NO. Copyright doesn't work like that (for the thousandth time). If you have copyright on something, those rights last as long as copyright law allows. Not defending them doesn't harm your case in any way if you suddenly decide to start defending them.
So, there's this Russian guy, and he like files this patent, and then, y'know, he's like told that it'll take 45 YEARS for the patent to come through, and so he, uh, asks the Patent Office if it'll be the morning or the afternoon, and they say "Why?", and, he like goes, "Well, I've got a whole bunch of LAWYERS coming round in the afternoon."
Except he's not Russian, he's American. So I guess in CORPORATE AMERICA, lawyers patent YOU!...and just about everything else.
You can find a copy of the treaty here. If you read it, it says (paraphrasing here) "both parties will endeavour to settle any international disputes peacefully" but gives both parties "the right to defend Japan". In other words, there's no requirement that *only* Japan maintain a peaceful stance, and certainly nothing that says Japan's not allowed to use its armaments to defend itself. On top of that, towards the end you'll see a section on concluding the treaty, which reads "after ten years from the signing of this treaty, either party may declare it void, with this taking effect one year thereafter". Since it was signed in 1960, there's no legal reason why Japan couldn't say that they're quitting the treaty.
What your army officer was probably talking about is the clause in the constitution - some legal scholars believe that it forbids Japan from owning any armaments, not just offensive armaments.
What do you mean "the current treaty"? The only thing that restricts what japan is supposed to have is the Constitution, which states that they may not possess "offensive weapons". That's why it's called the "Self-Defense Force".
Sorry, but your friend just saw a normal part of their armament.
Well said, sir. The US approach to 'free trade' is nothing of the sort. It's all about building up as much of an advantage for US businesses as possible.
Thanks for the unsubstantiated foulmouthing. As it happens, I live in Japan, and have for the last 14 years (a chunk of that was spent at universoty here, and a Japanese company). Which probably makes me slightly more aware of how Japan works than you and your 'friends'.
Now go crawl back into your parents' basement, and stop bothering those of us who actually bother to try and experience other countries instead of blindly repeating whatever opinions might happen to most closely match our prejudices.
Since the release date for Longhorn's supposed to be 2005 (last time I looked, anyway), the minimum specs will probably be something like a RAID-0 array of 5 15000rpm disks, running on double-speed SATA.
[SARCASM] I'm sure it'll perform at least as well as FAT16. [/SARCASM]
I wish I'd noticed your post earlier, since most of it is just a reiteration of some of the nastier racist formulas to come out of the period when Japan had a higher economic growth rate than any Western country. Since there's no point in refuting your drivel, I'll just have to settle for putting you on my foes list.
As well, there are a significant number of seemingly casual generalizations (both sides) that hit the mark, so in the end, they tend to wash each other out:)
Nah, if you do it right the vapor layer underneath the liquid actually keeps it off your tongue. Too small an amount and the droplet doesn't produce enough vapor - too big a droplet and it's too heavy to support itself.
It's similar to what happens when you sprinkle water on a heated frypan.
Please try turning up at a meeting at my (previous) company. We used to go from 9am to 6pm, nattering on and on and on about nothing very much. We already knew what the outcome would be - the manager was doing it only because he felt it helped impress everybody (not in the meeting) with how 'hands-on' he was.
Your manager was just making another pointless generalization, of which there are already far too many about the Japanese.
You might want to recheck your sources - Japan's military spending on the Self Defense Force is second only to China out of the Asian countries. It's most certainly not "a 1000 person National Guard".
(If you want hard figures, according to the SDF's page, the budget for military spending for this year was 4,926,500,000,000 yen, which at the current exchange rate is 41,852,858,368 US dollars - not exactly peanuts.)
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NO.
Copyright doesn't work like that (for the thousandth time). If you have copyright on something, those rights last as long as copyright law allows. Not defending them doesn't harm your case in any way if you suddenly decide to start defending them.
So, there's this Russian guy, and he like files this patent, and then, y'know, he's like told that it'll take 45 YEARS for the patent to come through, and so he, uh, asks the Patent Office if it'll be the morning or the afternoon, and they say "Why?", and, he like goes, "Well, I've got a whole bunch of LAWYERS coming round in the afternoon."
...and just about everything else.
Except he's not Russian, he's American. So I guess in CORPORATE AMERICA, lawyers patent YOU!
