What I find odd is how people think that they are entitled to turn themselves into baby factories with no regard for the common good.
If you want to disregard the common good, you can't also (without cheating anyway) enjoy the benefits of society.
Move out to the jungle and have all the babies you want. But if you want to partake of society's benefits, earn your keep and don't be greedy by taking more than your fair share of the pie.
The stigma against "privatize profits socialize costs" can also go to freeloading individuals who don't see fit to hold up their end of the bargain of being part of a community where they are not the only member.
Not to mention (citation; a previous slashdot article on the ohio election) that they are also prepared to outright cheat to win.
They don't even follow their own rules, and the violent suppression of the 99 percent protest proves that they are willing to use force of arms to protect their corruption from being flushed out.
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One such power includes having the government's force of arms to do your dirty work for you.
Or have you forgotten that tax evasion is a federal felony?
Try that suggestion when the whiners actually CAN.
As much as you hate to admit it the elite DO have special privileges not available to the unwashed masses.
Unfair advantages are precisely why cheating is frowned on in the first place.
If it goes unpunished it still remains an advantage even if it's unfair.
That's what happens when you have an unregulated market where the only law that stands is the law of the jungle.
It's called selective enforcement.
The elite get a blind eye turned to their own misdeeds, but those who aren't in the old boys club get the book thrown at them.
Especially when their own lobbyists are the ones writing the laws in the first place while dumb politicians just rubber stamp them.
Not good enough.
Government already proved it was willing to retroactively extend copyright on things that had already entered the public domain.
Not to mention a recent *retroactive* claw-back that allows stuff to UN-lapse.
It's not about creativity, it's about control.
They just want to make sure nobody else makes money except for them.
The one who has the gold makes the rules, and the one who makes the rules takes the gold.
It's a feedback loop.
What I find odd is how people think that they are entitled to turn themselves into baby factories with no regard for the common good.
If you want to disregard the common good, you can't also (without cheating anyway) enjoy the benefits of society.
Move out to the jungle and have all the babies you want. But if you want to partake of society's benefits, earn your keep and don't be greedy by taking more than your fair share of the pie.
The stigma against "privatize profits socialize costs" can also go to freeloading individuals who don't see fit to hold up their end of the bargain of being part of a community where they are not the only member.
Not to mention (citation; a previous slashdot article on the ohio election) that they are also prepared to outright cheat to win.
They don't even follow their own rules, and the violent suppression of the 99 percent protest proves that they are willing to use force of arms to protect their corruption from being flushed out.
You're not part of the old boys club, so your patents would not be honored.
Usually settlement agreements require the bullied party to forfeit all rights to appeal or retry the case later.
So someone puts a sue-gun to your head, forces you to settle by threatening to bankrupt you if you don't, you are fucked.
While at the same time the courts trust the USPTO to have gotten it right.
Vicious circle.
They are not letting it slip by.
They are deliberately turning a blind eye and rubber stamping bullshit on purpose.
Someone probably already has a patent on that.
Customers need to be able to complain without being intimidated by the threat of a lawsuit.
Ever heard of a SLAPP?
Would you still wish that if you didn't trust who would be the judge of what qualifies as idiocy?
What's on the books and what actually happens in court aren't the same thing.
Don't you know anything about bias, selective prosecution, and all of that jazz?
This, thankfully, is not the UK.
This is just a business trying to use its legal muscle to squash criticism.
I will also note that truth is an absolute defense to these sorts of things.
I hope that she doesn't back down, and that they wind up having to prove their case in court.
Maybe it's the internet and not the people on it?
More like you can't lose money you never got in the first place.
Piracy isn't an expense, so you can't actually deduct it.
A portal reference getting -1?
What the hell is up with the mods today?