Which feds? The NZ ones for sure. However this doesn't say anything about warrants issued by US courts, so until it does it seems the seizure of servers located in the US is still a valid action.
Whether evidence that was leaked out of NZ could be used in US court proceedings, I don't know, but surely there is a lot on the US based servers.
I imagine this means there will still be attempts at extradition etc.
Freakin Denmark. Not saying it's bad, but like if something strange happens and you look it up and it's Denmark, well the strangeness of what happened is cancelled out by the fact it's Denmark.
As far as redoing a failed bill so it will pass, well DUH that's how legislatures work.
The real shocking statistic is the percentage of GDP, 16+ vs. 10. And Canada has a 20% lower per capita GDP than the US, so this figure is understating the actual cost difference.
For certainly no improvement.
And yes I am sure obesity is affecting the other results.
Clearly one of the failures of the US health care system is dealing with the problem of obesity.
I'm tired of the conservative meme that our health care is the best in the world when in fact it's bankrupting the country for no apparent benefit.
Here's another one. The US government pays about the same per capita in health care benefits as the Canadian government does.
But they get universal coverage for it.
It is utterly shocking how broken the US system is.
Obviously you have a very poor understanding of patents.
The fact of the matter is that the description of the technology is in the body of the document, but the scope of the coverage is in the claims.
Very different material.
And as far as the value of the patent details, I worked about 25 years as industrial scientist. They are in fact a quite valuable body of knowledge. In some cases they are the only published information on how a technology is actually practiced, as opposed to academic papers which look cute but don't tell you how to do anything in a size greater than one liter.
Basic Statistics
U.S. Canada Life Expectancy (Male) 74.8 77.4 Life Expectancy (Female) 80.1 82.4 Infant Mortality/1000 live births 6.8 5.3 Obesity Rate (Male) 31.1 17.0 Obesity Rate (Female) 32.2 19.0 HC spending as % of GDP (2005) 16.0% 10.4%
In addition the DHS is terminating it's partnership relationship with various Az police organizations which will effectively make enforcement impossible.
>Anything truly worthy of becoming a patent most often is instead treated as a closely guarded business secret
Eventually people will reverse engineer almost anything, especially if the economic value is there. Without patents a new problem arises - a lot of things will be sold with licenses and contractual agreements constructed to prevent reverse engineering. Some things, like some industrial catalysts are already sold in this fashion. Not having disclosure of a technology is harmful.
My analysis of the value of patents is simplistic in that is doesn't consider the effects of encouraging or discouraging investment into innovative enterprises.
As far as copyrights, I am also in favor of a much more limited term too. I'm not exactly sure what it should be though. For example consider the copyrights on computer source codes. These protect license agreements that have nothing to do with making money.
The UK signed a rather ridiculous extradition treaty that allows these shenanigans. Why I have no idea, but it shouldn't be surprising that people get hauled up on it.
Brits, it IS your country. Man up and start running it like a real one, not the butt-boy of the USA.
> A fact which means that if you do PCR or molecular cloning (or any other form of mass copying) on the gene you have violated there patent.
Since you are familiar with the field I'm sure that you are aware that patents on isolated genes like this one are working their way through the legal system, and are currently before the Supreme Court.
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Which feds? The NZ ones for sure. However this doesn't say anything about warrants issued by US courts, so until it does it seems the seizure of servers located in the US is still a valid action.
Whether evidence that was leaked out of NZ could be used in US court proceedings, I don't know, but surely there is a lot on the US based servers.
I imagine this means there will still be attempts at extradition etc.
So exactly why can't Mr. Dotcom sue over this? It seems to me that damages done during serving an illegal warrant would be recoverable.
Face it, the internet was never intended to provide privacy. Any attempt to do so is a bolt-on that will have problems.
I don't think you are paying attention closely enough. After all, SOPA didn't pass.
Freakin Denmark. Not saying it's bad, but like if something strange happens and you look it up and it's Denmark, well the strangeness of what happened is cancelled out by the fact it's Denmark.
As far as redoing a failed bill so it will pass, well DUH that's how legislatures work.
You forgot the time frame. The total obligation is calculated over a 70 year time span.
Aside from the fact that American society does not promote academic achievement and never has, there is something that you are missing very badly.
The birthrate among US Citizens is below the replacement rate.
No matter what you do with education you will never ever be able to replace the immigrant talent that comes to the US.
The real shocking statistic is the percentage of GDP, 16+ vs. 10. And Canada has a 20% lower per capita GDP than the US, so this figure is understating the actual cost difference.
For certainly no improvement.
