I'm not sure what the laws on the books are for frivolous patent troll lawsuits, but it would be really beneficial to society if frivolous patent law suits were heavily discouraged by huge fines to the troll perpetrating them.
There is obviously a valid and just use for patents; but there is so much abuse of the system it is ludicrous.
In one sentence, you're one of "us", men. In the next you are one of "we", women.
There may be some confusion in his words, but I just use the First Rule of Internet: The person shitposting is always a man.
True, although he never actually claims to be a woman. He says "The idea of having some man ask me for sex makes me want to die." but he never actually claims that he himself is a woman.
I sometimes wonder how many of these "scientists" have ANY understanding of what the earth is made of. Every one of these metals ARE IN THE GROUND ALREADY! They leach out into the ground water and will build up naturally in lakes.
Although, looking at the article they're measuring the metal content of the plastics they picked up along the beach. As the parent said, none of those metals are present in the plastic from manufacturing, they must have picked them up from the environment.
Lead is rarely found in it's pure form in nature, and is not found uniformly everywhere. If lead is found in water far from any source lead, then it most likely got there by pollution.
They're not supposed to be used as work-arounds when the President can't get a law passed that he wants.
What the US needs, then, is a mechanism to deal with a dysfunctional government. In Canada, for example, if a matter of confidence fails to pass (the budget being the big one), the government falls, and an election occurs shortly thereafter. Even with the absurdity that is the Citizens United decision, eventually the taps will run out of money for another election campaign.
The President is not a legislator though. If a President can't get laws past- tough cheese! That's not his job. A President is not the same role as a Prime Minister, or at least, is not intended to be.
How will society survive the robot automation of weather balloon launching.
Weather balloon launching is the keystone to western civilization. I see us collapsing into the dark ages now this important career path has been stolen by robots.
Yes, this is likely very cruel to pigs if they ever regain consciousness. Which is not given. This will also help treat trauma and organ failure patients and will save human lives.
I'm not falling for that. I saw The man with 2 brains. I learnt my lesson from that- I know where that leads. Steve Martin does make documentaries right?
The problem there is that many people believe that some dudes 250 or so years ago can not be wrong, no matter what. Once you realize that what they have put in place was designed to be changed, you can start doing that
Interestingly enough. Many of the founding fathers, including George Washington saw the problem with party politics and wanted to prevent political parties forming. So even those "old dudes" knew how dangerous party politics could be on the American political set-up.
But you are right, the constitution was written so it could be changed and it was intended that it would be changed. They knew what they had set up would not be 100% applicable at all times in the future.
If it is really that important it should be passed as a law. This is the issue with executive orders and regulations. Then next guy can just undo it. Perhaps previous administrations should have focused more on compromised laws and less on orders and regulations.
Executive Orders are abused more by each successive President. They're completely out of hand in the Obama/Trump era. I really think there needs to be some soul-searching and perhaps an amendment to the constitution. They're not supposed to be used as work-arounds when the President can't get a law passed that he wants. They are supposed to be for use executively not legislatively. Both Obama and Trump have abused executive orders and used them for things it was not designed to do.
We need to rein in on abuses, close down loopholes, and put checks and balances on executive orders.
And large sections of the population master both the Kazakh and Russian language meaning in future they'll have to learn both scripts.
In all likelihood, a large number of them probably already do know both scripts. I know in a lot of countries that don't use the latin alphabet, there is a large understanding of it- frequently out of necessity. I've never had to learn a language with a different alphabet, the languages I've learnt so far have been western, but from speaking to people who have learned Russian- learning the second alphabet is actually one of the easier steps of learning Russian. It's not that hard to learn a new alphabet- especially one with many similarities.
I have seen with my own eyes someone brandish a gun due to road rage. (no nobody got shot)
I'm not sure if I have or not. Driving home from work at a very crowded intersection I passed two vehicles side by side. One was a big pick up with some angry-looking guy leaning out the window pointing something black at a man in a small car in the lane next to him. It looked like a gun to me as I drove by.
