collective benefit. They join professional clubs that make it easy for members to exchange information or address mutual concerns associated with a particular metier. They join special interest clubs for camaraderie and to further their avocations. Clubs and other affiliate groups are particularly important to computer folk, who can benefit from sharing and comparing experiences. But just as a person can grab the wrong end of a club, a club can grab the wrong end of people.
Groucho Marx had it all figured
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Mad Dog 21/21: Frequent Deniers Club
September 5, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreLots of people join clubs. They join social clubs whose members work together for their individual and collective benefit. They join professional clubs that make it easy for members to exchange information or address mutual concerns associated with a particular metier. They join special interest clubs for camaraderie and to further their avocations. Clubs and other affiliate groups are particularly important to computer folk, who can benefit from sharing and comparing experiences. But just as a person can grab the wrong end of a club, a club can grab the wrong end of people.
Groucho Marx had it all figured
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Mad Dog 21/21: Frequent Deniers Club
September 5, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreLots of people join clubs. They join social clubs whose members work together for their individual and collective benefit. They join professional clubs that make it easy for members to exchange information or address mutual concerns associated with a particular metier. They join special interest clubs for camaraderie and to further their avocations. Clubs and other affiliate groups are particularly important to computer folk, who can benefit from sharing and comparing experiences. But just as a person can grab the wrong end of a club, a club can grab the wrong end of people.
Groucho Marx had it all figured
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Mad Dog 21/21: Big Indians, Little Indians
July 24, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM is pumping something like $6 billion (or nearly 20 percent of its net worth) into its operations in India. This bold move is a big step that could, if the services business follows the trajectory of the PC business, first make India the primary source of IBM’s services personnel and later allow an Indian company to acquire the whole division. But in its rush to capitalize on the Indians of South Asia, IBM and the many other computer companies facing east are overlooking the possibilities offered by some other Indians: Native Americans.
It’s easy to understand how this
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Mad Dog 21/21: Big Indians, Little Indians
July 24, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM is pumping something like $6 billion (or nearly 20 percent of its net worth) into its operations in India. This bold move is a big step that could, if the services business follows the trajectory of the PC business, first make India the primary source of IBM’s services personnel and later allow an Indian company to acquire the whole division. But in its rush to capitalize on the Indians of South Asia, IBM and the many other computer companies facing east are overlooking the possibilities offered by some other Indians: Native Americans.
It’s easy to understand how this
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Mad Dog 21/21: Big Indians, Little Indians
July 24, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIBM is pumping something like $6 billion (or nearly 20 percent of its net worth) into its operations in India. This bold move is a big step that could, if the services business follows the trajectory of the PC business, first make India the primary source of IBM’s services personnel and later allow an Indian company to acquire the whole division. But in its rush to capitalize on the Indians of South Asia, IBM and the many other computer companies facing east are overlooking the possibilities offered by some other Indians: Native Americans.
It’s easy to understand how this
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Mad Dog 21/21: Patent Depending
May 22, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreWhen you think of rights granted by law, such as the right to express your opinion, you usually think in positive terms. Positive rights guarantee freedom of action. If you’re willing to obey some rules and follow some procedures, you can own some property, you can drive a car, you can publish an article about patents that includes controversial opinions. Patent rights are different. They are negative rights. They allow you to restrict the activity of others. There are other negative rights in the law, of course, such as the right to exclude others from your home. But few negative