but my name is on it

A broad coalition of tech firms including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Tumblr and Twitter are protesting an injunction that would require ISP’s and search engines to stop linking to illegal services.

aimsinpeng.com

French tradition views “the work as the child” of an author who is granted moral guardian rights and who is legally the victim of misuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_France#Moral_rights_2

Google honestly couldn’t care less, 

making money selling paper towels against gruesome ISIS videos.

I still cannot see any intellectual foundation for the tech industry’s attack on societal discretion, or an author’s right to control. 

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a27

And so it seems to me a better and more just victory for progress and freedom would involve moral discretion by the tech firms in power, and an individual's 1) right to privacy, 2) control over the data saved about you, and 3) control over the use and sale of the digital things you create.

Instead we are selling our digital selves too cheaply for free blogs, email and photo services, and turning a blind eye to immorality.

sticker shock

yes. it’s true.

why didn't we think of this?

never too late

"How long've I been sleeping?"

"How long've I been drifting alone through the night?"

"How long've I been running for that morning flight?"

"Through the whispered promises and the changing light."

"Of the bed where we both lie." 

"Late for the sky."

1974, #14 on Billboard’s Pop Albums Chart

Empire of Lights, by René Magritte, 

Belgian surrealist, 1953-1954

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Magritte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_for_the_Sky 

why they call it summit

Summit, New Jersey is seated in the Watchung Mountains, a series of hills topping out at about 500 feet, according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchung_Mountains

Google calculated I was about 380 feet above sea level when I took that photo of lower Manhattan.

Google also estimated I was “approximately 23 miles” in a straight line from lower Manhattan.

So let’s do the math using Wikipedia’s page of calculations determining horizon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon

If d is the distance to the horizon and h = 380 feet, the square root of 380= 19.49, times 1.22 = 23.78. Accurate within ¾’s of a mile.

Not bad, Google.

related but different

http://clocktowertenants.com/2015/06/and-i-say-its-alright.html

http://clocktowertenants.com/2013/07/sun-flower.html