The thing is that the patent examiners only search the database of issued and published patents. Which does not touch the stuff that was never patented. Also, a patent does not necessarily have to use much industry-standard language. You can make up your own terms for things. So searching might not even do that much good.
Patent examiners cannot afford the time to do extensive searching outside of their own database. The patent office is a velvet sweatshop and a revenue center for the Executive Branch....
THe problem is the mass media has hip-mo-tized a large segment of America (maybe 40% or so of all Americans, which is large enough a voting block to maintain power). Whatever the talk radio tells them to think, that is pretty much what that think. Also, besides talk radio there is cable TV talk shows, and some are reached via newspapers and magazines.
Since about 1975 or so, the billionaires and corporations have spent a couple billion a year to fund large think tanks which basically come up with research and ideas about how to hip-mo-tize this segment of America. It works pretty well....
See more on this from links in my home page link above and my sig link below.
There are many well funded thinktanks that poll Americans on what their opinions are on many subjects (including this municipal wifi). These think tanks and the corporate lobbyists work hand in hand with the politicians and the media to keep the American populace under control so that the world can be kept safe for capitalism and profits and wealth. So these politicians ALREADY know that most Americans do not like what is happening with respect to municipal wifi. Or if the situation is explained to them, that is. Most Americans are abysmally ignorant....
Now here is the important part: you political representatives do not care what you say when you call them--as long as opinion polling shows that they can act with impunity. The most important thing to them is whether the MASS MEDIA will make a stink about it. As long as the tv does not attack them for killing muni wifi, they KNOW that going against constitutent/citizen opinion will not hurt them. Nothing much happens in America unless the TV takes a role in it, as least where citizen involvement is concerned. And the mass media oligarchy is SOLIDLY behind the telco's on this matter. After all, the telcos pay HUGE advertising dollars.
So call your representatives all you want. They already know what you think--the corporate think tanks keep them well informed in this regard, and they know just how far they can go.
IMO, nothing will change this dynamic until a separate criminal justice system (with harsh penalties) is created especially for politicians and CEOs and elite media.
The politicians know that if they pass this bill, they will get "donations" from the telco's, which will go right into their own pockets after they leave office. So passing this bill is to the personal gain of the politicians. What you are talking about is longterm gain for the citizens of Texas. THat is not all that much a consideration fot them. For some of them, yes. But personal gain is foremost, as it always is with any human or animal. What we need is a system that acknowledges this inherent human greed and deals with it. Just like a machine, e.g., an engine, acknowledges and deals with the powerful forces within the engine. Our government is a poorly designed machine. And no big surprise that it is: after all, the core of our government is the federal constitution, over 200 years old, designed by slaveowning aristocrats who explicitly designed it so as to be able to maintain and further their own dominance.
I was simply replying to the subject raised by the parent poster, and that poster's subject was linked to the main subject of this thread by posing it as an alternative. So you know where you cram your censorship, right?
OK. Here ya go: as each shopper meanders throughout the store, the carts send back position data, which is logged along with time. Then you write a program to create summed floor paths for all carts that are color coded for speed of progress at each location. Then you superimpose those summed paths on a floor map. Then you look at it and see where the customers are going, i.e., exactly where they are at each time, and see how long they spend, on average at each point.
THen you can see where your displays need to be. For example, you can find spots that customers linger longer and put displays there. And you can see where they are NOT spending much time, and NOT put displays there.
I wonder if they are sending back postition signals for collection while you are pushing the cart throughout the store. That way they could map traffic pattern and speeds of all shoppers and use that for marketing analysis....
choicepoint was the latest in a long line of corrupt corporations to be used by America to overthrow a democratically elected leftist government in some other country. But they could not take Chavez down. Viva Chavez!
Gee, aren't corporations are the "free market" so much better and more efficient that the government?!
I guess that is why the personal data from the government databases are getting hacked and stolen, but it never happens to databases controlled by corporations....
Maybe the Aussies and Brits are not subject to a draconian legal system designed to control the common man for the benefit of the wealthy? I think our American legal system was evolved especially for controlling property, and people have been property in America for a long time, since its beginning, when we had indentured servants, and then African slaves. And now consumers are the New Property. And the same old brutal plantation-oriented laws are being focused on American consumers.
The reason that economic leftism cannot find a place in the American psyche is because rich people and corporations have spent many billions over decades to convince/persuade/brainwash Americans that economic leftism is bad and has bad effects.
But the facts are obvious from looking at the effects of economic leftism on countries like Sweden, Norway, France, Denmark, etc. THose countries have the highest standards of living in the world. And they are economic leftist countries: high progressive taxation, high social spending. THe proof is in the pudding.
But Americans are propagandized/hipmotized by the boob tube/talk radio/newspapers, which over the decades have been subject to a steady bombardment of pro-economic rightism.
the upper class (in wealth and assets) pay less than the young people and the lower and middle class, at least in terms of percentage of current income or assets.
