I suggest you read some history, count the number of wars in europe BEFORE and AFTER the foundation of the EU (the European Coal and Steel Community, 1951). The rest is 'filler'.
Why not count the number of wars in Europe BEFORE and AFTER the introduction of color TV?
Or the number of wars in Europe BEFORE and AFTER the assassination of JFK?
Or the number of wars in Europe BEFORE and AFTER the Berlin Wall was built?
Were you actually trying to indicate some sort of proof with your statement?
We cannot allow ourselves to become the things and people we hate. We cannot become a nation that approves of torture, approves of lawless legal system, a nation that will treat others, no matter how heinous, as they would treat us.
You're a little late with that speech. You have already become all that years ago. That's the simple and sad truth. The damage is done.
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Most of the scaremongering patent stories here are based on someone reading the first, vague claim of a patent and freaking out.
And rightly so. Because that "first, vague claim" is exactly what is being patented. (Actually, there may be several main claims in a patent.) It is usually the only thing you have to read in a patent, if you want to find out if something is patented.
The sub claims have two purposes:
To have a more specific fallback in case your main claim doesn't go through
To keep someone from registering a patent on a specification of your main claim
E.g.:
Company A registers a patent with two claims (1 main and 1 sub):
A vehicle.
A vehicle as in claim 1, with four wheels.
The patent office says that claim 1 is too broad, but they can patent in conjunction with claim 2. So they
end up with a patent with just one main claim: "A vehicle with four wheels". The only reason they were able to do this is because the four wheels were already included as a sub claim in the original patent application.
Now Company B comes along and patents (successfully) "A vehicle with four wheels, an engine, and a steering wheel."
A could have stopped B from doing that, had they thought of including an engine and a steering wheel in their sub claims.
Now B has a nice patented car, but they cannot make it without a license from A, as -- despite their own patent -- their car still violates A's
broader patent.
A can make all the four-wheeled vehicles they want, unless it has an engine and a steering wheel -- in which case they need a license from B.
Land area in square kilometers of Sweden: 449964
Land area in square kilometers of the United States: 9629091
The US is very big. The population is spread all over the place
So? The USA actually have a *higher* population density than Sweden. (USA: 31/km^2 vs. Sweden: 20/km^2)
So all you need is a really cheap and small camcorder -- which doesn't really work but still uses a lithium battery. Thus turning your forbidden spare into an allowed non-spare battery?
After a long time of using almost exclusively SuSE (ever since version 1.x, which as I remember was basically a repackaged Slackware) it was yast of version 10.1 that drove me away most of all. Not so much the functionality which I thought was at least adequate. But the speed! It now took ~10min to start up the software selection. WTF? And online updates? Trying to configure online updates sent me into an endless loop of registering online and yast not recognizing that I registered.
And while the yast "GUI" configuration for packages is nice for a start, it gets useless once you have to do something beyond its scope. As soon as you need to make one manual change to the configuration, you cannot go back to yast.
Add to that the confusion about what version of SuSE I held in my hands. I had bought a shrinkwrapped version of SuSE 10.1, but according to their website, it didn't exist. Did I have OpenSuSE? Maybe. It didn't say so anywhere on the package.
And then comes the MS-Novell deal with Novell starting to play the FUD game. No thanks.
So I started to look around. Our servers now run Debian, my desktop Ubuntu. Live is good again.
I've heard that some of our attack helicopters can lose significant percentages of the rotor surface and still stay aloft, [...] Was I lied to?
Yes, you probably were.
Unless equally sized bits break off of every blade or a *very* small piece breaks off a blade, the helicopter is almost sure to immediately literally explode from the created imbalance. And that's not a joke.
Many RC-Helicopter pilots know this from own experience -- a loud bang and the helicopter rains down in pieces (and those blades only weigh ~150g).
Also a report of this happening to a real helicopter.
You mean Editable Text Configuration in contrast to all those uneditable text configurations?
Just because you read it somewhere doesn't mean it's not bullshit.
They use phrases like "Official supporter of Winter sports".
If they actually are offical supporters of winter sports, then they should be able to advertise as such.
But very likely, they are not. So then it's just a case of false advertising. No need to protect words like "winter".
But there actually might be a need for stricter laws regarding false advertising. (In my view, there definitely is.)
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I knew you were going to say that.
(And I really hope my point wasn't lost amid my subtlety.) It was.
Why not count the number of wars in Europe BEFORE and AFTER the introduction of color TV?
Or the number of wars in Europe BEFORE and AFTER the assassination of JFK?
Or the number of wars in Europe BEFORE and AFTER the Berlin Wall was built?
Were you actually trying to indicate some sort of proof with your statement?
Ok, so how do I get this past the lameness filter?
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And rightly so. Because that "first, vague claim" is exactly what is being patented. (Actually, there may be several main claims in a patent.) It is usually the only thing you have to read in a patent, if you want to find out if something is patented.
The sub claims have two purposes:
E.g.:
Company A registers a patent with two claims (1 main and 1 sub):
The patent office says that claim 1 is too broad, but they can patent in conjunction with claim 2.
So they end up with a patent with just one main claim: "A vehicle with four wheels".
The only reason they were able to do this is because the four wheels were already included as a sub claim in the original patent application.
Now Company B comes along and patents (successfully) "A vehicle with four wheels, an engine, and a steering wheel."
A could have stopped B from doing that, had they thought of including an engine and a steering wheel in their sub claims.
Now B has a nice patented car, but they cannot make it without a license from A, as -- despite their own patent -- their car still violates A's broader patent.
A can make all the four-wheeled vehicles they want, unless it has an engine and a steering wheel -- in which case they need a license from B.
Gotta go, fill out my patent application...
So, no, we obviously didn't run out of them.
Wow -- are you kidding, or are you actually that ... [insert your favorite adjective]?
I once asked my parents something along the lines of "why didn't they just overrun the guards". I was about 4 years old. What is your excuse?
Am I the only one who only now feels he needs to actually look at the article and register?
After a long time of using almost exclusively SuSE (ever since version 1.x, which as I remember was basically a repackaged Slackware) it was yast of version 10.1 that drove me away most of all. Not so much the functionality which I thought was at least adequate. But the speed! It now took ~10min to start up the software selection. WTF? And online updates? Trying to configure online updates sent me into an endless loop of registering online and yast not recognizing that I registered.
And while the yast "GUI" configuration for packages is nice for a start, it gets useless once you have to do something beyond its scope. As soon as you need to make one manual change to the configuration, you cannot go back to yast.
Add to that the confusion about what version of SuSE I held in my hands. I had bought a shrinkwrapped version of SuSE 10.1, but according to their website, it didn't exist. Did I have OpenSuSE? Maybe. It didn't say so anywhere on the package.
And then comes the MS-Novell deal with Novell starting to play the FUD game. No thanks.
So I started to look around. Our servers now run Debian, my desktop Ubuntu. Live is good again.
Unless equally sized bits break off of every blade or a *very* small piece breaks off a blade, the helicopter is almost sure to immediately literally explode from the created imbalance. And that's not a joke.
Many RC-Helicopter pilots know this from own experience -- a loud bang and the helicopter rains down in pieces (and those blades only weigh ~150g).
Also a report of this happening to a real helicopter.
I've done that since the 80's.
Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress will... eh... never mind.
You haven't seen her lately, have you?
Just because you read it somewhere doesn't mean it's not bullshit. No, it doesn't.
But very likely, they are not. So then it's just a case of false advertising. No need to protect words like "winter".
But there actually might be a need for stricter laws regarding false advertising. (In my view, there definitely is.)