Strictly speaking I suppose you aren't violating that law, you're just finding a way around it.
Interesting -- I was just reading that other article about the patent trolls getting sued by the Google and Microsoft team, and this sentence seemed to fit both articles.:)
Another possibility would be to have those who have successfully obtained a patent and are not actively licensing it under reasonable terms pay an annual penalty.
Rather, have a blanket annual penalty ("fee") to keep the patent going for another year. Don't pay the fee? Patent expires. Thus no need for a penalty. And it serves the rest of your purposes just as well.
If you are going to show how the Rich people in charge are corrupt... You shouldn't do that while selling your own wares.
"If you're going to show how the mouth-breathers are wrong, you should stop breathing as well" does not sound productive. Who can do anything without resources? "If you're going to show how humans are bad, you should not be one yourself." Yes, I'm taking your thought too far to demonstrate the absurdity. It's a non-profit, going against the most profitable companies in the world. How would you provide resources for your goals if not through the easily-exchangeable form of money?
Echoing what Khyber said, Marinol only exists because the government was pressured into making marijuana illegal. So bringing it up in an argument as proof that you can get it via prescription is arguing in circles. That, and the documented fact that it is not as useful for chemotherapy patients who have a habit of vomiting it up; they can't do that with something they absorb via their lungs.
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[...] decisions that are made in picoseconds should be taken with some level of precaution.)
That just amuses me.
Abrasive engineering: "Yeah well fuck you too, just hand me that spanner!"
Strictly speaking I suppose you aren't violating that law, you're just finding a way around it.
Interesting -- I was just reading that other article about the patent trolls getting sued by the Google and Microsoft team, and this sentence seemed to fit both articles. :)
Another possibility would be to have those who have successfully obtained a patent and are not actively licensing it under reasonable terms pay an annual penalty.
Rather, have a blanket annual penalty ("fee") to keep the patent going for another year. Don't pay the fee? Patent expires. Thus no need for a penalty. And it serves the rest of your purposes just as well.
Kubrick, sure; I also got a little Marvin, "He called me up to wash his head at me."
No no no, you're thinking of Bruce Boxleitner. ;-)
I kid, I kid. He was good in Babylon 5.
I'm thinking of Brian Boitano; I wonder what he would do?
Why are USians so obsessed with prison rape?
Schadenfreude, most likely.
How about some kind of a dungeons and dragons analogy? Unlawful chaotic? Why would you expect an unlawful chaotic to go after an evildoer?
Lawful vs. chaotic; good vs. evil. Cannot have lawful chaotic. I think you mean chaotic neutral; perhaps chaotic evil with neutral tendencies?
When Microsoft changes an interface, it is generally done to increase training revenue.
Exactly. And it changed all the keyboard shortcuts. This is Microsoft, increasing training revenue...
I have recently discovered AutoHotkey. This allows you to do basically anything you want on an XP machine, using the keyboard only. Very handy.
Watch Zeitgeist: the banks created the panics, in order to bring about the central bank. Sheesh, history.
Better that than the 9 billion names of God. We know how that turned out.
<rogerrabbit>One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, four ...</rogerrabbit> -- you get the point. :)
LOL come after me, bitches. It won't work. (No, not into dudes either.)
It's not the resolution, even though a lot of that is left to the imagination as well, the hunt is far, far more exciting than the outcome!
Reminds me of that old quote, "Life is a journey, not a destination."
There would be no uproar.
GP said "your dog", parent said "my dog". Where exactly is the implication that the dog discussed was GP's?
In a bramaged drain?
If you are going to show how the Rich people in charge are corrupt... You shouldn't do that while selling your own wares.
"If you're going to show how the mouth-breathers are wrong, you should stop breathing as well" does not sound productive. Who can do anything without resources? "If you're going to show how humans are bad, you should not be one yourself." Yes, I'm taking your thought too far to demonstrate the absurdity. It's a non-profit, going against the most profitable companies in the world. How would you provide resources for your goals if not through the easily-exchangeable form of money?
Echoing what Khyber said, Marinol only exists because the government was pressured into making marijuana illegal. So bringing it up in an argument as proof that you can get it via prescription is arguing in circles. That, and the documented fact that it is not as useful for chemotherapy patients who have a habit of vomiting it up; they can't do that with something they absorb via their lungs.
Moderators: the above is factual, not funny.
"I'll see her standing by the monorail
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes"
I love that there are four visual references, using three visual words.
with an impartial eye.
Yep, nailed it: left eye doesn't work, doesn't point straight; I am asymmetrical, and therefore am chosen neither for jury duty nor mating rituals.
Fucking grammar nazi inciter. Oh, and :)
I really dislike useless comments.
And yet you posted that.
Yeah that worked out well for Playboy and Hustler...