Luckily, only the US-Santa lives at the Northpole. Other countries have different locations: Mo-i-Rana for Norwegians, Rovaniemi for Finns, just "out in the forest" for Germans, in Bari for Italians (and in theory for all other Catholics too)...
I know that there is always the example of the Netherlands coming up with all the levies and dykes.
I've been to the Netherlands, and I've cycled along the dykes and levies. And they could be built because the coast of the Netherlands is a large intertidal zone which falls dry and gets flooded again during the tide. Even some miles away from the coastal line, the sea is no deeper than ten feet during the flood, and the islands at the dutch coast can be reached by car during the low tide. And it's not a single dyke, it's a whole system of levies and water locks and pumps, reaching several miles into the land.
Kiribati has barely any intertidal zone, and only one larger island (Kirimati). Every other island has less than 10 square miles. There is simply no space at the coast to even built something similar to the dutch coastal protection. With the exception of the vulcan island of Banaba, all other islands have less than five feed elevation above the sea level. There not even enough building material on the islands to construct any levies.
Actually, other asteroid filled areas are as void as ours. Asteroids have mass, and they pull each other, forming bigger asteroids and leaving empty space between them.
No, that's not what a shibboleth is for. A shibboleth is some kind of passwort or parole to differ between friend and foe, as told in the Book of Judges, 12, 5-6:
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Charlie Stross meant to write about tell-tale signs for bad SF. And yes, the pronounciation of shibboleth was a tell-tale sign for being an Ephraimite instead of a Gileadite. But not every tell-tale sign is a shibboleth. For a shibboleth, you actually force the person in question to pronounce the word for you. But in bad SF, no one forced the author to put the tell-tale signs in there, he wrote them voluntarily, as he is a bad SF author.
You know how many patents there are just for a mixing valve? Last time I checked, it was more than 2000. No, none of the patents monopolizes the idea to mix hot and cold water already in the tube. What they monopolize are hundreds and thousands of ideas how to achieve that as smooth as possible and with as much as possible control over the mixing process and with easy operation.
So no, Airbus' patent does not try to monopolize the idea of a detachable freight compartment for planes. It tries to cover a certain method how to achieve the detachable freight compartment for planes.
Actually, they are used correctly. The cognitive abilities the study used were verbal and fluid intelligence and numeracy. Thus, i.e. rightly denotes the complete list.
Modern atheists often have their own dogmas, and all the same problems.
falls either in the bullshit or in the dogma category.
First, most atheists I know are quite undogmatic. They just don't have a religion, and they don't miss it. They've grown up without every being challenged about their (non-)religiousness. Being without religion is just some kind of natural state for them, the same as for instance being 5'10" or born in 1972. There is just nothing to be questioned about it, it is to them as it is. (Full disclosure: I am neither 5'10" nor born in 1972).
Second, it might be different in an environment where the majority of the population is religious and thus the minority constantly has to explain that they aren't, and that to them it's fine, and there are valid reasons for not being religious. If you don't stop questioning people about why exactly they (don't) believe what they (don't) believe, sooner or later everyone will sound dogmatic to you, but all they really are is being angry at you for continuously bothering them and not knowing when to stop.
As we are in Civil Law and not in Criminal Law, there is no such concept of "being guilty". Are you infringing on their rights? Yes, as they have a monopoly on their invention granted by the state. Are they infringing on your rights? Of course they are, but they have a patent that allows them to do so.
There are two ways to get out of this mess: first, prove you are not infringing on their rights. That would mean that you prove none of the claims in their patent fits to you, or it is already covered by prior art. Thus, their patent would not allow them to infringe on your rights, as you aren't enfringing on theirs. Second, prove that the monopoly should not have been granted to begin with. Then there is no case, as there is no patent at all.
Considering that there are enough proprietary communication protocols around, whose specs are never disclosed at all, or where you have to pay money and sign a non disclosure agreement prior to getting a look at them, there are enough ways for them to be closed.
There are locomotives with a classical clutch and gear (especially small ones), and locomotives with dieselhydralic powertrains (like the DB AG Class 612).
I would rather say that the Paris attacks are proof that Edward Snowden is right in every way. Not only are the surveillance schemes he revealed illegal, they are completely useless. France has similar schemes in place, France and Belgium both knew that the attackers were planning something, they even gave an interview to the Dabiq magazine about their planned attacks, and how they can easily cross borders without hindrance.
