It seems that you might be talking about clap skates.They don't seem to be
"skates that couldn't be copied by other countries?"
You even contradict yourself, moving from "couldn't be copied by other countries" to "Everybody uses them now". So I presume you mean skates that were adopted first by a team where speed skating is quite a big sport.
I can find no evidence whatsoever that they were protected or held by one particular team, or that they were intellectual property. Wiki has a picture of a kind of clap skate from 1936.
The dutch team adopted them more quickly than anyone else, presumably because it is a big sport in that country.
Wiki says that these skates were used at the highest level from 1996-1997, not in a particular Olympics, why isn't that common knowledge for you?
Have you considered that he was adopting a negotiating position?
This would be seen as par for the course in business. A laudable, if aggressive, move to protect ones resources from unauthorised, uncompensated exploitation. A lot of people call it theft. It was the Color Run (an alleged charity) that took things into a business arena from a cuddly "charity fun run" area. His work was plastered everywhere for commercial exploitation and he received nil compensation, and nil attribution. The guilty party is clear.
a distinct advantage in a pool filled with US municipal water, but foster drag with the softer/harder water in Sochi.
Skating is done on frozen water, pay attention.
All the talking up of awesome unbeatable technology offers the poor loser the chance to blame something other than themselves.
If they want to have an F1 style constructor's Olympics as well, then fair enough. Until then we'll be better off with uniformity of equipment - as far as that can be achieved.
It seems you can't tell a muslim from a Sikh. You need to close your mouth until you have done the relevant reading.
Your continued blather removes all doubt - you are not equipped for the discussion.
They might be connected. A population subjected to random, uncontrollable destructive forces of nature might seek to appease the gods more?
Once that becomes a characteristic of your local population, it is resistant to the emergence of weather forecasting and the like.
What he means is that pick up trucks - as we call them ( flatbeds? - the things with no covering on the back.)
are a rarity in Britain. The first reasons that spring to mind are that we have a lot of rain (but so do some parts of North America), and we have a lot less space, so parking well off the road (to reduce risk of theft) is less easy.
In Britain, a plumber / builder / electrician with their own business has a van , not a pick up truck.
You are making the mistake of saying that all deists/people of faith are biblical literalist christians. Presumably because they shriek the loudest in your country.
The largest Christian sect does not do this. RC Christians are perfectly happy to be non creationist. There are many problems you can accuse Catholics of worsening, or turning a blind eye to, but this is not one of them.
Amazon are also terrified of any kind of precedent being set.
Their model is to cut all possible worker benefits to the bone; maintain a tax presence in only the friendliest, most cowed regimes while selling to people in better countries with functioning goverments and put a shiny face to the world in their shitty website.
Mail order (web shopping is mail order) is only useful in these circumstances - if you have a stay at home spouse, if you work at home, or for items small enough to fit through your door. Who wants to buy from a website for something big - who do I take it back to if it breaks? One of Amazon's "trusted partners"?
The standard would never exist without being forced.
Plenty of evidence that no-one was going to play the game: myriad connectors until a useful regulation is brought in which makes everyone's life easier.
You are actually complaining about things like the rule that phones must be chargeable over mini USB?
Apple's refusal to do this properly is one of the reasons I have a different kind of phone, despite happily using their computers.
This rule is a seriously good move, allowing you to be near certain that your phone will be chargeable when you are at a friend's house without your charger. Corporations would never do this without being forced. In fact they would do the opposite, and deliberately use mutually incompatible charger connections.
More importantly, if you let Plastic Surgery become undifferentiated from Cosmetic then you end up with insurance co.s denying coverage to those disfigured in accidents and so on.
Or you end up with stories like the linked one in Buffalo - make lots of noise about cosmetic procedures being covered so you can remove coverage for disfigurement.
I do not understand Cosmetic Surgery - you just look at the people who have had it - they look absurd. They must all surround themselves with sycophants who look into their bizarre undead faces and say they look wonderful.
