Hell, if he did then michael moore could make a movie about how bush singly handedly created hurricane katrina in order to turn black people into oil (if he hasn't already done so).
come on, nobody believes that bush single-handedly created the hurricane. its pretty obvious that he had some help.
i was using the number from the parent post, which mentioned a mirror of the binary number..so i thought of the binary number in the mirror in the futurama episode. its a joke..aw, forget it.
Ah yes, this argument. A state of emergency does not take the authority away from the local government
it did in this case. bush declared a state of emergency under the stafford act. any emergencies under the stafford act are automatically designated "incidents of national significance".
according to FEMAs national response plan, all 'incidents of national significance' are to be dealt with primarily by the federal government and FEMA, as they are too big and too complicated to involve coordination between local and state authorities.
in other words, on the saturday before the storm hit, the bush admin. said they'd take care of the situation. then they promptly sat on their hands.
The Feds always take two or three days to show up, and five to seven days to reach full strength
then they should have been there on monday. bush declared a state of emergency several days before the hurricane hit, essentially putting the response under the responsibility of the executive branch (namely FEMA). even if the federal response takes a few days to ratchet up, then they still should have been there sunday or at the latest monday. the storm had passed by monday morning..
as for the local politicians belonging to the 'other party', i might remind you that nagin only became a dem 2 days before the mayoral primary, because he could win more votes as a dem. until then, he was GOP all the way.
That's really not the point. The point was that the UN already had a dozen binding, Chapter VII Security Council resolutions against Iraq, that Iraq was egregiously in violation of, about which the entire Security Council was in agreement, and for which its charter not only allows, but compels, member nations to respond, and it did nothing. And this went on for over a decade.
you can say the same thing about Israel. so when do we invade Tel Aviv?
The director's office of the USPTO has reviewed seven of the patents under an ex parte format, which means that the review is only between the USPTO and the patent holder. The patent office rejected five of Campana's and NTP's patents and then turned around and rejected two more this month.
At the same time, the U.S. Patent Trademark Office is reviewing the last of the eight patents, which may end up making a stronger case for NTP in the long run, according to one attorney.
seeing as how the PTO has soundly rejected NTP's patents so far (the ones that have been reexamined and made public), i don't quite see where someone would get the opinion that such would make a stronger case for NTP.
how about this, gimme your address, so i can come by your house tonight, tie you up and beat you for a while. maybe i'll sodomize you with a lightstick. piss on you a few times. you know, good old fasioned hazing stuff.
hopefully, you won't get beaten so bad you'll die, like that cab driver in basura.
anyhoo, at the end, while you're lying tied up in a pool of your own excrement, i'll bring you a nice steak burrito, which will obviously make it all better.
if you slog through all the court transcripts, you'll find hearings where claim terminology was heavily narrowed for the purposes of the infringement. that means, according to the court, the claims were hella more specific than they let on at first glance.
Probably the most sweeping change would be the creation of a process to challenge patents after they are granted by the Patent and Trademark Office. "Opposition requests" can be filed up to nine months after a patent is awarded or six months after a legal notice alleging infringement is sent out.
reexamination works pretty well, but there's a backlog. of course, this new system is gonna get backlogged REAL fast.
Another major change would be to award a patent to the first person to submit their paperwork to the Patent Office. Currently, patents are awarded to the first person who concocted the invention, a timeframe that can be difficult to prove.
i dunno about this. 'first to apply' has major disadvantages.
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Hell, if he did then michael moore could make a movie about how bush singly handedly created hurricane katrina in order to turn black people into oil (if he hasn't already done so).
come on, nobody believes that bush single-handedly created the hurricane. its pretty obvious that he had some help.
i was using the number from the parent post, which mentioned a mirror of the binary number..so i thought of the binary number in the mirror in the futurama episode. its a joke..aw, forget it.
"10101110??? It's gibberish...(looks in mirror) 01110101!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!"
Ah yes, this argument. A state of emergency does not take the authority away from the local government
it did in this case. bush declared a state of emergency under the stafford act. any emergencies under the stafford act are automatically designated "incidents of national significance".
according to FEMAs national response plan, all 'incidents of national significance' are to be dealt with primarily by the federal government and FEMA, as they are too big and too complicated to involve coordination between local and state authorities.
in other words, on the saturday before the storm hit, the bush admin. said they'd take care of the situation. then they promptly sat on their hands.
to make it even simpler, you're wrong.