No, preventing the Paris attacks would not have required even more intelligence gathering and breaking encryption. It would have required real persons to really look into matters, really follow the suspects, and catch them before they armed themselves and go for their killing spree. Instead the intelligence community sat there hoping that out of the data cloud a voice would tell them time and location of the attacks.
The Bush/Cheney "rush to war" wasn't poll-driven, nor was it a "rush" in that it took almost a year and included multiple attempts at UN consensus and Congressional approval.
And everyone was telling them they can get lost with it, as it makes no sense and will just create more problems. Luckily they were right, it made sense, and now all the problems are solved. Iraq is a blooming democracy, and the neighboring feudal states are rapidly reforming towards pluralistic, democratic societies.
It's exactly the other way around. Corporations exist to reap a profit. A legal way to achieve that to provide a product or service. That's why many companies actually do so. Holding companies often don't provide a product or service, their raison d'être is to manage the profits.
You mess two things up, which makes your logic flawed.
In Bertrand Russell's example, no one of the needle workers actually strives to improve his skills. But instead, the companies replace the old needle manufacturing equipment with new ones which doubles the productivity of their workers, and all of the workers get retrained for the new process. So yes, the inventor of the Improved Needle And Pin Machine gets his share, as he has outfitted all needle manufactures with his new invention. But the global market for needles does not increase, as needles are totally cheap already. A lower price for needles does not increase demand. So what we have now is companies with 100 percent surplus manufacturing capacities competing in a tight market, and half of them will get bankrupt in the process (it may be purely random which one get hit), until the manufacturing capacity for needles fits the demand again. It means half of the workforce will be out of a job, even if they don't differ in any way from the part of the workforce, that is still employed.
So contrary to your hypothesis, it's not the individual strive or laziness that made the difference between unemployed and employed needle workers. It's pure random chance. They all trained for the new manufacturing process, they are all equally skilled. But they were just to many, if they kept their working schedule.
Marriage was historically understood as a way to determine who should inherit the wealth. Children born in wedlock were entitled, children born outside the wedlock were not. That's all what marriage was about.
It also meant that no one was allowed to marry who had no wealth to pass on. Homeless people were not allowed to marry. People without a profession were not allowed to marry. People without their own business or without an estate were not allowed to marry etc.pp.
A doctor has to treat everyone without looking at the person. That's part of being a doctor. A doctor has to treat a mobster, a child molester and also a taliban. It was that way when Hippocrates formulated the Hippocratic Oath, it was that way when Henri Dunant founded the Red Cross and laid the foundation to the Geneva Convention.
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Luckily, only the US-Santa lives at the Northpole. Other countries have different locations: Mo-i-Rana for Norwegians, Rovaniemi for Finns, just "out in the forest" for Germans, in Bari for Italians (and in theory for all other Catholics too)...
I've been to the Netherlands, and I've cycled along the dykes and levies. And they could be built because the coast of the Netherlands is a large intertidal zone which falls dry and gets flooded again during the tide. Even some miles away from the coastal line, the sea is no deeper than ten feet during the flood, and the islands at the dutch coast can be reached by car during the low tide. And it's not a single dyke, it's a whole system of levies and water locks and pumps, reaching several miles into the land.
Kiribati has barely any intertidal zone, and only one larger island (Kirimati). Every other island has less than 10 square miles. There is simply no space at the coast to even built something similar to the dutch coastal protection. With the exception of the vulcan island of Banaba, all other islands have less than five feed elevation above the sea level. There not even enough building material on the islands to construct any levies.
Actually, other asteroid filled areas are as void as ours. Asteroids have mass, and they pull each other, forming bigger asteroids and leaving empty space between them.
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Charlie Stross meant to write about tell-tale signs for bad SF. And yes, the pronounciation of shibboleth was a tell-tale sign for being an Ephraimite instead of a Gileadite. But not every tell-tale sign is a shibboleth. For a shibboleth, you actually force the person in question to pronounce the word for you. But in bad SF, no one forced the author to put the tell-tale signs in there, he wrote them voluntarily, as he is a bad SF author.
So no, Airbus' patent does not try to monopolize the idea of a detachable freight compartment for planes. It tries to cover a certain method how to achieve the detachable freight compartment for planes.
Actually, they are used correctly. The cognitive abilities the study used were verbal and fluid intelligence and numeracy. Thus, i.e. rightly denotes the complete list.
Modern atheists often have their own dogmas, and all the same problems.
falls either in the bullshit or in the dogma category.
