Life Line
by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1993
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…facts help Wiley, for we can find no basic principle of copyright law that suggests that publishers are especially entitled to such rights. FINALLY! Someone's finally seen what Robert Heinlein wrote in Life-Line and essentially just paraphrased it: > There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number…
on “Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks” ↗…medical condition costing $200k) pay $1, and in the future approximately 5 of them get sick and receive $200k. If one could see the future and determine who will become sick (as in Robert Heinlein's "Life Line"), it would indeed destroy the insurance business model. But I can't see what this has to do with education - near as I can tell, education is not about hedging risk in any way remotely comparable to…
on “The Death Of Bundling In University Education?” ↗…is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." - Robert Heinlein, Life Line, 1939 [See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line ]
on “Heinlein on bailouts” ↗…common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit. That is all" - from "Life-Line" by Robert Heinlein (1938)
on “Fighting With Teenagers: A Copyright Story” ↗…doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. R. A. Heinlein, "Life-Line", 1939
on “How 38 Monks Took on the Funeral Cartel and Won” ↗…is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line", 1939
on “New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise” ↗…doctrine is not supported by statute not common law. Neither individuals not corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. R. A. Heinlein, Life-Line (1939)
on “Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection” ↗Does this remind anyone else of that Robert Heinlein story, Life-Line [1]? In it a scientist builds a machine that can accurately predict the day someone will die, and the trouble that comes from that. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line
on “AI can predict if you'll die soon – but we've no idea how it works” ↗…doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." Robert Heinlein in "Life-Line"
on “Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over” ↗…doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. -- Robert Heinlein, Life-Line
on “It's not a crime if we do it with an app” ↗