The Feds always take two or three days to show up, and five to seven days to reach full strength
then they should have been there on monday. bush declared a state of emergency several days before the hurricane hit, essentially putting the response under the responsibility of the executive branch (namely FEMA). even if the federal response takes a few days to ratchet up, then they still should have been there sunday or at the latest monday. the storm had passed by monday morning..
as for the local politicians belonging to the 'other party', i might remind you that nagin only became a dem 2 days before the mayoral primary, because he could win more votes as a dem. until then, he was GOP all the way.
why post it here? there is a /. story about it you know.
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yes, he did do the nasty in the pasty.
yeah, that's why china and india have all our jobs, the environmentalists. right.
"If you want analogies, then USA is the police. We were asked to subdue a violent criminal in 1991, and we are still subduing him. "
you keep ignoring that GWI was a multi-national UN war. we weren't the only force there. the entire UN force was the police in your analogy.
that's why it's the UN's decision to enforce their own resolutions and cease fires, not ours.
"The point is, it is the same war... We do not need UN's approval for every step. "
we do if we want to enforce a UN ceasefire. just liek we can't enforce UN resolutions by ourselves, it makes no sense.
"See if you can find UN resolution condeming the resumption as "illegal"
so what? we all know how neutered the UN is. doesn't mean it was our job to resume a ceasefire that was clearly enforced only by the UN.
if i beat up my neighbor for being a drug dealer, and the cops look the other way, does that mean that i broke no law?
uh, dumbass: the war in 1991 was a UN war. the ceasefire wasn't between the US and iraq. ergo, we alone didn't have the right to resume hostilities.
oh yeah, BTW, before you repeat the argument, Israel is in violation of SC resolutions as well as GA resolutions. look it up.
That's really not the point. The point was that the UN already had a dozen binding, Chapter VII Security Council resolutions against Iraq, that Iraq was egregiously in violation of, about which the entire Security Council was in agreement, and for which its charter not only allows, but compels, member nations to respond, and it did nothing. And this went on for over a decade.
you can say the same thing about Israel. so when do we invade Tel Aviv?
At the same time, the U.S. Patent Trademark Office is reviewing the last of the eight patents, which may end up making a stronger case for NTP in the long run, according to one attorney.
seeing as how the PTO has soundly rejected NTP's patents so far (the ones that have been reexamined and made public), i don't quite see where someone would get the opinion that such would make a stronger case for NTP.
what kind of sick fraternity did you belong to?
how about this, gimme your address, so i can come by your house tonight, tie you up and beat you for a while. maybe i'll sodomize you with a lightstick. piss on you a few times. you know, good old fasioned hazing stuff.
hopefully, you won't get beaten so bad you'll die, like that cab driver in basura.
anyhoo, at the end, while you're lying tied up in a pool of your own excrement, i'll bring you a nice steak burrito, which will obviously make it all better.
frat pledges, my ass.
it's the queers. they're in it with the aliens. they're building landing strips for gay martians.
the patent claims don't stand on their own.
if you slog through all the court transcripts, you'll find hearings where claim terminology was heavily narrowed for the purposes of the infringement. that means, according to the court, the claims were hella more specific than they let on at first glance.
First to apply is to bring the US system inline with the European and Japanese Patent Offices.
the EPO and JPO don't necessarily have everything working perfectly either.
I am a patent examiner.
so am i. so what?
Probably the most sweeping change would be the creation of a process to challenge patents after they are granted by the Patent and Trademark Office. "Opposition requests" can be filed up to nine months after a patent is awarded or six months after a legal notice alleging infringement is sent out.
reexamination works pretty well, but there's a backlog. of course, this new system is gonna get backlogged REAL fast.
Another major change would be to award a patent to the first person to submit their paperwork to the Patent Office. Currently, patents are awarded to the first person who concocted the invention, a timeframe that can be difficult to prove.
i dunno about this. 'first to apply' has major disadvantages.
lemme get this straight. the poster says that Iran was a tolerant place 6 years ago, right before it changed.
you try to disprove that assertion by linking a story about an event that happened 3 years ago.
in effect, you're helping prove the parent's point.
goes by the name of 'Brasky'. i'd say he's about 8'5", 750 pounds.