I wonder if anyone has patented the "Terminology and Grammatical Uses of The English Word 'Shit'"
No, because you'd want a trademark for that, not a patent.
You know, like "This patent is a load of Shit(TM)!"
Sorry, no.
You can find a copy of the treaty here.
If you read it, it says (paraphrasing here) "both parties will endeavour to settle any international disputes peacefully" but gives both parties "the right to defend Japan". In other words, there's no requirement that *only* Japan maintain a peaceful stance, and certainly nothing that says Japan's not allowed to use its armaments to defend itself.
On top of that, towards the end you'll see a section on concluding the treaty, which reads "after ten years from the signing of this treaty, either party may declare it void, with this taking effect one year thereafter". Since it was signed in 1960, there's no legal reason why Japan couldn't say that they're quitting the treaty.
What your army officer was probably talking about is the clause in the constitution - some legal scholars believe that it forbids Japan from owning any armaments, not just offensive armaments.
What do you mean "the current treaty"?
The only thing that restricts what japan is supposed to have is the Constitution, which states that they may not possess "offensive weapons". That's why it's called the "Self-Defense Force".
Sorry, but your friend just saw a normal part of their armament.
Man puts ITX MB in old plastic box.
Sorry, but I would have been more impressed if he'd restored the Atari 800 to working condition.
Grrr... that was my point!
That's right. I have no opinion about bendable devices. So?
/. for brilliant new ideas.
Even if I did, I suspect that Sony's engineers aren't trawling
No, the point being it won't take them very long to find a practical application, so what's the point of bitching about how it's not useful?
Yeah, that's what they said about miniaturization before the Walkman came out.
Remind me how that one turned out again, will you?
Yes, but how are they going to know if it hasn't been released? The only person to know would be the developer.
Hardly. If they haven't released it, what's the problem?
They're not distributing the ROMs - you have to put them onto the disk yourself.
Well said, sir. The US approach to 'free trade' is nothing of the sort. It's all about building up as much of an advantage for US businesses as possible.
Thanks for the unsubstantiated foulmouthing. As it happens, I live in Japan, and have for the last 14 years (a chunk of that was spent at universoty here, and a Japanese company). Which probably makes me slightly more aware of how Japan works than you and your 'friends'.
Now go crawl back into your parents' basement, and stop bothering those of us who actually bother to try and experience other countries instead of blindly repeating whatever opinions might happen to most closely match our prejudices.
Since the release date for Longhorn's supposed to be 2005 (last time I looked, anyway), the minimum specs will probably be something like a RAID-0 array of 5 15000rpm disks, running on double-speed SATA.
[SARCASM] I'm sure it'll perform at least as well as FAT16. [/SARCASM]
I wish I'd noticed your post earlier, since most of it is just a reiteration of some of the nastier racist formulas to come out of the period when Japan had a higher economic growth rate than any Western country. Since there's no point in refuting your drivel, I'll just have to settle for putting you on my foes list.
OpenServer put system binaries in /var/opt? Gack!
As well, there are a significant number of seemingly casual generalizations (both sides) that hit the mark, so in the end, they tend to wash each other out :)
;)
Well, now you're generalizing
Nah, if you do it right the vapor layer underneath the liquid actually keeps it off your tongue. Too small an amount and the droplet doesn't produce enough vapor - too big a droplet and it's too heavy to support itself.
It's similar to what happens when you sprinkle water on a heated frypan.
Sorry, I should have been clearer - there are a lot of (meaningless) generalizations made on both the Japanese and non-Japanese sides of the fence.
(I probably should have mentioned that the company I worked for was a Japanese company in Japan, too...)
HAHAHA.
Please try turning up at a meeting at my (previous) company.
We used to go from 9am to 6pm, nattering on and on and on about nothing very much. We already knew what the outcome would be - the manager was doing it only because he felt it helped impress everybody (not in the meeting) with how 'hands-on' he was.
Your manager was just making another pointless generalization, of which there are already far too many about the Japanese.
Well, you could always try sodium for a bit of variety.
You might want to recheck your sources - Japan's military spending on the Self Defense Force is second only to China out of the Asian countries. It's most certainly not "a 1000 person National Guard".
(If you want hard figures, according to the SDF's page, the budget for military spending for this year was 4,926,500,000,000 yen, which at the current exchange rate is 41,852,858,368 US dollars - not exactly peanuts.)