Patrick O'Keefe

Search for new Dolphins coach will include minorities

I understand the rule and it’s not too bad. But, things change when you have a hot property. Saban is arguably the biggest NFL coaching prospect in the college ranks. You can’t wait and play games by interviewing people you aren’t really interested in. You know that the Dolphins want him because he is such a hot property and the job is his for the taking.

So, how can such a meeting with a minority candidate NOT be a token meeting? It IS a token meeting and there is no shame in it. From all indications, we want Saban and it is Saban’s job. Any interviews are simply backups and there is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with being honest and hiring the guy you want to hire. In Saban’s case, it is well justified. Again, he is a hot property.

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My brother is reporting that ESPN is reporting that the Yankees, Dodgers and Diamondbacks have completed a 3 team swap that will bring Johnson to the Yankees.

Yankees get: Randy Johnson.
Diamondbacks get: Brad Penny, Yhenzy Brazoban and Shawn Green.
Dodgers get: Javier Vazquez, Eric Duncan and Dioner Navarro.

Kind of disappointing to be dealing Duncan and Navarro, but I like A-Rod and Posada, so I’m not that hurt.

Welcome to the team, Randy!

A preliminary look at the rotation:

Johnson, Mussina, Pavano (assuming its announced), Brown (?), Wright

I say we go sign Odalis Perez and make it two lefties!

Not a bad deal. Thank you for holding out for something that wasn’t COMPLETELY INSANE.

Edit: Added more details to the trades.

Excellent! At the Mase i-Squad, I just won a Game Boy Advance SP – Platinum for my entry in the uploads contest. Basically, they were giving out two, one for each upload category. The two categories were buddy icons and banners. People create the graphics and uploaded. This was my (winning) entry:

MAWarehouse.com has launched. It is an online shop for martial artists, featuring books, equipment, protective gear, training tools, uniforms and videos.

From a blog post at Chu Yeow’s blog:

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Chu Yeow:

I just downloaded and watched the latest episode of The Simpsons…

Patrick:

Downloaded and watched? Kind of disappointing.

Chu Yeow:

Patrick: Hmm? Did I say something wrong?

Stephan:

I don’t think there is anything wrong with downloading the newest episodes to your computer. What’s the difference with that and recording them onto a tape? As long as you do not sell the recording you, by law, are not doing anything wrong. Fox has released only up to season 4 and there are 11 more to go, it took them almost 7 yrs. to get those out, it will take them a lot longer to get the others out.

Patrick:

I don’t really approve of the practice, that’s all. Where the difference is, from what Stephan said, is distribution. If you record it for your own private viewing, that is one thing… making copies available for mass distribution is another. That is what is wrong. While I sympathize with you not being able to watch new episodes… that isn’t an excuse and it doesn’t give you the right. Neither does “Fox takes too long for the DVDs, I don’t want to wait!” It just doesn’t. That is why I am disappointed. But, it seems you may not have known it was wrong, so its not that big a deal. I don’t think you’d knowingly do it.

The sad thing is that it’ll stay up, most likely. This is a trend… a lot of people just don’t care about the property of others. I guess you’d have to have someone steal, copy, distribute and mess with your stuff to fully appreciate it. People like to try to take advantage of the communities I run – my property and sweat and tears – all the time, so I am very hardened to this type of thing.

Stephan:

Patrick,

I think the difference though, is the fact that not everyone has a TV tuner video card in their PC and no one is making a profit by disitributing these episodes. So, there really is no harm. Now, there are people who get these episodes and use something like DVD Shrink to make a DVD compilation of them and sell them which is wrong, because in the long run it does affect the sales of Fox.

I have friends that used to rent movies, watch them, and then copy them to a blank videocassette. Is that wrong? They weren’t selling the copies, just making a single one for their viewing. I think the whole Digital Rights Management issue is still a very touchy thing that has not been defined very well by the government.

I have episodes from seasons 10, 11, 12, and 13. I don’t give them to anybody but I like to watch them from time to time. I did not obtain them by recording them but from a friend. He did not sell them to me. Does that make it right? I don’t know. I know that when those seasons come out on DVD I will buy them anyway because I want to be able to get the features of the DVD and watch them on my television.

Patrick:

Stephen,

Plenty of people would agree with you. There is no harm, no one is profiting. To me, that doesn’t matter. Just because someone is not profiting off of something, that doesn’t make it less wrong. If someone copies my logo and throws it on their non-profit website, is that cool? No, its not. More than not cool, it is unethical and despicable. Besides, this does affect Fox long term. If you can download every episode, why wait for the DVD at all? Forget DVDs, we don’t need to buy them, we can just download every episode we want! In fact, Fox doesn’t need our money – they’re just an evil corporation! I’m the average working man who is scraping together a living – I DESERVE IT!!! (I know that’s exagerating and that’s not you, but there are people out there like that…) You say you will buy the DVDs and I believe you, but there is more to it then that, for me. Copies of a program are not to be distributed without permission from the property owner of the program. That is what I respect above all else.

Yes, what your friends did was wrong. For example, if you buy a CD, you now own one license of each song on that CD for you any of your personal listening pleasure. Burn the songs and listen to them on your PC and your iPod. Don’t distribute them. If you rent, you are doing just that – renting, a temporary situation. You can view it for as long as your rental period is current. If you rent a movie for 5 days, you can view it for 5 days, for example. Making copies to view beyond that 5 days is what makes it wrong. If you want to view the movie beyond that, rent it again or buy (a single household license, in essence) of that movie. If people make a copy or two of that and give it to their mother and brother, that’s not a big deal. But, when someone is making copies and sending to more than a couple of people (bunches of family, friends, even people they don’t know that well), that is pretty bad, in my opinion.

Patrick:

Stephan! Sorry, typo. (That is like the first time I have ever spelt Stephan, Stephen. :))

Dumb Anonymous Person:

It’s a cartoon. Get a life and take off that Star-Trek costume.

Patrick:

I expected comments like that (that was on the rude/disrespectful side, though). I know I am in the minority when it comes to this issue. Online, at least. But, like I said, I’ve been hardened to this by having people take advantage of me and the media (“cartoons”) that I have created, so that’s my perspective, for what it is worth.

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So, yeah. I am the extemist here, I guess. :) I probably shouldn’t have said anything.

It’s good to see that I can disagree in such detail with one of my best friends and not have it become disrespectful or something that makes us less of friends.

But, the attention should be off of me there because a guy just posted that Mozilla is … poop, essentially. Poor guy. Good thing he didn’t leave an e-mail address! :)

As it looks like Pedro is headed to the Mets, I just wanted to thank Mr. Steinbrenner and those responsible for not bringing him to the Yankees.

I talked about it and talked about it and talked about it and talked about it and talked about it and pleaded to the Boss. Finally, it appears to be over. Let’s hope!

The best thing about it is that it appears we never really got serious with the guy.

THANK YOU!

The blacklist I installed is working brilliantly. Since yesterday, I have had 15 attempts … all picked up. I highly recommend that any Nucleus users install it.

If Milton wants 3 years/24 million and we offered 3 years/21 million and Odalis Perez wants 3 years/18-21 million, why don’t we just take a crack at Perez? Or, heck, sign both?

The i-Squad stuff I ordered came a few days ago. Pretty neat. The Mase CD is signed:

“Jesus Heals!

Ma$e”