Could provoke quite a storm. Many are using it in ways which are not easily duplicated with another service. I'm sure they will soon be using it as yet another way to leverage people into Google+ first though.
Nothing stops them. But now there's a race, big pharma looking for big rewards and privately funded groups just looking for the cure and medicine from whoever will produce it safely for a reasonable cost. If big pharma gets there first, the privately funded groups are locked out and their research wasted.
His graph does not "make it clear" because it is made up. I hate when people create charts based on conjecture because the simple minded tend to start treating them as if they were real. This largely applies to the Laffer curve too (which was mostly just a tool to justify decreased taxes without decreasing spending leading to borrowing and totally ignores the issues of misallocation of resources)
Yes, let's take something like cancer research... Who on earth would fund cancer research if they couldn't make billions from marketing expensive drugs to people who would have to sell all their worldly goods to buy them? People with cancer (and their families) perhaps?
Typically, if somethings important, people will come to it via parallel paths. Just look at the telephone and television for example. Marconi wasn't the only one playing with radio waves. There's dispute as to which was the first computer. Patents may indeed lock out several minor differences that could produce quite superior results.
It may "deprive citizens of shared knowledge" but it also allows independent paths to that knowledge, something which is precluded by the current system and may, in some circumstances prematurely preclude superior approaches to a problem.
Not at all. There are arguments from both sides that do not agree with this. At the very least, extreme lack of so-called "intellectual property" control might hamper advancement by some factor but music, literature, inventions occurred before we had these government granter monopolies. In the other direction, complete control is not so much undesirable but rather impossible and is, in fact, nonsense.
Nor does the union which at some level and some point in time begin to look out for its own interests over that of the employees. Rather than being a representative for collective bargaining, it becomes a third party at the table.
The union "allowed" thousands in job cuts? Here's how it should work "Your services are no longer required."
Depending on contracts, there might be other considerations and a decent company might lend some assistance in finding new positions but the union is not the decider on how many people need to be employed. Screw em.
I have to agree. Twinkies are pretty far down there. It's almost like Spinal Tap's "This one goes to 11" except in the case of America, the food quality starts somewhere around -5. Don't get me wrong, there's good food (and wine) available but the lowest common denominator stuff starts at really, really bad.
Slashdot Mirror
It wouldn't be underground if people knew it was still running.
This one?
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-RC436-16-Cup-Cooker/dp/B001ESOOP4/ref=cm_cr-mr-title
I think you probably had the Black & Decker (same deal here).
Could provoke quite a storm. Many are using it in ways which are not easily duplicated with another service. I'm sure they will soon be using it as yet another way to leverage people into Google+ first though.
Minstrels who didn't share their songs? How did that work out for them?
Nothing stops them. But now there's a race, big pharma looking for big rewards and privately funded groups just looking for the cure and medicine from whoever will produce it safely for a reasonable cost. If big pharma gets there first, the privately funded groups are locked out and their research wasted.
How much do you think Elisha Gray's innovative spirit was boosted?
On a computer!
His graph does not "make it clear" because it is made up. I hate when people create charts based on conjecture because the simple minded tend to start treating them as if they were real. This largely applies to the Laffer curve too (which was mostly just a tool to justify decreased taxes without decreasing spending leading to borrowing and totally ignores the issues of misallocation of resources)
Yes, let's take something like cancer research... Who on earth would fund cancer research if they couldn't make billions from marketing expensive drugs to people who would have to sell all their worldly goods to buy them? People with cancer (and their families) perhaps?
Point being, it's not "clear" at all. There are arguments to be made and using the word "clear" is obvious bullshit.
Haha. Right...
Typically, if somethings important, people will come to it via parallel paths. Just look at the telephone and television for example. Marconi wasn't the only one playing with radio waves. There's dispute as to which was the first computer. Patents may indeed lock out several minor differences that could produce quite superior results.
Yes. Economics should be classified similar to astrology. Except astrology tends to have less of an agenda.
It may "deprive citizens of shared knowledge" but it also allows independent paths to that knowledge, something which is precluded by the current system and may, in some circumstances prematurely preclude superior approaches to a problem.
and it's clear that both extremes are undesirable
Not at all. There are arguments from both sides that do not agree with this. At the very least, extreme lack of so-called "intellectual property" control might hamper advancement by some factor but music, literature, inventions occurred before we had these government granter monopolies. In the other direction, complete control is not so much undesirable but rather impossible and is, in fact, nonsense.
Nor does the union which at some level and some point in time begin to look out for its own interests over that of the employees. Rather than being a representative for collective bargaining, it becomes a third party at the table.
Not hard to find. This looks like it has some interesting personal accounts...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6729683.stm
No true Scotsman?
I am old enough to remember how badly the unions screwed up the UK. Candles for lighting in a civilized country? Trash piling up in the streets?
On the upside, Twinkies will now play MP3s and come with a 4.3 inch screen.
Yes, unions in charge of the pensions... What could possibly go wrong?
The union "allowed" thousands in job cuts? Here's how it should work "Your services are no longer required."
Depending on contracts, there might be other considerations and a decent company might lend some assistance in finding new positions but the union is not the decider on how many people need to be employed. Screw em.
I have to agree. Twinkies are pretty far down there. It's almost like Spinal Tap's "This one goes to 11" except in the case of America, the food quality starts somewhere around -5. Don't get me wrong, there's good food (and wine) available but the lowest common denominator stuff starts at really, really bad.
Though I don't think cancer research should be being paid via taxes either.