No, I'm saying we shouldn't consider it Sierra Nevada wanting to publish the book. We should consider it what it is: the owners of Sierra Nevada are using their combined resources to publish a book.
The company does not have rights on its own, the people who form the company have rights. Forming the company does not give them any extra rights. It just makes it easier to refer to that company, do business under a certain name, etc., rather than naming all the people who form the company.
Right now, a person can be limited in political contributions by a dollar amount, but corporations do not; this effectively means that a corporation has been given rights a person does not have - and I am arguing that the current situation is inherently wrong.
If it can't go to jail, reproduce, serve on a jury, vote, etc., it isn't a person. A corporation is a comittee, a group of people. Giving that corporation rights is a joke.
They want to know which doctors to are good targets for more "drug rep" visits pushing the newest highest-profit-margin drugs. The goal of this collecting is to get the info of how many prescriptions each doctor is prescribing, and for what.
When you see the lengths the drug companies go to to push doctors toward a specific drug, it is horrifying. They can't bribe them, but they can "hire" that doctor to tell other doctors about it (purely informational, of course). The people who show up aren't really interested in hearing the presentation, the whole point is knowing that the doctor they hired to speak about the drug is significantly more likely to prescribe that exact drug immediately afterwards.
There are plenty of other advertising spaces available. Just nobody goes to them. This isn't like owning all the radio stations in a town (something that used to be illegal). This is more like owning 1 billboard, but its the only one that anybody looks at. If I sell advertising, am I allowed to advertise my own company? Am I required to take all ads people want to put up, even if they are for my competitor?
If I publish phone directories, am I required to put in all phone numbers, or can I create custom phone books of the numbers I think my customers are most interested in? My selling of phone books does not stop YOU from publishing your own, competing phone book.
It isn't like Google is keeping people from using other search engines.
It should be that way for all drugs. Anything you make/grow yourself, you can ingest.
I imagine there would be a lot of people who wouldn't go to the trouble of manufacturing harder drugs, when they could just do some pruning in the garden instead.
And, it would remove all profit motive from drug dealers.
Or how about allowing actual, honest scientific studies of it as a drug, rather than using old, bogus studies and categorizing it "no known medical use" even though the US Government holds patents on medical uses for it?
For which reason driving while intoxicated (on anything, not just alcohol) is against the law. That's reasonable because it punishes irresponsible behavior while leaving responsible drinkers alone.
It is much easier to determine a person's level of intoxication and impairment from alcohol than from weed.
If there was a simple, accurate breathalyzer-style test for "too high to drive," I'd be much more supportive of legalizing marijuana. That and the fact that actual impairment of mental faculties from weed last longer than the high does - you could be sober, yet still somewhat impaired from marijuana. With alcohol, impairment pretty closely corresponds to concentration in the body.
I was once shown a laptop that had its own built-in power supply. It could accept 50 or 60 Hz AC at 100-240 V, or DC anywhere from 6-30 V. A standard cord (like the one running from your brick to the wall) would plug it in, or you could use any cord that would fit.
Might not be as light-weight as a modern laptop would be, but it sure was convenient. It booted up just fine after being in storage over a decade, too.
One of the exceptions to the "do not call" and telemarketing rules in general is "prior relationship."
You gave your bank permission to give out your number to select business associates (read:anyone who wants to buy it) and they can legally call you because you agreed to this and they, by way of your bank, have "prior relationship" with you.
It is bullshit, but it is a major loophole for the telemarketers.
When you have a secret your employers would disapprove of, you are blackmailable and are considered a liability. Then homophobes (or any other -ophobes) will use that an excuse to exclude people that are different from their super-secret clubs. Ironically, if the employers weren't homophobes, the employee's sexuality would not create a security risk.
Are the Palestinian attacks actively discouraged by the Palestinian Authority, or does the PA just assume those rockets are going to be put to some legitimate, peaceful use?
Or maybe patent fees should be on a sliding scale. The more you try to patent in a year, the more expensive each application will be. For every application that gets rejected, the next patent will cost you more.
In Thailand and especially in Cambodia, t-shirts often have tags for US retailers sewn in, even the knockoffs. Sometimes "genuine" name-brand jeans in a market will even have "wal mart price tags" showing the US retail price - a dead giveaway to anyone who has been in a US Walmart. The people sewing in the tags probably don't even know what they say, they just know all t-shirts are supposed to have them.
If it can be adapted for spectral spectrographic data (especially beyond human-visible wavelengths), and polarization, I'll be happy to have my skepticism proven unfounded. Until then, this sounds too sci-fi.
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No, I'm saying we shouldn't consider it Sierra Nevada wanting to publish the book. We should consider it what it is: the owners of Sierra Nevada are using their combined resources to publish a book.
The company does not have rights on its own, the people who form the company have rights. Forming the company does not give them any extra rights. It just makes it easier to refer to that company, do business under a certain name, etc., rather than naming all the people who form the company.
Right now, a person can be limited in political contributions by a dollar amount, but corporations do not; this effectively means that a corporation has been given rights a person does not have - and I am arguing that the current situation is inherently wrong.
