Comments on: Open Thread #38

By: andy

andy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:54:16 +0000

When one witnesses an argument over the origin of MP3 players, one wonders what kind of offline lives the Expat and the Kyopo are leading.

With that aside.

Jeez get a grip guys!! I mean MP3 players?? Get a life!!

By: Railwaycharm

Railwaycharm — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:07:39 +0000

Pawi, if you were clear from the get-go about the device (BFD), not the technology, we could have saved a lot of time. I hate to deflate you; an Mp3 player is hardly a world changing invention.

By: pawikirogi

pawikirogi — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:20:46 +0000

‘probably more like railwaycharm just can’t stand your posts.’

ah, but YOU love them. that’s for sure.

pawikirogi™

By: cmm

cmm — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:02:11 +0000

probably more like railwaycharm just can’t stand your posts.

By: pawikirogi

pawikirogi — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:30:08 +0000

‘To clarify, it was a Korean company that made the first mp3 player (Saehan), which was based on a flash drive rather than a hard drive.’ bumfromkorea

and it was ‘popular mechanics’ that saw the first mp3 player as significant enough to warrant a mention in a top fifty list, not pawikirogi. they credit the koreans.

railwaycharm just can’t stand that.

By: abcdefg

abcdefg — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:55:42 +0000

Might as well drop this off here. Alba’s blog (Spanish girl from Misuda):

http://badalona-seoul.blogspot.com/

By: Linkd

Linkd — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:14:12 +0000

Didn’t work. Better take the lawyer’s advice; that’s what we pay him for.

By: Linkd

Linkd — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:13:25 +0000

Or you can do “left arrow-sub-right arrow”, or “left-arrow-sup-right arrow”

I’ll give it a try, since I’ve never done it before.

By: Brendon Carr (Korea Law Blog)

Brendon Carr (Korea Law Blog) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:33:37 +0000

R. Elgin:

Try looking at this lawyer site, regarding the tainted beef scandal in the U.S.

Actually, that lawyer site (Mad Cow Blog) is one of the parts of the US food safety system that gives me confidence. There are always problems, but in the US the people have realistic private remedies as well as sometimes-effective government response. Since the politics are always dirty, wherever you are, thank God for the trial lawyers and the private remedies. That fear keeps them on their game; when they forget, or get fancy, they get slapped.

See, I’m a pro-trial lawyer conservative, unlike those sneering characters at Overlawyered.com. Real injuries need real remedies, and businesses need the fear of having to make good on such remedies.

I was also pleased to see that my UW law school classmate David Babcock is working at Marler Clark, the food-safety law firm behind Mad Cow Blog. Babcock’s a great guy, very smart and entirely decent, and I am sure that his clients are in the best hands.

bumfromkorea:

Totally off topic, but how do you make that TM? I need to know so that I can increase my smartassedness.

The trademark symbol can be entered by the key combination Option+2 (i.e., hold down the “Option” key while pressing the number 2) on Mac OS X. On Windows, it’s a little harder — of course it is! — Alt+0153 on the keypad (i.e. hold down “Alt” while entering the string “0153″). Here’s more if you’re curious about the others.

You’re welcome. I am always happy to contribute to increased smartassitude.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:32:08 +0000

A key difference between US and Korean food chains is that many people in the US live within driving distance of a farmers’ market or farm that sells locally raised and slaughtered meats, often grass-fed, at prices cheaper than what Koreans pay for grain-fed factory farm stuff. Just yesterday, I picked up some goat bones, lamb bones, calf liver, and beef marrow, all at $5-6 a pound. Take that, sollungtang lovers! The farm store is unmanned and uses an honor system. Customers write up their own sales slips and leave the money under a cup between a fridge and a freezer stocked with hundreds of dollars worth of meat.