US companies are lobbying like demons to have China enforce their "intellectual property" on the assumption that the little yellow devils are too lazy and dumb to ever invent anything of their own.
A billion smart, hungry people and an education system that doesn't pander to the lower common denominator is about to show them how arrogant and short sighted that is.
You want to take them on, patents trolls? They can write three patents to your one, and for a quarter of the price.
I'd rub their noses in it some more, but the sad part is that it just means that everything is going to cost us more, and the only people who will benefit will be Chinese lawyers.
Yes, yes, Good Science has corrected Bad Science, but the people that did that Bad Science should go and consult on Discovery Channel "docu-dramas" rather than stinking up academia with their attention whoring claims.
I've always assumed that the Gates' Foundation is a tax dodge to funnel funds to companies in which they have interests, just enough to make themselves necessary (but not sufficient) for the success of taxpayer funder projects, which will ensure that they have enough blackmail leverage to keep the pork barrels rolling in. Any benefits to needy humans (as opposed to corporate sharehoulders) would be largely incidental and accidental.
So, do I need to RTFA to have that confirmed, or is that pretty much the gist of it?
Better connected people will just swipe your idea and present it as theirs, with an option to blame you if it fails. That's how they become better connected.
Or perhaps we've just been following the EU more closely than you?
Just for example, MEP Kerstin Westphal recently pencilled in an amendment to mandate ABS on 125cc scooters just as the rubber stamp was descending on yet another Fun Ist Verboten Directive. Completely co-incidentally, Ms Westphal had just been on a "fact finding trip" to the Bosch ABS production facility in Bamberg, where she learned the fact that Bosch is ready to sell a new ABS system for scooters, and so a market needed to be created for it.
Sorry, I interrupted you in mid sneer. Do please carry on.
Bingo, the "punishment" for shouting fire in a crowded marketplace should simply be "recompense the State (i.e. the public) for trying to trick it into acting as your enforcer, and then we'll let the market decide."
...then he employed his stoner dropout friends as 'editors', they replaced themselves with very small shell scripts, he married his bucktoothed farmgirl and it was happy ever after.
Honestly, I only come here for the trolls and lulz these days.
Burning oil creates less of a problem than not burning oil.
If you disagree, how about you do your part and shut off your computer? And your lights. And stop driving. And heating/cooling your home. And cooking. Not that you'll have much to eat if you eschew petrochemical dependent food sources.
Global warming will bring different challenges than the ones that face us today, and have faced us for, oh, the past billion years or so. We've actually got pretty good at thriving in the face of adversity.
Urgh, I just sicked up in my mouth a bit. Proud to be chowing down on pork that could be spent on better boots and body armour rather than fantasy zap guns that will never come out of the lab.
More swill for the Euroswine. Brought to you by the trans-national entity that nobody voted for, which took 3 years of paying 21 "scientists" to first declare that water doesn't hydrate, then deny that they said it, then finally (for now) retract the statement that they denied having ever made. That sounds so bizarre that I'd invite you to do your own googling on it, since you simply wouldn't believe anything that I spoon fed you.
You laugh and say "Go ahead, Sparky. By the time you get your default judgement, it'll be against an abandoned shell company with no assets. Repeat that as often as you like against my endless shells, until you die penniless in the gutter, you worthless Goddamn parasite."
18 is a legal adult. These aren't kids, and they knew what they were doing was wrong. They didn't care because, you know, the lulz.
Should the "real kingpins" be the ones in the dock? Sure. But in the meantime, should these people be held responsible for their actions? Yes, by all means. They were the strong preying on the weak, and if the law doesn't exist to prevent that, then what is its purpose?
While we're playing Fantasy What If, the introduction of the steaming pile that is Metro might be just the impetus or excuse that they need.
Heck, Unity is every bit as retarded as Metro. If you're going to switch away from a useful, familiar desktop to a retarded two-thumbs-and-Mr-pointy-finger idiom, you might as well drink Canonical's Kool-Aid.
Remind me, who exactly is it that implements these most hallowed "checks" and "balances" to laws that take a huge steaming dump all over the Constitution?
Superman, right? That's who does it? Or Jesus. Or Super-Jesus-man?
A judge who interprets Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 literally, including the preamble which clearly explains its actual purpose and goal, is OK in my book.
For certain definitions of "radeon", "pretty", "damn" and "good".
Seeing is believing. You see it working fine, so you believe it. I see flickering, tearing, a Unity 3D desktop that regularly explodes into shards, and occasional hard lockups, so I believe that. Installing the ATI binary driver solves my problem.
The "works for me, you must be doing something wrong" attitude prevalent in open source gets tiring pretty fast, by the way.
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Heh, they wished for it, they got it.
US companies are lobbying like demons to have China enforce their "intellectual property" on the assumption that the little yellow devils are too lazy and dumb to ever invent anything of their own.
A billion smart, hungry people and an education system that doesn't pander to the lower common denominator is about to show them how arrogant and short sighted that is.
You want to take them on, patents trolls? They can write three patents to your one, and for a quarter of the price.
I'd rub their noses in it some more, but the sad part is that it just means that everything is going to cost us more, and the only people who will benefit will be Chinese lawyers.
