Well, Kinect is pretty damn amazing. Though the rest of their crap is average at best, and software patents in general are illegal. Yes I know that laws have been made that make software patents legal, those laws violate the concepts and purpose behind patents and are themselves illegal. Software is math and math can not be patented.
Besides that: most if not all of the patents in question are invalid: http://androidcommunity.com/barnes-noble-reveals-microsofts-android-patents-in-detail-20111114/
It isn't limited to my sister. Thousands of otherwise healthy people also suffer medical issues and even death through cancer as a result of second hand smoke.
I see. You object to a basic human right in favor of an entitlement to infringe on others rights, because it is convenient and costs less. Except it doesn't cost less and the tobacco industry drains billions out of the economy every year and has no positive effects whatsoever. Freedom isn't free bucko.
Are you suggesting that the survival of a human being is a convenience of less importance than poisoning oneself and others?
Are you suggesting that removing the right to live for a small number of people is acceptable but removing the entitlement to poison others and kill them is an abomination?
My little sister is allergic to several types of smoke, tobacco smoke in particular can send her into anaphylactic shock and kill her. If she passes someone on the street, and they blow smoke in her face once, she will most likely need to be hospitalized.
I'm really not sure what could stop a fork of a GPL project.
The database is the problem, not the code, and the data is not GPL.
And, it would be easy to argue that while the database is commonly known or available information (like a phone book), the collection as it is constitutes a copyrightable work. Extracting the data might be a workaround, but the dataset is so huge it almost requires a hierarchical data organization. Any reasonable attempt would be derivative.
There is no argument. A collection of facts is not copyrightable. It is that simple.
Not really, the US represents a huge buyer of inexpensive cheap plastic crap from china and would devastate their economy if we stopped trading with them. The US would suffer because we would have to buy locally produced expensive cheap plastic crap, at least until we have had time to ramp up the cheap plastic crap industry at home and solve the unemployment problem.
Luxury vehicles have had optional fully automatic parallel parking for a couple years now.
Next year some production models of mid range vehicles have optional automated lane drift correction.
We also have cruise control systems that automatically brake when you approach slower traffic.
So if exoskeletons are like self driving cars, then expect them to rapidly progress over the next decade and see some comercial deployment, but don't expect anything as bad ass as Starship Troopers power armor.
Netflix, bank of america, Verizon, godaddy, etc. Is 2011 year of the corporate fuck up? Is it that corporations are making more boneheaded mistakes? Or is it that people are not willing to tolerate these boneheaded anti-customer mistakes anymore?
One of the big differences is that it is perfectly legal to bribe an elected official if you do it the right way. Bribing the military brass is illegal no matter how you spin it.
This is something I have long argued for. Congress gets to determine most of what the DoD gets to spend money on without regard to what the DoD needs to have to perform its mission. And this artificially inflates the minimum required defense budget.
Of course I realize that. It does not matter. The founding fathers had no precedence or experience and did not fully comprehend the ramifications and intricacies of the government they were creating. We have more than 200 years of experience now that can be used to correct their shortcomings and mistakes and build a more free and more perfect nation.
If you would vote for the American Christian Fundamentalist Taliban equivalent just to see the insanity, you are an enemy of America and its great ideals (something that the founding fathers didn't screw up that badly) just as surely as you would be if you voted for the Islamic Taliban. It would absolutely be worse than it is now.
Using plants "created" from genetically modified stock without a license is copyright infringement is the genejacked cyberpunk dystopia of the real world because they are a derivative of a creative work.
No. It won't. The specific bill does not strip the administrative branch of any power and it does not prohibit the US supreme court from hearing cases on federal laws, or on state laws that are not being challenged on religious, reproductive or gender grounds. The "We the People Act" is specifically tooled as an instrument of oppression. The vast majority of states rights supporters want to use their power to strip people of their rights, not restore them. And Ron Paul is one of them.
