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Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues
FirstEdition writes "Will this never end! Linux Business & Technology writes that Charlie Northrup, the guy in New Jersey whose prior art on what looks to be Web services dates back to 1994 and appears to trump anybody else's IP, has gotten another patent. Of course, he has transferred the IP to a spin off company populated mostly by lawyers. More details here."
Don't you follow real news? Rodney King got arrensted for DUI so i think Johnney Cochren will be busy for a while.
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Bah, I just vote Libertarian. Cutting off 9/10ths of the federal budget seems like a great place to start governmental reform.
Sorry. The Libertarians are hopelessly mired in ideological purity. The Libertarian party line on immigration is that it should be unrestricted. OK, I understand why they take that position. It's part of their "all government restrictions are bad" ideology. They argue, based on economic theory, that equilibrium would be established and immigration would eventually stabilize.
Let's think about that for a minute. Do we really want to be in economic and cultural equilibrium with Mexico? Of course not. We've worked hard to build the US into what it is, and we're not going to chunk it down the toilet economicly, and create our very own Quebec problem in the Southern tier. We're having a hard enough time preventing that as it is.
The Libertarian stand on immigration begs the question "what's the point of having a nation anyway?".
Don't get me wrong. I agree with some of their stands, in particular, I think they've got the drug issue dead right. Of course I'd make it legal, tax it like crazy, and plow most of that new revenue back into treatment programs and *real* drug awareness education, not silly propoganda that every teenager knows isn't true (e.g., smoke one joint and you become an instant loser).
If the ideological purity isn't a problem, the various interpretations of it certainly are. I'll never forget when I was a kid, John Anderson, the Libertarian for President wanted to dismantle our nuclear missiles unilaterally. I spent the next few years thinking the Libertarian party was some kind of proxy for the Left. OTOH, the Libertarian stand on Free Trade makes them a proxy for the Right. Once more, Free Trade is one of those issues that begs the question "why have nations?" and if you don't have nations, what do you have? One World Government. Forget that.
The Libertarian party needs a department of Ida Mae more than Congress does.
Basically... If you have a big pile of crap, the best way to "fix things" is to throw out the whole pile and start over. With a bathtub the size of the Pacific Ocean, there's not much hope of finding a living baby in there...
Oh, and... when you throw out that whole pile of crap all at once, who is going to clean up after the riot that goes down when welfare checks stop flowing to the inner cities? How happy will you be when you bite into a hotdog and find a piece of some worker's toenails... or toes? (no more FDA, no more Pure Food and Drug Act) What will you say when your wages are cut to $1.20/hr (no more minimum wage) and you get your leg smashed by some equipment (no more OSHA to approve the equipment)?
In other words, because you don't like the violence against Christians in the arena, you are going to burn down Rome and rebuild it. That's a good analogy I think. Constantine came to power and converted the Romans. Somebody needs to convert the lawyers.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?