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  1. Re:Maybe people are writing better patents...nope. on Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obama "reformed" patents to make them more "business friendly."

    Damn that socialist!

    It's hard to imagine anyone being easier on business than Bush Jr., but there you go.

  2. Re:Correlation != Causation on Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog · · Score: 1

    3. Allowance rate increases as average quality of patent applications increases.

    You have to be a troll. A reasonable person can't think this...

  3. Re:i am eager to see on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    be sad for the family.

    Don't be sad for Thatcher.

  4. Re:Good riddance on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 0

    if you were on the elite side of the fence...

  5. Re: A sad day on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In other words she ushered in the era of zero accountability for the rich and corporations.

    Sounds like she is partial author of the current turmoil.

  6. Julian Cope said it best... on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 0

    Now's a time of leper skin
    How it ends, how it begins
    Now's a time when patience files
    The fare-the-well that means fuck off.

    Rub thin the leper skin...

  7. lol wut? on Israeli Firm Makes Kilomile Claims For Electric Car Battery Tech · · Score: 1

    with stops required only every couple of hundred miles to refill the system with water.

    Then the system has a range of a "couple of hundred miles" and not 1000. It has a *charge* for 1000 miles, but the car's range is only as good as your worst stat.

  8. Re: instead of developing in house on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 1

    with free electric sheep!

  9. Re:Swtor on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 2

    you have to be connected to the Internet and have a special hardware coin acceptor box to get it to run. You have to feed a quarter to that sucker every 10 minutes.

  10. Re:LOL! American "priorities"! on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    - point

  11. Re:Not really the same on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 0

    Though what is being passed off as "education" is more or less specific job training and nothing to do with education, and this is especially true at the high school level and the "make education relevant to jobs" crowd would LOVE to see it totally apply to colleges.

    If you teach people in college how to be good workers with Microsoft office their "education" is irrelevant in less than two years.

  12. Re:LOL! American "priorities"! on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Our government is being managed for the benefit of corporate elites. It's the simplest and most reasonable explanation for what looks like total idiocy from the outside.

  13. Re:Sandwich Man on Brown vs. Startup Over a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    It wasn't even a "reselling" situation or even making money on delivery, it was a conduit to their own services as I understand it.

  14. Re:For now it looks like they may have to on Brown vs. Startup Over a Sandwich · · Score: 3, Funny

    asshole. Edward von Gerichten is now on the phone with every brown bag manufactuer in North America threatening trademark infringement. It's cashing in on "their good name."

  15. Re:F*ck Feces University on Brown vs. Startup Over a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    Yup.. I agree. Seems this would be a great opportunity for Brown to reel in this idiot and make a statement with its actions.

  16. Re:Gun Makers on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    it's called a typographical error.

    It's built for killing and maiming people, dogs, mooses, squirrels, and soda cans.

    Better? :)

  17. Re:Gun Makers on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    False equivalency. *Total* false equivalency.

    There is a big difference between prosecuting a make of a Claw Hammer because it was used in a murder and prosecuting a make of a gun. A gun is for killing or maiming people and is not built for killing people. A claw hammer is built for driving nails and not built for killing people.

    I don't think gun makers should be prosecuted either as I think the important thing is the killer's intent.

    This case is even worse than the gun case, though. If a safe is bought and used to hide someone's stash does that make the safe maker liable? I would say hell no. I would say the case of secret compartments is more dubious, but there are tons of things it could be used legally for and I don't think the manufacturer of that hiding place has anything to do with the issue.

  18. Re:Ah the perils of the media business model on Judge Rules That Resale of MP3s Violates Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Ah.. I must of hit a nerve.

  19. Re:Ah the perils of the media business model on Judge Rules That Resale of MP3s Violates Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Where did I call anyone a paid shill? I said it was pushing forward a RIAA-centered version of the argument.

    I also don't care if record executives get paid... as LONG as the artist gets paid in a fair way. And that's the rub. The RIAA is pushing forward ideas that take care of the artists when they *don't*. They've spend around 100 years of the recording industry making sure they screw their artists.

    I am all for the artist getting paid. I care about it a lot MORE than an RIAA middle man getting paid and I'm smart enough to know that the whine that the RIAA pushes forward about the artist are disingenuous.

  20. Re:1st sale doctrine on Judge Rules That Resale of MP3s Violates Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    It's going to take old fart judges dying and being replaced by judges born in the media age.

    I think 90% of the problems with media law is coming from the fact that our lawmakers and judges are analogous to "clueless users" right now. It's going to take time for that to work itself out, especially with the level of pompous that is currently in our Congress and the courts.

  21. Re:Ah the perils of the media business model on Judge Rules That Resale of MP3s Violates Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    At one time artists

    I stopped reading there. Anyone that brings "artists" into this discussion is bringing a record company-sponsored fallacy into the argument.

    The discussions about copyright at this level have NOTHING to do with artists. Zero.

    You might be right on the rest of the points, but you're conflating record companies and artists. It's exactly what the RIAA wants you to do and it's one of the things that has prevented smart discussion on music copyrights since the DAY that mp3 was invented.

  22. Re:Sorry. on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1

    In the U.S. right, factual means it goes along with my beliefs. It has nothing to do with facts.

    (This isn't an outside observation... I live in the U.S. and see this every day.)

  23. Re:Pbcl-cnfgn sbbq sbe gubhtug on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1, Funny

    If she's good in bed, just shut up.

  24. Re:Nooooooo! Just shut up and buy a dinosaur saddl on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Not funny on New Director Chosen At Fermilab · · Score: 1

    30 Uryraf nterr