Come on, it happens all the frippin time! I have friends and family who've spent years trying to get a patent for their "great idea" only to find that a large corporation already holds a similar patent.
I think that companies will frequently buy IP from people looking to cash in quick on their ideas, and then never produce and market the fruits of those thoughts. They just want to make sure that competitors can't legally indroduce innovation before them.
Doesn't Disney do this to foreign animation studios? I think Proctor & Gamble also buys up lots of IP.
Then, when the peace-loving hippie gets up and kicks you in the nuts, permanently destroying your ability to create mini-morons, you'll realize why non-violence was such a great idea in the first place.
I've traveled around the world a bit, and realized that while most people (even in Iraq, Iran, and other parts of the Middle East) hold no particular ill will towards America/Americans, there are still hundreds of thousands millions who rightly view the USA as a state that condones and participates in terrorist activities.
It's no secret that the US govt. has sent guerillas and trained rebels to meddle in other countries affairs, set up idiotic puppet goverments to protect corporate interests and stifle democracy, bombed civilian targets, (accidentally I hope! but you can never really be sure...) and whatever else that I don't know about and can't think of because it never gets reported.
Now that doesn't mean that the US govt. is made up of the worst bad guys out there, but it does mean that people have REASONS to hate the US and aren't merely "crazy".
The second thing to think about is that outside the USA, Australia, Western Europe, the "1st world" et al. People do not have the same moral value system as we do. In countries where people scrape to make a living, human lives are considered somewhat less valuable, and there isn't much thought given to the pain and suffering individuals go through when tragedy strikes. (unless it's your own family, of course)
There's a non-Western mentality that has to be understood if we want to get to the bottom of who's behind these inconceiveable, unbelievable, horrifying attacks. No one but the most hardened criminals in our common society would ever even participate in something that would kill so many innocent people at once.
The people who did this have likely known pain and suffering beyond what any reader of this forum would believe. It's the only way they could ever be so heartless as to launch these attacks. To say that the suffering of others is trivial compared to their own.
It's always a shock to realize that the majority of the world's population don't share your values or morals. It's a lot easier for your average (middle-aged) Chinese, Indian, or African person to accept (but not condone) this kind of event as "just something that happens" because they're used to high mortality rates.
Enough rambling for now. On one hand I hope they get whoever did this and make them suffer, on the other hand I hope they don't because they'll probably get the wrong guy and hang him as a scapegoat.
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Come on, it happens all the frippin time! I have friends and family who've spent years trying to get a patent for their "great idea" only to find that a large corporation already holds a similar patent.
I think that companies will frequently buy IP from people looking to cash in quick on their ideas, and then never produce and market the fruits of those thoughts. They just want to make sure that competitors can't legally indroduce innovation before them.
Doesn't Disney do this to foreign animation studios? I think Proctor & Gamble also buys up lots of IP.
but I am a retarded so don't listen to whut I say
Then, when the peace-loving hippie gets up and kicks you in the nuts, permanently destroying your ability to create mini-morons, you'll realize why non-violence was such a great idea in the first place.
Two things to think about.
I've traveled around the world a bit, and realized that while most people (even in Iraq, Iran, and other parts of the Middle East) hold no particular ill will towards America/Americans, there are still hundreds of thousands millions who rightly view the USA as a state that condones and participates in terrorist activities.
It's no secret that the US govt. has sent guerillas and trained rebels to meddle in other countries affairs, set up idiotic puppet goverments to protect corporate interests and stifle democracy, bombed civilian targets, (accidentally I hope! but you can never really be sure...) and whatever else that I don't know about and can't think of because it never gets reported.
Now that doesn't mean that the US govt. is made up of the worst bad guys out there, but it does mean that people have REASONS to hate the US and aren't merely "crazy".
The second thing to think about is that outside the USA, Australia, Western Europe, the "1st world" et al. People do not have the same moral value system as we do. In countries where people scrape to make a living, human lives are considered somewhat less valuable, and there isn't much thought given to the pain and suffering individuals go through when tragedy strikes. (unless it's your own family, of course)
There's a non-Western mentality that has to be understood if we want to get to the bottom of who's behind these inconceiveable, unbelievable, horrifying attacks. No one but the most hardened criminals in our common society would ever even participate in something that would kill so many innocent people at once.
The people who did this have likely known pain and suffering beyond what any reader of this forum would believe. It's the only way they could ever be so heartless as to launch these attacks. To say that the suffering of others is trivial compared to their own.
It's always a shock to realize that the majority of the world's population don't share your values or morals. It's a lot easier for your average (middle-aged) Chinese, Indian, or African person to accept (but not condone) this kind of event as "just something that happens" because they're used to high mortality rates.
Enough rambling for now. On one hand I hope they get whoever did this and make them suffer, on the other hand I hope they don't because they'll probably get the wrong guy and hang him as a scapegoat.