So...I wonder when everyone will remember that Canada still exists. Nice of the US to offer all those wonderful Xbox services. Nice of the UK to get this wonderful little service too.
Hulu, Netflix, etc. Hell, even Apple and Itunes shaft us on a continual basis.
The Titanic was an example of what should be called Cockyisms. (The beliefe that one is better or their product is better than it truly is.) in this case, Unsinkable...and we all know how THAT turned out!
DVD encryption, DRM and now Net Censorship...the tighter the grip, the faster they will lose control.
To this I ask....
What about Batman? When they rebooted and made Batman Begins, we heard it all!
"THIS IS SHITE, It sucks, It will blow! Did you see the Batmobile? It's not even a proper car!"
Yet, it rocked the box office, got stellar reviews and was a damned good movie. Now, with the sequel, they're saying that it's potentially the best Batman Duology (maybe trilogy? Who knows!) Ever made next to LotR.
Reboots are what they are, a reinvention of the wheel for that story. I will, however offer up an explanation to the Kirk watching a spaceship being built. The Enterprise was the FIRST constitution class ship ever built but it was nowhere near the LAST. The Intrepid, The Excalibur, etc. Also, the superstructure would have had to have been build on earth at the time as their level of technology was still not far from Enterprise level....and the NX series were started on the ground before being tractored up....I've decended to geek speak. Someone stop me.
Relax people. JJ has yet to have done a horrible movie (MI:2 aside...everyone needs to do a paycheque movie once in a while.) Let's give him the leway he needs and praise all the powers that be that he isn't a Uwe Boll.
I am in complete agreement with you, Opportunist. When September 11 happened, almost 10 years ago now, the entire world (Well....almost) felt ill for the US. We in Canada held memorials and sent some of our finest men and women (police and firecrews) to assist.
Then....with every passing yesr....you could see it happen. Like a lame uncle that knew they could sucker you on the pity of having had a broken leg a few years before. "9-11, 9-11, 9.....11!" And with every time that one day in history was used over and over again to encite pity and assistance, the world grew sicker and sicker of hearing it. The UK hasn't milked that cow (the subway bombings...) and gods know that what's going on in Iraq right now is faaaaaaaaaar beyond what one isolated group of radicals plan for the US.
It's Time to move on. Beating the Dead Horse is not even close to what I would consider an analogy at this point....it's bones have been ground to dust!
It's a sad state of afairs. They say that if you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. How many Major Powers in the history of Humanity died because their government thought they knew what was better for the people, even if it goes COMPLETELY against what people truly want.
Rome, China, Russia, France and now the US is following in the footsteps.
It's no longer IF the US will have a Bastille Day / Civil War pt. 2 but WHEN and WHAT will trigger it. I only hope that the reppercussions world-wide don't drag us into another Dark Ages...
See....this is what I don't understand...and I'm playing Devil's advocate here...
How can you say "A girl can bare herself and do the nasty with a guy, on her own decision, at the age of 16!" then turn around and say "A girl CANNOT bare herself to a bunch of guys for pictures, on her own decision, at the age of 16!". I mean, that sounds a little bit like a double standard to me. You then also have to make sure you have a solid definition of what it means to be a "child". Because up here in Canada, you can kick out your spawn once they turn 16...legaly.
The problem with that bet is that there is an assumption that by reducing the number of american pedos, that european Pedos that create this material will reduce.
I have to agree with the thought that this is nothing more than a "You guys MUST THINK of the CHILDREN!!!!" gambit to shut down some piracy havens. For the record, I do not disagree that some Usenets are absolutely infested with CP. That said, its sorta like the war on drugs....punishing the crackhead will not stem the supplier...there's more addicts where the first came from.
As for stopping the creation...it's worth remembering that some countries have different views of sexuality. I think some countries, the age of consent(sp?) is as low as 16? Now, that still makes it not cool to hunt down this stuff (Different morals for different persons...all depends on what you can live with...) but at the same time, you can't stop ALL of it because the standards are a little different in some other countries.
Good Ol' US of A! I finally figured out how they're gonna pull a Great Firewall of China for their internets. They're gonna make it so that every person not living in the US blocks their IP ranges my default.
I live in Canada, My computer is in Canada, I am a Canadian citizen...I want nothing to do with American warfare (or become a target because of American Warfare).