THere is a lot more to it than just Halliburton. And this is nothing new. It has always been this way. But WTC 911 emboldened the rich, the powerful, and now, with the Internet to expose them, their machinations are much more obvious. But I essentially agree....the govt is the hired man of the rich, the powerful, the corporate lobbies. They do not act in our interests. Say it long and loud. That is a first step.
....on Slashdot. But what the hell, there are a LOT of readers here (the polls often get a count of 20K responders within a day). So it is worth our while to spread our ideas here....
yes, i agree. Just as any business owner must ensure that his employers are within his control, so too, must we control our own govt.
But how do we do that? First, we have to sell our ideas to the public. I think the citizens own America, and that the job of the govt as our "hired man" is to make sure we get our cut, one way or the other. But right now the govt has sold out to the rich and powerful. We start to set things a-right by telling what we think, telling our story....
Most dipshit Americans do not even know what progressive taxation really is. Hell, I really did not know what it meant until I got on the Internet when I was in my late 30s. And I have tested genius IQ on more than one standardized test. So, I think we can assume that not too many Americans (or Californians) really realize what is going on with the destruction of our progressive tax base.
I agree-- a p2p system to distribute tv is the way to go. And it can happen to much of America if low cost municipal WIFI takes off. That in and off itself would be sufficient to get enough data across, and the added competition would precipitate a sharp drop in broadband prices.
As for supporting production, how about embedded ads in the video? product placement?
This sounds like client server or multicast....but what we really need is something that can help launch p2p iptv or that can be morphed into p2p iptv.
The problem with this SBC proposal is that the content is still corporate-controlled.
Yes, progressive taxation should be used to limit incomes.
Also, we need to aggressively seek out rich and powerful people that have used their position to exploit less powerful people, and try and imprison them (or possibly even execute them).
I am serious. I am a human, not an animal. What is happening in human society is just animal behavior, where the powerful dominate the less powerful. I think the less powerful should rise up and persecute and even execute the powerful on a regular basis.
it seems like a terrible hassle. Also, it gives anyone your IP. Also, you have to upload to download. Downloading is not what gets you in trouble--uploading is. THat is the main reason I never used bittorrent.
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The thing is that the patent examiners only search the database of issued and published patents. Which does not touch the stuff that was never patented. Also, a patent does not necessarily have to use much industry-standard language. You can make up your own terms for things. So searching might not even do that much good.
Patent examiners cannot afford the time to do extensive searching outside of their own database. The patent office is a velvet sweatshop and a revenue center for the Executive Branch....
I heard their stock exchange crashed some time ago. I wonder if it is back up....
And 2nd place aint even close!
THe problem is the mass media has hip-mo-tized a large segment of America (maybe 40% or so of all Americans, which is large enough a voting block to maintain power). Whatever the talk radio tells them to think, that is pretty much what that think. Also, besides talk radio there is cable TV talk shows, and some are reached via newspapers and magazines.
Since about 1975 or so, the billionaires and corporations have spent a couple billion a year to fund large think tanks which basically come up with research and ideas about how to hip-mo-tize this segment of America. It works pretty well....
See more on this from links in my home page link above and my sig link below.
There are many well funded thinktanks that poll Americans on what their opinions are on many subjects (including this municipal wifi). These think tanks and the corporate lobbyists work hand in hand with the politicians and the media to keep the American populace under control so that the world can be kept safe for capitalism and profits and wealth. So these politicians ALREADY know that most Americans do not like what is happening with respect to municipal wifi. Or if the situation is explained to them, that is. Most Americans are abysmally ignorant....
Now here is the important part: you political representatives do not care what you say when you call them--as long as opinion polling shows that they can act with impunity. The most important thing to them is whether the MASS MEDIA will make a stink about it. As long as the tv does not attack them for killing muni wifi, they KNOW that going against constitutent/citizen opinion will not hurt them. Nothing much happens in America unless the TV takes a role in it, as least where citizen involvement is concerned. And the mass media oligarchy is SOLIDLY behind the telco's on this matter. After all, the telcos pay HUGE advertising dollars.
So call your representatives all you want. They already know what you think--the corporate think tanks keep them well informed in this regard, and they know just how far they can go.
IMO, nothing will change this dynamic until a separate criminal justice system (with harsh penalties) is created especially for politicians and CEOs and elite media.
The politicians know that if they pass this bill, they will get "donations" from the telco's, which will go right into their own pockets after they leave office. So passing this bill is to the personal gain of the politicians. What you are talking about is longterm gain for the citizens of Texas. THat is not all that much a consideration fot them. For some of them, yes. But personal gain is foremost, as it always is with any human or animal. What we need is a system that acknowledges this inherent human greed and deals with it. Just like a machine, e.g., an engine, acknowledges and deals with the powerful forces within the engine. Our government is a poorly designed machine. And no big surprise that it is: after all, the core of our government is the federal constitution, over 200 years old, designed by slaveowning aristocrats who explicitly designed it so as to be able to maintain and further their own dominance.