Driving past I thought- "Holy Cow" is that someone threatening someone else with a gun at a busy intersection? I considered calling the cops, but didn't because I wasn't 100% sure what I saw was a gun, it seemed crazy someone would do that in such a busy intersection where scores of people would see them, and this was before I had my dash cam to prove it.
I still wonder what happened there- but as I didn't hear about any shootings outside my office, I'm assuming no shots were fired.
Have you forgotten about road rage? Gun owners constantly murder us.
Two things:
No, most gun owners don't ever murder anyone.
The bigger worry about owning a gun is not that you will murder someone, but that someone will murder you. Locked up safely and legally at home it's probably not going to be used against you. Sadly, owning a gun makes your likelihood of being murdered much higher. Sometimes with your own gun. If it's easily accessible in your trunk or your glove box, and someone finds it. They could steal it, or use it against you.
Or, even if you bring out your gun in self defence, you're more likely to provoke someone to shoot you than if you don't have a gun. Statistically, owning a gun makes you much more likely to be a victim of gun crime than not owning a gun- even, if like most gun owners you're a straight-up law-abiding citizen.
If it is just a "camera and speaker with wheels", with no ability to navigate stairs or open doors, then that has been done before, and is not very useful. If it can do more, there is no mention of that in the video to TFA.
"Been done before" doesn't mean it won't be successful with Amazon's vast marketing department and public good-will.
Smart phones had been done before the iPhone. Smart watches had been done before the pebble. Electric vehicles had been done before Tesla. That didn't stop those companies launching successful products.
As for "not very useful", no, probably not, but "cutesy and cool" will gather market share- it will be a self navigating Alexa most likely. I'm sure sell a few hundred thousand of them and it will bring in enough money for R&D to add some useful features. The data and feedback they get from customers will suggest ideas that they might be able to legitimately tackle.
I agree with you that it's been done before, and probably not very useful, but I wouldn't put it beyond Amazon, making a successful product from this anyway.
However, she is now 70 years old and in poor and declining health. She is now one of the most unpopular politicians in U.S. history, 53% of the public disapproves of her and only 25% approve.
Interestingly, all that could be said about Trump too. Although as current President he's not going to have a serious primary (if one at all) to deal with. Hillary is not going to be popular even with her own party going into the primaries... Perhaps the only candidates that would fare worse against Trump are Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, or Jerry Springer or one of the other "trashy" entertainment figures that have been suggested.
I live in a red state (Kentucky) in a deep red county. Many people I know were swinging between Bernie and Trump. Hell, I hate anything that smacks of marxism but I still liked Bernie and given the way the GOP treated Ron Paul in previous elections.. I might have been persuaded to vote for him if only as a protest or some flailing attempt at least change something in Washington.
I call myself a centrist... but really I'm not, I'm a "scatterist" (my made up term). I average in the center, but my views range from the right to the left depending on issue, sometimes far from center. I call myself a common-sense centrist... I don't pick my views on something based on which party suggested it- I go with what makes sense; sometimes that's the left, sometimes that's the right.
Anyhow, that aside, as a "centrist", I still like Bernie, even though he seemed far to the left. I wouldn't have been too unhappy with him being President. Congress would have stopped him going too far. I feel like he would have been torn apart in the Presidential election though. Everyone liked Bernie (unlike Trump and Hillary Clinton), but I feel he would have been torn apart in a Presidential election in a way that he just wasn't challenged in the nomination run. Republicans are good at getting labels like "SOCIALISED" health care and "OBAMA" care to stick
- and that shouldn't matter... but I remember one poll where 2/3rds people had a favorable opinion of the "Affordable Care Act", and 2/3rds of people in same poll had a negative opinion of "Obamacare". It's the same thing, one with the official title, one with the dismissive title that stuck. What this tells you more than anything is that the public are idiots... but it also shows that what you call something matters more to the public than what it actually is.
