If I intend to produce a product and decide not to or to alter the product due to someone falsely claiming they own a patent I should be able to sue and recover both real and punitive damages.
Recently our sour Supreme Court declared that corporations would be treated as real persons. Lies and false claims make real persons liable to punishments. Bailiff! Wack their peepees!!!
Even worse a photo of a sculpture does not replicate the sculpture. That is the overwhelming fact when the photo is a reduced drawing on a stamp. Then the next issue is that the selling of an object should convey absolute rights to the new owner and disolve all rights of the seller. The moral and ethical issues of copyright are so twisted that copyright needs to be eliminated.
There are probably towns in the US that have few if any homeless people. But many areas have large numbers of homeless and certain areas refuse to shelter them. Southern Florida is one such area. The reasoning is that any little thing done to help the homeless may well attract many thousands more. It is like the feeding the pigeon theory. The more you feed the more you get.
And that line of thought has very,very, dangerous roots. When eugenics was in vogue it included the notion that medical care or death prevention allowed the unfit to reproduce. The homeless were considered unfit as they were considered defective in their ability to meet social norms. This actually led to the slaughter of large numbers of Americans. For example one mental hospital deliberately used tuberculosis infested milk to see how many inmates would have the ability to resist the disease. If they got sick they were not treated and the disease took them to their graves.
The tension remains. Ft.Lauderdale has about 8,000 homeless on a typical day. If they are allowed to build huts the fear is that many more will come as the climate here is less harsh. Neglect can be a form of mass murder.
I have long uttered the statement that no government can withstand the public being able to communicate freely. The pressure from foreign governments to censor or limit the net must be stunning. And I suspect that numerous corporations also want content controlled as well.
Individual resistance is fine but without organised resistance the net will suffer a huge and crippling blow as these types of measures come into play. During these harsh times the last thing our nation needs is angry groups protesting anything but we simply have to get together and put pressure to maintain freedom of speech or it will soon be lost to us entirely. Publishers in the US have for a couple of decades used lawyers to survey every publication before it is put in print to judge if there is any way that the content might generate a law suit. That would not occur in a free and open society.
Tim McVeigh with a computer driven drone might be a real problem. Although high payload weapons are unlikely for domestic nuts a grenade size bomb could be flown to a target with readily available off the shelf components. Worse yet, it wouldn't take a techie to devise such a weapon. Almost any teenager could devise such a weapon if motivated.
Since there seem to be four separate and unrelated reasons for Toyotas accelerating out of control it is difficult to speculate as to how many have a software glitch, a short circuit issue, lose floor mats, or a worn linkage.
If you are in view of the public there should never be any expectation of privacy. That which is private is never communicated to another person either visually, in print or in spoken words. Maybe we can declare that all people have the right to be caught,embarrassed and humiliated. Frankly a real good dose of public humiliation might be good for a whole lot of people.
I'm not so certain that a decent,monochrome, computer running Linux would not sell well.
There is a universe of high quality books at Project Gutenberg that I often enjoy and it is a shame to use a high powered PC just to read and download books. And these days a decent chess game can take place on a low powered PC as well. From my point of view there are now so many uses for computers that having numerous units for various tasks seems quite reasonable and we could actually save energy as well if we use the correct unit for most jobs. Why not,for example, have a small PC in the kitchen that keeps track of your grocery shopping list and relates those needs to menus for the week? Other small computers might be applied to individual hobbies such as keeping your golfing history and golf contacts and schedules as its only purpose.
A person who wishes to write a program and sell it is still in pretty good shape. It is only those that wish to contract to write portions of a program for others that are being unfairly treated.
As a matter of fact a person might well be on unemployment or even welfare while laboring at the next really big game or other piece of software that they intend to sell on their own. All they have to do is to be available or claim to be available and go to required interviews or make themselves available for a job if it should open up.
I am not saying that people who wish to consult or write code for others are not being unfairly treated. That is another issue. But do keep in mind that most often independent contractor status is used to cheat workers, not to help them. Lack of basic benefits, lack of overtime pay, even lack of Workmans' Compensation coverage applies to independents. Worse yet most people who have agreed to work as independent contractors are not in fact independents and that can even be turned upon an employer. All acts of supervision must be absent. Providing a desk or a phone or a work place can be enough to give them employee status. That can mean that if there is an on the job injury that the employer will have to pay out of pocker for all medical and lost wages and tax issues may also revert to the employer.
Often I have a tendency to laugh at these nut job laws and attempts to strong arm the public by greedy companies. But the sad fact is that these criminals often get their way. It is past time to strike back. Equating free software with piracy is about as sinister as it could get.
Even if all seems to go easy as pie you are still vulnerable. For example if you are in excellent health and your wife and your children are also perfect your rates will only be a pain in the rump. But God forbid that any one of you has a medical issue that just might be costly in the future as you will be dropped like a rock or your rates will be so high that you were wish you were Bill Gates.
