DSHEA. Essentially, the supplements industry bought off Congress and had them pass a law exempting themselves from FDA regulation of their claims as long as they avoided treating specific conditions and diseases. You can't cure acne but I'm sure you can "promote skin health" or whatever.
HTC just filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple using patents they bought from Google, which had just acquired the patents as part of the Motorola Mobility deal. That acquisition is thus paying dividends already. It also stopped MM from following through on its threat to sue Android manufacturers for patent infringement.
If Google puts Zagat information on Maps, it would be a killer feature. It would instantly put Google above Yelp in terms of rating restaurants.
The official figures provided by TEPCO and the Japanese government apparently didn't include the radiation released into the ocean as a result of the giant hole in the retaining wall.
The RICO laws were meant to target the Mafia, a criminal organization whose participants may be able to deny specific participation in any particular crime of the organization at any time but whose contributions are central to the operation of the organization. Basically, there are thirty five specific crimes that if one organization violates two within ten years, it is considered a corrupt organization. Members of such an organization can be charged under RICO. But it has also been ruled to apply (most recently) to a housing management company which was alleged to have harassed tenants whose rents were subject to government price controls. (That company settled for millions.)
I do the same thing as you do except I keep a hot spare in my computer, a regular hard drive that automatically mirrors the SSD using Norton Ghost. If the SSD dies, swap the SATA cables and reboot. I've done this a few times just to test it out, and it works.
The first conspiracy theories regarding the moon landings appeared right after the moon landings ended. The movie Capricorn One, which depicts Sam "Jack McCoy" Waterston as one of three astronauts going to Mars who are Shanghaied into a faked landing. Of course, NASA can't keep a secret so they try to have the astronauts killed. You see how hard it is to keep a secret when even fake NASA can't do it? =)
What you are referring to is the first-to-file system for patent priority. It is the norm for the rest of the world. America is the outlier and the AIA is meant to normalize our intellectual property laws with the rest of the (Western) world.
First-to-file makes sense when you consider the policy goals of a patent system, which is to encourage disclosure of new ideas in return for a (not so) limited monopoly. The current system of giving the patent to the first-to-invent encourages submarine patents and other ambush tactics. It also costs ridiculous amounts of money proving when something was patented. (You wouldn't believe how many inventors claim to have written the idea up on the back of a napkin that they wish they kept.)
Moving to first to file makes determining priority a lot easier. Who filed first? Let's check the USPTO website. Bang. So this system forces people to patent ideas as soon as possible after they invent it.
The AIA also (and very significantly) allows the USPTO to keep the revenue it generates on fees. Currently, the fees paid to the USPTO are taken by the government for general funds.That lowers the quality of patents issued because examiners are paid less, worked more, and encouraged to generate more fees by granting more patents and encouraging more applications.
Finally, the new law would make it easier for patents to be challenged by third parties in USPTO proceedings. For instance, Groklaw could submit prior art to knock out SCO's claims. That's a huge change.
These changes will make the patent system clearer and hopefully will increase the quality of the patents issued.
There is already color e-ink technology but it is very washy and not vivid. Amazon will release an updated Kindle based on this technology when it's mature enough to represent a significant upgrade from black and white e-ink tech.
You say that as if non-green technologies do not receive ridiculous amounts of government subsidies. Exxon Mobil was paid $150 million for its 2009 federal income tax return. And we also fight wars for oil. That has to be added onto the cost of oil.
Also, don't forget that the semiconductor industry benefited from a private-public partnership in the eighties. Other countries have had great success with private/public partnerships. India, for example, has developed much of its highway infrastructure in this manner.
So yeah, we're subsidizing a new technology. But we also subsidized oil and the semiconductor industry, which are now huge contributors to our economy, so we have to think long term on this.
I hate the knee jerk reaction that somehow Big Pharma is pushing vaccinations on the unwashed masses with help from the government. Most vaccinations are unprofitable especially with the risk of adverse events factored in. Companies would much rather you get sick and need treatment because a one-time shot doesn't make a lot of money. In fact, the government has to specifically create a liability fund to get companies to make vaccines for public use.