Aren't phone companies restricted from doing this sort of thing? Why should ISPs be treated any differently?
If it can't go to jail, reproduce, serve on a jury, vote, etc., it isn't a person. A corporation is a comittee, a group of people. Giving that corporation rights is a joke.
They want to know which doctors to are good targets for more "drug rep" visits pushing the newest highest-profit-margin drugs. The goal of this collecting is to get the info of how many prescriptions each doctor is prescribing, and for what.
When you see the lengths the drug companies go to to push doctors toward a specific drug, it is horrifying. They can't bribe them, but they can "hire" that doctor to tell other doctors about it (purely informational, of course). The people who show up aren't really interested in hearing the presentation, the whole point is knowing that the doctor they hired to speak about the drug is significantly more likely to prescribe that exact drug immediately afterwards.
Isn't it vinocide if I finish a bottle of wine?
There are plenty of other advertising spaces available. Just nobody goes to them. This isn't like owning all the radio stations in a town (something that used to be illegal). This is more like owning 1 billboard, but its the only one that anybody looks at. If I sell advertising, am I allowed to advertise my own company? Am I required to take all ads people want to put up, even if they are for my competitor?
If I publish phone directories, am I required to put in all phone numbers, or can I create custom phone books of the numbers I think my customers are most interested in? My selling of phone books does not stop YOU from publishing your own, competing phone book.
It isn't like Google is keeping people from using other search engines.
It should be that way for all drugs. Anything you make/grow yourself, you can ingest. I imagine there would be a lot of people who wouldn't go to the trouble of manufacturing harder drugs, when they could just do some pruning in the garden instead. And, it would remove all profit motive from drug dealers.
Or how about allowing actual, honest scientific studies of it as a drug, rather than using old, bogus studies and categorizing it "no known medical use" even though the US Government holds patents on medical uses for it?
There was some research with full-sensory immersion, but I understand the reception was somewhat unstable.
Lethal dose of caffeine is much lower than the lethal dose of alcohol. Does that make caffeine more dangerous?
For which reason driving while intoxicated (on anything, not just alcohol) is against the law. That's reasonable because it punishes irresponsible behavior while leaving responsible drinkers alone.
It is much easier to determine a person's level of intoxication and impairment from alcohol than from weed. If there was a simple, accurate breathalyzer-style test for "too high to drive," I'd be much more supportive of legalizing marijuana. That and the fact that actual impairment of mental faculties from weed last longer than the high does - you could be sober, yet still somewhat impaired from marijuana. With alcohol, impairment pretty closely corresponds to concentration in the body.
I can't grow milk in my closet. or hamburgers. I could grow tobacco, but drying and aging it properly so it is pleasant to smoke is a pain.
I was once shown a laptop that had its own built-in power supply. It could accept 50 or 60 Hz AC at 100-240 V, or DC anywhere from 6-30 V. A standard cord (like the one running from your brick to the wall) would plug it in, or you could use any cord that would fit. Might not be as light-weight as a modern laptop would be, but it sure was convenient. It booted up just fine after being in storage over a decade, too.
Just like they sell laptops without install/recovery disks? Bad example.
Also: just think of all the lawsuits over pixellated versions of The White Album cover?
One of the exceptions to the "do not call" and telemarketing rules in general is "prior relationship." You gave your bank permission to give out your number to select business associates (read:anyone who wants to buy it) and they can legally call you because you agreed to this and they, by way of your bank, have "prior relationship" with you. It is bullshit, but it is a major loophole for the telemarketers.
When you have a secret your employers would disapprove of, you are blackmailable and are considered a liability. Then homophobes (or any other -ophobes) will use that an excuse to exclude people that are different from their super-secret clubs. Ironically, if the employers weren't homophobes, the employee's sexuality would not create a security risk.
Are the Palestinian attacks actively discouraged by the Palestinian Authority, or does the PA just assume those rockets are going to be put to some legitimate, peaceful use?
http://www.krazyglue.com/products/product.aspx?pc=KG582 Handy 4-packs of single-use tubes, with a convenient carrying case. There's really no excuse to be unprepared.
So, pretty much like the stock market?
Or maybe patent fees should be on a sliding scale. The more you try to patent in a year, the more expensive each application will be. For every application that gets rejected, the next patent will cost you more.
In Thailand and especially in Cambodia, t-shirts often have tags for US retailers sewn in, even the knockoffs. Sometimes "genuine" name-brand jeans in a market will even have "wal mart price tags" showing the US retail price - a dead giveaway to anyone who has been in a US Walmart. The people sewing in the tags probably don't even know what they say, they just know all t-shirts are supposed to have them.
Maybe we'll find something so interesting, it will inspire us to go out and invent a way to get to it?
If it can be adapted for spectral spectrographic data (especially beyond human-visible wavelengths), and polarization, I'll be happy to have my skepticism proven unfounded. Until then, this sounds too sci-fi.
Will they manipulate the magnetic fields so my sense of direction is altered with the images, as well?