It's more than that disaster waiting to happen. There's a load of scenarios possible, and ALL of them are possible only due to idiots allowing patenting of genes.
- GM Monoculture gets hit by disease: global short-term problem. - Everything else gets hit by disease manufactured by GM manufacturer. World Domination, but probably suspicious.. There's a short story "The Calorie Man" by Paolo Bacigalupi which describes this. - GM crops cross pollinating everything else, making it impossible to NOT buy patented GM crops (because everything else will be illegal). Likely but rather slower scenario, will also leave most of the worlds food supply in the hands of GM companies.
I'm pretty sure there's much more of those.
Patents on genes are at least as harmful as the ones on software. And in fact, the whole patent system must be abolished. Such a mercantilistic monopoly-generation-system just has no place in a free market.
Unless you're in the US. Can't use it there. That format is the subject of a patent.
Yes, but that patent was granted illegally. Every software patent, actually, because the US Patent Law states that mathematics can't be patented. So I wouldn't be worried to violate something that's illegal per se.
Oh well, 9/11 was the Reichstagbrand of the Fascist States of America.
The only thing I wonder about is that there aren't half a dozen uprisings and civil war going on, with a dozen domestic terrorist attacks every day -- with the express goal of liberating you from your fascist regime. Instead all you've got is some lone madmen and a few FBI fabricated "foreign" terrorists. Must be working well, then.
Well, I've been using it since 1996, and at that time it was better than this Windows 95 (Or MacOS 8 or OS/2).
Windows have serious security problems, etc etc but it does not break the existing applications on each relevant update
It does not? Well, my experience is somewhat limited to wine, but as far as I can see, those pesky needed add-ons like DirectX, PhysX, and especially.NET or GFWL break applications all the time. I've got a lot of broken Windows applications (which worked at some point) due to some add-on library update by another application.
And in my experience, Linux breaks a lot less upon upgrades. Not the least because it has a package management.
I mean, this is only a court order, against sites that have _not yet_ been persecuted for copyright infringement. So how can the court order this without at least opening a case against them? This sounds wholly illegal to me.
We know at least since 1851 what kind of utter idiocy patents are:
"The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just." -- The Economist, 1851
I'm running it under Debian Sid with libc6 from experimental. Works as great as it can *insert rant about developers programming their own widget sets and not adhering to ICCC standards*.
I've got about 40 games for Linux installed (A lot of them from humble bundle, actually), and I've got about 40 more n Steam which are not yet available for Linux, but for which a Linux port already exists (things like Legend of Grimrock, Doom 3, all the Quakes, SiN, plus another whole slew from humble bundle).
I expect a lot of those already-ported games to turn up in the next few weeks, along with several more from Croteam (the two Serious Sam HDs for instance, which are ports of the old Serious Sams to the new Serious Sam 3 Engine. Maybe the original ones too, since they're already ported to Linux) and Valve (all of the newer ones, and maybe even the older ones , Half Life 2, its siblings, the various Counter Strike-siblings, Portal 1&2, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Ricochet, Opposing Force, etc.).
You realise that this is somewhere above 50% in Europe? Even with most of the people officially belonging to a church; a majority considers themselves as "not religious".
The USA is viewed as _very_ religious from a European standpoint.
Pharmaceutical companies too. The worlds biggest ones got big without patents.
Die Behauptung eine Industrie mit Patenten und Musterschutz blühe auf, eine solche ohne dieses staatlichen Zuthaten gehe unter, halten wir für vollständig falsch" -- Alphons Koechlin-Geigy In english, "We consider the claim that an industry with patents and design patents will flourish, and one without these ingredients will drown, to be totally wrong". -- Alphons Koechlin-Geigy
The guy was the president of the swiss economic association, and of that Geigy-family, the one in Ciba-Geigy, which became Novartis, one of the biggest pharma-companies in the world.
it does not examine examples where the patent system has worked.
Funny enough, the patent-proponents didn't do a study on that. Well, maybe because those who did studies ended up in realizing that there is no evidence the system does work.
Seriously. Because on a global (or even national) market scale, nobody has yet been able to prove that patents have any benefit to society. And that includes patents on pharmaceuticals. The only case where a statistically significant result is available is software -- and in that case it's highly negative (-13 or something, if I remember correctly), so it's proven that software patents actually DO stifle innovation. But a correlation of something like "-0.36" (as in pharmaceuticals and mechanics) proves nothing, it just suggests that the patent system is probably useless.
It's not just Germany. The USA also knows the "first sale doctrine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine So it would also be possible to sue Valve in the USA, for exactly the same reason.
