[Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

[Brian]

Ok Shakespeare. But in plain english you appear to be saying that
corporations are inherently greedy and have a tendency to be evil. Sure, but
we expect more out of GOOG. This is not MSFT we are talking about.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>wrote:

> Brian wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >>> The dataset you need to train an OCR system to be as good as theirs is
> >>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>> raw images and the plain text. They aren't making it easy to get either
> >>>
> >> of
> >>
> >>> those things :( They have presumably improved the software in other
> ways
> >>>
> >> as
> >>
> >>> well..
> >>>
> >>> WTF GOOG?
> >>>
> >> Well, when your shorthand uses their stock ticker symbol, your argument
> >> has already been coopted.
> >>
> >> --Michael Snow
> >>
> > I get the joke but um, I used it on purpose and which one of my arguments
> > been "coopted" ??
> >
> Coopting is not like rebutting; it does not bite chunks out of specific
> pieces, it swallows whole. Symbols are powerful things, perhaps even
> more so outside the mathematical logic of argument. They do not serve
> only your purposes, even if you use them purposefully. My observations
> may be wry, but they are not entirely in jest.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
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