Administrivia

The following pertains to this site and all attached pages –

1. The validity of the concept of “intellectual property” has been a subject of considerable debate, discussion and disagreement on other blogs and email lists, in the Congress and the courts. In order to head off potential disputes pertaining to the IMPLEMENTATION of various interpretations of that concept, all content posted to the list on or after 19 January 2013, excepting content explicitly marked as copyrighted with whatever rights reserved within the message in which it initially appears, and excepting content originating outside the list and subject its own pre-existing license terms or other rights protections, shall be deemed covered by a Creative Commons Attribution License, which may be viewed at at:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

This work by Mike Blessing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://mikewb1971.wordpress.com/administrivia/.

2. This blog is a functional anarchy. It is moderated at the sole discretion of the blog owner, Michael W. Blessing, who will most likely only intervene in cases of:

a) Sustained ad hominem – i.e. written assaults on people which do not include actual substantive arguments;

b) Use of my blog for dissemination of “spam” (unsolicited commercial postings) or non-commercial equivalents

For both offenses, whatever penalties imposed are a warning, followed by “capital punishment” (being blocked from future postings). Guilt for both offenses shall be determined solely on the basis of my arbirtary, capricious judgment.

[Basic “rule” here is be civil to other posters – start making threats and you get the boot. Aside from that, this is Liberty Hall – feel free to spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard. Just don’t complain if the cat calls you one back.]