Option 2 is NOT illegal, you victim of propaganda!
It's illegal to _publish_ books (upload) whose copyright (or license to publish) you don't have, but it's NOT illegal to download books, movies or music.
Anarchy as a fallback? You wish. Democracy is hard to get right. Anarchy even harder.
No, the natural fallback is NOT a state "without ruler", but the opposite, many petty rulers (Chaos) and eventually emerging from that, a Dictatorship.
I wish someone would do a C rewrite too. Just look at what this http://minetest.net/ does: "limited to +-31000 blocks in all directions" Hell, that's one big difference to 256 blocks...
Yes. But if they're searching for "breasts", I expect to find pictures of breasts, and not "covered breasts". Same with "penis" or "vagina" or other by default explicit words.
On the other hand, when I see the masses of extremist mercantilist and protectionist monopoly-fanboys, I'm not surprised to find an extremist on the other side. Because if only reasonable people would be against artificial monopolies, their position would long ago have been swamped by the extremists on the other side (which is, by the way, what already happened). So I think he's necessary.
Of course, you're not supposed to argue with him, you're supposed to watch him go berserk against the other extremists.
And if, perchance, he sometimes misses the target (and Ubuntus shopping lens is totally a legitimate target!), then you might need to discuss. If that happens, see the Debian-Project (which still does not accept the GFDL and considers it "non-free") on how to proceed.
Because who in his right mind would endorse such a scheme as "patents"?
The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just. -- The Economist, 1851
Only the people on the far extreme want patents abolished.
No. Only people on the far extreme want a patent system.
"The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just." -- The Economist, 1851
Wanting the government to grant monopolies on inventions (actually: much more, in the case of software even on mathematics) is an extreme position. Which was well understood in the 19th century.
You don not want to institute a program which effectively creates a "low security bypass" in a security system, Whether that bypass itself is flawed is completely irrelevant, since the fact that it exists is already a security risk.
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Funny that the republicans don't advocate the usage of the republican (=metric) system.
And of course, the current government seems to be rather fond of imperialism, so I'm not astonished that they don't push for the republican system..
It's more than that disaster waiting to happen. There's a load of scenarios possible, and ALL of them are possible only due to idiots allowing patenting of genes.
- GM Monoculture gets hit by disease: global short-term problem.
- Everything else gets hit by disease manufactured by GM manufacturer. World Domination, but probably suspicious.. There's a short story "The Calorie Man" by Paolo Bacigalupi which describes this.
- GM crops cross pollinating everything else, making it impossible to NOT buy patented GM crops (because everything else will be illegal). Likely but rather slower scenario, will also leave most of the worlds food supply in the hands of GM companies.
I'm pretty sure there's much more of those.
Patents on genes are at least as harmful as the ones on software. And in fact, the whole patent system must be abolished. Such a mercantilistic monopoly-generation-system just has no place in a free market.
Unless you're in the US. Can't use it there. That format is the subject of a patent.
Yes, but that patent was granted illegally. Every software patent, actually, because the US Patent Law states that mathematics can't be patented. So I wouldn't be worried to violate something that's illegal per se.
Oh well, 9/11 was the Reichstagbrand of the Fascist States of America.
The only thing I wonder about is that there aren't half a dozen uprisings and civil war going on, with a dozen domestic terrorist attacks every day -- with the express goal of liberating you from your fascist regime. Instead all you've got is some lone madmen and a few FBI fabricated "foreign" terrorists. Must be working well, then.
As desktop, Linux still sucks
Well, I've been using it since 1996, and at that time it was better than this Windows 95 (Or MacOS 8 or OS/2).
Windows have serious security problems, etc etc but it does not break the existing applications on each relevant update
It does not? Well, my experience is somewhat limited to wine, but as far as I can see, those pesky needed add-ons like DirectX, PhysX, and especially .NET or GFWL break applications all the time. I've got a lot of broken Windows applications (which worked at some point) due to some add-on library update by another application.
And in my experience, Linux breaks a lot less upon upgrades. Not the least because it has a package management.
I mean, this is only a court order, against sites that have _not yet_ been persecuted for copyright infringement. So how can the court order this without at least opening a case against them? This sounds wholly illegal to me.
No, but I wish to work with people who would suggest me to suck dick when I go into bed with Microsoft.
The patent system sucks balls. Monsanto could not do this if there wasn't a patent system.
Just as much.
