Personally, I have a closet loaded with Legos. When my daughter graduates from Duplos, she'll get Legos. I'm not a lawyer, and I really don't care about trademarks enough to force that kind of burden onto children.
I think that this is the number one failure of Trademark law, that no matter what YOU do, you can lose your trademark because you are unable to convince the masses to use a ridiculously long artificial construct like "Lego Brand Building Blocks". The need to defend your trademark against everything that might possibly be perceived as an infringement is also absurd. Trademark law should go back to what it was originally intended to do: allow a company to market a product with a unique name without any competitor using that name for their product as well. A trademark would remain active for as long as a company uses it, no more, no less.
This could be easily fixed, and companies and citizens alike across the country would breathe a sigh of relief.
I seem to recall a few years back when Bush was claiming that the war would be paid for with Iraqi oil. Of course, now that the cost of the war is expected to pass one or maybe two trillion dollars, Iraqi oil couldn't pay for it, so it's easy to backpedal on that claim.
You are correct sir.
No, he is wrong, there are two programs. One which tapped calls internationally as the grandparent posted, and a second one that collected phone records on nearly every single American's domestic calls. Did you call in for pizza? Did a terrorist call in for pizza (God forbid that terrorists actually run the pizza delivery place, mafia style)? Does it matter? Who knows! Nobody knows what the NSA is going to use such an enormous block of data for, since the vast majority (99.999999999999%?) of the calls have nothing to do with terrorism. Google other articles about Qwest's refusal to participate to see the millions in juicy taxpayer dollars they passed up that the other telecoms were apparently all too happy to suck out of your tax dollars for this service.
is infested with many of the same moonbat types
It's a shame the infestation hasn't managed to drive out the infestation of ignorant Bush supporters who can't even keep track of what their president is doing. Maybe we need to swallow a cat to get the spider now?
It's certainly a nice GUI idea, but the only thing I can think of that might come close to prior art are the "dead keys" on keyboards that are used to type things like accented characters (like C+, or e+` or the like), and those involve you telling the system in advance that you intend for it to read the next few characters and convert them into something else. After that would be the "Input Method" systems that you tell in advance what language you're typing in, type in a transliteration of what you want, and then have the input method convert it to the appropriate representation.
Otherwise, I don't think any English-speaking person would even have thought of having the widget library "remember" the last 10 keypresses or so and comparing them to a dictionary of more than one language to determine while you're typing what language you are typing in, then undoing your keypresses and replacing them with the assumed language.
Also: all derivative works based upon a work in the Public Domain, should themselves automatically be in the Public Domain.
Eh, I was with you up til there, I'd personally go with "can be registered under 'Non-exclusivity' copyright". The idea being that anyone else could make the same modifications to the public domain work (making "full exclusivity" a bad idea), but they would have to admit that the other person did so first.
You wouldn't have to actually block the door, just blocking the view of the door from the street with something that looked like construction equipment would pretty much end the flow of people coming in.
Him? Polarizing the issue? What do you think you've been doing by advocating prison terms that are wholly disproportionate to any real measurement of the crime?
I hope net neutrality doesn't pass in any form through congress so that this rubbish gets shafted with slower transfer of packets.
This represents a total failure at understanding net neutrality. If the ISPs break net neutrality, then they'll send you packets based on who pays them the most, not what they are, so if the porn sites pay up, they've got nothing to fear.
Or are you expecting ATT and other ISPs to immediately stop worshiping the dollar and sell everyone the Righteous Internet, the way you want? You expect everyone else to buy it?
I agree, but don't you think that Michael Bevington is overreacting just a little bit?
Probably, but there's a simple way to find out, secretly turn off the network. If he makes the same complaints then you know it's not the wireless network.
it gets there with the same priority as yours or anyone's
you can discriminate against BitTorrent, gaming traffic, spam, video, etc
Unless you're name is John C. BitTorrent, it's not a contradiction. Your BitTorrent traffic will get there with the exact same priority as his BitTorrent traffic. Your spam will get there with the exact same priority as his spam. But your BitTorrent may end up a lower priority than your spam email, because of what it is, not who you are.
That would be a rather circular reasoning method, since the purpose of this is to try and prove that greenhouse gasses cause higher temperatures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core suggests that the way to tell what the temperature was at the time is to compare hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, and is backed up by http://www.gisp2.sr.unh.edu/MoreInfo/Ice_Cores_Pas t.html. I believe you can also determine how cold it was when the water froze by measuring the oxygen in the ice, the colder it is, the faster it freezes, and the more air bubbles get trapped in it (see your freezer's icecubes for details) but this might not work for thin layers of precipitation, especially snow.
