Email Exchange with Fitzpatrick is Up!

Some of you noticed that the link to the email exchange was down in the last post.  My bad – it was an issue with Google Apps.  The link is back up.  Enjoy!

An Ad Hominem Calumny! Email Exchange With Fitzpatrick and a Discussion on the US Legal System

Oh, I get it now.  Trying to get a rise out of me.  Nice try.  Mom is right – bully hooligans with what looks like complete disrespect for the law.

Here’s our email exchange (link is back up!).  Love the vocabulary though.  So far, some good words I learned:

ad hominem – arising or appealing to emotions

Emergency Shareholder Meeting that Didn’t Happen

I promised to write a blog post about what was supposed to be our shareholder meeting.  So here it goes: the meeting didn’t happen.  Or rather, Fitzpatrick and Myers from Davis Malm showed up and made for an awesome movie scene that is Facebook + Tarantino – blood & cussing. Cast:

Bernstein – wearing all black, clean, composed, careful not to come across as hostile in any way, but firm.

Hearing… and Learning…

Tail end of the hearing, approximate conversation:

Judge: Any progress on mediation?  Seems like other judges have recommended that you mediate.

Nikita: I would welcome mediation.

Fitzpatrick: No, Your Honor. In my personal opinion, Nikita can’t be mediated with.  He just threatens. Look at all he’s done [the usual anti-Bernstein drivel].

Nikita: Your Honor, Moshe isn’t the easiest person to work with, and I am sure I’m no walk in the park either, but we’ve built a 5MM business somehow and didn’t kill each other..  so…  seriously?

Judge: (to Fitzpatrick) Seems like he isn’t going away, being a 30% shareholder.  And, as you see, he learns.

Bernstein vs. Pritsker. Hearing on Bernstein’s Motion for Summary Judgment and Motion to Dismiss.

The hearing for my lawsuit with Moshe regarding access to books and records of the Corporation will be on May 29th, 2013 at 2pm in room 610 at the Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn.  For those interested, the docket number is MICV2012-03183C, although I doubt that it will be available to the public before the hearing, since the judge may have the docket for review.  If you’d like access, just ping me and I’ll make the documents available.

Anyway, let’s give this a shot in the spirit of fighting commentators.  The following is to be read out loud… fast… with expression:

Soft-Launch of Wiki-Law.com: Our Legal System is Ripe for Disruption

So, as some of you know, I am litigating with my business partners at JoVE, which recently almost lead to my being jailed.  So I think I am going to start writing about my experience in a bit greater detail and how it affected me.

And I am also taking this opportunity to “soft-launch” www.Wiki-Law.com.

So, some things I’ve learned:

How to spin up Wikimedia with EC2 and Elastic Storage on Amazon AMI instance

So, recently I spun up a Wikimedia instance on EC2.  More on that soon 🙂  In the meantime, just to leave a record for those also trying:

Spin up an EC2 instance and go to the console.  I spun up the Amazon AMI instance (default)

Use putty to connect (Amazon directions)

It’s All Our Fault…

“Hand over the drives or you are going to jail.”   I am in a courtroom and this was happening to me.

Did you know that, in Syria, over 80,000 people have died.  For comparison purposes, the death toll in Nagasaki was 60,000 to 80,000. Nagasaki is now in history books.  Syria is happening now…  just now. 

I am, of course, not comparing my situation with that of civilians in Syria, but bare with me – I do intend to make a point.

Windows 8 – Leaping into… Badassness

After seeing the really badass Win8 plug, I made the leap: my X200 is now running Win8…  not without trepidation (thank you Mr. Fitzpatrick for teaching me how to do forensic backups – much appreciated).

First impressions.  How the f do you shut this thing down?  Oh…  Settings…  that totally makes sense!  Unless you are not supposed to shut this thing down.  Ever.

First thing you need to learn not to miss the start menu: Win-Q.  Trust me.