Last I checked, they can do whatever they want inside their borders but outside of 'em...nope, no way, not gonna happen. Is it just me or does the Bush Regime and his Military seem a tad hellbent on taking over the world?
WEe're currently experiencing the same issues up here in Canada. You guys have Comcast, we have Rogers and Bell.
Also, I have to argue that Net Neutrality would hamper ISPs....if anything, it would promote MORE freedom do to whatever it is you do on the Net without having to worry about how much money is needed to guarantee that people can actually reliably access your website.
In the US, the Gov't is by the people, for the people and of the people....who the hell in the US from the people want to give Telecorps more power?
We, in Canada, are dealing with the same shite...
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2463/125/
I agree with Borgchulze, Harrd difficulty (Actually made it somewhat through Hell mode on second passthrough) with no cheats, before the duct tape mod ever saw the light of day (no pun intended:P). Also, I find that the use of the darkness in the game was exceptionaly well done. To this day, whenever I play a game and see a dark expanse ANYWHERE, I hesitate to explore it because of the Vietnam-like flashbacks I get from having my face ripped off by those damn ghouls.
Just because your gaming skills are not leet, does not mean that others cannot adapt and overcome.
To quote a favorite movie of mine..."And Jack Left Town!"
At the end of the day...what it boils down to is the societal slant to defer consequences and responsibility on others, in this case...the minorities.
RIAA: Our system is dying, the consequence should be to invent a new system. But we will slough it off and punish the innovators so the old bags of shit still running the cartels can stuff their pockets and keep paying for the whores and crack.
MPAA: We are similar in situation to the RIAA except we produce MegaTons of shit and expect people to overpay for it. We should screen the shit we decide to produce more but instead, we will punish those we should be embracing so we can also keep paying for our whores and crack.
Pro-Familly and Anti-VideoGame Violence: Holy shit, where do I begin? We refuse to admit that the reason the youth of today is in a downward spiral of self-destruction is because we pamper our children to the point where they believe they are more righteous than we, the parents and teachers are. We refuse to expose them to the realities of life because it may damage them but when they lack the psychological tools to deal with life once it hits them in the face, we blam everyone except for ourselves because frankly...we are not to blame. Video Games and Movies and Music teach our children to do drugs, shoot guns and kill people. I mean...sure Grand Theft Auto is rated M for Mature and 17+ but I will buy it for him/her anyways. I mean...it's just a video game...but I will blame the development companies when my 12 year old swears like a sailor and tells me to frack off because...well...he saw it in the video game they made....It's not my fault...
The Gov't (In this, I include the Canadian and US Governments because they are just as bad as the other in this...): All of the above can pad my pocket for millions of dollars so they must know what is right for everyone...right? I mean, what harm can passing a bill that a Lobbyist proposed do? Net Neutrality? The Internets? All those tubes? Sure! Let the ISPs control them freely! After all, China had it right, except for all that killing. We just need to figure out a way to do it without everyone noticing....and anyone that refuses? I hear Guantanamo Bay still has a few empty cells..... That Jack Thomson guy seems so nice! He really has the people in mind and he does think of the children!
I think I covered most of them....putting myself in their frame of mind actually hurt....alot. Where's that bottle of whiskey?
I concur...I do not know what the situation is like. However, when a government you have no power to choose deems itself the Decider to what you can and cannot see, can and cannot listen and can and cannot think...I say that that's crossing a somewhat critical line.
Imagine in the west, the US government censoring anti-Iraq war websites or anti-Bush websites just because they go against the govt's rule.
Let's take it one step further here. In China, if you do not follow the government's decided religion as outlined in the Communist Party's Bulebook, you are an enemy of the state. Falun Gong, Baptism, and everything else under the sun that the PRC does not approve of...(which just happens to include Buddhism...)
Do I live there? no. Do I pretend to understand the hardships that the people there live under? Absolutely not...Do I understand that their government may be one of the most oppresive entities known to the world? The only reason that China is not another target on the US's list of "Must Force Democracy down their throats' list is because China could spank them back to the Dark Age.
We went after Germany because of what they did to the jews and observers of the Jewish faith...why can't we do the same for those poor monks with what China is doing?
I love how Microsoft's OOXML standards push is a push to make a file standard that was obsolete 20 years ago what everone should use today.
