So what if it's patented? Even if the company holding the patents refused to license it, the patents will expire in 20 years.
Do you think that the world will have solved to problem of poverty in 20 years? If so you are incredibly naive. In fact current demographics plus global warming pretty much guaranty the problem will be much worse in 20 years.
People here complaining about the fact this invention are absolute IDIOTS. This is an invention that changes things for all time. Not just the term of a patent.
I agree that this would create massive social issues.
However the idea that delaying the retirement age is politically difficult is only valid in the current context. In a society where people live 50% longer I think there would be great political will to adjust the retirement age to compensate.
It's been done before in response to much weaker motivation.
It may ultimately have big economic advantages. For example:
1. Increased incentive to take care of one's health. 2. Better return (over a longer lifetime) on the costs of raising and educating a child. 3. Increased incentives to save. 4. Better depth of experience for making decisions by adults.
The bad side:
Without term limits we could end up with some really fucking old Congressmen and members of the Supreme Court.
The 5th amendment arose from the history of the accused being compelled to testify against themselves by torture, and the fact that such testimony is worthless.
The reason it doesn't apply to 3rd parties is that the interest of the state being able to get the facts overrides the right to privacy in this instance.
Nice job of selective quoting. The rest of the paragraph says:
research over the last decade has identified nicotine's carcinogenic potential in animal models and cell culture. Nicotine has been noted to directly cause cancer through a number of different mechanisms such as the activation of MAP Kinases. Indirectly, nicotine increases cholinergic signalling (and adrenergic signalling in the case of colon cancer), thereby impeding apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting tumor growth, and activating growth factors and cellular mitogenic factors such as 5-LOX, and EGF. Nicotine also promotes cancer growth by stimulating angiogenesis and neovascularization. In one study, nicotine administered to mice with tumors caused increases in tumor size (twofold increase), metastasis (nine-fold increase), and tumor recurrence (threefold increase).
Fundamentally it's proven that nicotine is a significant factor in cancer growth and metastasis.
What studies? Something funded by the e-cig industry? By the tobacco companies looking to sell a new addictive product?
Big tobacco fought tooth and nail against the idea that second hand smoke is harmful. We already know nicotine is a addictive and has some negative health effects (birth defects).
Sorry, but I certainly don't want this crap in my lungs. There needs to be controls on where it can be used.
My wife is a native Spanish speaker from Chile. She has no problem understanding Spanish as spoken by other South Americans or Spaniards. However she does say that she would not want to work as a translator into another regional variant than her own because of the differences.
India is a God-Awful mess. First there are buttload of local regional languages. Then there is Hindi. And finally English.
So by the time one of the educated class gets out of college they already speak at least 3 languages. Within India though you have a 50% chance if you put two Indians in a room they won't be able to communicate well at all.
The hard part is the real science and engineering behind the part. The deep understanding of the material characteristics that are the result of the the metal and the manufacturing process. The lifetime of the part and how it's affected by it's use history. The stress and vibration the part endures. What safety margins you need. And how to get all that in a cost effective way.
Making a 3D image is not engineering the part. It's just a drawing from the most trivial aspect - the dimensions of the part.
If the software it runs is not open source and controlled by the user it cannot be trusted. Period.
It doesn't make a rat's ass difference where it's made and by who. The British government is in on this too. Do you trust the Germans, Chinese, French, Taiwanese?
Yes, as an American I am tired of America being policeman of the world, too. Especially when it comes to paying taxes for things like having military bases in Europe and the Middle East. WTF is that about? Europe is capable of paying for it's own defense and has been for a long time.
There was a time when America really depended on the Middle East for oil, and a time when Europe was recovering from WWII and was incapable of defending itself. When those are the realities then foreign entanglements are justified.
Those times are passed. It's time to pull all US military out of Europe and Africa and let the people who live there deal with their own messes. I'm tired of hearing criticism for actions that are intended to be helpful.
We spend hundreds of billions a year to support people that can perfectly well afford to take care of themselves.
Your friends have been bullshitting you. The investigation for TS is not nearly that invasive. It would be prohibitively expensive if it was. There about 4 million people who hold a TS.