I was simply replying to the subject raised by the parent poster, and that poster's subject was linked to the main subject of this thread by posing it as an alternative. So you know where you cram your censorship, right?
Here ya go: see how your tax dollars are freeing so many Iraqi kids from brutal tyranny (be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom!). Good to see, aint it?
Sigh....
OK. Here ya go: as each shopper meanders throughout the store, the carts send back position data, which is logged along with time. Then you write a program to create summed floor paths for all carts that are color coded for speed of progress at each location. Then you superimpose those summed paths on a floor map. Then you look at it and see where the customers are going, i.e., exactly where they are at each time, and see how long they spend, on average at each point.
THen you can see where your displays need to be. For example, you can find spots that customers linger longer and put displays there. And you can see where they are NOT spending much time, and NOT put displays there.
See...MARKETING!
I wonder if they are sending back postition signals for collection while you are pushing the cart throughout the store. That way they could map traffic pattern and speeds of all shoppers and use that for marketing analysis....
choicepoint was the latest in a long line of corrupt corporations to be used by America to overthrow a democratically elected leftist government in some other country. But they could not take Chavez down. Viva Chavez!
Gee, aren't corporations are the "free market" so much better and more efficient that the government?!
I guess that is why the personal data from the government databases are getting hacked and stolen, but it never happens to databases controlled by corporations....
Maybe the Aussies and Brits are not subject to a draconian legal system designed to control the common man for the benefit of the wealthy? I think our American legal system was evolved especially for controlling property, and people have been property in America for a long time, since its beginning, when we had indentured servants, and then African slaves. And now consumers are the New Property. And the same old brutal plantation-oriented laws are being focused on American consumers.
The reason that economic leftism cannot find a place in the American psyche is because rich people and corporations have spent many billions over decades to convince/persuade/brainwash Americans that economic leftism is bad and has bad effects.
But the facts are obvious from looking at the effects of economic leftism on countries like Sweden, Norway, France, Denmark, etc. THose countries have the highest standards of living in the world. And they are economic leftist countries: high progressive taxation, high social spending. THe proof is in the pudding.
But Americans are propagandized/hipmotized by the boob tube/talk radio/newspapers, which over the decades have been subject to a steady bombardment of pro-economic rightism.
See my sig for more details...
the upper class (in wealth and assets) pay less than the young people and the lower and middle class, at least in terms of percentage of current income or assets.
THere is a lot more to it than just Halliburton. And this is nothing new. It has always been this way. But WTC 911 emboldened the rich, the powerful, and now, with the Internet to expose them, their machinations are much more obvious.
But I essentially agree....the govt is the hired man of the rich, the powerful, the corporate lobbies. They do not act in our interests. Say it long and loud. That is a first step.
....on Slashdot. But what the hell, there are a LOT of readers here (the polls often get a count of 20K responders within a day). So it is worth our while to spread our ideas here....
yes, i agree. Just as any business owner must ensure that his employers are within his control, so too, must we control our own govt.
But how do we do that? First, we have to sell our ideas to the public. I think the citizens own America, and that the job of the govt as our "hired man" is to make sure we get our cut, one way or the other. But right now the govt has sold out to the rich and powerful. We start to set things a-right by telling what we think, telling our story....
Or create a wealth tax for homes or other assets over $1M.
Most dipshit Americans do not even know what progressive taxation really is. Hell, I really did not know what it meant until I got on the Internet when I was in my late 30s. And I have tested genius IQ on more than one standardized test. So, I think we can assume that not too many Americans (or Californians) really realize what is going on with the destruction of our progressive tax base.
I agree-- a p2p system to distribute tv is the way to go. And it can happen to much of America if low cost municipal WIFI takes off. That in and off itself would be sufficient to get enough data across, and the added competition would precipitate a sharp drop in broadband prices.
As for supporting production, how about embedded ads in the video? product placement?
This sounds like client server or multicast....but what we really need is something that can help launch p2p iptv or that can be morphed into p2p iptv.
The problem with this SBC proposal is that the content is still corporate-controlled.
Government power should only be used to crush other nations, preferably those who have citizens with high melatonin levels.... /sarcasm
and then it WILL be free for most people....like you and me!
Yes, progressive taxation should be used to limit incomes.
Also, we need to aggressively seek out rich and powerful people that have used their position to exploit less powerful people, and try and imprison them (or possibly even execute them).
I am serious. I am a human, not an animal. What is happening in human society is just animal behavior, where the powerful dominate the less powerful. I think the less powerful should rise up and persecute and even execute the powerful on a regular basis.
it seems like a terrible hassle. Also, it gives anyone your IP. Also, you have to upload to download. Downloading is not what gets you in trouble--uploading is. THat is the main reason I never used bittorrent.