And it gets worse. In some states you can easily die if you can not pay. There is no real safety net in some states and I suspect that in the states that normally do offer aid that they are offering far less during these hard times.
Now here is the really twisted part. If you have an emergency as defined by the hospital and you have to be admitted your insurance can dictate what you get for care. But if you have no insurance and are poor the care that you get may be far better than if you actually did have insurance as the doctors are not restrained by your insurance limits. The catch is that things like cancer are not qualifiers as an emergency. So you can rot before getting care.
The only answer that has any hope of working is single payer, government provided, health care. As long as the medical industry can reach into your pocket, the insurance companies pocket and the government's pocket the system will remain screwed up. In essence you can be a slave to your job simply over the medical insurance issues.
I'm certain that the US would be a great deal more secure if we simply took over Mexico and Canada. Israel always feels more secure when it grabs a mile or ten of Arab soil. So its only natural that a high school would feel more secure if they had a miniature camera on every sheet of toilet paper that a student uses at home. And the list goes on and on and on.
The title names it. Ultimate Edition is the cream of Linux distros and it has a very familiar GUI. Based upon Ubuntu it obviously carries with it the ability to use programs in the Debian repositories. I have run every major version of Linux as well as many less known distros and to date Ultimate Edition rules the roost. In second place Mint is nice but the latest Mint releases don't seem quit as nice as some earlier ones.
Why on Earth is any non-criminal worried about their fingerprints being known to the world? Frankly this privacy paranoia is an illness. I am not ashamed of any place I go nor of anything I have done and I could give a hoot if the worst moments in my entire life were put on TV for all to view. The reason why is simple. I have miserable moments just like everyone else. Their bad moments are nothing but boring to me and I am fairly certain that my bad moments would bore them to tears.
And as far as commercial interests targeting me with advertising or whatever I could care less. Target away. I have only so much money to spend anyway so it is highly unlikely that advertising will get more out of my hide.
In some ways these privacy nuts remind me of the guy shaking in his boots
It must be the season for book burning and the like. And I am confused. First I thought that I had to hide under my bed to avoid the terror called pornography but now I am supposed to tremble at the idea of video games. I'm getting so confused I had best get a rifle and...
Geez, these people are not getting the message at all. The world has changed and yesterdays idea of a high school education is not good enough at all. Frankly the current crops of graduates are no where near what graduates from 1900 up until about 1965 were in knowledge or abilities. And that is no where near what is now needed. Frankly we need college (old school) level classes clear down into the eighth grade level. By the time a high school student reaches anything near diploma time physics, chemistry, calculus, trig and algebra need to be completed as well as far greater mastery of the liberal arts. And that includes the kids who only want to plant pickles or raise hogs or what ever.
We now have no way to coax or baby sit students. Keep the ones that have a burning desire to learn and boot the rest into the salt mines, prisons or ditch digging positions of their choice. If it can't behave kick it out.
Make no mistake. If we do not have academic superiority we will be lunch for China,Japan,Taiwan or any number of not so touchy,feely nations that would like to roast us alive.
When you choose to interact with others privacy is off the table by definition. All that can really be private is that which is kept only between yours ears and in no way uttered to another human being. For whatever reasons we have a segment of the population, each with their own definition of privacy, ranting about the ability of others to know something about them. Yet they are the ones that choose to live within society and communicate with others in a thousand different ways.
Think about it. If you buy a home in a neighborhood where homes always cost about $500,000 then you have announced to the world that your earnings or holdings are greater than most peoples. In other words simple observation will tend to reveal everything about you that anyone would likely want to know. And that information, even though you do not like it being collected, will not harm you. At most it will reveal the truth about you and that actually should be a goal for all of us. The truth will set you free.
A rope, a tree, burning torches and hot tar in the night are a fair remedy. After all the same bribes can be paid to judges and juries so side stepping the process may be justified.
Perhaps some brilliant strategy will emerge such as holding health care reform hostage unless they get what they want. Then again if they don't play nice perhaps the administration could cut down a few more projects in Alabama. Closing a military base or two might get their attention.
Air blowing over sea water usually contains quite a bit of salt. I wonder how they will deal with the salt. People who live on beach front homes are versed in repair costs to their homes and cars from salt ait.
It is an outrage that students get stuck on school buses for hundreds of hours each year. We need laws that assign students to the closest school available and also laws that requite counties to build schools that serve every area as best as can be done. I am aware that Texas sprawls quite a bit and Arizona surely has similar problems. But we see students in highly urban areas who still are on busses for three hours a day.
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If I intend to produce a product and decide not to or to alter the product due to someone falsely claiming they own a patent I should be able to sue and recover both real and punitive damages.
