The important questions - by Tom Tomorrow

[caseymoz]

74. Oh? I just looked it up.

In my Webster's New World College Dictionary that I was required to buy in journalism school. It's not in there. Now, I did buy that in the eighties, but it appears the term was a bit remote at least. And of course, I said the term was either new or remote, so that just demonstrates again that you don't understand relevance.

Even so, I looked it up on dictionary.com, and this is what they say about the word's origins:

A word coined by Jack E. Myers to represent current and future lines of products implementing the concepts of his MetaModel, and also to designate his company The Metadata Company that would develop and market those products.
A data and publication search performed when Myers coined the term, early in the summer of 1969, did not discover any use either of the word "metadata" or "meta data". Myers used the term in a 1973 product brochure and it is an Incontestable registered U.S. Trademark.

So, they not only know it wasn't use seventy years ago, but they know the exact time it was coined, who coined it, what use they had, and that the use was remote and very specialized until the government recently took over Mr. Myers' Trademark apparently as a kind of Orwellian eminent domain. And it appears the government has assigned it a different meaning. All I know is what the meaning sounds like it should be.

Seventy years? More like forty, but you did just pull that out of your ass, didn't you? Like me, you only heard the term the for the first time five weeks ago, and so you presumed it always existed with the current usage. This is exactly what a fascist government loves you to do for it. You've been well-trained.

I'll tell what: someone with your wisdom, intellect and fearlessness belongs in a different party than I do. I don't even respect you enough now to refrain from insulting you. So with that, you go on ignore. Goodbye.