If inequality is the engine of progress, then you should live under Hitler or Pol Pot, with equanimity.
You will find, on only casual study, that excessive patent term extension kills progress, innovation and discovery - leading only to extractive rent-taking. In the current, modern economy, wealth is created through POLICY. Not through innate virtue, or luck of evolutionary/social chances.
"Intellectual Property" was not even a term in the language 25 years ago. Extension - into near perpetuity - of copyright and patent protections is a perversion of policy to grant "intellectual" fiefdom.
All this article advocates is the removal of artificially created policy constraints, that grant near-feudal extraction concessions to those already privileged and benefiting.
Gates Foundation is a funnel for corruption, and a pocket-liner for Gates' own business interests in the guise of a bureaucracy-dodging philanthropic enterprise.
Gates is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Monsanto/Glaxo Industrial Complex, making the world safe for the IMF and its participating billionaires.
Gladwell's been savaged enough for his whole "Tipping Point" pseudo-mathematical twaddle. As a columnist for the NYT, he's a perfect Tweedle-Dum to Thomas Friedman's Tweedle-Dumber.
What's less apparent to people is that Gladwell is a stooge, and lickspittle lackey to big industry.
"Gladwell has yet to disclose a list of his corporate clients and how much they pay him. Here is a partial list compiled from various publicly available sources:"
Philip Morris
Lehman Brothers
Microsoft
AHIP (health insurance lobby)
Bank of America
SHRM (union-busting lobby group)
Genentech
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Hewlett-Packard
Retail Real Estate Industry
Look into Project S.H.A.M.E., to fully expose the depth of this fraudulent, pseudo-intellect.
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300? I think you are stretching definition of "property" to meet your ideology.
We're up all night for good fun.
We're up all night to get lucky.
Just eat a sammich, Girl!
If inequality is the engine of progress, then you should live under Hitler or Pol Pot, with equanimity.
You will find, on only casual study, that excessive patent term extension kills progress, innovation and discovery - leading only to extractive rent-taking.
In the current, modern economy, wealth is created through POLICY. Not through innate virtue, or luck of evolutionary/social chances.
"Intellectual Property" was not even a term in the language 25 years ago. Extension - into near perpetuity - of copyright and patent protections is a perversion of policy to grant "intellectual" fiefdom.
All this article advocates is the removal of artificially created policy constraints, that grant near-feudal extraction concessions to those already privileged and benefiting.
I dimly remember that whole affair. HST? Certainly!
"Elite" access to BBS and the lot...
Microsoft gave 1 of these to every employee, in '07 or '08.
Guess what that looked like, to inventories shipped figures?
Then, they packed 'em with field content, and had Enterprise Sales forklift even more of them gratis, on the loading docks of renewal accounts.
Apple's hardware and business model worked SO WELL for them. Why didn't a repro by Microsoft do EVEN BETTER? ;-)
Ubuntu or other acceptable touch-packaging of Deb.
Just wait... $149, nine months from now.
"I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"
Salute them as 'early adopters' and congratulate them for getting in early to avoid the rush.
Worse.
Wal*Mart
They'll never get charges to stick to a Jew, for killing a black man.
Have you been snorting unicorn farts?
If you don't own a fair amount of MSFT stock or make million-dollar IT contract purchases? Why should you then care?
If you do, then these names are at least passing familiarity.
The whole article is a parlour game, even if you do own or buy significantly. Yes, Ballmer is shite. No, he's not going anywhere... Ever.
Look at his right-hand man, Kevin Turner. Human waste on legs.
Look who he ran off, before anointing Turner: Kevin Johnston. Actually decent.
Balmer also flushed good guys like Allchin and Maritz, or drove them away. While toadies live Valentine were perked.
The best of the remaining lot hangs out a tier away from the stink. God bless Bill Laing. Actual good human being, and a pleasure to work with.
The Gates Foundation's Education Philanthropy: Are Profit Seeking and Market Domination a Public Service?
Gates Foundation is a funnel for corruption, and a pocket-liner for Gates' own business interests in the guise of a bureaucracy-dodging philanthropic enterprise.
Gates is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Monsanto/Glaxo Industrial Complex, making the world safe for the IMF and its participating billionaires.
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html
http://naturalsociety.com/bill-gates-foundation-buys-500000-shares-of-monsanto/
http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/the-gates-foundation-connection-to-the-glaxo-drug-fraud-scandal-humanosphere/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353287/28-billion-health-fund-backed-Bill-Gates-Bono-investigation-fraud.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread777028/pg0
But? If they FUND journalists and transparency foundations, then the immunize themselves from criticism by the press... It's buying coverage.
http://philanthropy.com/blogs/giveandtake/why-is-the-gates-foundation-giving-so-much-money-to-journalists/27524
http://techrights.org/2013/03/22/gates-manufacturing-a-false-image/
Malcolm Gladwell. Can you really take seriously, the man who claims that Steve Jobs will be forgotten by history, while Bill Gates will be revered like Pasteur and Oskar Schindler ?
Gladwell's been savaged enough for his whole "Tipping Point" pseudo-mathematical twaddle. As a columnist for the NYT, he's a perfect Tweedle-Dum to Thomas Friedman's Tweedle-Dumber.
What's less apparent to people is that Gladwell is a stooge, and lickspittle lackey to big industry.
Dissident Voice has a great article on how he's used his podium to Astroturf for denial of benefits to the insured.
"Gladwell has yet to disclose a list of his corporate clients and how much they pay him. Here is a partial list compiled from various publicly available sources:"
Look into Project S.H.A.M.E., to fully expose the depth of this fraudulent, pseudo-intellect.
That's the name of her Wife?
One Turd, not many.
Well, let's avoid them, as they become increasingly irrelevant.
I OWN ARCTURUS! and Antares, Aldebaran, Alpha-Centauri and Altair and Algol.
Now, for the parking....
I think you reinforce my assertion, rather than challenge it.
Reeks of disinfo.
Why didn't hippy-hacker leak exploits at the time?
List the number of IETF protocols for sockets communication that are binary.
Because content providers and "services" have proven SO trustworthy, over the past 15 years.
I understand. Supply the arms - they will only use them for the good of our free market...
Look at this in combination with the DRM proposal being rammed through W3C.
How does Wireshark help you, when there's binary encrypted by keys you never had access to, and do not have the secrets to apply, if you did?
You will be able to view the beginning and end of blobs, for which you have no idea of origin or content, other than header meta.