Are you really that disconnected from your world that you cannot see the resources? You are standing on them. You can do lots of agriculture if you do not poison the soil and deplete it with monocultures. But in the UK, I have a feeling you already know. in the US, complete countries of cotton are considered normal. Being an island, you are literally blown away with energy. And that will increase. It already does.
And yes, you don't want to pay for labour. It is the same here in the Netherlands. And our society is suffering from it. There are no craftsmen anymore. No bicycle repair man can even repair a bicycle anymore. We buy "fair trade" products while starving our own farmers. Or we fancy child labour a hemisphere away over our own craftsmen. Maybe it would time for our governments to realise that local economy should not be sacrificed for the global one? Rather than export our destruction, this time in the form of copyright laws, we should work on reconstructing our own society. The world cannot live on trade alone, however much western governments want it. And it is totally insane to try to make a whole country live on trade alone.
They'd likely argue that at the time they held a valid patent
No. It is the same patent. If it is invalidated, it is because it is an invalid patent. It is not a patent that rotted, wore out or turned sour. It is the very same as it always was. An invalidation is a correction to the fact that the patent was granted at all. Off course, the patent office should be held responsible for the damages.
Just like the USA. And guess what? The climate change can even be noticed here in the Netherlands. There are always polluters and there are even always big polluters. But I fail to see why that is a reason to demolish your local country as well. Britain is quite beautiful if you are in the countryside.
Not excited either. There is no uniqueness handling other than fail, as far as I can tell. Almost any other database has an "on conflict", "on duplicate key", or implements the MERGE command of the SQL standard (a totally illegible dragon of a statement, but still). A simple command like an "insert or ignore" or an "insert or replace" should not require server-side programming. How can agile developers work with such a database?
So? You're happy with the current situation then? Where the only thing that counts is the money made instead of the patients cured? Where natural products are actively fought by the industry? Where the "ethical commission" is actually provided by the manufacturer himself?
Don't make me laugh. Medicine manufacturers should be forbidden to do their own research if that means that the results are "protected" from the public. Have the research done by independent institutions funded by the government. Spend the money on the research, not on enriching manufacturers.
Why not? It seems that you can hire entire botnets including hacking software of your choice. So a brute-force attack is hardly anything you need to make your hands dirty on. The hardest part is finding a vendor without attracting attention.
Apart from that, I find it hard to believe that a malicious hacker would step out into the open. And an ethical hacker would have gone public very soon after the hack.
If an american citizen is brought before the International Court of Justice, the USA has threatened beforehand to use military force. Isn't that unlawful? Would the US army disobey?
Mind you, the army would off course not be asked to fight civilians. They would be asked to fight terrorists. That the individuals meant by the two words are the same does not matter.
Because people actually live in public places. Stalking is an invasion while just walking behind somebody for a short while is not. Seeing someone in public is something totally different than collecting every public presence and store the data. Always-on cameras ARE an invasion to privacy.
OR you live in a highly populated area such as here (Netherlands / Randstad). Bicycles are quite fast compared to the daily traffic jam. Especially at relatively short distances.
It was a hard enough fight to keep genes un-patentable, and in some parts of the world that fight was even lost. What is the impact of non-natural genes in patentability? Is the fight open again?
GPS has turned the majority of the car drivers around here into digital lemmings. Some would not even recognise their own home without a tin can voice announcing "destination reached".
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Didn't you know? Its turtles all the way down...
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Are you really that disconnected from your world that you cannot see the resources? You are standing on them. You can do lots of agriculture if you do not poison the soil and deplete it with monocultures. But in the UK, I have a feeling you already know. in the US, complete countries of cotton are considered normal. Being an island, you are literally blown away with energy. And that will increase. It already does.