Then again, does it surprise anyone that a company that built their latest product on a model that they designed on 386 and 486(With Math Co-Processor) are trying to force a standard that represents anything BUT Open Source?
I think that at the end of the day, we have to remember that the Laws of Physics and Thermodynamics and all that other good stuff was written with our level of technology. There should probably be an addendum on each one of the laws of science saying "With our current Knowlege and Technology, these laws are accurate."
I remember a quote that I heard somewhere at some point that goes "If History is any sort of guide, almost everything we believe to be true is more than likely not. We once thought the world was flat and so on and so forth!"
...is not infaillible.
A piece of paper can be traced from when you mark your X to when you drop it in the locked box. If it is changed after it leaves the box, hopefully the chain of custody list will show who had access so it narrows down who may have commited the fraud.
Now, in the case of the voting machine...was it biased? Was it designed so that no matter who voted what, the votes would come out a certain way? Was it a hacker? It cannot be readily determined. Now, if there is an error margin that rivals that of opinion polls...should this not make the voting method invalid?
As a canadian voter, I would never approve of digital voting...the more complex the method, the easier it is to foul it up. Having said that, who thinks there will be no recount....oh yeah! How do you recount voting machines?
Now...just throwing this out there...pretty straight pitch, no curves or anything but wouldn't the EULA indemnify Microsoft from this? Furthermore, what is their lawsuit based on? Lost gaming time? can someone PLEASE film the court proceedings, that crap would be better than an HBO comedy special!
Tell me...are you naturally ignorant or did you have to work at it? If you pulled your head out of your ass for two minutes and read what you post, you would have realized that you sound like Bush's right hand....errm...thing.
Thanks to the Bush administration, the american dollar is hitting all-time lows, oil costs are at all time highs and anti-american sentimentality around the world is equal to what most famillies feel towards that drunken uncle that comes to familly functions. You know what I mean, the one that regularly screams out nonsensical shit and who's IQ is lower than the amount of consecutive syllables he can pronounce without sluring or tripping over his own tongue.
I live in Canada and thanks to american friends, I know for a fact you are not the majority represent. If you were, I'd move far away because your shortsightednes would guarantee North Korea or China will look for a reason to nuke you back to the stone age.
Erroneus....you were giving such a good point..and then you went and said "Gays, Thieves, molesters and even killers." Why are homosexual people bundled in there with what could be considered the scum of our society?
It's truly sad that our society has not accepted a behavior that is present in almost all animal species. I have friends of mine that are gay and are extremely productive members of society. Besides if your "God", whoever he is, really didn't like them...I mean REALLY didn't like them...why aren't they all dropping like flies? And please don't give me the "The Devil made them do it!" bit...I'm pagan, to me everyone has good and evil inside.
The issue with your argument here is that GH is not out to confuse people into believing that the song is the real thing...hence the difference between "Song Title by Band" and "Song Title made famous by Band"
They identify clearly and to anyone that plays the game, it is mostly common knowledge that any song where it is listed as Made Famous by is a cover...
I am hard pressed to see a relation between the Ford commercial and this. As I understand, Ford did not advertise the song not being Midler.
Pariser's views appear to be similar, insofar as she clearly suggests that consumers have no right to make backups of the music that they have purchased in CD form or even in download form.
So....that 20 bucks (CAD or USD...it's worth the same now!) that I pay for for a CD...is for what? The 'privilege' to listen to the CD?
If I buy an Ipod, am I only paying for the privilege of using it? Not really, if I do something that is not in the EULA, it voids the warranty but it's still my Ipod.
If I buy a Television, I'm not only paying for the privilege of watching channels on it. It's my TV and I can modify it as much as I want.
If I buy a Pizza...I'm not only paying for the right to eat it...I can damn well put extra stuff from home if I want...
Why Should CDs be any different? I am paying for a copy of the media with the information on it...it's now MY CD. I've bought the rights to this specific copy of it.
I have this idea...how about I patent the act of peeing or taking a crap. OOOHH...this one is better! I patent Idiocy! Every time someone does something stupid, they have to pay me...
I'll make a fortune! All I have to do is call the USPTO, they'd patent breathing if it was applied for.
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So...I wonder when everyone will remember that Canada still exists. Nice of the US to offer all those wonderful Xbox services. Nice of the UK to get this wonderful little service too. Hulu, Netflix, etc. Hell, even Apple and Itunes shaft us on a continual basis.
that things are unhackable.