They're not a major source of methane in the atmosphere OR their crap puts off a ton of methane and we should use it as fuel?
Or their crap has no methane and yet can still be used for fuel (your dichotomy is false).
Anyway, http://www.ciesin.org/TG/AG/liverear.html claims that livestock causes 15 of all organic-sourced methane "emissions". Mostly due to fermentation in their stomachs, mostly from low quality feed.
in the police database. Then this could be cross referenced against the auto registration.
You'd think you could do this, but thanks to decades (centuries? millennia?) of government balkanization, not only can the police database not talk to the auto registration database, but the auto registration department is full of incompetent pansies who sit on their ass all day and suck budget money that would have better gone to be police database, so even if they could talk to each other, why would the police database WANT to talk to their useless pile of junk?
You can't readily use the same old can of washing powder week after week.
I don't really want my whites white beyond white, that's kind of hard on the eyes, so I just take a few specks of dust from the can every week when I wash my laundry. It's lasted me 8 years so far!
Or it tells you that the police didn't want to stop in the middle of an arrest
Right, because they are incapable of doing anything else while they're trying to remember what their name was?
Maybe if they can't recall their name in the "heat of battle" then perhaps the proper response is "please wait a moment", not "imma firin mah tazor!"
Oh, and the guy was on the floor, unmoving, and handcuffed by the time they asked, which pretty much fits any definition of "subdued". Which is why the cops tasered the guy again, since after being electrocuted three or four times he was obviously just refusing to stand up in order to "resist" arrest. I guess they gave up and carried him out at the end because the taser ran out of juice, or maybe they figured out by that time that a tazer is designed to knock a guy down and incapacitate them, and therefore can't be used as a cattle prod?
cops must drop everything and give their badge number when asked for it.
Yes, obviously our police forces are too poorly trained to handle reading a number ingrained into their memory off to an onlooker while still continuing to keep the situation under control. Not only that, they're so dumb they have to stop and think for 5 minutes to remember which sounds people make in order to address them.
Way to go man! When the cops have defenders like you, who needs criminals?
"You ofitherth can't forth me to leave the premethith"
Funny, supposedly he was on the way out when they started tasering him (note that the video clearly shows the incident took place right at the exit doors, regardless of whatever "he said, she said"). After the third or fourth shock he was unable to move, so they tasered him again. Would you think it was "funnier" to knock his teeth out first, then demand he say his name, then kick him in the balls repeatedly for being unable to obey a "simple and lawful command given by a police officer"?
Sorry, but I have little patience for those who refuse to obey a simple and lawful command given by an police officer.
And for the police officer threatening the girl for a simple and lawful command given by a citizen for the officer's badge number? What do you have for him?
With the current e-voting in California, the voter sees the printed vote and 2D barcode behind glass.
As long as the printed vote is there, then all it takes is a vigilant observer at the recount to go "hey wait, why does the pile for President Evil Overlord all have different names on the printed part of the ballot!"
In the end, elections require vigilance on behalf of all people to ensure that they are carried out in a manner faithful to the voters' intent. Hiding parts of the process within a machine makes that vigilance harder.
One could accomplish the same thing, by writing the vote, and a human readable JPEG image to DVD, and show the image to the voter for verification.
Or a hacker could accomplish the same thing as before by writing their vote, and a human readable JPEG image of their vote to DVD and show a JPEG of the voter's vote to the voter for verification.
The key is that if you want to verify that a process is working, you can't use the same process to verify it, because if the process is broken, your verification is broken too.
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Personally, I have a closet loaded with Legos. When my daughter graduates from Duplos, she'll get Legos. I'm not a lawyer, and I really don't care about trademarks enough to force that kind of burden onto children.
I think that this is the number one failure of Trademark law, that no matter what YOU do, you can lose your trademark because you are unable to convince the masses to use a ridiculously long artificial construct like "Lego Brand Building Blocks". The need to defend your trademark against everything that might possibly be perceived as an infringement is also absurd. Trademark law should go back to what it was originally intended to do: allow a company to market a product with a unique name without any competitor using that name for their product as well. A trademark would remain active for as long as a company uses it, no more, no less.