We know at least since 1851 what kind of utter idiocy patents are:
"The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just." -- The Economist, 1851
I'm running it under Debian Sid with libc6 from experimental. Works as great as it can *insert rant about developers programming their own widget sets and not adhering to ICCC standards*.
I've got about 40 games for Linux installed (A lot of them from humble bundle, actually), and I've got about 40 more n Steam which are not yet available for Linux, but for which a Linux port already exists (things like Legend of Grimrock, Doom 3, all the Quakes, SiN, plus another whole slew from humble bundle).
I expect a lot of those already-ported games to turn up in the next few weeks, along with several more from Croteam (the two Serious Sam HDs for instance, which are ports of the old Serious Sams to the new Serious Sam 3 Engine. Maybe the original ones too, since they're already ported to Linux) and Valve (all of the newer ones, and maybe even the older ones , Half Life 2, its siblings, the various Counter Strike-siblings, Portal 1&2, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Ricochet, Opposing Force, etc.).
You realise that this is somewhere above 50% in Europe? Even with most of the people officially belonging to a church; a majority considers themselves as "not religious".
The USA is viewed as _very_ religious from a European standpoint.
Pharmaceutical companies too. The worlds biggest ones got big without patents.
Die Behauptung eine Industrie mit Patenten und Musterschutz blühe auf, eine solche ohne dieses staatlichen Zuthaten gehe unter, halten wir für vollständig falsch" -- Alphons Koechlin-Geigy
In english,
"We consider the claim that an industry with patents and design patents will flourish, and one without these ingredients will drown, to be totally wrong". -- Alphons Koechlin-Geigy
The guy was the president of the swiss economic association, and of that Geigy-family, the one in Ciba-Geigy, which became Novartis, one of the biggest pharma-companies in the world.
it does not examine examples where the patent system has worked.
Funny enough, the patent-proponents didn't do a study on that. Well, maybe because those who did studies ended up in realizing that there is no evidence the system does work.
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Seriously. Because on a global (or even national) market scale, nobody has yet been able to prove that patents have any benefit to society. And that includes patents on pharmaceuticals. The only case where a statistically significant result is available is software -- and in that case it's highly negative (-13 or something, if I remember correctly), so it's proven that software patents actually DO stifle innovation. But a correlation of something like "-0.36" (as in pharmaceuticals and mechanics) proves nothing, it just suggests that the patent system is probably useless.
It's not just Germany. The USA also knows the "first sale doctrine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
So it would also be possible to sue Valve in the USA, for exactly the same reason.
Option 2 is NOT illegal, you victim of propaganda!
It's illegal to _publish_ books (upload) whose copyright (or license to publish) you don't have, but it's NOT illegal to download books, movies or music.
No from what he's done, he's not a conservative. He's a right-wing authoritarian: http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
Anarchy as a fallback? You wish. Democracy is hard to get right. Anarchy even harder.
No, the natural fallback is NOT a state "without ruler", but the opposite, many petty rulers (Chaos) and eventually emerging from that, a Dictatorship.
I wish someone would do a C rewrite too. Just look at what this http://minetest.net/ does: "limited to +-31000 blocks in all directions" Hell, that's one big difference to 256 blocks...
Yes. But if they're searching for "breasts", I expect to find pictures of breasts, and not "covered breasts". Same with "penis" or "vagina" or other by default explicit words.
Yes
On the other hand, when I see the masses of extremist mercantilist and protectionist monopoly-fanboys, I'm not surprised to find an extremist on the other side. Because if only reasonable people would be against artificial monopolies, their position would long ago have been swamped by the extremists on the other side (which is, by the way, what already happened). So I think he's necessary.
Of course, you're not supposed to argue with him, you're supposed to watch him go berserk against the other extremists.
And if, perchance, he sometimes misses the target (and Ubuntus shopping lens is totally a legitimate target!), then you might need to discuss. If that happens, see the Debian-Project (which still does not accept the GFDL and considers it "non-free") on how to proceed.
Because who in his right mind would endorse such a scheme as "patents"?
The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just. -- The Economist, 1851
Like James Watt stalling the development of the steam engine for 20 years with his patents? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt#Patent_trials
Only the people on the far extreme want patents abolished.
No. Only people on the far extreme want a patent system.
"The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just." -- The Economist, 1851
Wanting the government to grant monopolies on inventions (actually: much more, in the case of software even on mathematics) is an extreme position. Which was well understood in the 19th century.
You don not want to institute a program which effectively creates a "low security bypass" in a security system, Whether that bypass itself is flawed is completely irrelevant, since the fact that it exists is already a security risk.