They would have a field day with Bernie with his left leaning tendencies. He'd quickly gain all sorts of socialist nicknames.
There's realtively few instances where mixed capitals, symbols and numbers are valid syntax. yes there are, but few. sounds like we just made it easy to spot thepassword.
When you're talking about b00B$ but don't want to hit on any keyword censors at work?
By actively preventing Bernie from getting the democratic nomination they made a Trump victory much more likely. Tons of people voted "not Hillary" with their Trump vote.
I'm not saying there was no Russian collusion, but lets look at all the reasons.
There is no way Bernie could have won the election though. He is too-far left, America will never elect a Bernie. Lawrence Lessig was the best candidate the Democrats had, but he didn't have the famous name or backing to really be a challenger and was out before it really began.
Clinton is running again, that should be obvious to all now. This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long, LONG time!
You're right- and bad news for Democrats. With her ability to raise financing she'll be a significant player in the primaries no matter who else runs. Hillary, like Trump, is a very polarizing figure. Disgruntled Republicans aren't going to vote Hillary- they would shoot themselves before voting for her.
She may not win the party nomination this time around, but even if she doesn't she'll probably hurt her rival nominee enough to help out Trump long term. If Hillary runs, even if she doesn't win nomination, it increases the odds of four more years of Trump.
Hey, it's all good. If people want to keep giving her money, that's their business. I'm sure some of them will do well.
I plan on giving her money... once this crashes and burns and she's living on a sidewalk, I'll hand her a dollar so she can go get dinner from Burger King.
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I'm not sure what the laws on the books are for frivolous patent troll lawsuits, but it would be really beneficial to society if frivolous patent law suits were heavily discouraged by huge fines to the troll perpetrating them.
There is obviously a valid and just use for patents; but there is so much abuse of the system it is ludicrous.
In one sentence, you're one of "us", men. In the next you are one of "we", women.
There may be some confusion in his words, but I just use the First Rule of Internet: The person shitposting is always a man.
True, although he never actually claims to be a woman. He says "The idea of having some man ask me for sex makes me want to die." but he never actually claims that he himself is a woman.
I sometimes wonder how many of these "scientists" have ANY understanding of what the earth is made of. Every one of these metals ARE IN THE GROUND ALREADY! They leach out into the ground water and will build up naturally in lakes.
Although, looking at the article they're measuring the metal content of the plastics they picked up along the beach. As the parent said, none of those metals are present in the plastic from manufacturing, they must have picked them up from the environment.
Lead is rarely found in it's pure form in nature, and is not found uniformly everywhere. If lead is found in water far from any source lead, then it most likely got there by pollution.
If I was Zuck or Sandberg, this is exactly how I would scam people to deflect the blame.
Came here to say this. Sounds like something the real 'Bergs would do.
They're not supposed to be used as work-arounds when the President can't get a law passed that he wants.
What the US needs, then, is a mechanism to deal with a dysfunctional government. In Canada, for example, if a matter of confidence fails to pass (the budget being the big one), the government falls, and an election occurs shortly thereafter. Even with the absurdity that is the Citizens United decision, eventually the taps will run out of money for another election campaign.
The President is not a legislator though. If a President can't get laws past- tough cheese! That's not his job. A President is not the same role as a Prime Minister, or at least, is not intended to be.
How will society survive the robot automation of weather balloon launching.
Weather balloon launching is the keystone to western civilization. I see us collapsing into the dark ages now this important career path has been stolen by robots.
Yes, this is likely very cruel to pigs if they ever regain consciousness. Which is not given. This will also help treat trauma and organ failure patients and will save human lives.
I'm not falling for that. I saw The man with 2 brains. I learnt my lesson from that- I know where that leads. Steve Martin does make documentaries right?
The problem there is that many people believe that some dudes 250 or so years ago can not be wrong, no matter what. Once you realize that what they have put in place was designed to be changed, you can start doing that
Interestingly enough. Many of the founding fathers, including George Washington saw the problem with party politics and wanted to prevent political parties forming. So even those "old dudes" knew how dangerous party politics could be on the American political set-up.
