Hi all.
It seems campaignforcreativity are getting geared up for the final push. A friend forwarded me the mail below (from Simon Gentry) which was posted to their list.
Good luck,
Malcohol.
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We are now less than 54 days away from the final vote on the CII Directive in the European Parliament. That means we have about 20 working days to get our message across to MEPs.
I would like to know if you would be willing to give up a day or two to come to Brussels or Strasbourg to knock on doors and speak to MEPs about CIIs and patenting.
We are planning four or five "fly-ins" between now and 6 July (the day of the vote). The first will be a trip to Strasbourg on 7/8 June. Then there will be three trip to Brussels on 14/15 June, 21/22/23 June and 28/29 June. The final, final push will be in the hours before the vote in Strasbourg on 5/6 July.
I am hoping that you will be able to make one or two of these trips. Please let me know if you are interested.
Regards and thanks
Simon
P.S. Also, please don't forget that there are lots of other useful actions that you can take before the vote. Please go to the Action page on the website for some suggestions.
Protect innovation, protect patents: Take action now! Go to http://www.campaignforcreativity.org and send an email to your MEPs.
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"Malcolm Tyrrell" malcohol@eircom.net writes:
It seems campaignforcreativity are getting geared up for the final push.
Here's a very useful press release for any MEP that thinks that SMEs want software patents:
http://www.ueapme.com/docs/press_releases/pr_2005/050427_CIIcampaign.pdf
(ueapme represent 11 million SMEs, and say swpats are not wanted)
Can someone tell me the javascript/whatever code needed for a webpage to display "There are X days until the second reading", where "X" is the number?
Just that text string, nothing fancy.
On Mon 16 May 2005 23:22, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Can someone tell me the javascript/whatever code needed for a webpage to display "There are X days until the second reading", where "X" is the number?
Just that text string, nothing fancy.
<script type="text/javascript"> millisecs_left = (new Date("June 1 2005")) - (new Date()); document.write( "There are " + Math.floor( millisecs_left/1000/60/60/24 ) + " days until the second reading." ); </script>
It's been a long time since I used JavaScript so I am not sure how browsers will handle the above "condensed code". The following might be safer:
<script type="text/javascript"> now = new Date(); deadline = new Date("July 1 2005"); millisecs_left = deadline - now; days_left = Math.floor( ( ( (millisecs_left/1000) /60) / 60) / 24 ); document.write( "There are " + days_left + " days until the second reading." ); </script>
I've tested and it works but YMMV.
Regards, Barry O'Donovan http://www.barryodonovan.com/
The attached file should be what you need.
Note that the date has to be in mm/dd/yyyy format.
I just knocked it up in a few minutes , so if you find any problems with it let me know.
Sean
Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Can someone tell me the javascript/whatever code needed for a webpage to display "There are X days until the second reading", where "X" is the number?
Just that text string, nothing fancy.
From campaignfor[hampering]creativity's final push:
We are now less than 54 days away from [...] That means we have about 20 working days to get our message across to MEPs.
I love that bit. Gentry's "grassroots" campaigners won't do anything on weekends or public holidays :)