I love the LLC plan, and have been toying with the idea for some time. My (extended) family has 9-10 cell phones, many of which are used extensively. It probably costs us a collective total of $750-1000/month, and it would be great if I could slave them all together to save a couple of hundred dollars overall.
Under your logic, nothing at all could be patented. After all, a gear is an "instruction" for the conversion or translation of angular motion. All machines are merely sets of instructions, at some level of abstraction. Patents are designed to cover the use of things. See section 101 of the patent act.
PS: This is not to say that software patents are good/bad for other reasons.
Great response, but wouldn't we be rewarded with (albeit diminishing) returns up to 2x the maximum resolution of our eyes, due to registrational error between the display pixels and the sampling (eye) pixels? IIRC, in sound you want the samples taken at 2x the effective resolution of the ear (why 44kHz is a standard).
Ummmm... yes. It's called a long-arm statute, and almost all countries have them. Ever heard of Pinochet, or Milosevic? Both tried in other countries for crimes in those countries.
Could it stem from the fact that there are no truly incompressible particles? All particles are primarily empty space, so some degree of compression is given. Just an uninformed stab...
In general, an LCD TV is 2x more energy efficient than a CRT. Modern dual-core processors are more energy efficient then older processors. However, as with all gains in efficiency, we're using MANY more of them. That's just what happens.
Money is simply a crude, limited, form of power. Kim Jong Il has almost zero funds, and yet retains power by personality. This is much more dangerous. Money does not create this form of power, blind devotion does.
You're right. Instead of worrying about nerve damage 10 years from now, we should just shoot the bastards. Then there's no worries of nerve damage in 10 years. Yeah. Great plan.
Seriously, when examining the downsides of a new technology , wouldn't the potential downsides have to be measured against the known downsides of current technology? IE: We know that bullets and bombs cause death. Millimeter waves may cause some unknown problem, but most serious researchers strongly doubt it. Hmmm....
Disclaimer. It is my opinion that a person who buys a product way over the its market rate is either very wealthy and an idiot or just a plain idiot. Still without these people scalpers would not exist.
You're missing the point. They are not paying way over the market, Sony is charging under-market. If the price were precisely at the market clearing price, there would be no queues, no pushing, no fighting. All those who wanted the product at that price would get it. If the product isn't worth that price, no one would buy it. If Sony produced too few to meet that price point - they should raise the price. It's the law of supply and demand.
Um, this rice is genetically modified so that it can be sprayed with smaller quantities of herbacides (not pesticides). Therefore, less herbicides enter the environment.
No it is not. Money is fungible. And if you don't buy that, investing for the future after college is a way of managing expenses as a student. Students SHOULD be saving for retirement. Putting that money away in investments is one way to do that, therefore is a legitimate expense.
Wrong. Phage infection is merely one vector of introducing resistance to a bug. They can also do it through plasmid exchange. Additionally, even if you're correct, you're still wrong, as the bacteria doesn't have to lose the resistances it has acquired, only the virus would. The genetic space of a bacteria is so large it can easily add a new resistance gene, especially if selected for.
This is another solution - vaccinate against the organisms that most often cause dysentary.
Not really. Vaccination is much more difficult than you imply, especially because the organisms that cause most of these diseases are bacteria and eukaryotes. Much harder to vaccinate against than viruses, and much less effective when you do design one that "works".
The unions in Hollywood are notorious for continuing their blacklist and favoritism controls -- keeping costs high and quality low. In order to distribute a movie in the States, you have to be part of the union's preferred cartels. If you attempt to make a movie outside of their control, you'll generally not see wide distribution. Copyright at its finest, here.
How, exactly, is union chicanery and thugishenss "Copyright at its finest"? Unions are horrible vestiges of socialism, and while they may have served a purpose in the past, they exist only to further their own power nowadays. Though there are plenty of ways copyrights are problematic, what you describe above is a good reason to union-bust, not copyright-bust.
Did any ICU patient die during the attack, for any reason? If so, then the prosecutor should look to see if the death was perhaps quickened by the attack itself. Felony murder may be on the table for these meat bags.
...abolition of laws which restrict the operation of the free market
By this, I assume you mean intellectual property? Ummm... the free market is the exchange of value for value - but propertization is what allows that exchange to occur. Sharing in this way can only work in a backdrop of trading, and RMS's views, whether or not he likes it, need IP to function. That he is trying to do away with IP is a testament to his self-destructive nature.
No, the builder is not responsible for the stealing of the stuff- the builder is responsible for the faulty door. If you leave your door unlocked, and someone enters your house and takes your crap, are you responsible? No, you may have been stupid, but you didn't cause the person to steal your crap. It's not like you left the hatch on the submarine open, and caused everyone to drown. The water doesn't have a choice - the burglar does. That choice is the supervening cause.
"You must sell for to anyone willing to pay you the figure you set as the value."
Why not apply this ideal to houses then? That way, WalMart could just force people to sell their houses by offering them the tax value. You know, save them all the trouble of having to buy off the city functionaries and use eminent domain.
Forced property devolution is always such an efficient, good idea.
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I love the LLC plan, and have been toying with the idea for some time. My (extended) family has 9-10 cell phones, many of which are used extensively. It probably costs us a collective total of $750-1000/month, and it would be great if I could slave them all together to save a couple of hundred dollars overall.
