All too much work that results in patents is simply a matter of methodically working through combinations. I have invented a lot of things that way. Then I put them into manufacture and sell the products. That is the proper way to make money from your ideas. Patents ban other people from having similar ideas and using them. Patents are a bad idea and are being used to stifle innovation rather than the original purpose of promoting innovation.
You don't actually know what you're talking about. Perhaps you read your statement somewhere but based on what you're saying you're not talking from experience.
I have actually repeatedly invented things, manufactured them for years with companies I setup to do that, sold my products and made my money that way over the last >40 years. I speak from experience.
The patent system is broken and designed for the benefit of big corporations and against inventors. Better to just get rid of the patent system.
And that's the problem. Everything is obvious. Put 100 engineers on a problem and they'll come up with a few similar ideas, pretty much the best ideas allowed by societies current state of technology. This should not be protected by patents.
It's easy for armchair quarterbacks like you to say that but I have actually repeatedly invented things, manufactured them for years with companies I setup to do that, sold my products and made my money that way over the last >40 years. I speak from experience. The patent system is broken and designed for the benefit of big corporations and against inventors. Better to just get rid of the patent system.
I'm an inventor. Believe me, patents suck. The whole system is bad. If people want to make money off their inventions then they should get out there and manufacture, market and sell.
I'm not sure I believe the problem to be as bad as people are making out.
I shop online for almost everything because I live out in a very rural area. There are no local stores. As a result I have accounts at a great many online retailers. I have not had problems.
I'm not saying the problem doesn't exist, just that I think it is getting exaggerated.
I also have an online store for my business. I have no cases of hackers doing login attempts or trying to purchase other than the obvious ones which get filtered out automatically before they ever get to the purchase. I'm just a little guy. I'm sure the big stores use far better filter technology.
Patents are a bad idea. Multiple people come up with the same ideas. Nobody should be given exclusive rights to the ideas. Software patents are even worse than other types of patents. Time to reform the patent system and ban all patents.
1) No, it isn't speculation. I discussed it with them extensively.
2) Point #1 is point #1. You are speculating when you try to reorder my points. You also are getting it wrong.
3) There isn't much in the way of flat land around here - this is in Vermont. The reason they install on the ridge line is that high up is where the winds are a lot stronger.
About two years later the wind power company went bankrupt. Perhaps incidental. They had other projects they had done that were successes. In our state, Vermont, a backlash against them happened and there was a subsequent moratorium on building new wind power projects.
Our location was also of interest to them because of it's ideal location with two major power corridors and one minor power corridor that crosses our land.
Currently two large solar companies are considering building very large scale (very large for here - 40 to 100 acre) solar power generation arrays. Our valley is hidden away from outside eyes which makes for less NIMBY effect, solar is more acceptable in state, we have very good exposure for that too and they also like the connection point options. We'll see what happens.
For our farm we're installing 15KW of solar tracking arrays this year. We use slightly more than that but getting permitting for that level is easier so we went with that level. We also have a very good micro hydro option (30KW) which I might develop later. Since our farm is pasture based we don't use a lot of electricity farming but we also have our own USDA on-farm butcher shop which does use electricity (scalder, hoists, refrigeration, bandsaw, grinder, smoker, etc type equipment).
This has already been resolved. Amazon announced this week that they're siting HQ2 in our town here in Vermont. Being that Vermont is a third world country the wages and cost of living are lower which will save Amazon billions of dollars even without Vermont's President Snelling giving them any tax breaks. In turn
Amazon has promised to bring Vermont into the 21st century by upgrading it's information highway bring the Internet to all Vermont citizens.
Amazon will instantly become the #1 employer in Vermont. The minimum wage in Vermont is $11/hr but Vermont makes exceptions for robots who are employed on many dairy farms and pig farms where they milk the sows and cows.
You may be wondering about cows vs sows. Vermont is a world leader in the production of maple syrup and milk. The secret on the milk, which allowed Vermont to beat out Wisconsin, is that sow pigs have 14 to 18 teats so they can easily produce more milk than cows and sows produce twice as much butter fat in the milk making for more butter and cheese.
No, unfortunately you are wrong. And the proof is that the wind companies are not willing to guarantee end-of-life handling of the towers. They want to dump the old towers on the land owners.
I had a big wind company who spent years courting me. They wanted to put 24MW of 400' tall wind towers on our farm's mountain ridge lines. We're in an ideal location at the end of a funnel of mountains. But, in the end I said no.