Mostly they are looking for evidence that you are unreliable, prone to criminal behavior or are subject to blackmail.
For a Secret investigation they don't even interview. Just check your records.
It's only when they go to SCI etc. that they get picky.
Works created after 1978 have life of author + 70.
Works created earlier, including the speech have a more complicated calculation. It appears there is an original term of 28 years, then the heirs can renew it for another 67 years. So that would be a whopping 95 years. ONLY another 45 to go.
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So what if it's patented? Even if the company holding the patents refused to license it, the patents will expire in 20 years.
Do you think that the world will have solved to problem of poverty in 20 years? If so you are incredibly naive. In fact current demographics plus global warming pretty much guaranty the problem will be much worse in 20 years.
People here complaining about the fact this invention are absolute IDIOTS. This is an invention that changes things for all time. Not just the term of a patent.
I agree that this would create massive social issues.
However the idea that delaying the retirement age is politically difficult is only valid in the current context. In a society where people live 50% longer I think there would be great political will to adjust the retirement age to compensate.
It's been done before in response to much weaker motivation.
It may ultimately have big economic advantages. For example:
1. Increased incentive to take care of one's health.
2. Better return (over a longer lifetime) on the costs of raising and educating a child.
3. Increased incentives to save.
4. Better depth of experience for making decisions by adults.
The bad side:
Without term limits we could end up with some really fucking old Congressmen and members of the Supreme Court.
.... because people's brains are just like baker's yeast.
Or is it that most people's brains seem to function like they are made up of baker's yeast?
Anyway 50% more of that doesn't sound particularly wonderful.
The 5th amendment arose from the history of the accused being compelled to testify against themselves by torture, and the fact that such testimony is worthless.
The reason it doesn't apply to 3rd parties is that the interest of the state being able to get the facts overrides the right to privacy in this instance.
Nice job of selective quoting. The rest of the paragraph says:
research over the last decade has identified nicotine's carcinogenic potential in animal models and cell culture. Nicotine has been noted to directly cause cancer through a number of different mechanisms such as the activation of MAP Kinases. Indirectly, nicotine increases cholinergic signalling (and adrenergic signalling in the case of colon cancer), thereby impeding apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting tumor growth, and activating growth factors and cellular mitogenic factors such as 5-LOX, and EGF. Nicotine also promotes cancer growth by stimulating angiogenesis and neovascularization. In one study, nicotine administered to mice with tumors caused increases in tumor size (twofold increase), metastasis (nine-fold increase), and tumor recurrence (threefold increase).
Fundamentally it's proven that nicotine is a significant factor in cancer growth and metastasis.
How does the libertarian who doesn't want second hand nicotine react?
Yes, there are studies showing harmful effects on people using nicotine gum or patches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Toxicology
What studies? Something funded by the e-cig industry? By the tobacco companies looking to sell a new addictive product?
Big tobacco fought tooth and nail against the idea that second hand smoke is harmful. We already know nicotine is a addictive and has some negative health effects (birth defects).
Sorry, but I certainly don't want this crap in my lungs. There needs to be controls on where it can be used.
My wife is a native Spanish speaker from Chile. She has no problem understanding Spanish as spoken by other South Americans or Spaniards. However she does say that she would not want to work as a translator into another regional variant than her own because of the differences.
India is a God-Awful mess. First there are buttload of local regional languages. Then there is Hindi. And finally English.
So by the time one of the educated class gets out of college they already speak at least 3 languages. Within India though you have a 50% chance if you put two Indians in a room they won't be able to communicate well at all.