Recently our sour Supreme Court declared that corporations would be treated as real persons. Lies and false claims make real persons liable to punishments. Bailiff! Wack their peepees!!!
And here people have prejudice against mobile home dwellers. Imagine all that aluminum protecting them day and night!
Even worse a photo of a sculpture does not replicate the sculpture. That is the overwhelming fact when the photo is a reduced drawing on a stamp. Then the next issue is that the selling of an object should convey absolute rights to the new owner and disolve all rights of the seller. The moral and ethical issues of copyright are so twisted that copyright needs to be eliminated.
There are probably towns in the US that have few if any homeless people. But many areas have large numbers of homeless and certain areas refuse to shelter them. Southern Florida is one such area. The reasoning is that any little thing done to help the homeless may well attract many thousands more. It is like the feeding the pigeon theory. The more you feed the more you get.
And that line of thought has very,very, dangerous roots. When eugenics was in vogue it included the notion that medical care or death prevention allowed the unfit to reproduce. The homeless were considered unfit as they were considered defective in their ability to meet social norms. This actually led to the slaughter of large numbers of Americans. For example one mental hospital deliberately used tuberculosis infested milk to see how many inmates would have the ability to resist the disease. If they got sick they were not treated and the disease took them to their graves.
The tension remains. Ft.Lauderdale has about 8,000 homeless on a typical day. If they are allowed to build huts the fear is that many more will come as the climate here is less harsh. Neglect can be a form of mass murder.
I have long uttered the statement that no government can withstand the public being able to communicate freely. The pressure from foreign governments to censor or limit the net must be stunning. And I suspect that numerous corporations also want content controlled as well.
Individual resistance is fine but without organised resistance the net will suffer a huge and crippling blow as these types of measures come into play. During these harsh times the last thing our nation needs is angry groups protesting anything but we simply have to get together and put pressure to maintain freedom of speech or it will soon be lost to us entirely. Publishers in the US have for a couple of decades used lawyers to survey every publication before it is put in print to judge if there is any way that the content might generate a law suit. That would not occur in a free and open society.
Tim McVeigh with a computer driven drone might be a real problem. Although high payload weapons are unlikely for domestic nuts a grenade size bomb could be flown to a target with readily available off the shelf components. Worse yet, it wouldn't take a techie to devise such a weapon. Almost any teenager could devise such a weapon if motivated.
Since there seem to be four separate and unrelated reasons for Toyotas accelerating out of control it is difficult to speculate as to how many have a software glitch, a short circuit issue, lose floor mats, or a worn linkage.
If you are in view of the public there should never be any expectation of privacy. That which is private is never communicated to another person either visually, in print or in spoken words. Maybe we can declare that all people have the right to be caught,embarrassed and humiliated. Frankly a real good dose of public humiliation might be good for a whole lot of people.
I'm not so certain that a decent,monochrome, computer running Linux would not sell well. ,for example, have a small PC in the kitchen that keeps track of your grocery shopping list and relates those needs to menus for the week? Other small computers might be applied to individual hobbies such as keeping your golfing history and golf contacts and schedules as its only purpose.
There is a universe of high quality books at Project Gutenberg that I often enjoy and it is a shame to use a high powered PC just to read and download books. And these days a decent chess game can take place on a low powered PC as well. From my point of view there are now so many uses for computers that having numerous units for various tasks seems quite reasonable and we could actually save energy as well if we use the correct unit for most jobs. Why not
A person who wishes to write a program and sell it is still in pretty good shape. It is only those that wish to contract to write portions of a program for others that are being unfairly treated.
As a matter of fact a person might well be on unemployment or even welfare while laboring at the next really big game or other piece of software that they intend to sell on their own. All they have to do is to be available or claim to be available and go to required interviews or make themselves available for a job if it should open up.
I am not saying that people who wish to consult or write code for others are not being unfairly treated. That is another issue. But do keep in mind that most often independent contractor status is used to cheat workers, not to help them. Lack of basic benefits, lack of overtime pay, even lack of Workmans' Compensation coverage applies to independents. Worse yet most people who have agreed to work as independent contractors are not in fact independents and that can even be turned upon an employer. All acts of supervision must be absent. Providing a desk or a phone or a work place can be enough to give them employee status. That can mean that if there is an on the job injury that the employer will have to pay out of pocker for all medical and lost wages and tax issues may also revert to the employer.
These days having as much ability as a computer can be a very special compliment. We should all strive to be as able as our machines in many areas.
Often I have a tendency to laugh at these nut job laws and attempts to strong arm the public by greedy companies. But the sad fact is that these criminals often get their way. It is past time to strike back. Equating free software with piracy is about as sinister as it could get.