"If you code it, it will be hacked!"
The Titanic was an example of what should be called Cockyisms. (The beliefe that one is better or their product is better than it truly is.) in this case, Unsinkable...and we all know how THAT turned out!
DVD encryption, DRM and now Net Censorship...the tighter the grip, the faster they will lose control.
To this I ask....
What about Batman? When they rebooted and made Batman Begins, we heard it all!
"THIS IS SHITE, It sucks, It will blow! Did you see the Batmobile? It's not even a proper car!"
Yet, it rocked the box office, got stellar reviews and was a damned good movie. Now, with the sequel, they're saying that it's potentially the best Batman Duology (maybe trilogy? Who knows!) Ever made next to LotR.
Reboots are what they are, a reinvention of the wheel for that story. I will, however offer up an explanation to the Kirk watching a spaceship being built. The Enterprise was the FIRST constitution class ship ever built but it was nowhere near the LAST. The Intrepid, The Excalibur, etc. Also, the superstructure would have had to have been build on earth at the time as their level of technology was still not far from Enterprise level....and the NX series were started on the ground before being tractored up....I've decended to geek speak. Someone stop me.
Relax people. JJ has yet to have done a horrible movie (MI:2 aside...everyone needs to do a paycheque movie once in a while.) Let's give him the leway he needs and praise all the powers that be that he isn't a Uwe Boll.
10.5% of 0$ is 0$! Unless the wordage in the agreement is specified, I suspect that non-profits may get a free ride!
I am in complete agreement with you, Opportunist. When September 11 happened, almost 10 years ago now, the entire world (Well....almost) felt ill for the US. We in Canada held memorials and sent some of our finest men and women (police and firecrews) to assist.
Then....with every passing yesr....you could see it happen. Like a lame uncle that knew they could sucker you on the pity of having had a broken leg a few years before. "9-11, 9-11, 9.....11!" And with every time that one day in history was used over and over again to encite pity and assistance, the world grew sicker and sicker of hearing it. The UK hasn't milked that cow (the subway bombings...) and gods know that what's going on in Iraq right now is faaaaaaaaaar beyond what one isolated group of radicals plan for the US.
It's Time to move on. Beating the Dead Horse is not even close to what I would consider an analogy at this point....it's bones have been ground to dust!
well then! That Explains it!
Unlimited Data in Canada is considered Devil Worship....we don't server that kind up here!
If the Iphone in Canada has proven ANYTHING....it's how greedy Ted Rogers truly is.
*Cue the Empire Theme from Star Wars....*
It's a sad state of afairs. They say that if you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. How many Major Powers in the history of Humanity died because their government thought they knew what was better for the people, even if it goes COMPLETELY against what people truly want.
Rome, China, Russia, France and now the US is following in the footsteps.
It's no longer IF the US will have a Bastille Day / Civil War pt. 2 but WHEN and WHAT will trigger it. I only hope that the reppercussions world-wide don't drag us into another Dark Ages...
See....this is what I don't understand...and I'm playing Devil's advocate here... How can you say "A girl can bare herself and do the nasty with a guy, on her own decision, at the age of 16!" then turn around and say "A girl CANNOT bare herself to a bunch of guys for pictures, on her own decision, at the age of 16!". I mean, that sounds a little bit like a double standard to me. You then also have to make sure you have a solid definition of what it means to be a "child". Because up here in Canada, you can kick out your spawn once they turn 16...legaly.
The problem with that bet is that there is an assumption that by reducing the number of american pedos, that european Pedos that create this material will reduce.
I have to agree with the thought that this is nothing more than a "You guys MUST THINK of the CHILDREN!!!!" gambit to shut down some piracy havens. For the record, I do not disagree that some Usenets are absolutely infested with CP. That said, its sorta like the war on drugs....punishing the crackhead will not stem the supplier...there's more addicts where the first came from.
As for stopping the creation...it's worth remembering that some countries have different views of sexuality. I think some countries, the age of consent(sp?) is as low as 16? Now, that still makes it not cool to hunt down this stuff (Different morals for different persons...all depends on what you can live with...) but at the same time, you can't stop ALL of it because the standards are a little different in some other countries.