And yes I am sure obesity is affecting the other results.
Clearly one of the failures of the US health care system is dealing with the problem of obesity.
I'm tired of the conservative meme that our health care is the best in the world when in fact it's bankrupting the country for no apparent benefit.
Here's another one. The US government pays about the same per capita in health care benefits as the Canadian government does.
But they get universal coverage for it.
It is utterly shocking how broken the US system is.
40% of the PhDs working in the US are immigrants.
End of story.
The problem with overly restricting H1B visas is that the corporate response would be to just move more operations offshore.
That would obviously be worse.
Obviously you have a very poor understanding of patents.
The fact of the matter is that the description of the technology is in the body of the document, but the scope of the coverage is in the claims.
Very different material.
And as far as the value of the patent details, I worked about 25 years as industrial scientist. They are in fact a quite valuable body of knowledge. In some cases they are the only published information on how a technology is actually practiced, as opposed to academic papers which look cute but don't tell you how to do anything in a size greater than one liter.
Or a stronger trial lawyer's lobby.
Except the quality is worse.
Basic Statistics
U.S. Canada
Life Expectancy (Male) 74.8 77.4
Life Expectancy (Female) 80.1 82.4
Infant Mortality/1000 live births 6.8 5.3
Obesity Rate (Male) 31.1 17.0
Obesity Rate (Female) 32.2 19.0
HC spending as % of GDP (2005) 16.0% 10.4%
At present the injunction banning enforcement of this law is still in place.
Other legal challenges are expected so it is unknown if/when enforcement will begin.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/06/03/20120603arizona-immigration-law-supreme-court-opinion.html
In addition the DHS is terminating it's partnership relationship with various Az police organizations which will effectively make enforcement impossible.
>How are people supposed to change stuff without being able to directly vote on it?
Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi got the Brits out of India without casting a single vote.
Surely you remember something about that?
>Anything truly worthy of becoming a patent most often is instead treated as a closely guarded business secret
Eventually people will reverse engineer almost anything, especially if the economic value is there. Without patents a new problem arises - a lot of things will be sold with licenses and contractual agreements constructed to prevent reverse engineering. Some things, like some industrial catalysts are already sold in this fashion. Not having disclosure of a technology is harmful.
My analysis of the value of patents is simplistic in that is doesn't consider the effects of encouraging or discouraging investment into innovative enterprises.
As far as copyrights, I am also in favor of a much more limited term too. I'm not exactly sure what it should be though. For example consider the copyrights on computer source codes. These protect license agreements that have nothing to do with making money.
Or at what point does this become demonstrably worse child abuse than the usual level of child abuse perpetrated by schools?
Like everything else they tell you in school is true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf5Jn8O3s0c
A patent is a contract between the inventor and the government. The exchange is:
1. The government grants an right to the inventor to prevent others from practicing the invention for some period of time, currently 20 years.
2. The inventor publishes in the patent the details of the invention which would give others the ability to practice the invention.
So it's worth it if having the details of the invention published outweighs the costs associated with the restriction on practicing the invention.
Your mileage will vary depending on the nature of the invention. The less obvious it is the more likely you will come out ahead.
For the vast majority of the inventions that Samsung and Apple are quibbling about the answer is pretty simple to see. It's not worth it.
These patents should have never issued.
The UK signed a rather ridiculous extradition treaty that allows these shenanigans. Why I have no idea, but it shouldn't be surprising that people get hauled up on it.
Brits, it IS your country. Man up and start running it like a real one, not the butt-boy of the USA.
> Is the US really as bad as the article implies?
No. My kids did similar things as children in scouts, summer camps and at home.
The article is complete rubbish.
> A fact which means that if you do PCR or molecular cloning (or any other form of mass copying) on the gene you have violated there patent.
Since you are familiar with the field I'm sure that you are aware that patents on isolated genes like this one are working their way through the legal system, and are currently before the Supreme Court.
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/ViewNews.aspx?id=50297
It will be a very interesting decision.
Your citation is impossible for me to debate being behind a paywall. However others here have provided criticism.
As far as IQ and brain structure it is well established that homosexual male brains are similar to women's brains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_and_sexual_orientation
There are 28 citations. Have fun.
Anecdotal evidence isn't even suggestive. It's just raw uncontrolled data points. You cannot draw inferences from it.
Combining sets of anecdotal error doesn't give you a study. It gives you a larger set of uncontrolled data which is equally meaningless.
Aggregating anecdotal data is NOT what studies do because such data is never controlled.
Again, as a math major you should realize this.
I guess you don't understand the differences between civil and criminal law very well.