LOL. If you were management at HP, you'd pay a surplus dealer to take it off your hands. Jesus. HP is the most mismanaged company in the world, and I say that knowing that I know nothing about the corporate governance of Russian companies.
I kind of agree with this. I believe that it will not be worth as much until Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, is working. That's the unified version for both tablets and phones, and with the unified API, that's probably what devs will be coding towards for the foreseeable future.
Uh, huh. Sure. Sorry to say this, but New York is worth more than most of the shitty little cities on the West Coast. One day without the stock exchange and our economy would be in the shitter. One day with the stock brokers not being able to make it to work, and well, someone just lost a lot of money. NYC is a major center of modern finance and a discontinuity in service has major repercussions. A strong storm surge could knock out power to the Exchange, and then what? Better safe than sorry, I like to say, but I guess the idiots in California want to have it both ways. They want to laugh at those they perceive to overreact and also want to criticize President Bush when he failed to adequately react. You can't have it both ways.
Oh, you know how hindsight is 20/20? A nuclear reactor in Virginia scrammed because of the earthquake. I guess you menly men don't worry about nuclear reactors reacting badly to earthquakes, but we liberal worryworts here tend to be concerned about stuff like that.
When you lived in Florida, did you plan for Hurricane Andrew, or were you one of those idiots who got washed away and had to move to California?
LOL. It's political in the sense that it would be fucking politically unsavory to let a huge financial center get washed away. Remember when Bush ignored Katrina and let a major hurricane hit a city that was below sea level without even a mandatory evacuation? And remember how that didn't play over well politically? That's what they're trying to avoid here.
What kind of media? I don't know, the Pat Robertson media that blamed America for the earthquake damaging the Washington Monument? Fox News, which dominates the cable news industry but likes to complain about the liberal media? The Republican-run media, which somehow had everyone convinced that they were the underdogs facing off against the liberal media even though they had three branches of the government for eight years? LOL. Sarah Palin? Who complains about the liberal media even as she expresses her pain for the events of 9/11 even as she says that those who died weren't really Americans because they were East Coast elites?
Yeah, I have no fucking clue what you're saying, either.
You're saving the lives of your own soldiers. I guess we shouldn't bother to fight any wars at all. We should have just let Hitler take over the Europe. We should have let Osama Bin Laden get away. We should have let Saddam Hussein take away Kuwait. Israel should let the Palestinians rocket them into submission.
Yeah, like humans who discovered how to make ships and navigation equipment didn't promptly use the technology to subjugate the natives of other continents and hunt all sorts of animals to extinction.
I was reminded of Bayesian Inference, where experts make their best guesses along with probability limits. Twitter isn't exactly like that, but the stock market is driven by sentiment. People should buy low and sell high but they tend to buy high and sell low. ("Stocks are crashing! SELL! SELL SELL! Stocks are going up! BUY! BUY! BUY!") Measuring the mood of the crowd might be a good way to figure out the herd mentality and try to get some money out of it.
Not saying it works, but that's probably the theory behind it.
So he wasn't very technically savvy, and let's make fun of him for that. But Jesus F'innng Christ!!! He stuck a fake bomb collar around the neck of an eighteen year old girl to extort her parents. It took cops TEN HOURS to get that device off of her. Can you freaking imagine that ordeal? I would have shit my pants a few times already in that time span.
And not to be disrespectful or anything, but that girl is really pretty!
LOL. It doesn't matter how you change the laws. Companies with deep pockets can always file baseless lawsuits if they want. These defendants were dismissed for lack of standing against them, which is a pretty basic prerequisite for any lawsuit. The lawsuits were easily baseless under current law but they were filed and abused anyway.
Don't forget the set top box and cable modem business that Google also bought. Motorola makes the set top box for my Verizon FIOS service, and as STBs go, it's pretty goddamned solid. It changes channels quickly, provides great guide info, and is easy to navigate. Compare and contrast that with the Logitech Revue, which sucked so much it got the CEO fired and the price had to be cut from $250 to $99. Don't tell me there's no synergy there between Motorola's STB business and Google TV.
For those wondering how he was in a position to cause such mayhem: "Cornish had resigned from the company in July 2010 after getting into a dispute with management, but he had been kept on as a consultant for two more months." *slaps forehead* The guy had issues with management and resigned, so they let him stay on for two more months... because?!
