I'm no fan of her ideology, but playing Devil's advocate, let's say a thief steals your car and leaves his bike behind. Is it hypocrisy to use the bike to get to work and still criticize the thief?
Now, I don't view taxes as theft, but if one does, I think the analogy is accurate.
That only says that there's junk DNA than claimed, not that there's no junk DNA at all.
Yet, that's exactly what's happened with DNA, over millions of years, from a pool of primordial sludge of amino acids and RNA to where we are now, a veritable feast of complex organisms. As a technological culture we're about to the point where growing earlobes on the backs of laboratory mice is done for giggles these days. All we're doing is rewriting some code, albeit using a soup of chemicals and an electric charge in lieu of a keyboard. And by applying the language of the engineer to the biological process, chemical engineers are able to con us all by demanding royalty with menaces on the use of something we were all born with.
For sure, I agree with that completely. Patents on DNA - "junk" or not - make me sick. And clearly the claims that most DNA was "junk" were clearly bogus crap.
But that doesn't mean that the DNA generation process is infallible and perfect. There can still be obsolete or ineffective parts of the sequence. Of course, I'm far too ignorant about biology to know if that's actually true, which is why I asked: how do we know there's no such thing as junk DNA?
So what you're saying is that local company is pretty much forced to pay the fine, while a foreign company has leverage to avoid it if it's not worth it to their business, and so the fine is worst for the foreign? That makes no sense.
Oh, please. Youtube gives complete control to the copyright holders to the point that even bird sounds are blocked, while TPB replies with satirizing emails. Is it really surprising that the latter got sued to the ground while the former didn't?
If one wants governmental control over health care, then that person isn't a Marxist.
The contradiction between the vocation and the good intentions of the administration on the one hand and the means and powers at its disposal on the other cannot be eliminated by the state, except by abolishing itself; for the state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities, since the scope of its own power comes to an end at the very point where civil life and work begin. Indeed, when we consider the consequences arising from the asocial nature of civil life, of private property, of trade, of industry, of the mutual plundering that goes on between the various groups in civil life, it becomes clear that the law of nature governing the administration is impotence. For, the fragmentation, the depravity, and the slavery of civil society is the natural foundation of the modern state, just as the civil society of slavery was the natural foundation of the state in antiquity. The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
What exactly would be the purpose of keeping around a redundant tag that breaks the separation of content and presentation style, when you can embed CSS right in the HTML tag that contains the text?
How would sites that drop Flash in favor of HTML5 canvas convince users of older versions of Internet Explorer to install Google Chrome Frame?
How much is a IE user that can't or won't install Chrome Frame worth compared to a tablet user? (and consider that Flash is deprecated on Android too).
What audio codec would be used with the sound that is synchronized with the vector animation? Chromium, Firefox, and Opera support only freely licensed codecs, while Internet Explorer and Safari support only MPEG codecs.What audio codec would be used with the sound that is synchronized with the vector animation? Chromium, Firefox, and Opera support only freely licensed codecs, while Internet Explorer and Safari support only MPEG codecs.
Both. Storage is cheap.
What tool would be used to make animations that would be played by a Canvas-based player? Keying in vector coordinates frame by frame isn't fun.
The point is that there's a good reason for imprisoning someone, even if it costs some innocent people their freedom. There's no good reason for killing someone, taking away the possibility of giving at least some years of life back to the innocent person.
Those other freedoms can be restored if after ten or twenty years we find the justice system committed an error. How do you do that with the death penalty?
Oh really? How does Git "find data in networks using identifiers based on the content of the data"? As far as I know, network operations in Git use URLs, not hashes, to find other repositories.
How can I tell that someone hasn't read the claims?
Their patent is about using those identifier to know from a pool of servers which have the data. It's closer, but still not quite, like database sharding.
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I'm no fan of her ideology, but playing Devil's advocate, let's say a thief steals your car and leaves his bike behind. Is it hypocrisy to use the bike to get to work and still criticize the thief?
Now, I don't view taxes as theft, but if one does, I think the analogy is accurate.
From this:
That only says that there's junk DNA than claimed, not that there's no junk DNA at all.