They're not pirates, they're salvagers.
Under your logic, nothing at all could be patented. After all, a gear is an "instruction" for the conversion or translation of angular motion. All machines are merely sets of instructions, at some level of abstraction. Patents are designed to cover the use of things. See section 101 of the patent act. PS: This is not to say that software patents are good/bad for other reasons.
Great response, but wouldn't we be rewarded with (albeit diminishing) returns up to 2x the maximum resolution of our eyes, due to registrational error between the display pixels and the sampling (eye) pixels? IIRC, in sound you want the samples taken at 2x the effective resolution of the ear (why 44kHz is a standard).
Ummmm... yes. It's called a long-arm statute, and almost all countries have them. Ever heard of Pinochet, or Milosevic? Both tried in other countries for crimes in those countries.
Could it stem from the fact that there are no truly incompressible particles? All particles are primarily empty space, so some degree of compression is given. Just an uninformed stab...
In general, an LCD TV is 2x more energy efficient than a CRT. Modern dual-core processors are more energy efficient then older processors. However, as with all gains in efficiency, we're using MANY more of them. That's just what happens.
Money is simply a crude, limited, form of power. Kim Jong Il has almost zero funds, and yet retains power by personality. This is much more dangerous. Money does not create this form of power, blind devotion does.
You're right. Instead of worrying about nerve damage 10 years from now, we should just shoot the bastards. Then there's no worries of nerve damage in 10 years. Yeah. Great plan. Seriously, when examining the downsides of a new technology , wouldn't the potential downsides have to be measured against the known downsides of current technology? IE: We know that bullets and bombs cause death. Millimeter waves may cause some unknown problem, but most serious researchers strongly doubt it. Hmmm....
You're missing the point. They are not paying way over the market, Sony is charging under-market. If the price were precisely at the market clearing price, there would be no queues, no pushing, no fighting. All those who wanted the product at that price would get it. If the product isn't worth that price, no one would buy it. If Sony produced too few to meet that price point - they should raise the price. It's the law of supply and demand.
Um, this rice is genetically modified so that it can be sprayed with smaller quantities of herbacides (not pesticides). Therefore, less herbicides enter the environment.
No it is not. Money is fungible. And if you don't buy that, investing for the future after college is a way of managing expenses as a student. Students SHOULD be saving for retirement. Putting that money away in investments is one way to do that, therefore is a legitimate expense.
Wrong. Phage infection is merely one vector of introducing resistance to a bug. They can also do it through plasmid exchange. Additionally, even if you're correct, you're still wrong, as the bacteria doesn't have to lose the resistances it has acquired, only the virus would. The genetic space of a bacteria is so large it can easily add a new resistance gene, especially if selected for.
This is another solution - vaccinate against the organisms that most often cause dysentary.
Not really. Vaccination is much more difficult than you imply, especially because the organisms that cause most of these diseases are bacteria and eukaryotes. Much harder to vaccinate against than viruses, and much less effective when you do design one that "works".
The unions in Hollywood are notorious for continuing their blacklist and favoritism controls -- keeping costs high and quality low. In order to distribute a movie in the States, you have to be part of the union's preferred cartels. If you attempt to make a movie outside of their control, you'll generally not see wide distribution. Copyright at its finest, here.
How, exactly, is union chicanery and thugishenss "Copyright at its finest"? Unions are horrible vestiges of socialism, and while they may have served a purpose in the past, they exist only to further their own power nowadays. Though there are plenty of ways copyrights are problematic, what you describe above is a good reason to union-bust, not copyright-bust.
"... leading naturally to a decrease in important economy stimulating litigation."
Well, they are lawyers, and lawyers do generally want more litigation, but who knew they'd be so brazen...
Did any ICU patient die during the attack, for any reason? If so, then the prosecutor should look to see if the death was perhaps quickened by the attack itself. Felony murder may be on the table for these meat bags.
...abolition of laws which restrict the operation of the free market
By this, I assume you mean intellectual property? Ummm... the free market is the exchange of value for value - but propertization is what allows that exchange to occur. Sharing in this way can only work in a backdrop of trading, and RMS's views, whether or not he likes it, need IP to function. That he is trying to do away with IP is a testament to his self-destructive nature.
Umm... A mile high plateau on a one-acre island would be a sheer cliff face...
Why couldn't you point the laser mic to an object in the room, and record the sounds that impinge on that object?
You could use an IR laser mike, if you have line-of-sight to an office window. You don't need to see the keyboard, just some object in the room.
Now I'll need tinfoil wallpaper too, time to go to Cosco...
Place the servers offshore.
No, the builder is not responsible for the stealing of the stuff- the builder is responsible for the faulty door. If you leave your door unlocked, and someone enters your house and takes your crap, are you responsible? No, you may have been stupid, but you didn't cause the person to steal your crap. It's not like you left the hatch on the submarine open, and caused everyone to drown. The water doesn't have a choice - the burglar does. That choice is the supervening cause.
"You must sell for to anyone willing to pay you the figure you set as the value."
Why not apply this ideal to houses then? That way, WalMart could just force people to sell their houses by offering them the tax value. You know, save them all the trouble of having to buy off the city functionaries and use eminent domain.
Forced property devolution is always such an efficient, good idea.