But you are right, the constitution was written so it could be changed and it was intended that it would be changed. They knew what they had set up would not be 100% applicable at all times in the future.
If it is really that important it should be passed as a law. This is the issue with executive orders and regulations. Then next guy can just undo it. Perhaps previous administrations should have focused more on compromised laws and less on orders and regulations.
Executive Orders are abused more by each successive President. They're completely out of hand in the Obama/Trump era. I really think there needs to be some soul-searching and perhaps an amendment to the constitution. They're not supposed to be used as work-arounds when the President can't get a law passed that he wants. They are supposed to be for use executively not legislatively. Both Obama and Trump have abused executive orders and used them for things it was not designed to do.
We need to rein in on abuses, close down loopholes, and put checks and balances on executive orders.
Kazakhstan is very literate.
And large sections of the population master both the Kazakh and Russian language meaning in future they'll have to learn both scripts.
In all likelihood, a large number of them probably already do know both scripts. I know in a lot of countries that don't use the latin alphabet, there is a large understanding of it- frequently out of necessity. I've never had to learn a language with a different alphabet, the languages I've learnt so far have been western, but from speaking to people who have learned Russian- learning the second alphabet is actually one of the easier steps of learning Russian. It's not that hard to learn a new alphabet- especially one with many similarities.
That's a pretty suspicious looking name.
Yeah, never would have thought that was a pseudonym.
Neither of my cousins Faye K'Naim or Sue Donym fell for that.
I have seen with my own eyes someone brandish a gun due to road rage. (no nobody got shot)
I'm not sure if I have or not. Driving home from work at a very crowded intersection I passed two vehicles side by side. One was a big pick up with some angry-looking guy leaning out the window pointing something black at a man in a small car in the lane next to him. It looked like a gun to me as I drove by.
Driving past I thought- "Holy Cow" is that someone threatening someone else with a gun at a busy intersection? I considered calling the cops, but didn't because I wasn't 100% sure what I saw was a gun, it seemed crazy someone would do that in such a busy intersection where scores of people would see them, and this was before I had my dash cam to prove it.
I still wonder what happened there- but as I didn't hear about any shootings outside my office, I'm assuming no shots were fired.
Two things:
No, most gun owners don't ever murder anyone.
The bigger worry about owning a gun is not that you will murder someone, but that someone will murder you. Locked up safely and legally at home it's probably not going to be used against you. Sadly, owning a gun makes your likelihood of being murdered much higher. Sometimes with your own gun. If it's easily accessible in your trunk or your glove box, and someone finds it. They could steal it, or use it against you.
Or, even if you bring out your gun in self defence, you're more likely to provoke someone to shoot you than if you don't have a gun. Statistically, owning a gun makes you much more likely to be a victim of gun crime than not owning a gun- even, if like most gun owners you're a straight-up law-abiding citizen.
It's amazing how *anybody* thinks this is a good idea given the low wages Amazon delivery drivers make.
I think it's a very good idea! Now I'm going to order some raw fish and have it delivered to my coworkers Volvo in the middle of summer.
Now hackers know how much they can reasonably demand from Atlanta.
I can't help thinking that announcing such a budget has put a large bulls-eye right on the center of Atlanta's servers.
Now hackers know how much they can reasonably demand from Atlanta.
taste like crab... look like people...
Nah... Just a race of people who haven't found a cure for crabs.
If it is just a "camera and speaker with wheels", with no ability to navigate stairs or open doors, then that has been done before, and is not very useful. If it can do more, there is no mention of that in the video to TFA.
"Been done before" doesn't mean it won't be successful with Amazon's vast marketing department and public good-will.
Smart phones had been done before the iPhone. Smart watches had been done before the pebble. Electric vehicles had been done before Tesla. That didn't stop those companies launching successful products.
