The primary purpose of the US patent system is to generate revenue for the economie
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According to the US Constitution, Article I Section 8, the purpose of the US Patent system is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Albertsons actually had a checkbox "I don't want to give you this info, but give me the card anyways". I checked it, and after the little old lady finished freaking out, she gave me a card.
Had AT&T. Was in Summerlin NV (just NW of Vegas) at the Marriott. I couldn't get a signal to save my life. What really pissed me off was seeing everyone else around me gabbing on their cell phones.
I dropped AT&T as soon as number portability came up (and wound up losing my number anyway, due to the AT&T transfer fuckups).
I was working in the lab on some military equipment when a Lithium battery decided to vent about 4 feet away from me. Not fun. We had to evacuate the lab, Security had us go to the nurse, and they had to fully vent the lab. Really annoying, too, since I was in the final stages of prepping the stuff to go on the road for I&T with customer equipment.
I had to work into the wee hours of the night because of waiting for the crap to clear out.
Plus thank you for correcting his spelling of SINCGARS.
In addition, many stock military devices take D-size cells. In our lab, we used to have a whole case of OD color MIL-Spec D-cells for various pieces of equipment we had to interface with.
And in if you're going to use 20-20 hindsight, you have to remmeber that back then, they didn't know about all the nasty aftereffects of nukes. They thought it was "a bomb, but with a whole lot bigger bang".
At the time it wasn't considered a "weapon of mass destruction". It was a big bomb that we had. We wanted to force Japan to surrender, since we really didn't want to invade the islands -- that would cost hundreds of thousands of US military, Japanese military AND CIVILIAN casualties. Instead, we figured, "We've got this big ol' bomb that'll scare the hell out of them, so let's use it!"
No publicly traded corporation is influenced by morality or wanting to seem the good guy. It's all about $$$
No, "goodwill" is considered an asset on your balance sheet. It may be an intangible, but it is definitely considered an asset. And IBM is piling it up.
Yeah. I had something similar. The guy in India refused to believe the onboard LAN was bad, even though the (Dell provided) Broadcom diagnostics said it was bad. I even swapped in an el-cheapo LAN card and the LAN problems went away. But he wouldn't belive me.
Fucking Dell Oursourcing. Actually, it's probably fucking Dell Tech Support (regardless of outsourcing).
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Bzzzt! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.
According to the US Constitution, Article I Section 8, the purpose of the US Patent system is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts:
So that's why there's so many buffer overruns in Windows. They don't check their MaxxLength!
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Humor tags added in compliance with the ADA for the humor impaired.
Laws were passed to make spam illegal.
I thought they were passed so that spammers CAN-SPAM you!
Maybe if it wasn't so convenient, then so-called "web designers" wouldn't use them.
I like to use Links (textbased browser), and when you've got flash menus, you've just cut me off.
that's Iapetus that orbits at 60 Saturn radii,
Are they going to check Iapetus for a 1Km tall black monolith?
its first main-engine burn in five years>/I>
Cassini comm hardware: We get signal
Cassini CPU: Main Engine Turn On
Mod up funny. I was thinking the same thing.
WTF are you talking about? ICANN came about after Jon Postel died. Prior to that, Jon WAS IANA! ICANN didn't exist until the late 90s.
Albertsons actually had a checkbox "I don't want to give you this info, but give me the card anyways". I checked it, and after the little old lady finished freaking out, she gave me a card.
Had AT&T. Was in Summerlin NV (just NW of Vegas) at the Marriott. I couldn't get a signal to save my life. What really pissed me off was seeing everyone else around me gabbing on their cell phones.
I dropped AT&T as soon as number portability came up (and wound up losing my number anyway, due to the AT&T transfer fuckups).
The same kind of carnage a firebombing occurred. They still didn't know about the nasty aftereffects.
Why did they drop the second? Because Japan refused to surrender.
I think "Whacking into San Francisco" is dirtier.
I was working in the lab on some military equipment when a Lithium battery decided to vent about 4 feet away from me. Not fun. We had to evacuate the lab, Security had us go to the nurse, and they had to fully vent the lab. Really annoying, too, since I was in the final stages of prepping the stuff to go on the road for I&T with customer equipment.
I had to work into the wee hours of the night because of waiting for the crap to clear out.
Thanks. I was going to make the same comment.
Plus thank you for correcting his spelling of SINCGARS.
In addition, many stock military devices take D-size cells. In our lab, we used to have a whole case of OD color MIL-Spec D-cells for various pieces of equipment we had to interface with.
And in if you're going to use 20-20 hindsight, you have to remmeber that back then, they didn't know about all the nasty aftereffects of nukes. They thought it was "a bomb, but with a whole lot bigger bang".
At the time it wasn't considered a "weapon of mass destruction". It was a big bomb that we had. We wanted to force Japan to surrender, since we really didn't want to invade the islands -- that would cost hundreds of thousands of US military, Japanese military AND CIVILIAN casualties. Instead, we figured, "We've got this big ol' bomb that'll scare the hell out of them, so let's use it!"
So where's your fucking neck?
So, you want to weigh like what... 2000 pounds?
I think you mean 1g sex. 9.8m/s^2 is acceleration in a 1g field.
"Sky Harbor".
That's the point. IBM just asked the judge to bitchslap SCOX.
No publicly traded corporation is influenced by morality or wanting to seem the good guy. It's all about $$$
No, "goodwill" is considered an asset on your balance sheet. It may be an intangible, but it is definitely considered an asset. And IBM is piling it up.
Nope. Fair Use applies to copyright, not patent.
The CAN-SPAM Act was largely written by the Direct Marketing Association.
Why do you think it has the name it does? It means that the spammers CAN SPAM you with impunity.
Internet -- Tim Berners Lee, an Englishman, who invented the device while he was at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland
Repeat after me. "The Web is NOT the Internet."
The Internet developed from the ARPANet, which was a US production.
Yeah. I had something similar. The guy in India refused to believe the onboard LAN was bad, even though the (Dell provided) Broadcom diagnostics said it was bad. I even swapped in an el-cheapo LAN card and the LAN problems went away. But he wouldn't belive me.
Fucking Dell Oursourcing. Actually, it's probably fucking Dell Tech Support (regardless of outsourcing).