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Hmm, they're parsing the reports a bit stronger than I am. The nomination is held back for now, but it hasn't quite shuffled off the mortal coil yet. PS - If f

Hmm, they're parsing the reports a bit stronger than I am. The nomination is held back for now, but it hasn't quite shuffled off the mortal coil yet. PS - If folks are interested, the new satellite USPTO office in San Jose would love to hear from you! Come to Hacker Dojo and talk to the Hackers & Founders team if you want help setting something up with the USPTO staff. Or talk to Silicon Valley Leadership Group, who also has good relationships with them (probably better, to be fair!).

dragonwriter 12y ago
> Hmm, they're parsing the reports a bit stronger than I am. The nomination is held back for now, but it hasn't quite shuffled off the mortal coil yet. Its not even clear that the planned nomination was ever even real -- it was claimed in an "e-mail newsletter" by an author citing anonymous "reliable sources" and then picked up by outlets with broader readership (like Ars) and reported (and headlined) as fact; whether the origin was a result of real knowledgeable people leaking information, or a trial balloon, or people wanting to assure a contrary result pretending to knowledge to create political pressure in the opposite direction or, the author of an email newsletter making stuff up to get attention, or any of a million other ways Washington rumors get manufactured is far from clear.
- forgotAgain 12y ago
  If Senators were commenting on it then it was real.
  - dragonwriter 12y ago
    > If Senators were commenting on it then it was real. Senators comment on things that aren't real (either because of erroneous beliefs about what is real or because they see political advantage in commenting even though they correctly believe it to be unreal) all the time. Senators are, as a class, neither omniscient nor omnibenevolent.
    - HistoryInAction 12y ago
      As they say in DC, though, "perception is reality."
- HistoryInAction 12y ago
  > Its not even clear that the planned nomination was ever even real -- it was claimed in an "e-mail newsletter" by an author citing anonymous "reliable sources" and then picked up by outlets with broader readership (like Ars) and reported (and headlined) as fact; whether the origin was a result of real knowledgeable people leaking information, or a trial balloon, or people wanting to assure a contrary result pretending to knowledge to create political pressure in the opposite direction or, the author of an email newsletter making stuff up to get attention, or any of a million other ways Washington rumors get manufactured is far from clear. It's a fair point, as we don't and likely won't know the why. Hell, I see the event chain as a not-unlikely consolation prize that "we" defeated an opponent of patent reform at least, even if the patent reform legislation failed. But also, we were so badly defeated on the legislative front, the White House could have wanted to test if they needed to switch positions based on relative political strength, if we couldn't stop the nomination. Having just gotten back from DC to talk startup visa implementation, it's been underlined to me how much goes on under the surface in that town...
- beauzero 12y ago
  "floated" is the term you are looking for.

dragonwriter 12y ago

> Hmm, they're parsing the reports a bit stronger than I am. The nomination is held back for now, but it hasn't quite shuffled off the mortal coil yet. Its not even clear that the planned nomination was ever even real -- it was claimed in an "e-mail newsletter" by an author citing anonymous "reliable sources" and then picked up by outlets with broader readership (like Ars) and reported (and headlined) as fact; whether the origin was a result of real knowledgeable people leaking information, or a trial balloon, or people wanting to assure a contrary result pretending to knowledge to create political pressure in the opposite direction or, the author of an email newsletter making stuff up to get attention, or any of a million other ways Washington rumors get manufactured is far from clear.

forgotAgain 12y ago
If Senators were commenting on it then it was real.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  > If Senators were commenting on it then it was real. Senators comment on things that aren't real (either because of erroneous beliefs about what is real or because they see political advantage in commenting even though they correctly believe it to be unreal) all the time. Senators are, as a class, neither omniscient nor omnibenevolent.
  - HistoryInAction 12y ago
    As they say in DC, though, "perception is reality."
HistoryInAction 12y ago
> Its not even clear that the planned nomination was ever even real -- it was claimed in an "e-mail newsletter" by an author citing anonymous "reliable sources" and then picked up by outlets with broader readership (like Ars) and reported (and headlined) as fact; whether the origin was a result of real knowledgeable people leaking information, or a trial balloon, or people wanting to assure a contrary result pretending to knowledge to create political pressure in the opposite direction or, the author of an email newsletter making stuff up to get attention, or any of a million other ways Washington rumors get manufactured is far from clear. It's a fair point, as we don't and likely won't know the why. Hell, I see the event chain as a not-unlikely consolation prize that "we" defeated an opponent of patent reform at least, even if the patent reform legislation failed. But also, we were so badly defeated on the legislative front, the White House could have wanted to test if they needed to switch positions based on relative political strength, if we couldn't stop the nomination. Having just gotten back from DC to talk startup visa implementation, it's been underlined to me how much goes on under the surface in that town...
beauzero 12y ago
"floated" is the term you are looking for.