1. Their business model was based on the energy credits, not based on generating power. I only would get paid for power generated. Their presentation was grandiose but I'm good at math and the reality was I was going to see very little income from the project.
2. The turbine blades would throw ice 1,000' in an arc down wind covering extensive portions of my farm and forest. This ice would damage the trees I raise and endanger the lives of myself, my livestock dogs and my livestock as well as damaging my buildings and fences. They accepted no responsibility for this risk.
3. I asked them about end-of-life provisions and insisted that they setup a fund for decommissioning the system at the end of the 25 year lease or if they went out of business. They refused. They claimed that at the end of that time I would have very valuable equipment. I disagree.
I declined to work with them for these three reasons. I'm very pro green energy and all that good stuff. I farm organically. But the wind towers have too may problems, at least with how they were proposing.
I had a big wind company who spent years courting me. They wanted to put 24MW of 400' tall wind towers on our farm's mountain ridge lines. We're in an ideal location at the end of a funnel of mountains. But, in the end I said no.
1. Their business model was based on the energy credits, not based on generating power. I only would get paid for power generated. Their presentation was grandiose but I'm good at math and the reality was I was going to see very little income from the project.
2. The turbine blades would throw ice 1,000' in an arc down wind covering extensive portions of my farm and forest. This ice would damage the trees I raise and endanger the lives of myself, my livestock dogs and my livestock as well as damaging my buildings and fences. They accepted no responsibility for this risk.
3. I asked them about end-of-life provisions and insisted that they setup a fund for decommissioning the system at the end of the 25 year lease or if they went out of business. They refused. They claimed that at the end of that time I would have very valuable equipment. I disagree.
I declined to work with them for these three reasons. I'm very pro green energy and all that good stuff. I farm organically. But the wind towers have too may problems, at least with how they were proposing.
The EU governments don't get it. Google, Wiki and the Internet in general can just forget the EU. EU citizens will tunnel out of the EU through VPN and other holes. Meanwhile EU businesses will suffer and fail. European countries have done this sort of thing before. The result has always been a brain drain that hurt Europe. Keep making stupid mistakes, EU. We don't mind.
I don't need new colors... I also don't need thinner.
I need: 1. Reliability - Apple does very well with this. 2. Long battery charge - Apple does well with this. 3. Very Long battery life span - So-so. 4. Option to not have it be a phone (e.g., be iPodTouch - not everyone actually needs a phone)
"We've built a civilization around the notion that if you don't work you don't eat and we're about to run out of work."
Everyone has the option of working for themselves. Out in rural areas this is much more common that in urban areas.
"If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it'd be > $20/hr. Instead it's about half what it was in the 70s inflation adjusted."
That's a bit of a fallacious argument because the cost of food and cost of energy have also NOT kept up with the rate of inflation by a long shot.
It used to be that people worked far longer hours. Most people now work more like a 40 hour week and yet they live like kings, even the poorest among us. With continued reduction in the number of hours needed to be worked we'll soon be working about what neolithic people worked but living like gods.
The biggest thing that is changing is what is the definition of work. What many people do to day and consider "work" wasn't even conceived of 50 or 100 years ago. The pace is accelerating. In 25 more years people will be doing things you don't even conceive of as work yet they'll be paid for it.
It is a bit disingenuous to combine cement manufacturing which is all about long term infrastructure in the same list as instant gratification things like air travel and such which really aren't necessary.
Elon is right and this is precisely why I argue that people should have more children, and read to them. (The start of the path of education, encouraging minds.)
We need a LOT more people. It takes a LOT of people to support the people at the edge who move us onward and outward.
Don't bother arguing that the planet can't handle more people. That is merely a consumption problem. Reduce your footprint. Based on the resources my family consumes the world can handle 50,000,000,000 (50 Billion) people sustainably leaving 25% of the land area, all of the polar areas and almost all of the oceans alone. If you can't do it you're doing it wrong.
And if you don't want to have kids then please don't. I wasn't really talking to you specifically although you can support your sibs, friends and society in the endeavor.
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All too much work that results in patents is simply a matter of methodically working through combinations. I have invented a lot of things that way. Then I put them into manufacture and sell the products. That is the proper way to make money from your ideas. Patents ban other people from having similar ideas and using them. Patents are a bad idea and are being used to stifle innovation rather than the original purpose of promoting innovation.
"AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions That Will Work"
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
This is a prime example of why patents are absurd and should be discontinued.
This is a prime example of why patents are absurd and should be discontinued.
You don't actually know what you're talking about. Perhaps you read your statement somewhere but based on what you're saying you're not talking from experience.
