Patents expire in 20 years. So genetics research will be stifled for 20 years. Not such a tragedy in my opinion.
More of a tragedy if you or a loved one could benefit from what's being kept in the dark or never developed, no doubt.
You know these genes were just patented with the rationale that "if we don't do it, somebody else will, so we better do it first." Net profit for shareholders and mankind: nil, at best.
Huh, I've never seen it attributed to anyone other than Yogi. Thanks for the info.
Vis a vis baseball, my favorite Yogi quote is "Ninety percent of this game is half-mental."
Another favoite is Fritz Zwicky: "All of my colleagues are spherical bastards. Any way you look at them, they're still bastards." (Which I assume to be translated from German, ja.)
It's imporant to have a diversified portfolio of WMDs. If you just have nuclear, but not biological or chemical, the other terrorists laugh at you and don't let you into the treehouse.
In the 64 bit version, the Dreadnought is renamed the S.S. Cocktail Napkin With Doily Fringe, the sub was stolen just 4 days ago, and they can't sink the sub without first rescuing Steven Seagal's daughter and some hapless kittens.
I'm just wondering, though, what part of "nuclear missiles" don't meet your threshold for "kick ass?"
With respect to kiddie porn, the courts (including the Supreme Court) that entrapment is an acceptable law enforcement tactic. For instance, the Feds can run an ad in the back of Hustler for kiddie porn. You reply, they ship you the goods. They then bust you for possesion of the kiddie porn Uncle Sam just sold you.
The rationale behind this is the purported link to kiddie porn and child abuse and abduction. Basically it's the "Won't somebody think of the children?" argument, and it actually worked... on the Supreme Court, no less.
There are also some pretty interesting definitions of what constitutes "porn" when the subject is under 18 years old. A picture in which the outline or form of genitalia is visible is pornography if the subject is under 18 years old. This from a case where a guy was selling erotic videos of young girls prancing about in their underwear. He was careful to not show anything that's considered pornography if the subject is over 18, but the Supreme Court found that there's a lower thresshold for what constitutes pornographic content when the subject is a minor.
Are you too young to remember Ed Meese? This is exactly the same, uh, shit that went down 20 years ago. Coincidentally, it's many of the same people running the country as 20 years ago...
Perhaps those soldiers in question developed their ideas from watching this "deviant" pornography we're speaking of. No excuse for personal responsibility, but something to think about.
For Bush to be ideologically consistent, he'd have to find a way to turn this disaster into a cash cow for Hallliburton.
Wait...
I've yet to take my pro-gun pro-NRA "gun laws cause crime" friends to task about relief workers and helicopters being shot at by New Orleanians, but I'm looking forward to the conversation.
Are you really saying that you want the Bush Administration, Halliburton, and the Army Corps of Engineers to built a hurricane defense system which has the added ability of being able to ship off all the undesirable poor black people in boxcars?
Well, yeah, there's blood on their hands from Iraq too. (And Waco. And,... damn. I was hoping for another 4-letter American fuckup with a "k" sound and I can't think of one. "Attica" is the best I can come up with right now, and that's not much. I really shoulda looked before I leapt.)
(ahem)
Well, yeah, there's blood on their hands.
Nobody seems to care.
We've settled into a bunker mentality, and noone's coming out until the storm is over, and in case you hadn't noticed there's bodies floating in the streets of New Orleans. Ain't nobody coming out who don't absolutely have to.
The funny thing is both the melancholy Left and the Congressional Medal of Irony flag-lapel-encrusted Right are hunkered down in their panic/control rooms while the vast middle of the country falls apart, quite literally around them.
There will emerge a leader, someone charismatic, and we will give him (or her, little plug for Hillary here) whatever they ask for.
Didn't Katrina slow to a cat 3 or 4 before landfall, and landfall was a good 20 miles from New Orleans? Perhaps this is why Bush said "Nobody thought the levees would fail" or whatever bone-headed comment that was.
If that's the case, I'm not convinced the Army Corps of Engineers is without "fault," as it were. It seems possible to me that their levees faces an "effective" category 3 storm and failed.
Excuse me, but why should I have to pay tax dollars to a state who put a city 17 feet below sea level?
It's impossible for any locality to sink the tons and tons of money into a may-never-need it "insurance" project when are Unions to bribe, buses to fuel, clinics to operate, children to teach, trash to collect, stadiums to build, and parking tickets to settle in municipal court.
New Orleans is one of a handful of truly world-class cities in the United States, it has tremendous value culturally and historically.