Just my 2c
Good Ol' US of A! I finally figured out how they're gonna pull a Great Firewall of China for their internets. They're gonna make it so that every person not living in the US blocks their IP ranges my default. I live in Canada, My computer is in Canada, I am a Canadian citizen...I want nothing to do with American warfare (or become a target because of American Warfare). Last I checked, they can do whatever they want inside their borders but outside of 'em...nope, no way, not gonna happen. Is it just me or does the Bush Regime and his Military seem a tad hellbent on taking over the world?
WEe're currently experiencing the same issues up here in Canada. You guys have Comcast, we have Rogers and Bell. Also, I have to argue that Net Neutrality would hamper ISPs....if anything, it would promote MORE freedom do to whatever it is you do on the Net without having to worry about how much money is needed to guarantee that people can actually reliably access your website. In the US, the Gov't is by the people, for the people and of the people....who the hell in the US from the people want to give Telecorps more power? We, in Canada, are dealing with the same shite... http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2463/125/
I agree with Borgchulze, Harrd difficulty (Actually made it somewhat through Hell mode on second passthrough) with no cheats, before the duct tape mod ever saw the light of day (no pun intended :P). Also, I find that the use of the darkness in the game was exceptionaly well done. To this day, whenever I play a game and see a dark expanse ANYWHERE, I hesitate to explore it because of the Vietnam-like flashbacks I get from having my face ripped off by those damn ghouls.
Just because your gaming skills are not leet, does not mean that others cannot adapt and overcome.
To quote a favorite movie of mine..."And Jack Left Town!"
At the end of the day...what it boils down to is the societal slant to defer consequences and responsibility on others, in this case...the minorities.
RIAA: Our system is dying, the consequence should be to invent a new system. But we will slough it off and punish the innovators so the old bags of shit still running the cartels can stuff their pockets and keep paying for the whores and crack.
MPAA: We are similar in situation to the RIAA except we produce MegaTons of shit and expect people to overpay for it. We should screen the shit we decide to produce more but instead, we will punish those we should be embracing so we can also keep paying for our whores and crack.
Pro-Familly and Anti-VideoGame Violence: Holy shit, where do I begin? We refuse to admit that the reason the youth of today is in a downward spiral of self-destruction is because we pamper our children to the point where they believe they are more righteous than we, the parents and teachers are. We refuse to expose them to the realities of life because it may damage them but when they lack the psychological tools to deal with life once it hits them in the face, we blam everyone except for ourselves because frankly...we are not to blame. Video Games and Movies and Music teach our children to do drugs, shoot guns and kill people. I mean...sure Grand Theft Auto is rated M for Mature and 17+ but I will buy it for him/her anyways. I mean...it's just a video game...but I will blame the development companies when my 12 year old swears like a sailor and tells me to frack off because...well...he saw it in the video game they made....It's not my fault...
The Gov't (In this, I include the Canadian and US Governments because they are just as bad as the other in this...): All of the above can pad my pocket for millions of dollars so they must know what is right for everyone...right? I mean, what harm can passing a bill that a Lobbyist proposed do? Net Neutrality? The Internets? All those tubes? Sure! Let the ISPs control them freely! After all, China had it right, except for all that killing. We just need to figure out a way to do it without everyone noticing....and anyone that refuses? I hear Guantanamo Bay still has a few empty cells.....
That Jack Thomson guy seems so nice! He really has the people in mind and he does think of the children!
I think I covered most of them....putting myself in their frame of mind actually hurt....alot. Where's that bottle of whiskey?
I concur...I do not know what the situation is like. However, when a government you have no power to choose deems itself the Decider to what you can and cannot see, can and cannot listen and can and cannot think...I say that that's crossing a somewhat critical line.
Imagine in the west, the US government censoring anti-Iraq war websites or anti-Bush websites just because they go against the govt's rule.
Let's take it one step further here. In China, if you do not follow the government's decided religion as outlined in the Communist Party's Bulebook, you are an enemy of the state. Falun Gong, Baptism, and everything else under the sun that the PRC does not approve of...(which just happens to include Buddhism...)
Do I live there? no. Do I pretend to understand the hardships that the people there live under? Absolutely not...Do I understand that their government may be one of the most oppresive entities known to the world? The only reason that China is not another target on the US's list of "Must Force Democracy down their throats' list is because China could spank them back to the Dark Age.
