-Grand Theft Blotto

-Grand Theft Ocho

Prequels:

-Grand Theft Taco

-Grand Theft Soap Box Derby

-Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle in the Second Degree

(The highlight for me was that Vernor Vinge came to it, in the time slot right before his keynote, and I got to chat with him and a small group of really cool people for about an hour after his talk.)

That was my first time speaking at a conference, and I’m afraid it may all be downhill from there.

Re: the last line, do you really think that authoring an imperfect OLC opinion — even if it rose to the level of malpractice, which I think is not clear — really amounts to a war crime? Does that mean that all the other lawyers who have participated in providing legal justifications for certain war on terror tactics, or the lawyers defending those who carried out such tactics, are also war criminals?

Whatever happened to the plan for Stony Brook to buy Touro Law instead of building a law school from scratch?

One important line is that law firms aren’t the only consumers of lawyers; governments and public-interest groups also need legal work. Graduating lawyers who aren’t crippled with debt is one way to provide lawyers to do society’s work. Another goal is to direct the content of legal education so that it contains stronger emphasis on public service and less emphasis on self-interest (not that many states do this, but one does see arguments that state-funded law schools ought to).

The flow of lawyers among states is another reason that some states fund law schools. The smallest states might not have critical mass to support a law school without funding; some states might lose too many graduates to other states unless they produced a local oversupply. This last reason seems particularly inappropriate for New York, which has a constant inward stream of out-of-state law school graduates sitting for the New York bar.

Anyway, I’m just pointing out that there are reasons why many reasonable people don’t want the let the market sort things out by itself when it comes to funding law schools. It’s hard to see those reasons adding up to three new law schools in New York, though.

Maybe this will just be an initial disequilibrium. If no one wants to attend Binghamton’s law school, they probably won’t be able to afford the faculty, so the proper equilibrium will be restored in time.

This is all by way of arrant speculation, if it weren’t obvious.

Daniel Jurin

But one thing is for sure. Since PPC are keywords based it is very easy for Editors to pickit out and decline those keywords which I’ve seen MS Adcenter is doing.

Seems to be so easy why so much noise on it?

Also, what about the fact that Google sponsored links don’t make a distinction between whether the user wants or doesn’t want the keyword? If I type INCLUSIVE PACKAGE HOLIDAY into google.co.uk (a “package holiday” is what we call a vacation package in the UK) then I get a list of matches and associated sponsored links. If, however, I type INCLUSIVE PACKAGE -HOLIDAY then sure enough, the matches no longer contain the word “holiday” but the sponsored links do still contain it. I explicitly ask NOT to have an links with the word “holiday” in them, and yet I get things like this:

All inclusive holidays All inclusive beach holidays Book all inclusive holidays cheap www.allinclusivebeach.com

If a Rescuecom wanted to link to a Google search from their own site, and wished to avoid “confusing” customers by bringing up references to other companies providing a similar service, they would want to use a search term such as RESCUECOM -ABC -DEF -GHI (or whatever their competitors are called). However, although this would indeed remove ABC, DEF and GHI from the search results, it would probably increase the likelihood that their ads would be displayed, not decrease it.

Richard