I have actually repeatedly invented things, manufactured them for years with companies I setup to do that, sold my products and made my money that way over the last >40 years. I speak from experience.
The patent system is broken and designed for the benefit of big corporations and against inventors. Better to just get rid of the patent system.
And that's the problem. Everything is obvious. Put 100 engineers on a problem and they'll come up with a few similar ideas, pretty much the best ideas allowed by societies current state of technology. This should not be protected by patents.
It's easy for armchair quarterbacks like you to say that but I have actually repeatedly invented things, manufactured them for years with companies I setup to do that, sold my products and made my money that way over the last >40 years. I speak from experience. The patent system is broken and designed for the benefit of big corporations and against inventors. Better to just get rid of the patent system.
I'm an inventor. Believe me, patents suck. The whole system is bad. If people want to make money off their inventions then they should get out there and manufacture, market and sell.
I'm not sure I believe the problem to be as bad as people are making out.
I shop online for almost everything because I live out in a very rural area. There are no local stores. As a result I have accounts at a great many online retailers. I have not had problems.
I'm not saying the problem doesn't exist, just that I think it is getting exaggerated.
I also have an online store for my business. I have no cases of hackers doing login attempts or trying to purchase other than the obvious ones which get filtered out automatically before they ever get to the purchase. I'm just a little guy. I'm sure the big stores use far better filter technology.
Patents are a bad idea.
Multiple people come up with the same ideas.
Nobody should be given exclusive rights to the ideas.
Software patents are even worse than other types of patents.
Time to reform the patent system and ban all patents.
1) No, it isn't speculation. I discussed it with them extensively.
2) Point #1 is point #1. You are speculating when you try to reorder my points. You also are getting it wrong.
3) There isn't much in the way of flat land around here - this is in Vermont. The reason they install on the ridge line is that high up is where the winds are a lot stronger.
About two years later the wind power company went bankrupt. Perhaps incidental. They had other projects they had done that were successes. In our state, Vermont, a backlash against them happened and there was a subsequent moratorium on building new wind power projects.
Our location was also of interest to them because of it's ideal location with two major power corridors and one minor power corridor that crosses our land.
Currently two large solar companies are considering building very large scale (very large for here - 40 to 100 acre) solar power generation arrays. Our valley is hidden away from outside eyes which makes for less NIMBY effect, solar is more acceptable in state, we have very good exposure for that too and they also like the connection point options. We'll see what happens.
For our farm we're installing 15KW of solar tracking arrays this year. We use slightly more than that but getting permitting for that level is easier so we went with that level. We also have a very good micro hydro option (30KW) which I might develop later. Since our farm is pasture based we don't use a lot of electricity farming but we also have our own USDA on-farm butcher shop which does use electricity (scalder, hoists, refrigeration, bandsaw, grinder, smoker, etc type equipment).
This has already been resolved. Amazon announced this week that they're siting HQ2 in our town here in Vermont. Being that Vermont is a third world country the wages and cost of living are lower which will save Amazon billions of dollars even without Vermont's President Snelling giving them any tax breaks. In turn
Amazon has promised to bring Vermont into the 21st century by upgrading it's information highway bring the Internet to all Vermont citizens.
Amazon will instantly become the #1 employer in Vermont. The minimum wage in Vermont is $11/hr but Vermont makes exceptions for robots who are employed on many dairy farms and pig farms where they milk the sows and cows.
You may be wondering about cows vs sows. Vermont is a world leader in the production of maple syrup and milk. The secret on the milk, which allowed Vermont to beat out Wisconsin, is that sow pigs have 14 to 18 teats so they can easily produce more milk than cows and sows produce twice as much butter fat in the milk making for more butter and cheese.
No, unfortunately you are wrong. And the proof is that the wind companies are not willing to guarantee end-of-life handling of the towers. They want to dump the old towers on the land owners.
I had a big wind company who spent years courting me. They wanted to put 24MW of 400' tall wind towers on our farm's mountain ridge lines. We're in an ideal location at the end of a funnel of mountains. But, in the end I said no.
1. Their business model was based on the energy credits, not based on generating power. I only would get paid for power generated. Their presentation was grandiose but I'm good at math and the reality was I was going to see very little income from the project.
2. The turbine blades would throw ice 1,000' in an arc down wind covering extensive portions of my farm and forest. This ice would damage the trees I raise and endanger the lives of myself, my livestock dogs and my livestock as well as damaging my buildings and fences. They accepted no responsibility for this risk.