First, most atheists I know are quite undogmatic. They just don't have a religion, and they don't miss it. They've grown up without every being challenged about their (non-)religiousness. Being without religion is just some kind of natural state for them, the same as for instance being 5'10" or born in 1972. There is just nothing to be questioned about it, it is to them as it is. (Full disclosure: I am neither 5'10" nor born in 1972).
Second, it might be different in an environment where the majority of the population is religious and thus the minority constantly has to explain that they aren't, and that to them it's fine, and there are valid reasons for not being religious. If you don't stop questioning people about why exactly they (don't) believe what they (don't) believe, sooner or later everyone will sound dogmatic to you, but all they really are is being angry at you for continuously bothering them and not knowing when to stop.
There are two ways to get out of this mess: first, prove you are not infringing on their rights. That would mean that you prove none of the claims in their patent fits to you, or it is already covered by prior art. Thus, their patent would not allow them to infringe on your rights, as you aren't enfringing on theirs. Second, prove that the monopoly should not have been granted to begin with. Then there is no case, as there is no patent at all.
Considering that there are enough proprietary communication protocols around, whose specs are never disclosed at all, or where you have to pay money and sign a non disclosure agreement prior to getting a look at them, there are enough ways for them to be closed.
Need more?
There are locomotives with a classical clutch and gear (especially small ones), and locomotives with dieselhydralic powertrains (like the DB AG Class 612).
Very old idea, been around and in daily use since the 60s. And not a hybrid.
Add another 40 years. Being around and in daily use since the 1920ies.
Actually, one of the first diesel locomotives ever was electrodiesel. And this was in the 1920ies.
No, preventing the Paris attacks would not have required even more intelligence gathering and breaking encryption. It would have required real persons to really look into matters, really follow the suspects, and catch them before they armed themselves and go for their killing spree. Instead the intelligence community sat there hoping that out of the data cloud a voice would tell them time and location of the attacks.
Because they have looked up the retail prices in dollar to make it more easy for non-UK-residents?
It says you get 100 times as much for the same money. Don't you understand any English?
The Bush/Cheney "rush to war" wasn't poll-driven, nor was it a "rush" in that it took almost a year and included multiple attempts at UN consensus and Congressional approval.
And everyone was telling them they can get lost with it, as it makes no sense and will just create more problems. Luckily they were right, it made sense, and now all the problems are solved. Iraq is a blooming democracy, and the neighboring feudal states are rapidly reforming towards pluralistic, democratic societies.
It's exactly the other way around. Corporations exist to reap a profit. A legal way to achieve that to provide a product or service. That's why many companies actually do so. Holding companies often don't provide a product or service, their raison d'être is to manage the profits.
A law is just some sheet of paper, you need people to actually enforce it.
Then Bossland will sue the judge too.
But Blizzard is in hot waters too by accepting the source code in a settlement. They might be found guilty of handling stolen goods.
Combinging 50 sounds which sound like a bird might not sound very birdlike. You might end up with some kind of white noise.
In Bertrand Russell's example, no one of the needle workers actually strives to improve his skills. But instead, the companies replace the old needle manufacturing equipment with new ones which doubles the productivity of their workers, and all of the workers get retrained for the new process. So yes, the inventor of the Improved Needle And Pin Machine gets his share, as he has outfitted all needle manufactures with his new invention. But the global market for needles does not increase, as needles are totally cheap already. A lower price for needles does not increase demand. So what we have now is companies with 100 percent surplus manufacturing capacities competing in a tight market, and half of them will get bankrupt in the process (it may be purely random which one get hit), until the manufacturing capacity for needles fits the demand again. It means half of the workforce will be out of a job, even if they don't differ in any way from the part of the workforce, that is still employed.
So contrary to your hypothesis, it's not the individual strive or laziness that made the difference between unemployed and employed needle workers. It's pure random chance. They all trained for the new manufacturing process, they are all equally skilled. But they were just to many, if they kept their working schedule.
It also meant that no one was allowed to marry who had no wealth to pass on. Homeless people were not allowed to marry. People without a profession were not allowed to marry. People without their own business or without an estate were not allowed to marry etc.pp.
A doctor has to treat everyone without looking at the person. That's part of being a doctor. A doctor has to treat a mobster, a child molester and also a taliban. It was that way when Hippocrates formulated the Hippocratic Oath, it was that way when Henri Dunant founded the Red Cross and laid the foundation to the Geneva Convention.