The America Invents Act is patent reform legislation passed in September 2011. It's hard to believe that an assessment of it's effects on employment could be meaningful at this point.
The so-called Nobel Prize in economics isn't really a Nobel prize like the one say in Chemistry. It's a prize started by the banksters running the Nobel foundation much later. The complete name is something like "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".
You pay cash? How does that help you when RFIDs in your driver's license or face recognition scanners at the supermarket checkout line identify you as Mr. R Smith of 2341 Maple Lane?
> The US government has quite a knack for giving money to B without taxing A, hence the huge deficits.
No, you just don't understand the implications of running a deficit.
When you run a deficit and accumulate a debt as a government one of two things happens:
1. You pay back the debt some time in the future with tax revenues. To do this you must collect taxes.
2. You print more money to pay back the debt. This causes the value of the rest of the money to go down, which is effectively a tax on everyone holding your money.
The fundamental fact to keep in mind is that in aggregate your taxes are what government spends. What you pay as taxes is just an illusion which is manipulated for politcal purposes.
Subsidizing something means you are taxing A and giving the money to B.
Now it's easy to pick candidates for that, but in the long run governments generally do a bad job at picking targets to tax, and targets to subsidize.
Part of the problem is that once a subsidy is put in place a constituency is created making it difficult to remove. In the US for example we subsidize tobacco growers. The very idea is of course abhorrent, but the political system is just not efficient.
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I call BS. This so-called 'cure' is at best a treatment.
http://jim.nord.univ-mrs.fr/IMG/pdf/TRPV1_revue-2.pdf
Such a thing already exists for Linux development companies.
http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about.php
> there is no such thing in practice as a "defensive patent
Here are some counter-examples to your bold statement:
1. http://www.researchdisclosure.com/
2. Provisional patents which cost $100 to file.
Why would this make a fortune from investment?
Suppose I am an investor, say with 10 million in capital to invest. I like this company's product.
So now I have two choices:
1. Invest in this company.
2. Copy their product and start my own company.
In case 2 I own 100% of the equity in the company plus full control of the company's personnel.
Seems to me a good case for 2 being the preferred course of action can be made.
I call BS
The America Invents Act is patent reform legislation passed in September 2011. It's hard to believe that an assessment of it's effects on employment could be meaningful at this point.
If one even exists.
Yes, but with MS they will get the Mw of the various components. It shouldn't be too hard to correct for - if it's MS.
Diamond = Carbon, same problem.
It's not legal to use pepper spray on peaceful protesters in the United States.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/11/16/211132/23
http://www.youtube.com/user/minneapolispolice?feature=results_main
I am the second Emperor of the United States, Norton II.
The reason congress rolls over to industry on H1B is very simple -
companies will just outsource or move offshore if they don't, which is far worse for the US economy (and tax revenues) than H1Bs.
Yes, exactly what do other nations do in regard to monitoring communications with foreign nationals?
Could it be that they engage in this stuff too? Why don't we see articles discussing legislative hearings on their policies on Slashdot?
Many of the people who take credit for predicting the crises predict a crises every year.
Predictably they are right once in a while.
The so-called Nobel Prize in economics isn't really a Nobel prize like the one say in Chemistry. It's a prize started by the banksters running the Nobel foundation much later. The complete name is something like "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".
It's shenanigans.
Both of these people are over the top narcissists.
http://www.maccoby.com/Articles/NarLeaders.shtml
Gates at least sees a somewhat wider picture and is doing some good with his money. He deserves more recognition for that than he gets.
Face recognition is a rapidly improving technology.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/hundred_percent_face_recognition_claim/
Perhaps also they will scan your license plate when you get out of your car.
Or maybe you live in Florida:
http://1787network.com/2011/03/senate-sneaks-rfid-drivers-license-internet-id-into-transportation-bill/1047
SIGINT is as old as civilization.
You pay cash? How does that help you when RFIDs in your driver's license or face recognition scanners at the supermarket checkout line identify you as Mr. R Smith of 2341 Maple Lane?
Making filthy pigs rich works MUCH better than socializing research and development.
> The US government has quite a knack for giving money to B without taxing A, hence the huge deficits.
No, you just don't understand the implications of running a deficit.
When you run a deficit and accumulate a debt as a government one of two things happens:
1. You pay back the debt some time in the future with tax revenues. To do this you must collect taxes.
2. You print more money to pay back the debt. This causes the value of the rest of the money to go down, which is effectively a tax on everyone holding your money.
The fundamental fact to keep in mind is that in aggregate your taxes are what government spends. What you pay as taxes is just an illusion which is manipulated for politcal purposes.
Let me see you come up with the scratch needed to develop a new drug. Patents are needed to encourage private investments in new technology.
Oh Baby Jesus Wept.
Design patents are NOT broad.
They cover ONLY the details of the particular ornamental design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent#Protections
I don't think Germany wants it (any more). They are still dealing with rebuilding East Germany.
Subsidizing something means you are taxing A and giving the money to B.
Now it's easy to pick candidates for that, but in the long run governments generally do a bad job at picking targets to tax, and targets to subsidize.
Part of the problem is that once a subsidy is put in place a constituency is created making it difficult to remove. In the US for example we subsidize tobacco growers. The very idea is of course abhorrent, but the political system is just not efficient.
At least the US has free speech as a basic right. Good luck on that in say, Europe.