Indeed, they could care less.
"HuffPo Rapes WSJ using Microsoft Apple RIAA MPAA Warrantless Wiretap Body Scanners" would surely get more responses.
Calm down, dear. Asking isn't a crime, and neither is telling, absent some law to prevent it.
To keep those fat grant checks rolling in.
Yes, yes, Good Science has corrected Bad Science, but the people that did that Bad Science should go and consult on Discovery Channel "docu-dramas" rather than stinking up academia with their attention whoring claims.
Well, she apparently can't do the Science for crap, so she needs something to fall back on.
I've always assumed that the Gates' Foundation is a tax dodge to funnel funds to companies in which they have interests, just enough to make themselves necessary (but not sufficient) for the success of taxpayer funder projects, which will ensure that they have enough blackmail leverage to keep the pork barrels rolling in. Any benefits to needy humans (as opposed to corporate sharehoulders) would be largely incidental and accidental.
So, do I need to RTFA to have that confirmed, or is that pretty much the gist of it?
Better connected people will just swipe your idea and present it as theirs, with an option to blame you if it fails. That's how they become better connected.
And thus formed the template for all modern politics, profoundly condemning in others those things that they tacitly cherish the most.
And the, uh... "sulky", and today, I sulk with patriotic fervor.
Or perhaps we've just been following the EU more closely than you?
Just for example, MEP Kerstin Westphal recently pencilled in an amendment to mandate ABS on 125cc scooters just as the rubber stamp was descending on yet another Fun Ist Verboten Directive. Completely co-incidentally, Ms Westphal had just been on a "fact finding trip" to the Bosch ABS production facility in Bamberg, where she learned the fact that Bosch is ready to sell a new ABS system for scooters, and so a market needed to be created for it.
Sorry, I interrupted you in mid sneer. Do please carry on.
Bingo, the "punishment" for shouting fire in a crowded marketplace should simply be "recompense the State (i.e. the public) for trying to trick it into acting as your enforcer, and then we'll let the market decide."
Not because it's easy, but it because it gets nerds hard.
...then he employed his stoner dropout friends as 'editors', they replaced themselves with very small shell scripts, he married his bucktoothed farmgirl and it was happy ever after.
Honestly, I only come here for the trolls and lulz these days.
Burning oil creates less of a problem than not burning oil.
If you disagree, how about you do your part and shut off your computer? And your lights. And stop driving. And heating/cooling your home. And cooking. Not that you'll have much to eat if you eschew petrochemical dependent food sources.
Global warming will bring different challenges than the ones that face us today, and have faced us for, oh, the past billion years or so. We've actually got pretty good at thriving in the face of adversity.
Urgh, I just sicked up in my mouth a bit. Proud to be chowing down on pork that could be spent on better boots and body armour rather than fantasy zap guns that will never come out of the lab.
More swill for the Euroswine. Brought to you by the trans-national entity that nobody voted for, which took 3 years of paying 21 "scientists" to first declare that water doesn't hydrate, then deny that they said it, then finally (for now) retract the statement that they denied having ever made. That sounds so bizarre that I'd invite you to do your own googling on it, since you simply wouldn't believe anything that I spoon fed you.
You laugh and say "Go ahead, Sparky. By the time you get your default judgement, it'll be against an abandoned shell company with no assets. Repeat that as often as you like against my endless shells, until you die penniless in the gutter, you worthless Goddamn parasite."
Yes, that was pretty funny when Gene Smith tweeted it: Joke going around the office: Microsoft buys Yammer, renames it SharePoint Cloud Server 2012 Mobile Enterprise Social Networking Edition.
18 is a legal adult. These aren't kids, and they knew what they were doing was wrong. They didn't care because, you know, the lulz.
Should the "real kingpins" be the ones in the dock? Sure. But in the meantime, should these people be held responsible for their actions? Yes, by all means. They were the strong preying on the weak, and if the law doesn't exist to prevent that, then what is its purpose?
Don't.
While we're playing Fantasy What If, the introduction of the steaming pile that is Metro might be just the impetus or excuse that they need.
Heck, Unity is every bit as retarded as Metro. If you're going to switch away from a useful, familiar desktop to a retarded two-thumbs-and-Mr-pointy-finger idiom, you might as well drink Canonical's Kool-Aid.
Remind me, who exactly is it that implements these most hallowed "checks" and "balances" to laws that take a huge steaming dump all over the Constitution?
Superman, right? That's who does it? Or Jesus. Or Super-Jesus-man?
A judge who interprets Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 literally, including the preamble which clearly explains its actual purpose and goal, is OK in my book.
Not "people",subjects. Probably experimental subjects; fetch the frikkin' lasers.
For certain definitions of "radeon", "pretty", "damn" and "good".
Seeing is believing. You see it working fine, so you believe it. I see flickering, tearing, a Unity 3D desktop that regularly explodes into shards, and occasional hard lockups, so I believe that. Installing the ATI binary driver solves my problem.
The "works for me, you must be doing something wrong" attitude prevalent in open source gets tiring pretty fast, by the way.