This could be easily fixed, and companies and citizens alike across the country would breathe a sigh of relief.
so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields
I seem to recall a few years back when Bush was claiming that the war would be paid for with Iraqi oil. Of course, now that the cost of the war is expected to pass one or maybe two trillion dollars, Iraqi oil couldn't pay for it, so it's easy to backpedal on that claim.
You are correct sir.
No, he is wrong, there are two programs. One which tapped calls internationally as the grandparent posted, and a second one that collected phone records on nearly every single American's domestic calls. Did you call in for pizza? Did a terrorist call in for pizza (God forbid that terrorists actually run the pizza delivery place, mafia style)? Does it matter? Who knows! Nobody knows what the NSA is going to use such an enormous block of data for, since the vast majority (99.999999999999%?) of the calls have nothing to do with terrorism. Google other articles about Qwest's refusal to participate to see the millions in juicy taxpayer dollars they passed up that the other telecoms were apparently all too happy to suck out of your tax dollars for this service.
is infested with many of the same moonbat types
It's a shame the infestation hasn't managed to drive out the infestation of ignorant Bush supporters who can't even keep track of what their president is doing. Maybe we need to swallow a cat to get the spider now?
if you want a real Shadowrun RPG, is to hope this sells mildly well.
With emphasis on the "mildly". If it sells like crazy, then you can bet we'll see 4 more FPSes before anyone even thinks about an RPG.
this is a seemingly obvious and nice GUI feature
It's certainly a nice GUI idea, but the only thing I can think of that might come close to prior art are the "dead keys" on keyboards that are used to type things like accented characters (like C+, or e+` or the like), and those involve you telling the system in advance that you intend for it to read the next few characters and convert them into something else. After that would be the "Input Method" systems that you tell in advance what language you're typing in, type in a transliteration of what you want, and then have the input method convert it to the appropriate representation.
Otherwise, I don't think any English-speaking person would even have thought of having the widget library "remember" the last 10 keypresses or so and comparing them to a dictionary of more than one language to determine while you're typing what language you are typing in, then undoing your keypresses and replacing them with the assumed language.
in other news NSTA rejects KKK film for fear of angering everyone. whats the difference?
Are the Black Panthers a major financial supporter of the NSTA?
Also: all derivative works based upon a work in the Public Domain, should themselves automatically be in the Public Domain.
Eh, I was with you up til there, I'd personally go with "can be registered under 'Non-exclusivity' copyright". The idea being that anyone else could make the same modifications to the public domain work (making "full exclusivity" a bad idea), but they would have to admit that the other person did so first.
Yes, because by "ruin" they ment something other than fiscal. BTW - if you continue to stalk me, I will report you to your federal police.
Oh man, don't do that, you might "ruin" him.
You wouldn't have to actually block the door, just blocking the view of the door from the street with something that looked like construction equipment would pretty much end the flow of people coming in.
And what is your belief based on? Faith? If you were compelled by the government to believe in God, would God still consider that to be true faith?
Please don't try to polarize the issue.
Him? Polarizing the issue? What do you think you've been doing by advocating prison terms that are wholly disproportionate to any real measurement of the crime?
I hope net neutrality doesn't pass in any form through congress so that this rubbish gets shafted with slower transfer of packets.
This represents a total failure at understanding net neutrality. If the ISPs break net neutrality, then they'll send you packets based on who pays them the most, not what they are, so if the porn sites pay up, they've got nothing to fear.
Or are you expecting ATT and other ISPs to immediately stop worshiping the dollar and sell everyone the Righteous Internet, the way you want? You expect everyone else to buy it?
Why not - rotational energy *is* themal energy.
If I could trivialize the universe to where it's all "just thermal energy", I could magnetize steel with a match. I wouldn't even have to light it.
I agree, but don't you think that Michael Bevington is overreacting just a little bit?
Probably, but there's a simple way to find out, secretly turn off the network. If he makes the same complaints then you know it's not the wireless network.
this stuff sounds even worst than the classic fallacies of the Christianity.
;)
Don't worry, Christianity is the True Way. When people die, good souls will join with God in Heaven and bad souls will go to Hell...
Seems that the only real difference in the afterlife is the location of the destinations
it gets there with the same priority as yours or anyone's
you can discriminate against BitTorrent, gaming traffic, spam, video, etc
Unless you're name is John C. BitTorrent, it's not a contradiction. Your BitTorrent traffic will get there with the exact same priority as his BitTorrent traffic. Your spam will get there with the exact same priority as his spam. But your BitTorrent may end up a lower priority than your spam email, because of what it is, not who you are.
higher CO2 means higher temperature
s t.html. I believe you can also determine how cold it was when the water froze by measuring the oxygen in the ice, the colder it is, the faster it freezes, and the more air bubbles get trapped in it (see your freezer's icecubes for details) but this might not work for thin layers of precipitation, especially snow.