However, the attack did not attack "vital" systems like research lab data. It affected emails, sales systems, and the like. Sure, that's annoying, but it was "only" $800,000 in damage. Sending this dork to ten years in prison is the same as a death sentence.
As an aside, the scariest commentary I've ever heard about the US prison system was by an inmate on a documentary, who observed, "If they keep you in here for ten years, they should never let you out." *glares menacingly at camera*
The relationship between the two countries is a lot more complicated than that. Pakistan was an ally only to the extent that they were enemies of our enemies, which was at the time Russia, who was fighting the Afghanis. The CIA and Saudi Arabia funneled money to the Afghans fighting the Russians. However, the CIA didn't want to leave its fingerprints on the operation, having been stung by Iran-Contra. Thus, they left the selection of agents to Pakistan.
Well, Pakistan selected the religious zealots, who would also help killed Indians while they were at it. The CIA supported this choice, because religious zealots fought to the death. The State Department supported a moderate, but he lost power as the CIA-supported guys consolidated power by killing his competitors. The moderate cried out, "But you're helping your own killers!" during a meeting. Boy was he right.
At this point, we are now fighting the Taliban ourselves. So we don't need Pakistan anymore. But we gave them billions and decades to build up a sophisticated network of terrorists/highly-trained guerillas and now all we can do is to try to put the genie back in the bottle.
The avionics and encryption devices were destroyed. Upon crashing, the pilots used a specially-provided hammer to smash the electronics, then the SEALs (who are experts with explosives, as their initial course is Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training) blew up the avionics equipment, encryption boxes, the engine cases, probably while walking away casually from the chopper as explosions ensued.
That's not true, with regard to the JSF. Our current equipment is already the best in the world. The F-16, F-15, F-22, F/A-18, and A-10, along with all the drones and Apaches and Hellfires and AMRAAMs, not to mention the upgraded avionics and the ASRAAMs and the projected ramjet-enhanced AMRAAM gives us the technical edge with regard to air dominance for the foreseeable future, even if the JSF program falls completely on its ass.
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DSHEA. Essentially, the supplements industry bought off Congress and had them pass a law exempting themselves from FDA regulation of their claims as long as they avoided treating specific conditions and diseases. You can't cure acne but I'm sure you can "promote skin health" or whatever.
HTC just filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple using patents they bought from Google, which had just acquired the patents as part of the Motorola Mobility deal. That acquisition is thus paying dividends already. It also stopped MM from following through on its threat to sue Android manufacturers for patent infringement.
If Google puts Zagat information on Maps, it would be a killer feature. It would instantly put Google above Yelp in terms of rating restaurants.
The official figures provided by TEPCO and the Japanese government apparently didn't include the radiation released into the ocean as a result of the giant hole in the retaining wall.
The RICO laws were meant to target the Mafia, a criminal organization whose participants may be able to deny specific participation in any particular crime of the organization at any time but whose contributions are central to the operation of the organization. Basically, there are thirty five specific crimes that if one organization violates two within ten years, it is considered a corrupt organization. Members of such an organization can be charged under RICO. But it has also been ruled to apply (most recently) to a housing management company which was alleged to have harassed tenants whose rents were subject to government price controls. (That company settled for millions.)
I do the same thing as you do except I keep a hot spare in my computer, a regular hard drive that automatically mirrors the SSD using Norton Ghost. If the SSD dies, swap the SATA cables and reboot. I've done this a few times just to test it out, and it works.
The first conspiracy theories regarding the moon landings appeared right after the moon landings ended. The movie Capricorn One, which depicts Sam "Jack McCoy" Waterston as one of three astronauts going to Mars who are Shanghaied into a faked landing. Of course, NASA can't keep a secret so they try to have the astronauts killed. You see how hard it is to keep a secret when even fake NASA can't do it? =)
Fraud before USPTO, etc., etc.
What you are referring to is the first-to-file system for patent priority. It is the norm for the rest of the world. America is the outlier and the AIA is meant to normalize our intellectual property laws with the rest of the (Western) world.