Yet, that's exactly what's happened with DNA, over millions of years, from a pool of primordial sludge of amino acids and RNA to where we are now, a veritable feast of complex organisms. As a technological culture we're about to the point where growing earlobes on the backs of laboratory mice is done for giggles these days. All we're doing is rewriting some code, albeit using a soup of chemicals and an electric charge in lieu of a keyboard. And by applying the language of the engineer to the biological process, chemical engineers are able to con us all by demanding royalty with menaces on the use of something we were all born with.
For sure, I agree with that completely. Patents on DNA - "junk" or not - make me sick. And clearly the claims that most DNA was "junk" were clearly bogus crap.
But that doesn't mean that the DNA generation process is infallible and perfect. There can still be obsolete or ineffective parts of the sequence.
Of course, I'm far too ignorant about biology to know if that's actually true, which is why I asked: how do we know there's no such thing as junk DNA?
How were TPB guys sued under the DMCA? DMCA != copyright.
So what you're saying is that local company is pretty much forced to pay the fine, while a foreign company has leverage to avoid it if it's not worth it to their business, and so the fine is worst for the foreign? That makes no sense.
Oh, please. Youtube gives complete control to the copyright holders to the point that even bird sounds are blocked, while TPB replies with satirizing emails. Is it really surprising that the latter got sued to the ground while the former didn't?
Of course it is, otherwise it wouldn't be there.
Why? What makes that process perfect?
New account, post at the same minute as the story. You could try to be a little less obvious.
On an LG Prada.
If one wants governmental control over health care, then that person isn't a Marxist.
The contradiction between the vocation and the good intentions of the administration on the one hand and the means and powers at its disposal on the other cannot be eliminated by the state, except by abolishing itself; for the state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities, since the scope of its own power comes to an end at the very point where civil life and work begin. Indeed, when we consider the consequences arising from the asocial nature of civil life, of private property, of trade, of industry, of the mutual plundering that goes on between the various groups in civil life, it becomes clear that the law of nature governing the administration is impotence. For, the fragmentation, the depravity, and the slavery of civil society is the natural foundation of the modern state, just as the civil society of slavery was the natural foundation of the state in antiquity. The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
-- Karl Marx
It's neither "yours" nor you "own" it. You have a government granted monopoly for its distribution.
What exactly would be the purpose of keeping around a redundant tag that breaks the separation of content and presentation style, when you can embed CSS right in the HTML tag that contains the text?
How would sites that drop Flash in favor of HTML5 canvas convince users of older versions of Internet Explorer to install Google Chrome Frame?
How much is a IE user that can't or won't install Chrome Frame worth compared to a tablet user? (and consider that Flash is deprecated on Android too).
What audio codec would be used with the sound that is synchronized with the vector animation? Chromium, Firefox, and Opera support only freely licensed codecs, while Internet Explorer and Safari support only MPEG codecs.What audio codec would be used with the sound that is synchronized with the vector animation? Chromium, Firefox, and Opera support only freely licensed codecs, while Internet Explorer and Safari support only MPEG codecs.
Both. Storage is cheap.
What tool would be used to make animations that would be played by a Canvas-based player? Keying in vector coordinates frame by frame isn't fun.
Adobe Edge Animate.
Because that's what CSS is for.
Nobody cares. People watch animations on Youtube now. It's 2012, we have the bandwidth.
"Uuh, I can't compete, save me government!"
Who says the pain and suffering has to be yours
Everyone who isn't just playing word games to make an argument.
The point is that there's a good reason for imprisoning someone, even if it costs some innocent people their freedom. There's no good reason for killing someone, taking away the possibility of giving at least some years of life back to the innocent person.
Those other freedoms can be restored if after ten or twenty years we find the justice system committed an error. How do you do that with the death penalty?
Euthanasia? We were talking about the death penalty.
1) Life in prison without parole is the death penalty with no one willing to carry it out.
Tell that to the guy who was released after 20 years of being in prison, because it was proven he was innocent. Or can you bring back the dead?
In the EU, at least 35% of it is, according to Directive 2000/36/EC.
And who decides what a "terrorist threat" is?
A court of law. But for that he needs to be brought to it.
No life? Drawing XKCD is his job.
Oh really? How does Git "find data in networks using identifiers based on the content of the data"? As far as I know, network operations in Git use URLs, not hashes, to find other repositories.
Read the claims.
How can I tell that someone hasn't read the claims?
Their patent is about using those identifier to know from a pool of servers which have the data. It's closer, but still not quite, like database sharding.