To borrow a phrase from Mitchell and Webb, "Do they look younger, or do they look like they've had cosmetic surgery?"
Because it occurs in 100% of the population that survives to old age.
Being disfigured in a fire is not the same as crows' feet or receding hair.
Neither is needing a hip replacement the same as skin losing its elasticity.
You had me for a few words. Then I heard you say that permitting abortion is handing responsibility to the state. Rather, permitting abortion is removing the state from where it is not wanted. Something that your type surely approves of? (By your type, I mean a person who does not know what Socialism means, but rather uses it as a curse word when he sees something he dislikes.)
free condoms will encourage risky behavior no matter how you frame the issue.
Got any evidence for that? I am fairly sure that access to contraception reduces unwanted pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted disease, rather than making everyone drop the knickers.
You are a deluded religious maniac if you think that chanting "Take us back to the clean protestant 50s, Oh Lord" is a sensible course of action.
Pregnancy out of wedlock was not less common before, it was just covered up in shame and woman-hating.
patient must pay directly out of pocket for their services they will be more sensitive to the consequence of their lifestyle choices
Given your position on abortion, I am going to presume you are a "Christian". Please justify denying healthcare to someone who suffers an unforseeable accident or major illness because they were not rich. Perhaps you can explain how society benefits (by increasing social mobility?) when children born into poor families are have reduced chances of a better life due to lack of good healthcare, and abysmal education. Where is the Love for your neighbour? Believe it or not, some children turn out to be cleverer or harder working than their parents. So how about trying to move towards equality of opportunity whilst still acknowledging that there will never be equality of outcome.
Dead right. The right wing are forever claiming that corporations are people. Let's see these lowlifes in jail, and I will believe the rightists for once.
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"skates that couldn't be copied by other countries?"
You even contradict yourself, moving from "couldn't be copied by other countries" to "Everybody uses them now". So I presume you mean skates that were adopted first by a team where speed skating is quite a big sport. I can find no evidence whatsoever that they were protected or held by one particular team, or that they were intellectual property. Wiki has a picture of a kind of clap skate from 1936.
The dutch team adopted them more quickly than anyone else, presumably because it is a big sport in that country.
Wiki says that these skates were used at the highest level from 1996-1997, not in a particular Olympics, why isn't that common knowledge for you?
Have you considered that he was adopting a negotiating position?
This would be seen as par for the course in business. A laudable, if aggressive, move to protect ones resources from unauthorised, uncompensated exploitation. A lot of people call it theft.
It was the Color Run (an alleged charity) that took things into a business arena from a cuddly "charity fun run" area. His work was plastered everywhere for commercial exploitation and he received nil compensation, and nil attribution. The guilty party is clear.
any links for that? All you get on googling is the current "invincible suits / boo hoo we lost cos of our suits stories."
Last I checked it was the Dutch leading in Speed Skating.
London 2012 had to go round the houses to offer Fish and Chips to spectators - You could only buy Fish and Chips.
No chips on their own for you! Chips, (sorry Liberté Fries) on their own was McScumald's exclusive. The official fried potato product of the Olympics.
a distinct advantage in a pool filled with US municipal water, but foster drag with the softer/harder water in Sochi.
Skating is done on frozen water, pay attention. All the talking up of awesome unbeatable technology offers the poor loser the chance to blame something other than themselves. If they want to have an F1 style constructor's Olympics as well, then fair enough. Until then we'll be better off with uniformity of equipment - as far as that can be achieved.
Perhaps the Dutch are better?
Actually I was wrong, anyway. The washington post article doesn't only mention sikhs, it does mention muslims.
It seems you can't tell a muslim from a Sikh. You need to close your mouth until you have done the relevant reading. Your continued blather removes all doubt - you are not equipped for the discussion.
They might be connected. A population subjected to random, uncontrollable destructive forces of nature might seek to appease the gods more? Once that becomes a characteristic of your local population, it is resistant to the emergence of weather forecasting and the like.