I grew up in a military family, I am not a Montanan, a New Yorker, a Mississippian, a Floridian, or any one of the other states that I have lived in. Letting states violate individual rights at will will do nothing but make America worse, one state at a time. I am an American patriot and I want to make things right for my entire country.
The amendments have already been passed. The 14th for example, and it included the due process clause that under incorporation protects the rights of people from being infringed from the states. And Ron Paul does not agree with it.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
The states are "less independent" because states don't have the right to take away the liberties enshrined in the bill of rights from US citizens? Cry me a fucking river. It absolutely is cut and dry. Independence of the individual is the noble ideal of libertarianism, not independence of the state. And a federal government that protects the rights of its citizens from the trespasses of states is more libertarian than one that can do nothing as its people are enslaved one territory at a time.
Probably because until now he never had a shot at being the republican nominee. Ron Paul has a few good traits that have really stood out quite well in recent debates (mostly due to the majority of his competition being clinically retarded). But the really scary horrific shit, like his views on states rights, theocracy and foreign policy take some digging to find. Now I also believe his more well known economic policy is also scary horrific shit that will ruin the country, but that seems to be in vogue right now with most republicans.
One of them is the "We the People Act": http://www.independentamericanparty.org/2011/09/1949/ That is strait from the horses mouth.
See section 3. It boils down to forbidding the US supreme court from hearing cases on the constitutionality of state laws based on religion, abortion or sexual orientation discrimination. If it were in effect, each state could ban abortion in violation of roe vs wade or make homosexuality a felony. States could ban atheists, muslims, jews, mormons, catholics or even protestants from serving in public office without federal challenge among many many other backwards theocratic and anti-constitutional edicts.
I believe he has at least one other proposed law with similar effects.
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It may not be a comprehensive list, but here you go.
http://androidcommunity.com/barnes-noble-reveals-microsofts-android-patents-in-detail-20111114/
Well, Kinect is pretty damn amazing. Though the rest of their crap is average at best, and software patents in general are illegal. Yes I know that laws have been made that make software patents legal, those laws violate the concepts and purpose behind patents and are themselves illegal. Software is math and math can not be patented.
Besides that: most if not all of the patents in question are invalid: http://androidcommunity.com/barnes-noble-reveals-microsofts-android-patents-in-detail-20111114/
It isn't limited to my sister. Thousands of otherwise healthy people also suffer medical issues and even death through cancer as a result of second hand smoke.
I see. You object to a basic human right in favor of an entitlement to infringe on others rights, because it is convenient and costs less. Except it doesn't cost less and the tobacco industry drains billions out of the economy every year and has no positive effects whatsoever. Freedom isn't free bucko.
Are you suggesting that the survival of a human being is a convenience of less importance than poisoning oneself and others?
Are you suggesting that removing the right to live for a small number of people is acceptable but removing the entitlement to poison others and kill them is an abomination?
My little sister is allergic to several types of smoke, tobacco smoke in particular can send her into anaphylactic shock and kill her. If she passes someone on the street, and they blow smoke in her face once, she will most likely need to be hospitalized.
You would be wrong.
The database is the problem, not the code, and the data is not GPL.
And, it would be easy to argue that while the database is commonly known or available information (like a phone book), the collection as it is constitutes a copyrightable work. Extracting the data might be a workaround, but the dataset is so huge it almost requires a hierarchical data organization. Any reasonable attempt would be derivative.
There is no argument. A collection of facts is not copyrightable. It is that simple.
Not really, the US represents a huge buyer of inexpensive cheap plastic crap from china and would devastate their economy if we stopped trading with them. The US would suffer because we would have to buy locally produced expensive cheap plastic crap, at least until we have had time to ramp up the cheap plastic crap industry at home and solve the unemployment problem.
Not really, the LED hat actually has some effect for most security cameras currently in use.
And it doesn't have to be just a hat, it could be built into headphones or any other accessory close enough to the face to obscure it with glare.
Of course, anyone looking at the video feed will know that someone doesn't want to be identified due to the glare.