Language Demographics
1 Hindi dialects 422,048,642 41.03%
2 Bengali 83,369,769 8.11%
3 Telugu 74,002,856 7.19%
4 Marathi 71,936,894 6.99%
5 Tamil 60,793,814 5.91%
6 Urdu 51,536,111 5.01%
7 Gujarati 46,091,617 4.48%
8 Kannada 37,924,011 3.69%
9 Malayalam 33,066,392 3.21%
10 Oriya 33,017,446 3.21%
11 Punjabi 29,102,477 2.83%
12 Assamese 13,168,484 1.28%
13 Maithili 12,179,122 1.18%
14 Bhili/Bhilodi 9,582,957 0.93%
15 Santali 6,469,600 0.63%
16 Kashmiri 5,527,698 0.54%
17 Nepali 2,871,749 0.28%
18 Gondi 2,713,790 0.26%
19 Sindhi 2,535,485 0.25%
20 Konkani 2,489,015 0.24%
21 Dogri 2,282,589 0.22%
22 Khandeshi 2,075,258 0.20%
23 Kurukh 1,751,489 0.17%
24 Tulu 1,722,768 0.17%
25 Meitei (Manipuri) 1,466,705 0.14%
26 Bodo 1,350,478 0.13%
27 Khasi - Garo 1,128,575 0.112%
28 Mundari 1,061,352 0.105%
29 Ho 1,042,724 0.103%
Even if they haven't they are using specs out of committees that have potentially been influenced,
Basically what these revelations have done is destroyed any trust in crypto systems in use today.
Americans have had bases in Europe for 70+ years now. They have never been used to create control in the countries they were built in.
You zero facts to justify your opinion.
The hard part is the real science and engineering behind the part. The deep understanding of the material characteristics that are the result of the the metal and the manufacturing process. The lifetime of the part and how it's affected by it's use history. The stress and vibration the part endures. What safety margins you need. And how to get all that in a cost effective way.
Making a 3D image is not engineering the part. It's just a drawing from the most trivial aspect - the dimensions of the part.
If the software it runs is not open source and controlled by the user it cannot be trusted. Period.
It doesn't make a rat's ass difference where it's made and by who. The British government is in on this too. Do you trust the Germans, Chinese, French, Taiwanese?
The historical fact is the instability of the Middle East was guaranteed by the way it was partitioned by the British and French following WWI.
What we are seeing today is a direct result of European interference, colonialism and bungling.
Yes, as an American I am tired of America being policeman of the world, too. Especially when it comes to paying taxes for things like having military bases in Europe and the Middle East. WTF is that about? Europe is capable of paying for it's own defense and has been for a long time.
There was a time when America really depended on the Middle East for oil, and a time when Europe was recovering from WWII and was incapable of defending itself. When those are the realities then foreign entanglements are justified.
Those times are passed. It's time to pull all US military out of Europe and Africa and let the people who live there deal with their own messes. I'm tired of hearing criticism for actions that are intended to be helpful.
We spend hundreds of billions a year to support people that can perfectly well afford to take care of themselves.
Let them pay their own freight from now on.
The key generation process seems to me to be susceptible to corruption.
https://www.eff.org/rng-bug
Not so much when it's done locally like in SSH.
Etsy's audience is too small, and Amazon 1) doesn't support auctions and 2) is a giant pain if the item doesn't have a page already set up.
Your friends have been bullshitting you. The investigation for TS is not nearly that invasive. It would be prohibitively expensive if it was. There about 4 million people who hold a TS.
Mostly they are looking for evidence that you are unreliable, prone to criminal behavior or are subject to blackmail.
For a Secret investigation they don't even interview. Just check your records.
It's only when they go to SCI etc. that they get picky.
It seems to me this opens up a whole new industry for lawyers contesting copyright on the basis of cultural impact.
I think that would do more harm than good.
Is the King family feud really doing any harm other than just the corrosion caused by their unseemliness?
Simple and appropriate changes to the length of copyright are all that is needed here.
I'm in favor of a fixed term OR the life of the author plus 10. Say 30 years or life+10 whichever is longer. That should be plenty.
Schemes based just on the death of the author don't work in world where most authors sell rights for various forms of reproduction.
The 1978 law supersedes earlier law as to copyright term.
It actually took some works out of public domain and put them back under copyright.
All in all a really shitty piece of work by our Congress.
Fuckers.
Works created after 1978 have life of author + 70.
Works created earlier, including the speech have a more complicated calculation. It appears there is an original term of 28 years, then the heirs can renew it for another 67 years. So that would be a whopping 95 years. ONLY another 45 to go.
It came with a reliable screw or clip on connector for the ends.
The current situation with the slide in connectors doesn't work worth shee-it.
Yah, the root word for Senator is senile.