" Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
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-- Proverbs 29:18, King James Bible (KJV)
"Times change, but people do not."-- Arvids Kaulins (1914-1987, b. Lejasciems, Latvia, d. Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)Victor Davis Hanson has the modern story at National Review Online at History Never Quite Ends
, writing about the present world economic and political climate, that: "Whatever else changes, human nature does not."
Read the whole story here
.Hat tip to CaryGEE.
In the previous LawPundit posting
we did not discuss the Apple claim that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringed on the iPad2 because (using our English translation from the original German-language motion): " Tab 10.1 copies the prominent thin profile of the iPad2
".Alas, dear Apple, you are at least 2000 years too late in your design claim for "thin" writing tablets. You were preceded by the " wafer thin
" Vindolanda wooden tablets, which are dated to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.As written at the British Museum
and at Wikipedia
, quoting the Wikipedia: "The Vindolanda tablets
are "the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain". [1]
[2]
Written on fragments of thin, post-card sized wooden leaf-tablets with carbon-based ink, the tablets date to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD (roughly contemporary with Hadrian's Wall
). Although similar records on papyrus
were known from elsewhere in the Roman Empire
, wooden tablets with ink text had not been recovered until 1973, when archaeologist Robin Birley
discovered these artefacts at the site of a Roman fort
in Vindolanda
, northern England. [1]
[3]
"
Roman writing tablet from the Vindolanda Roman fort of Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland (1st-2nd century AD). Tablet 343: Letter from Octavius to Candidus concerning supplies of wheat, hides and sinews. British Museum (London) | Author = Michel wal
) | 2008. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
When we look at these 2000-year old tablets, we see that not too much has changed in the shape of the "outer" rectangular design for ""thin" tablet writing that Apple has in fact copied from our forebears and to which it is wrongfully and shamefully trying to claim exclusive rights.
I found a short informative write-up about a Stanford Law classmate, Marshall Goldberg, at The Kiski School
famous alumni page, where they write, inter alia: "... you've probably seen Marshall's work in your living room more times than you can count... [e.g.] L.A. Law... The Paper Chase."
See some of his credits at The Kiski School
(about the school here
).