And yes, you don't want to pay for labour. It is the same here in the Netherlands. And our society is suffering from it. There are no craftsmen anymore. No bicycle repair man can even repair a bicycle anymore. We buy "fair trade" products while starving our own farmers. Or we fancy child labour a hemisphere away over our own craftsmen. Maybe it would time for our governments to realise that local economy should not be sacrificed for the global one? Rather than export our destruction, this time in the form of copyright laws, we should work on reconstructing our own society. The world cannot live on trade alone, however much western governments want it. And it is totally insane to try to make a whole country live on trade alone.
They'd likely argue that at the time they held a valid patent
No. It is the same patent. If it is invalidated, it is because it is an invalid patent. It is not a patent that rotted, wore out or turned sour. It is the very same as it always was. An invalidation is a correction to the fact that the patent was granted at all. Off course, the patent office should be held responsible for the damages.
Just like the USA. And guess what? The climate change can even be noticed here in the Netherlands. There are always polluters and there are even always big polluters. But I fail to see why that is a reason to demolish your local country as well. Britain is quite beautiful if you are in the countryside.
I am still waiting for the discovery of a planet with a gold counterweight continent.
"Therefore, some performers face an income gap at the end of their lifetimes."
Indeed. It is off course totally fair to give innocent teenagers a huge income gap at the start of their adult life.
Well, if anyone can legally define pi as 3, he is retarded enough to define infinity as 8.
Not excited either. There is no uniqueness handling other than fail, as far as I can tell. Almost any other database has an "on conflict", "on duplicate key", or implements the MERGE command of the SQL standard (a totally illegible dragon of a statement, but still). A simple command like an "insert or ignore" or an "insert or replace" should not require server-side programming. How can agile developers work with such a database?
So? You're happy with the current situation then? Where the only thing that counts is the money made instead of the patients cured? Where natural products are actively fought by the industry? Where the "ethical commission" is actually provided by the manufacturer himself?
Don't make me laugh. Medicine manufacturers should be forbidden to do their own research if that means that the results are "protected" from the public. Have the research done by independent institutions funded by the government. Spend the money on the research, not on enriching manufacturers.
Well, maybe the censor can censor the censor back to achieve openness...
Why not? It seems that you can hire entire botnets including hacking software of your choice. So a brute-force attack is hardly anything you need to make your hands dirty on. The hardest part is finding a vendor without attracting attention.
Apart from that, I find it hard to believe that a malicious hacker would step out into the open. And an ethical hacker would have gone public very soon after the hack.
Yep. Our whole security system is exactly as strong as the weakest link.
So if two people who can afford and actually file a patent out of a few thousand of 7 billion+ come up with something, it's obvious?
There, fixed that for you. A patent filer is not by definition an inventor. not in the least.
No. This comes from the Ministry of "Serious" Walks. Neither the crime (copyright infringement? come on!), nor the agency is in any way serious.
NO! It's the drug-drone!
If an american citizen is brought before the International Court of Justice, the USA has threatened beforehand to use military force. Isn't that unlawful? Would the US army disobey?
Mind you, the army would off course not be asked to fight civilians. They would be asked to fight terrorists. That the individuals meant by the two words are the same does not matter.
I would welcome a law that would forbid anyone from entering my e-mail address (and any other personal data) on a web site without my permission.
Let's not say "OMG slippery slope!" quite yet, ok?
What, you want a voluntary filter as well?
Because people actually live in public places. Stalking is an invasion while just walking behind somebody for a short while is not. Seeing someone in public is something totally different than collecting every public presence and store the data. Always-on cameras ARE an invasion to privacy.
Just install another search engine as the default, like ixquick.
Gee, if you have so much time to waste, can you lend me some?
OR you live in a highly populated area such as here (Netherlands / Randstad). Bicycles are quite fast compared to the daily traffic jam. Especially at relatively short distances.
It was a hard enough fight to keep genes un-patentable, and in some parts of the world that fight was even lost. What is the impact of non-natural genes in patentability? Is the fight open again?
GPS has turned the majority of the car drivers around here into digital lemmings. Some would not even recognise their own home without a tin can voice announcing "destination reached".
The SSH way of connecting to another computer is also widely known. But that is not the point.