First-to-file makes sense when you consider the policy goals of a patent system, which is to encourage disclosure of new ideas in return for a (not so) limited monopoly. The current system of giving the patent to the first-to-invent encourages submarine patents and other ambush tactics. It also costs ridiculous amounts of money proving when something was patented. (You wouldn't believe how many inventors claim to have written the idea up on the back of a napkin that they wish they kept.)
Moving to first to file makes determining priority a lot easier. Who filed first? Let's check the USPTO website. Bang. So this system forces people to patent ideas as soon as possible after they invent it.
The AIA also (and very significantly) allows the USPTO to keep the revenue it generates on fees. Currently, the fees paid to the USPTO are taken by the government for general funds.That lowers the quality of patents issued because examiners are paid less, worked more, and encouraged to generate more fees by granting more patents and encouraging more applications.
Finally, the new law would make it easier for patents to be challenged by third parties in USPTO proceedings. For instance, Groklaw could submit prior art to knock out SCO's claims. That's a huge change.
These changes will make the patent system clearer and hopefully will increase the quality of the patents issued.
There is already color e-ink technology but it is very washy and not vivid. Amazon will release an updated Kindle based on this technology when it's mature enough to represent a significant upgrade from black and white e-ink tech.
You say that as if non-green technologies do not receive ridiculous amounts of government subsidies. Exxon Mobil was paid $150 million for its 2009 federal income tax return. And we also fight wars for oil. That has to be added onto the cost of oil.
Also, don't forget that the semiconductor industry benefited from a private-public partnership in the eighties. Other countries have had great success with private/public partnerships. India, for example, has developed much of its highway infrastructure in this manner.
So yeah, we're subsidizing a new technology. But we also subsidized oil and the semiconductor industry, which are now huge contributors to our economy, so we have to think long term on this.
I hate the knee jerk reaction that somehow Big Pharma is pushing vaccinations on the unwashed masses with help from the government. Most vaccinations are unprofitable especially with the risk of adverse events factored in. Companies would much rather you get sick and need treatment because a one-time shot doesn't make a lot of money. In fact, the government has to specifically create a liability fund to get companies to make vaccines for public use.
LOL. If you were management at HP, you'd pay a surplus dealer to take it off your hands. Jesus. HP is the most mismanaged company in the world, and I say that knowing that I know nothing about the corporate governance of Russian companies.
I kind of agree with this. I believe that it will not be worth as much until Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, is working. That's the unified version for both tablets and phones, and with the unified API, that's probably what devs will be coding towards for the foreseeable future.
Uh, huh. Sure. Sorry to say this, but New York is worth more than most of the shitty little cities on the West Coast. One day without the stock exchange and our economy would be in the shitter. One day with the stock brokers not being able to make it to work, and well, someone just lost a lot of money. NYC is a major center of modern finance and a discontinuity in service has major repercussions. A strong storm surge could knock out power to the Exchange, and then what? Better safe than sorry, I like to say, but I guess the idiots in California want to have it both ways. They want to laugh at those they perceive to overreact and also want to criticize President Bush when he failed to adequately react. You can't have it both ways.
Oh, you know how hindsight is 20/20? A nuclear reactor in Virginia scrammed because of the earthquake. I guess you menly men don't worry about nuclear reactors reacting badly to earthquakes, but we liberal worryworts here tend to be concerned about stuff like that.
When you lived in Florida, did you plan for Hurricane Andrew, or were you one of those idiots who got washed away and had to move to California?
LOL. It's political in the sense that it would be fucking politically unsavory to let a huge financial center get washed away. Remember when Bush ignored Katrina and let a major hurricane hit a city that was below sea level without even a mandatory evacuation? And remember how that didn't play over well politically? That's what they're trying to avoid here.
What kind of media? I don't know, the Pat Robertson media that blamed America for the earthquake damaging the Washington Monument? Fox News, which dominates the cable news industry but likes to complain about the liberal media? The Republican-run media, which somehow had everyone convinced that they were the underdogs facing off against the liberal media even though they had three branches of the government for eight years? LOL. Sarah Palin? Who complains about the liberal media even as she expresses her pain for the events of 9/11 even as she says that those who died weren't really Americans because they were East Coast elites?
Yeah, I have no fucking clue what you're saying, either.