As for "not very useful", no, probably not, but "cutesy and cool" will gather market share- it will be a self navigating Alexa most likely. I'm sure sell a few hundred thousand of them and it will bring in enough money for R&D to add some useful features. The data and feedback they get from customers will suggest ideas that they might be able to legitimately tackle.
I agree with you that it's been done before, and probably not very useful, but I wouldn't put it beyond Amazon, making a successful product from this anyway.
However, she is now 70 years old and in poor and declining health. She is now one of the most unpopular politicians in U.S. history, 53% of the public disapproves of her and only 25% approve.
Interestingly, all that could be said about Trump too. Although as current President he's not going to have a serious primary (if one at all) to deal with. Hillary is not going to be popular even with her own party going into the primaries... Perhaps the only candidates that would fare worse against Trump are Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, or Jerry Springer or one of the other "trashy" entertainment figures that have been suggested.
I live in a red state (Kentucky) in a deep red county. Many people I know were swinging between Bernie and Trump. Hell, I hate anything that smacks of marxism but I still liked Bernie and given the way the GOP treated Ron Paul in previous elections.. I might have been persuaded to vote for him if only as a protest or some flailing attempt at least change something in Washington.
I call myself a centrist... but really I'm not, I'm a "scatterist" (my made up term). I average in the center, but my views range from the right to the left depending on issue, sometimes far from center. I call myself a common-sense centrist... I don't pick my views on something based on which party suggested it- I go with what makes sense; sometimes that's the left, sometimes that's the right.
Anyhow, that aside, as a "centrist", I still like Bernie, even though he seemed far to the left. I wouldn't have been too unhappy with him being President. Congress would have stopped him going too far. I feel like he would have been torn apart in the Presidential election though. Everyone liked Bernie (unlike Trump and Hillary Clinton), but I feel he would have been torn apart in a Presidential election in a way that he just wasn't challenged in the nomination run. Republicans are good at getting labels like "SOCIALISED" health care and "OBAMA" care to stick
- and that shouldn't matter... but I remember one poll where 2/3rds people had a favorable opinion of the "Affordable Care Act", and 2/3rds of people in same poll had a negative opinion of "Obamacare". It's the same thing, one with the official title, one with the dismissive title that stuck. What this tells you more than anything is that the public are idiots... but it also shows that what you call something matters more to the public than what it actually is.
They would have a field day with Bernie with his left leaning tendencies. He'd quickly gain all sorts of socialist nicknames.
There's realtively few instances where mixed capitals, symbols and numbers are valid syntax. yes there are, but few. sounds like we just made it easy to spot thepassword.
When you're talking about b00B$ but don't want to hit on any keyword censors at work?
By actively preventing Bernie from getting the democratic nomination they made a Trump victory much more likely. Tons of people voted "not Hillary" with their Trump vote.
I'm not saying there was no Russian collusion, but lets look at all the reasons.
There is no way Bernie could have won the election though. He is too-far left, America will never elect a Bernie. Lawrence Lessig was the best candidate the Democrats had, but he didn't have the famous name or backing to really be a challenger and was out before it really began.
Clinton is running again, that should be obvious to all now. This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long, LONG time!
You're right- and bad news for Democrats. With her ability to raise financing she'll be a significant player in the primaries no matter who else runs. Hillary, like Trump, is a very polarizing figure. Disgruntled Republicans aren't going to vote Hillary- they would shoot themselves before voting for her.
She may not win the party nomination this time around, but even if she doesn't she'll probably hurt her rival nominee enough to help out Trump long term. If Hillary runs, even if she doesn't win nomination, it increases the odds of four more years of Trump.
Hey, it's all good. If people want to keep giving her money, that's their business. I'm sure some of them will do well.
I plan on giving her money... once this crashes and burns and she's living on a sidewalk, I'll hand her a dollar so she can go get dinner from Burger King.
I guess that is the current fad now. No more Big Data.
M&M will fail because she's a shitty manager.
Makes good candy though.