3. I asked them about end-of-life provisions and insisted that they setup a fund for decommissioning the system at the end of the 25 year lease or if they went out of business. They refused. They claimed that at the end of that time I would have very valuable equipment. I disagree.
I declined to work with them for these three reasons. I'm very pro green energy and all that good stuff. I farm organically. But the wind towers have too may problems, at least with how they were proposing.
I had a big wind company who spent years courting me. They wanted to put 24MW of 400' tall wind towers on our farm's mountain ridge lines. We're in an ideal location at the end of a funnel of mountains. But, in the end I said no.
1. Their business model was based on the energy credits, not based on generating power. I only would get paid for power generated. Their presentation was grandiose but I'm good at math and the reality was I was going to see very little income from the project.
2. The turbine blades would throw ice 1,000' in an arc down wind covering extensive portions of my farm and forest. This ice would damage the trees I raise and endanger the lives of myself, my livestock dogs and my livestock as well as damaging my buildings and fences. They accepted no responsibility for this risk.
3. I asked them about end-of-life provisions and insisted that they setup a fund for decommissioning the system at the end of the 25 year lease or if they went out of business. They refused. They claimed that at the end of that time I would have very valuable equipment. I disagree.
I declined to work with them for these three reasons. I'm very pro green energy and all that good stuff. I farm organically. But the wind towers have too may problems, at least with how they were proposing.
The EU governments don't get it.
Google, Wiki and the Internet in general can just forget the EU.
EU citizens will tunnel out of the EU through VPN and other holes.
Meanwhile EU businesses will suffer and fail.
European countries have done this sort of thing before.
The result has always been a brain drain that hurt Europe.
Keep making stupid mistakes, EU. We don't mind.
So she got fired for, among other things, being sexist. That's appropriate.
Hello "Microsucks"
This is the PC.
I'm not a Windoze PC.
Go away.
-Mac
I don't need new colors...
I also don't need thinner.
I need:
1. Reliability - Apple does very well with this.
2. Long battery charge - Apple does well with this.
3. Very Long battery life span - So-so.
4. Option to not have it be a phone (e.g., be iPodTouch - not everyone actually needs a phone)
"This resulted in a public outcry at the implication of people in the future not knowing whether they were talking to humans or machines,"
Personally I prefer communicating with machines. We are more efficient, less chit-chat.
That's a totally different issue. They should stop moving the Olympics around. Don't blame the material for the politics.
"We've built a civilization around the notion that if you don't work you don't eat and we're about to run out of work."
Everyone has the option of working for themselves. Out in rural areas this is much more common that in urban areas.
"If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it'd be > $20/hr. Instead it's about half what it was in the 70s inflation adjusted."
That's a bit of a fallacious argument because the cost of food and cost of energy have also NOT kept up with the rate of inflation by a long shot.
It used to be that people worked far longer hours. Most people now work more like a 40 hour week and yet they live like kings, even the poorest among us. With continued reduction in the number of hours needed to be worked we'll soon be working about what neolithic people worked but living like gods.
The biggest thing that is changing is what is the definition of work. What many people do to day and consider "work" wasn't even conceived of 50 or 100 years ago. The pace is accelerating. In 25 more years people will be doing things you don't even conceive of as work yet they'll be paid for it.
"Automation is why you arenâ(TM)t at the stream beating your dirty clothes against a rock to clean them."
Dang! You had rocks to beat your cloths on? Wow! When we were growing up we had to beat our cloths on friends heads. Technology marches on! :)
It is a bit disingenuous to combine cement manufacturing which is all about long term infrastructure in the same list as instant gratification things like air travel and such which really aren't necessary.
Elon is right and this is precisely why I argue that people should have more children, and read to them. (The start of the path of education, encouraging minds.)
We need a LOT more people.
It takes a LOT of people to support the people at the edge who move us onward and outward.
Don't bother arguing that the planet can't handle more people. That is merely a consumption problem. Reduce your footprint. Based on the resources my family consumes the world can handle 50,000,000,000 (50 Billion) people sustainably leaving 25% of the land area, all of the polar areas and almost all of the oceans alone. If you can't do it you're doing it wrong.
And if you don't want to have kids then please don't. I wasn't really talking to you specifically although you can support your sibs, friends and society in the endeavor.
Clearly we need to ban knives. No need to repeat all the reasons here that are given for banning guns or free speech...
"penalties of up to 25,000 rupees (~$365) and three months in jail from Monday."
That is excessive punishment.
This is the government using fines to raise revenues.
Government greed.