What he means is that pick up trucks - as we call them ( flatbeds? - the things with no covering on the back.) are a rarity in Britain.
The first reasons that spring to mind are that we have a lot of rain (but so do some parts of North America), and we have a lot less space, so parking well off the road (to reduce risk of theft) is less easy.
In Britain, a plumber / builder / electrician with their own business has a van , not a pick up truck.
You are making the mistake of saying that all deists/people of faith are biblical literalist christians. Presumably because they shriek the loudest in your country.
The largest Christian sect does not do this.
RC Christians are perfectly happy to be non creationist. There are many problems you can accuse Catholics of worsening, or turning a blind eye to, but this is not one of them.
Their model is to cut all possible worker benefits to the bone; maintain a tax presence in only the friendliest, most cowed regimes while selling to people in better countries with functioning goverments and put a shiny face to the world in their shitty website.
Mail order (web shopping is mail order) is only useful in these circumstances - if you have a stay at home spouse, if you work at home, or for items small enough to fit through your door. Who wants to buy from a website for something big - who do I take it back to if it breaks? One of Amazon's "trusted partners"?
It might also be that those people would never want to be caught buying or having condoms.
Perhaps in response to a very sensible requirement for selling in a market larger than your glorious country? What a coincidence! It's the same one.
I presume you also object to standards for connections to mains electricity?
The standard would never exist without being forced.
Plenty of evidence that no-one was going to play the game: myriad connectors until a useful regulation is brought in which makes everyone's life easier.
The reason to force the issue is to bring about the greater good, you fundamentalist lunatic
EU....electronics connections
You are actually complaining about things like the rule that phones must be chargeable over mini USB?
Apple's refusal to do this properly is one of the reasons I have a different kind of phone, despite happily using their computers.
This rule is a seriously good move, allowing you to be near certain that your phone will be chargeable when you are at a friend's house without your charger.
Corporations would never do this without being forced. In fact they would do the opposite, and deliberately use mutually incompatible charger connections.
Or you end up with stories like the linked one in Buffalo - make lots of noise about cosmetic procedures being covered so you can remove coverage for disfigurement.
I do not understand Cosmetic Surgery - you just look at the people who have had it - they look absurd.
They must all surround themselves with sycophants who look into their bizarre undead faces and say they look wonderful.
To borrow a phrase from Mitchell and Webb, "Do they look younger, or do they look like they've had cosmetic surgery?"
Because it occurs in 100% of the population that survives to old age.
Being disfigured in a fire is not the same as crows' feet or receding hair.
Neither is needing a hip replacement the same as skin losing its elasticity.
free condoms will encourage risky behavior no matter how you frame the issue.
Got any evidence for that? I am fairly sure that access to contraception reduces unwanted pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted disease, rather than making everyone drop the knickers. You are a deluded religious maniac if you think that chanting "Take us back to the clean protestant 50s, Oh Lord" is a sensible course of action.
Pregnancy out of wedlock was not less common before, it was just covered up in shame and woman-hating.
patient must pay directly out of pocket for their services they will be more sensitive to the consequence of their lifestyle choices
Given your position on abortion, I am going to presume you are a "Christian". Please justify denying healthcare to someone who suffers an unforseeable accident or major illness because they were not rich.
Perhaps you can explain how society benefits (by increasing social mobility?) when children born into poor families are have reduced chances of a better life due to lack of good healthcare, and abysmal education. Where is the Love for your neighbour? Believe it or not, some children turn out to be cleverer or harder working than their parents. So how about trying to move towards equality of opportunity whilst still acknowledging that there will never be equality of outcome.
Out of business is not good enough
Dead right.
The right wing are forever claiming that corporations are people. Let's see these lowlifes in jail, and I will believe the rightists for once.
Do you have an interest that you need to declare?
According to the linked article the problem arises from blurring of the line between plastic and cosmetic interventions.