Tyler serves as headquarters to the Eastern District of Texas federal court, a popular venue for patent cases due to its judicial expertise, plaintiff-friendly local rules, speedy dispositions, and principled jurors who understand the value of Intellectual Property (or "IP"). The East Texas area also has an abundance of legal experts specializing in patent and IP litigation.
This is like his tax cut plan- his refusal to release his own tax returns while pushing for tax "reforms" strongly indicates that the cuts are designed to lower his own taxes.
Trump obviously doesn't care about an American's emails being read unless the American is him or one of his employees. While I may like the result in this case, I seriously doubt he'd be implementing this policy if it didn't benefit himself.
Actually Britain stumbled across the Trump-Russia connections and considered Trump's collusion a threat to their own national security. They repeatedly sent the information to the American government but were frustrated because the Obama administration dragged its feet on the issue.
Actually there was a penis transplant done recently on a cancer patient. To everyone's surprise it appeared to be a wild success, and it worked pretty well. Until the guy tried to actually use it and his wife was just too creeped out by the thing. (Maybe if she'd met the donor first... oh well.)
Obama hacked, surveilled and stalked and outright harassed a reporter who had successfully dug up dirt on the Obama Administration and made them look bad under the guise of "national security" to silence him.
Who, Sharyl Attkisson? (He launched a cyberattack on her backspace key to get it stuck so it would delete an article on Benghazi she was writing. Thanks, Obama.)
The US Govt (at least on the Federal level) is mandated by the US Constitution to provide for defense...that is one of its few enumerated responsibilities and powers.
That's for *defense*. We send almost half our budget on defense, but maybe about 5% of our budget actually goes to defense. The remaining 45% is for buying expensive toys from defense contractors to assuage our tribal concerns that the country is undefended. Although we pay our soldiers burger-flipping wages (partly to justify not raising the minimum wage for actual burger flippers), the Pentagon is actually complaining about being overloaded with so much expensive equipment that they can't even keep all of it out of the rain. We aren't safe if our military can only end life on the planet- it should be capable of destroying three or four planets, and at least ten by 2030. That's not defense, it's a parasitic industry that gobbles up nearly half the budget. But people are so entranced by it-
guys like Brian Williams who ejaculate when they see a couple dozen Tomahawks being fired- that's almost always a cheap political win. Every government that does nothing for its citizens (e.g. North Korea) resorts to military displays. It's an opiate for the masses.
The Constitution was written when health care costs were not even a conceivable issue at all. For most of American history the Constitution has been considered a working document, designed to be amended as times change in ways that could not have been forseen. That was the 18th-20th century view of the Constitution, but it went out the window several decades ago. At this point, Americans have fetishized the U.S. Constitution like it's an appendix to the Bible, and they quote the Founding Fathers like they were apostles. When amending it is now considered sacrilege, it has completely lost its usefulness. You have the rights you have (and might have needed) up until this originalist attitude set in during the 80s. Now you will never be given any more Constitutional rights, no matter what changes in the near or distant future. Since health care only emerged as a serious problem in more recent decades, you'll never have a Constitutional right to free health care. But you can always kick a British soldier out of your house. That's fucked.
I used to put a bag of ice on top of the computer to prevent thermal expansion from nudging the connectors loose. It drove my parents nuts but it worked great.
I still have my old ZX81 with the 16K RAM pack. You have to put ice cubes in Ziploc bags and rest them on the plastic above the heat sink, or else thermal expansion makes the edge connector lose contact with the board. Of course you can always go old school and just use the onboard RAM chip with 1024 bytes.
Of course by 2050 we'll be cracking up at the thought of a Raspberry Pi- another British computer.
I had a laptop running Windows 7; Microsoft came in the dark of night and replaced it with Windows 10. Within a week it got trapped in a bootloop, but at least I had my excuse to finally ditch Windows for good. Once Steve Ballmer left, Satya Nadella turned Windows into something that doesn't resemble an OS so much as a paywalled porn site with AdBlock disabled.
American laws are easy to fix. Give about $5000 to each of 3 or 4 Congressmen, and $10,000 to at least one Senator, and they'll pass a law mandating that any ride-sharing company must have at least two vowels in its name.
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This is all because of gun control in the UK. If all those little girls had been armed this would have never happened.
Texas actually considers their patent troll venues as something to draw tech companies to the area:
Tyler serves as headquarters to the Eastern District of Texas federal court, a popular venue for patent cases due to its judicial expertise, plaintiff-friendly local rules, speedy dispositions, and principled jurors who understand the value of Intellectual Property (or "IP"). The East Texas area also has an abundance of legal experts specializing in patent and IP litigation.
What I find disappointing is that it only converts Perl 5 to JVM bytecode. All the cool kids are using Perl 6!
I love how CRISPR makes geneticists act like a bunch of little kids who found a working go-cart someone left in a dumpster.
If it's possible for a corporation to have an afterlife, Netscape must be in hell right now for inventing JavaScript.
According to his README.md, the site got a takedown request from Tinder.