Even if all seems to go easy as pie you are still vulnerable. For example if you are in excellent health and your wife and your children are also perfect your rates will only be a pain in the rump. But God forbid that any one of you has a medical issue that just might be costly in the future as you will be dropped like a rock or your rates will be so high that you were wish you were Bill Gates.
And it gets worse. In some states you can easily die if you can not pay. There is no real safety net in some states and I suspect that in the states that normally do offer aid that they are offering far less during these hard times.
Now here is the really twisted part. If you have an emergency as defined by the hospital and you have to be admitted your insurance can dictate what you get for care. But if you have no insurance and are poor the care that you get may be far better than if you actually did have insurance as the doctors are not restrained by your insurance limits. The catch is that things like cancer are not qualifiers as an emergency. So you can rot before getting care.
The only answer that has any hope of working is single payer, government provided, health care. As long as the medical industry can reach into your pocket, the insurance companies pocket and the government's pocket the system will remain screwed up. In essence you can be a slave to your job simply over the medical insurance issues.
I'm certain that the US would be a great deal more secure if we simply took over Mexico and Canada. Israel always feels more secure when it grabs a mile or ten of Arab soil. So its only natural that a high school would feel more secure if they had a miniature camera on every sheet of toilet paper that a student uses at home. And the list goes on and on and on.
The title names it. Ultimate Edition is the cream of Linux distros and it has a very familiar GUI. Based upon Ubuntu it obviously carries with it the ability to use programs in the Debian repositories. I have run every major version of Linux as well as many less known distros and to date Ultimate Edition rules the roost. In second place Mint is nice but the latest Mint releases don't seem quit as nice as some earlier ones.
Why on Earth is any non-criminal worried about their fingerprints being known to the world? Frankly this privacy paranoia is an illness. I am not ashamed of any place I go nor of anything I have done and I could give a hoot if the worst moments in my entire life were put on TV for all to view. The reason why is simple. I have miserable moments just like everyone else. Their bad moments are nothing but boring to me and I am fairly certain that my bad moments would bore them to tears.
And as far as commercial interests targeting me with advertising or whatever I could care less. Target away. I have only so much money to spend anyway so it is highly unlikely that advertising will get more out of my hide.
In some ways these privacy nuts remind me of the guy shaking in his boots
It must be the season for book burning and the like. And I am confused. First I thought that I had to hide under my bed to avoid the terror called pornography but now I am supposed to tremble at the idea of video games. I'm getting so confused I had best get a rifle and ...
Geez, these people are not getting the message at all. The world has changed and yesterdays idea of a high school education is not good enough at all. Frankly the current crops of graduates are no where near what graduates from 1900 up until about 1965 were in knowledge or abilities. And that is no where near what is now needed. Frankly we need college (old school) level classes clear down into the eighth grade level. By the time a high school student reaches anything near diploma time physics, chemistry, calculus, trig and algebra need to be completed as well as far greater mastery of the liberal arts. And that includes the kids who only want to plant pickles or raise hogs or what ever.
We now have no way to coax or baby sit students. Keep the ones that have a burning desire to learn and boot the rest into the salt mines, prisons or ditch digging positions of their choice. If it can't behave kick it out.
Make no mistake. If we do not have academic superiority we will be lunch for China,Japan,Taiwan or any number of not so touchy,feely nations that would like to roast us alive.
The message I get from this is never, ever, to buy Kingston products.
When you choose to interact with others privacy is off the table by definition. All that can really be private is that which is kept only between yours ears and in no way uttered to another human being. For whatever reasons we have a segment of the population, each with their own definition of privacy, ranting about the ability of others to know something about them. Yet they are the ones that choose to live within society and communicate with others in a thousand different ways.
Think about it. If you buy a home in a neighborhood where homes always cost about $500,000 then you have announced to the world that your earnings or holdings are greater than most peoples. In other words simple observation will tend to reveal everything about you that anyone would likely want to know. And that information, even though you do not like it being collected, will not harm you. At most it will reveal the truth about you and that actually should be a goal for all of us. The truth will set you free.
A rope, a tree, burning torches and hot tar in the night are a fair remedy. After all the same bribes can be paid to judges and juries so side stepping the process may be justified.
Perhaps some brilliant strategy will emerge such as holding health care reform hostage unless they get what they want. Then again if they don't play nice perhaps the administration could cut down a few more projects in Alabama. Closing a military base or two might get their attention.
Air blowing over sea water usually contains quite a bit of salt. I wonder how they will deal with the salt. People who live on beach front homes are versed in repair costs to their homes and cars from salt ait.
It is an outrage that students get stuck on school buses for hundreds of hours each year. We need laws that assign students to the closest school available and also laws that requite counties to build schools that serve every area as best as can be done. I am aware that Texas sprawls quite a bit and Arizona surely has similar problems. But we see students in highly urban areas who still are on busses for three hours a day.