But more than anythintg, because New Orleans is one of the four places in America you can legally walk down the street with a beer in your hand. It's very sad to see one of the last American bastions against "Judeo-Christian Values" go under. I hope it comes back, but I'm not holding my breath.
The trouble with your nostalgia over Truman's "The Buck Stops Here" placard operates, historically speaking, at roughly the same level as a Norman Rockwell painting.
It's just a sign they use to talk up the great Harry S. Truman in the history books.
I suppose what I'm saying is, with Truman, you got the illusion of authority that you, in your wisdom, can see through today.
Many are beguiled by the charm and illusion (Support Our Troops... By Applying Magnets To Your Car, Truck, And/OR SUV!) Many are not, and there are even a good number who can see Bush for what he is, saw the alternatives (by which I mean Kerry) and opted for Bush. (Though I'm not quite sure what they were thinking.)
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Did you notice how the pictures we're seeing from New Orleans look like what we always see in far-off countries? All those poor, miserable non-white folks washed out by the storm.
One thing I *love* about DC roads is the way they do the streetlights. They don't extend out over the roadway so you always have a nice clear view of whatever you're looking at. Definitely a good design move for tourism and sightseeing.
It seems to me that the year (it's a year, right?) of "no worky for google" will be up before this lawsuit is settled.
Google should just pay this guy for his time off for the next year, then he can come back fresh and ready to code. Hell he might as well spend that year in China building political capital. If he's not already doing that.
I'm pretty ignorant about this case, I do know that in California a judge struck down a non-compete clause because the time was so long (two years) that it basically denied the former employee of the ability to earn a living.
This could also just be a "denial of service" attack by Google. Google might not get Mr. Lee, but Microsoft doesn't get him either. (Which,as others have pointed out, is exactly what Microsoft did to Borland, except MS got to have their cake and eat it too.)
Personally I would probably not sign an employment contract with a rigid non-compete unless there were something in there for me... a really nice severance package, to make up for my personal loss due to the non-compete sounds about right.
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Patents expire in 20 years. So genetics research will be stifled for 20 years. Not such a tragedy in my opinion.
More of a tragedy if you or a loved one could benefit from what's being kept in the dark or never developed, no doubt.
You know these genes were just patented with the rationale that "if we don't do it, somebody else will, so we better do it first." Net profit for shareholders and mankind: nil, at best.
Huh, I've never seen it attributed to anyone other than Yogi. Thanks for the info.
Vis a vis baseball, my favorite Yogi quote is "Ninety percent of this game is half-mental."
Another favoite is Fritz Zwicky: "All of my colleagues are spherical bastards. Any way you look at them, they're still bastards." (Which I assume to be translated from German, ja.)
Hello, your sig is a quote from Yogi Berra, in case you didn't know.
It's imporant to have a diversified portfolio of WMDs. If you just have nuclear, but not biological or chemical, the other terrorists laugh at you and don't let you into the treehouse.
I do, but maybe that's just because I own a few shares of NVDA.
Sounds like you downloaded the 32 bit version.
In the 64 bit version, the Dreadnought is renamed the S.S. Cocktail Napkin With Doily Fringe, the sub was stolen just 4 days ago, and they can't sink the sub without first rescuing Steven Seagal's daughter and some hapless kittens.
I'm just wondering, though, what part of "nuclear missiles" don't meet your threshold for "kick ass?"
Just some props for the sig, that's all.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16814125142
Roughly the same performace, more if you unlock the pipes/shaders. Passive cooling. AGP.
With respect to kiddie porn, the courts (including the Supreme Court) that entrapment is an acceptable law enforcement tactic. For instance, the Feds can run an ad in the back of Hustler for kiddie porn. You reply, they ship you the goods. They then bust you for possesion of the kiddie porn Uncle Sam just sold you.
The rationale behind this is the purported link to kiddie porn and child abuse and abduction. Basically it's the "Won't somebody think of the children?" argument, and it actually worked... on the Supreme Court, no less.
There are also some pretty interesting definitions of what constitutes "porn" when the subject is under 18 years old. A picture in which the outline or form of genitalia is visible is pornography if the subject is under 18 years old. This from a case where a guy was selling erotic videos of young girls prancing about in their underwear. He was careful to not show anything that's considered pornography if the subject is over 18, but the Supreme Court found that there's a lower thresshold for what constitutes pornographic content when the subject is a minor.
Are you too young to remember Ed Meese? This is exactly the same, uh, shit that went down 20 years ago. Coincidentally, it's many of the same people running the country as 20 years ago...
Well said, thank you.
Working in the porn business leaves one open to exploitation.
So does working for Wal-Mart.