If Trump is the Antichrist, he worships the Antichrist, not Satan.
LOL- You're clearly obsessed with this guy's tweets.
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Nothing original, "Dip shit", just the same crap pasted into one comment after another. Sad!
This is like his tax cut plan- his refusal to release his own tax returns while pushing for tax "reforms" strongly indicates that the cuts are designed to lower his own taxes.
Trump obviously doesn't care about an American's emails being read unless the American is him or one of his employees. While I may like the result in this case, I seriously doubt he'd be implementing this policy if it didn't benefit himself.
Actually Britain stumbled across the Trump-Russia connections and considered Trump's collusion a threat to their own national security. They repeatedly sent the information to the American government but were frustrated because the Obama administration dragged its feet on the issue.
Actually there was a penis transplant done recently on a cancer patient. To everyone's surprise it appeared to be a wild success, and it worked pretty well. Until the guy tried to actually use it and his wife was just too creeped out by the thing. (Maybe if she'd met the donor first... oh well.)
Remember, this is the same pack of clowns who recommended that McCain choose Sarah Palin for a running mate.
Thanks John- now whenever I need to suppress an erection I have someone to think about other than my mother.
Did you miss where it says "Lawsuit:" at the beginning?
Obama hacked, surveilled and stalked and outright harassed a reporter who had successfully dug up dirt on the Obama Administration and made them look bad under the guise of "national security" to silence him.
Who, Sharyl Attkisson? (He launched a cyberattack on her backspace key to get it stuck so it would delete an article on Benghazi she was writing. Thanks, Obama.)
I have a question too- why does this same stupid comment get posted in every story on Slashdot?
I'd rather get my news from Castle Anthrax. The women in Fox Castle are just too perilous.
This new "SJW" term seems to follow some strange grammatical rules- for example, it can only appear in conjunction with spelling mistakes.
I wish he'd shut his Pai hole.
The US Govt (at least on the Federal level) is mandated by the US Constitution to provide for defense...that is one of its few enumerated responsibilities and powers.
That's for *defense*. We send almost half our budget on defense, but maybe about 5% of our budget actually goes to defense. The remaining 45% is for buying expensive toys from defense contractors to assuage our tribal concerns that the country is undefended. Although we pay our soldiers burger-flipping wages (partly to justify not raising the minimum wage for actual burger flippers), the Pentagon is actually complaining about being overloaded with so much expensive equipment that they can't even keep all of it out of the rain. We aren't safe if our military can only end life on the planet- it should be capable of destroying three or four planets, and at least ten by 2030. That's not defense, it's a parasitic industry that gobbles up nearly half the budget. But people are so entranced by it- guys like Brian Williams who ejaculate when they see a couple dozen Tomahawks being fired- that's almost always a cheap political win. Every government that does nothing for its citizens (e.g. North Korea) resorts to military displays. It's an opiate for the masses.
The Constitution was written when health care costs were not even a conceivable issue at all. For most of American history the Constitution has been considered a working document, designed to be amended as times change in ways that could not have been forseen. That was the 18th-20th century view of the Constitution, but it went out the window several decades ago. At this point, Americans have fetishized the U.S. Constitution like it's an appendix to the Bible, and they quote the Founding Fathers like they were apostles. When amending it is now considered sacrilege, it has completely lost its usefulness. You have the rights you have (and might have needed) up until this originalist attitude set in during the 80s. Now you will never be given any more Constitutional rights, no matter what changes in the near or distant future. Since health care only emerged as a serious problem in more recent decades, you'll never have a Constitutional right to free health care. But you can always kick a British soldier out of your house. That's fucked.
I used to put a bag of ice on top of the computer to prevent thermal expansion from nudging the connectors loose. It drove my parents nuts but it worked great.
Yes, but your phone company can't sell your call history. That would be the equivalent thing, not your bs.
This is seriously why they're trying to kill the U.S. Postal Service- so FedEx can open and read your mail.
The 19th century went ahead without automobiles, vaccines, or electricity, but I think they did have those adult diapers you're wearing by now.
32K? Christ, your generation was spoiled.
I still have my old ZX81 with the 16K RAM pack. You have to put ice cubes in Ziploc bags and rest them on the plastic above the heat sink, or else thermal expansion makes the edge connector lose contact with the board. Of course you can always go old school and just use the onboard RAM chip with 1024 bytes.
Of course by 2050 we'll be cracking up at the thought of a Raspberry Pi- another British computer.
I had a laptop running Windows 7; Microsoft came in the dark of night and replaced it with Windows 10. Within a week it got trapped in a bootloop, but at least I had my excuse to finally ditch Windows for good. Once Steve Ballmer left, Satya Nadella turned Windows into something that doesn't resemble an OS so much as a paywalled porn site with AdBlock disabled.
American laws are easy to fix. Give about $5000 to each of 3 or 4 Congressmen, and $10,000 to at least one Senator, and they'll pass a law mandating that any ride-sharing company must have at least two vowels in its name.