We went after Germany because of what they did to the jews and observers of the Jewish faith...why can't we do the same for those poor monks with what China is doing?
I love how Microsoft's OOXML standards push is a push to make a file standard that was obsolete 20 years ago what everone should use today.
Then again, does it surprise anyone that a company that built their latest product on a model that they designed on 386 and 486(With Math Co-Processor) are trying to force a standard that represents anything BUT Open Source?
I think that at the end of the day, we have to remember that the Laws of Physics and Thermodynamics and all that other good stuff was written with our level of technology. There should probably be an addendum on each one of the laws of science saying "With our current Knowlege and Technology, these laws are accurate." I remember a quote that I heard somewhere at some point that goes "If History is any sort of guide, almost everything we believe to be true is more than likely not. We once thought the world was flat and so on and so forth!"
...is not infaillible.
A piece of paper can be traced from when you mark your X to when you drop it in the locked box. If it is changed after it leaves the box, hopefully the chain of custody list will show who had access so it narrows down who may have commited the fraud.
Now, in the case of the voting machine...was it biased? Was it designed so that no matter who voted what, the votes would come out a certain way? Was it a hacker? It cannot be readily determined. Now, if there is an error margin that rivals that of opinion polls...should this not make the voting method invalid?
As a canadian voter, I would never approve of digital voting...the more complex the method, the easier it is to foul it up. Having said that, who thinks there will be no recount....oh yeah! How do you recount voting machines?
Now...just throwing this out there...pretty straight pitch, no curves or anything but wouldn't the EULA indemnify Microsoft from this? Furthermore, what is their lawsuit based on? Lost gaming time? can someone PLEASE film the court proceedings, that crap would be better than an HBO comedy special!
...and in other news, the sun rose this morning. Nothing to see, move along.
Tell me...are you naturally ignorant or did you have to work at it? If you pulled your head out of your ass for two minutes and read what you post, you would have realized that you sound like Bush's right hand....errm...thing.
Thanks to the Bush administration, the american dollar is hitting all-time lows, oil costs are at all time highs and anti-american sentimentality around the world is equal to what most famillies feel towards that drunken uncle that comes to familly functions. You know what I mean, the one that regularly screams out nonsensical shit and who's IQ is lower than the amount of consecutive syllables he can pronounce without sluring or tripping over his own tongue.
I live in Canada and thanks to american friends, I know for a fact you are not the majority represent. If you were, I'd move far away because your shortsightednes would guarantee North Korea or China will look for a reason to nuke you back to the stone age.
The issue that I have with your post is not that you said they had no choice...it's that you bundled them up with the rest of the list.
Erroneus....you were giving such a good point..and then you went and said "Gays, Thieves, molesters and even killers." Why are homosexual people bundled in there with what could be considered the scum of our society? It's truly sad that our society has not accepted a behavior that is present in almost all animal species. I have friends of mine that are gay and are extremely productive members of society. Besides if your "God", whoever he is, really didn't like them...I mean REALLY didn't like them...why aren't they all dropping like flies? And please don't give me the "The Devil made them do it!" bit...I'm pagan, to me everyone has good and evil inside.
The issue with your argument here is that GH is not out to confuse people into believing that the song is the real thing...hence the difference between "Song Title by Band" and "Song Title made famous by Band" They identify clearly and to anyone that plays the game, it is mostly common knowledge that any song where it is listed as Made Famous by is a cover... I am hard pressed to see a relation between the Ford commercial and this. As I understand, Ford did not advertise the song not being Midler.
If I buy an Ipod, am I only paying for the privilege of using it? Not really, if I do something that is not in the EULA, it voids the warranty but it's still my Ipod.
If I buy a Television, I'm not only paying for the privilege of watching channels on it. It's my TV and I can modify it as much as I want.
If I buy a Pizza...I'm not only paying for the right to eat it...I can damn well put extra stuff from home if I want...
Why Should CDs be any different? I am paying for a copy of the media with the information on it...it's now MY CD. I've bought the rights to this specific copy of it.
I have this idea...how about I patent the act of peeing or taking a crap. OOOHH...this one is better! I patent Idiocy! Every time someone does something stupid, they have to pay me...
I'll make a fortune! All I have to do is call the USPTO, they'd patent breathing if it was applied for.