Obama isn't left at all.
Libertarians have more in common with liberals than Obama does. Its just that they also have more that is diametrically opposite as well.
Luxury vehicles have had optional fully automatic parallel parking for a couple years now.
Next year some production models of mid range vehicles have optional automated lane drift correction.
We also have cruise control systems that automatically brake when you approach slower traffic.
So if exoskeletons are like self driving cars, then expect them to rapidly progress over the next decade and see some comercial deployment, but don't expect anything as bad ass as Starship Troopers power armor.
Netflix, bank of america, Verizon, godaddy, etc. Is 2011 year of the corporate fuck up? Is it that corporations are making more boneheaded mistakes? Or is it that people are not willing to tolerate these boneheaded anti-customer mistakes anymore?
And hurt you.
Does anyone have a QR code to a Rick Roll?
What makes you think America has an open democracy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7R1_ixtlyc&feature=share
One of the big differences is that it is perfectly legal to bribe an elected official if you do it the right way. Bribing the military brass is illegal no matter how you spin it.
This is something I have long argued for. Congress gets to determine most of what the DoD gets to spend money on without regard to what the DoD needs to have to perform its mission. And this artificially inflates the minimum required defense budget.
Of course I realize that. It does not matter. The founding fathers had no precedence or experience and did not fully comprehend the ramifications and intricacies of the government they were creating. We have more than 200 years of experience now that can be used to correct their shortcomings and mistakes and build a more free and more perfect nation.
If you would vote for the American Christian Fundamentalist Taliban equivalent just to see the insanity, you are an enemy of America and its great ideals (something that the founding fathers didn't screw up that badly) just as surely as you would be if you voted for the Islamic Taliban. It would absolutely be worse than it is now.
Using plants "created" from genetically modified stock without a license is copyright infringement is the genejacked cyberpunk dystopia of the real world because they are a derivative of a creative work.
No. It won't. The specific bill does not strip the administrative branch of any power and it does not prohibit the US supreme court from hearing cases on federal laws, or on state laws that are not being challenged on religious, reproductive or gender grounds. The "We the People Act" is specifically tooled as an instrument of oppression. The vast majority of states rights supporters want to use their power to strip people of their rights, not restore them. And Ron Paul is one of them.
I grew up in a military family, I am not a Montanan, a New Yorker, a Mississippian, a Floridian, or any one of the other states that I have lived in. Letting states violate individual rights at will will do nothing but make America worse, one state at a time. I am an American patriot and I want to make things right for my entire country.
The amendments have already been passed. The 14th for example, and it included the due process clause that under incorporation protects the rights of people from being infringed from the states. And Ron Paul does not agree with it.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
The states are "less independent" because states don't have the right to take away the liberties enshrined in the bill of rights from US citizens? Cry me a fucking river. It absolutely is cut and dry. Independence of the individual is the noble ideal of libertarianism, not independence of the state. And a federal government that protects the rights of its citizens from the trespasses of states is more libertarian than one that can do nothing as its people are enslaved one territory at a time.
Probably because until now he never had a shot at being the republican nominee. Ron Paul has a few good traits that have really stood out quite well in recent debates (mostly due to the majority of his competition being clinically retarded). But the really scary horrific shit, like his views on states rights, theocracy and foreign policy take some digging to find. Now I also believe his more well known economic policy is also scary horrific shit that will ruin the country, but that seems to be in vogue right now with most republicans.
One of them is the "We the People Act": http://www.independentamericanparty.org/2011/09/1949/ That is strait from the horses mouth.
See section 3. It boils down to forbidding the US supreme court from hearing cases on the constitutionality of state laws based on religion, abortion or sexual orientation discrimination. If it were in effect, each state could ban abortion in violation of roe vs wade or make homosexuality a felony. States could ban atheists, muslims, jews, mormons, catholics or even protestants from serving in public office without federal challenge among many many other backwards theocratic and anti-constitutional edicts.
I believe he has at least one other proposed law with similar effects.