You're saving the lives of your own soldiers. I guess we shouldn't bother to fight any wars at all. We should have just let Hitler take over the Europe. We should have let Osama Bin Laden get away. We should have let Saddam Hussein take away Kuwait. Israel should let the Palestinians rocket them into submission.
Yeah, like humans who discovered how to make ships and navigation equipment didn't promptly use the technology to subjugate the natives of other continents and hunt all sorts of animals to extinction.
I was reminded of Bayesian Inference, where experts make their best guesses along with probability limits. Twitter isn't exactly like that, but the stock market is driven by sentiment. People should buy low and sell high but they tend to buy high and sell low. ("Stocks are crashing! SELL! SELL SELL! Stocks are going up! BUY! BUY! BUY!") Measuring the mood of the crowd might be a good way to figure out the herd mentality and try to get some money out of it.
Not saying it works, but that's probably the theory behind it.
So he wasn't very technically savvy, and let's make fun of him for that. But Jesus F'innng Christ!!! He stuck a fake bomb collar around the neck of an eighteen year old girl to extort her parents. It took cops TEN HOURS to get that device off of her. Can you freaking imagine that ordeal? I would have shit my pants a few times already in that time span.
And not to be disrespectful or anything, but that girl is really pretty!
LOL. It doesn't matter how you change the laws. Companies with deep pockets can always file baseless lawsuits if they want. These defendants were dismissed for lack of standing against them, which is a pretty basic prerequisite for any lawsuit. The lawsuits were easily baseless under current law but they were filed and abused anyway.
Don't forget the set top box and cable modem business that Google also bought. Motorola makes the set top box for my Verizon FIOS service, and as STBs go, it's pretty goddamned solid. It changes channels quickly, provides great guide info, and is easy to navigate. Compare and contrast that with the Logitech Revue, which sucked so much it got the CEO fired and the price had to be cut from $250 to $99. Don't tell me there's no synergy there between Motorola's STB business and Google TV.
For those wondering how he was in a position to cause such mayhem: "Cornish had resigned from the company in July 2010 after getting into a dispute with management, but he had been kept on as a consultant for two more months." *slaps forehead* The guy had issues with management and resigned, so they let him stay on for two more months ... because?!
However, the attack did not attack "vital" systems like research lab data. It affected emails, sales systems, and the like. Sure, that's annoying, but it was "only" $800,000 in damage. Sending this dork to ten years in prison is the same as a death sentence.
As an aside, the scariest commentary I've ever heard about the US prison system was by an inmate on a documentary, who observed, "If they keep you in here for ten years, they should never let you out." *glares menacingly at camera*
The relationship between the two countries is a lot more complicated than that. Pakistan was an ally only to the extent that they were enemies of our enemies, which was at the time Russia, who was fighting the Afghanis. The CIA and Saudi Arabia funneled money to the Afghans fighting the Russians. However, the CIA didn't want to leave its fingerprints on the operation, having been stung by Iran-Contra. Thus, they left the selection of agents to Pakistan.
Well, Pakistan selected the religious zealots, who would also help killed Indians while they were at it. The CIA supported this choice, because religious zealots fought to the death. The State Department supported a moderate, but he lost power as the CIA-supported guys consolidated power by killing his competitors. The moderate cried out, "But you're helping your own killers!" during a meeting. Boy was he right.
At this point, we are now fighting the Taliban ourselves. So we don't need Pakistan anymore. But we gave them billions and decades to build up a sophisticated network of terrorists/highly-trained guerillas and now all we can do is to try to put the genie back in the bottle.
The avionics and encryption devices were destroyed. Upon crashing, the pilots used a specially-provided hammer to smash the electronics, then the SEALs (who are experts with explosives, as their initial course is Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training) blew up the avionics equipment, encryption boxes, the engine cases, probably while walking away casually from the chopper as explosions ensued.
That's not true, with regard to the JSF. Our current equipment is already the best in the world. The F-16, F-15, F-22, F/A-18, and A-10, along with all the drones and Apaches and Hellfires and AMRAAMs, not to mention the upgraded avionics and the ASRAAMs and the projected ramjet-enhanced AMRAAM gives us the technical edge with regard to air dominance for the foreseeable future, even if the JSF program falls completely on its ass.