Perhaps those soldiers in question developed their ideas from watching this "deviant" pornography we're speaking of. No excuse for personal responsibility, but something to think about.
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Nice post, but where's the link to the
So honesty gets you a longer sentence than false sincerity? Nice justice system you've got down there in Texas.
Congratulations. Becuase you were unable to confront a child three years ago, he's now in jail. Sleep tight.
For Bush to be ideologically consistent, he'd have to find a way to turn this disaster into a cash cow for Hallliburton.
Wait...
I've yet to take my pro-gun pro-NRA "gun laws cause crime" friends to task about relief workers and helicopters being shot at by New Orleanians, but I'm looking forward to the conversation.
Care to hazard a guess on the body count?
Are you really saying that you want the Bush Administration, Halliburton, and the Army Corps of Engineers to built a hurricane defense system which has the added ability of being able to ship off all the undesirable poor black people in boxcars?
There's blood on their hands.
... damn. I was hoping for another 4-letter American fuckup with a "k" sound and I can't think of one. "Attica" is the best I can come up with right now, and that's not much. I really shoulda looked before I leapt.)
Well, yeah, there's blood on their hands from Iraq too. (And Waco. And,
(ahem)
Well, yeah, there's blood on their hands.
Nobody seems to care.
We've settled into a bunker mentality, and noone's coming out until the storm is over, and in case you hadn't noticed there's bodies floating in the streets of New Orleans. Ain't nobody coming out who don't absolutely have to.
The funny thing is both the melancholy Left and the Congressional Medal of Irony flag-lapel-encrusted Right are hunkered down in their panic/control rooms while the vast middle of the country falls apart, quite literally around them.
There will emerge a leader, someone charismatic, and we will give him (or her, little plug for Hillary here) whatever they ask for.
Didn't Katrina slow to a cat 3 or 4 before landfall, and landfall was a good 20 miles from New Orleans? Perhaps this is why Bush said "Nobody thought the levees would fail" or whatever bone-headed comment that was.
If that's the case, I'm not convinced the Army Corps of Engineers is without "fault," as it were. It seems possible to me that their levees faces an "effective" category 3 storm and failed.
Ever see the movie Chinatown?
Excuse me, but why should I have to pay tax dollars to a state who put a city 17 feet below sea level?
It's impossible for any locality to sink the tons and tons of money into a may-never-need it "insurance" project when are Unions to bribe, buses to fuel, clinics to operate, children to teach, trash to collect, stadiums to build, and parking tickets to settle in municipal court.
New Orleans is one of a handful of truly world-class cities in the United States, it has tremendous value culturally and historically.
But more than anythintg, because New Orleans is one of the four places in America you can legally walk down the street with a beer in your hand. It's very sad to see one of the last American bastions against "Judeo-Christian Values" go under. I hope it comes back, but I'm not holding my breath.
The trouble with your nostalgia over Truman's "The Buck Stops Here" placard operates, historically speaking, at roughly the same level as a Norman Rockwell painting.
It's just a sign they use to talk up the great Harry S. Truman in the history books.
I suppose what I'm saying is, with Truman, you got the illusion of authority that you, in your wisdom, can see through today.
Many are beguiled by the charm and illusion (Support Our Troops... By Applying Magnets To Your Car, Truck, And/OR SUV!) Many are not, and there are even a good number who can see Bush for what he is, saw the alternatives (by which I mean Kerry) and opted for Bush. (Though I'm not quite sure what they were thinking.)
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Did you notice how the pictures we're seeing from New Orleans look like what we always see in far-off countries? All those poor, miserable non-white folks washed out by the storm.
One thing I *love* about DC roads is the way they do the streetlights. They don't extend out over the roadway so you always have a nice clear view of whatever you're looking at. Definitely a good design move for tourism and sightseeing.
It seems to me that the year (it's a year, right?) of "no worky for google" will be up before this lawsuit is settled.
,as others have pointed out, is exactly what Microsoft did to Borland, except MS got to have their cake and eat it too.)
Google should just pay this guy for his time off for the next year, then he can come back fresh and ready to code. Hell he might as well spend that year in China building political capital. If he's not already doing that.
I'm pretty ignorant about this case, I do know that in California a judge struck down a non-compete clause because the time was so long (two years) that it basically denied the former employee of the ability to earn a living.
This could also just be a "denial of service" attack by Google. Google might not get Mr. Lee, but Microsoft doesn't get him either. (Which
Personally I would probably not sign an employment contract with a rigid non-compete unless there were something in there for me... a really nice severance package, to make up for my personal loss due to the non-compete sounds about right.
It worked for Prince.
sweet, thanks. mod up.