That would be a rather circular reasoning method, since the purpose of this is to try and prove that greenhouse gasses cause higher temperatures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core suggests that the way to tell what the temperature was at the time is to compare hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, and is backed up by http://www.gisp2.sr.unh.edu/MoreInfo/Ice_Cores_Pa
They're not a major source of methane in the atmosphere OR their crap puts off a ton of methane and we should use it as fuel?
Or their crap has no methane and yet can still be used for fuel (your dichotomy is false).
Anyway, http://www.ciesin.org/TG/AG/liverear.html claims that livestock causes 15 of all organic-sourced methane "emissions". Mostly due to fermentation in their stomachs, mostly from low quality feed.
They're not terribly efficient (I thought they were 15% efficiency capable, but I guess not..)
;)
Maybe the -200C chip comes with it's own 1 megawatt reactor?
in the police database. Then this could be cross referenced against the auto registration.
You'd think you could do this, but thanks to decades (centuries? millennia?) of government balkanization, not only can the police database not talk to the auto registration database, but the auto registration department is full of incompetent pansies who sit on their ass all day and suck budget money that would have better gone to be police database, so even if they could talk to each other, why would the police database WANT to talk to their useless pile of junk?
But, sleep is where I'm a viking!
Don't worry, Taco! After 100 hours or so awake, you'll BE a viking, raping and pillaging and showing those pink elephants who's boss!
You can't readily use the same old can of washing powder week after week.
I don't really want my whites white beyond white, that's kind of hard on the eyes, so I just take a few specks of dust from the can every week when I wash my laundry. It's lasted me 8 years so far!
Or it tells you that the police didn't want to stop in the middle of an arrest
Right, because they are incapable of doing anything else while they're trying to remember what their name was?
Maybe if they can't recall their name in the "heat of battle" then perhaps the proper response is "please wait a moment", not "imma firin mah tazor!"
Oh, and the guy was on the floor, unmoving, and handcuffed by the time they asked, which pretty much fits any definition of "subdued". Which is why the cops tasered the guy again, since after being electrocuted three or four times he was obviously just refusing to stand up in order to "resist" arrest. I guess they gave up and carried him out at the end because the taser ran out of juice, or maybe they figured out by that time that a tazer is designed to knock a guy down and incapacitate them, and therefore can't be used as a cattle prod?
cops must drop everything and give their badge number when asked for it.
Yes, obviously our police forces are too poorly trained to handle reading a number ingrained into their memory off to an onlooker while still continuing to keep the situation under control. Not only that, they're so dumb they have to stop and think for 5 minutes to remember which sounds people make in order to address them.
Way to go man! When the cops have defenders like you, who needs criminals?
"You ofitherth can't forth me to leave the premethith"
Funny, supposedly he was on the way out when they started tasering him (note that the video clearly shows the incident took place right at the exit doors, regardless of whatever "he said, she said"). After the third or fourth shock he was unable to move, so they tasered him again. Would you think it was "funnier" to knock his teeth out first, then demand he say his name, then kick him in the balls repeatedly for being unable to obey a "simple and lawful command given by a police officer"?
Sorry, but I have little patience for those who refuse to obey a simple and lawful command given by an police officer.
And for the police officer threatening the girl for a simple and lawful command given by a citizen for the officer's badge number? What do you have for him?
With the current e-voting in California, the voter sees the printed vote and 2D barcode behind glass.
As long as the printed vote is there, then all it takes is a vigilant observer at the recount to go "hey wait, why does the pile for President Evil Overlord all have different names on the printed part of the ballot!"
In the end, elections require vigilance on behalf of all people to ensure that they are carried out in a manner faithful to the voters' intent. Hiding parts of the process within a machine makes that vigilance harder.
One could accomplish the same thing, by writing the vote, and a human readable JPEG image to DVD, and show the image to the voter for verification.
Or a hacker could accomplish the same thing as before by writing their vote, and a human readable JPEG image of their vote to DVD and show a JPEG of the voter's vote to the voter for verification.
The key is that if you want to verify that a process is working, you can't use the same process to verify it, because if the process is broken, your verification is broken too.