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Reason on IP Protection and Creativity
rnturn writes "A long but interesting article over at Reasononline discusses a paper written by a pair of economists and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (!) and the reactions to it of several other economists. A snippet from the article: 'Moreover, U.S. court decisions in the 1980s that strengthened patent protection for software led to less innovation. "Far from unleashing a flurry of new innovative activity," Maskin and Bessen write, "these stronger property rights ushered in a period of stagnant, if not declining, R&D among those industries and firms that patented most."' Not exactly news to most readers but it appears that their paper is making waves in economic circles."
Now you may hate the entire country of France, but they have a saying, "Der er biler paa striben i aften"
Now that's some crazy lookin' French.
Now that's some crazy lookin' French.
No shit... it looks more like Dutch or German.
Coming soon - pyrogyra
french, dutch, german we hate them all, what does it matter. We're not racist, we hate everyone.
"Do not be swept up in the momentum of mediocrity." - anon
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hi.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
where are this man's funny mods?
Why not fork?
Data stabbed Troi and something... and something... and whatever... who cares?
Laws are for people with no friends.
It was a joke... absolutely nothing to do with the current "war" situation.
If we want a war discussion my thoughts are everyone involved has a bad position. The American Government has little significant proof or backing and too cavalier an attitude about how well this will go. The French want to stay out of fighting altogether and don't want to get the ire up of an already upset muslim population in their country. The Arab nations do little within their own area but complain about what the other is doing to shift blame often from their own poor treatment of their people. The Germans have significant monitary considerations to think about in regards to the number of companies and nature of business that they do with Iraq. Likewise the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans stand to lose significant amounts of money in regards to a possible take over of Iraq (BILLIONS). Turkey wants northern Iraq and the oil fields. Isreal wants everyone to focus on the Americans so they can keep killing Palestinians. The Palestinians want someone (anyone) to see the terrorism that's being perpretrated on them. And the Brits... hmmm... where are the Brits in all this... Well I think brits will do pretty much anything to the direct opposite of the French. Plus I'm sure there's some back end dealing in regards to trade or some other compensations taking place.
Over all it's a crap war. It's a damned if you do damned if you don't problem. If we do then we HAVE to start thinking about where we go next. N. Korea, Iran, Saudi, Isreal, Syria, Africa, Phillipines, etc. If we don't we're weak, wishy washy, we need to but out of everyone elses business, let people die, it's all okay.
I honestly don't know where I stand on invading Iraq. I don't like not doing something and to this point (12 years of policing, negotiations, and posturing) I don't see anything changing without some other kind of pressure. Then again I don't want the Iraqi people to suffer even another day of the hardships they have or have anything worse (the natural things that come with war).
"Do not be swept up in the momentum of mediocrity." - anon
Mod parent up. That's a pretty good synopsis, as I see it.
BTW: "nhavar"? LadyHawke reference? Damn, I loved that movie.
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
There, it's over.
Wah!