The guy who had the patent for how windshield wipers worked took decades to prove it in court, getting settlements that never even covered his many hundreds of thousands in lawyer fees.
The system is set up for lawyers. Note 99% of politicians are also lawyers.
It's about time we had it out with the government over this "we decide it's involved in a criminal act, and therefore may keep it forever" bullshit.
It's one thing to find a bloody gun by a body or something. It's another to seize someone's money or property, declare it ill-gotten, then fail to bring it to court with the owner standing right there.
Bzzzt! Sorry. You either take it to court within a reasonable period of time (the Constitution defines this quite well, thank you) and prove it, or you have to give it back.
Sadly, we may need a constitutional amendment to force this.
Even as I formulate this thought I know I will get downmodded, but it's reminiscent of the government-Internet vs. private enterprise thing.
Microsoft can, or could anyway (see Google's $50 billion and Apple's $100 billion in cash) just force something into existence and keep it's heart beating by brute force, long after other, smaller inventors and investors would have given up.
So, too, with government and the early Internet, or NASA for that matter. For the former, they kept it's heart alive for 20 years before industry found a real use for it. Valuable service? Vital service?
How's it lookin' when a private corporation hemorrhages cash for years doing the same thing? Valuable? Vital to anything?
Here's how the X-Box got fucked up -- Microsoft had this glorious Direct X, including 3D, for Windows.
"Hey! Let's build a console that uses it. Then PC game makers can push a button and basically generate binaries for it [b]and[/b] the PC!" Instant titles, titles, titles! That's what kills consoles, lack of titles!
And...nobody on the PC wants to play, on the PC, console-style titles. Just ask the Duke Nukem Forever or DC Universe Online devs.
I was just wondering about this today -- if my Android phone got stolen, what do I do? Call up, ummm, Android and have them tell the police the exact phone coordinates and the police waltz over and get it, presumably using a tracking app on their own Android devices?
The FAA still has official knowledge of these planes and their destination. Indeed, that's the only reason this trick works. This doesn't aid terrorists in any way. If they load up a small plane with explosives, how will keeping a destination private, except for the FAA, who is the one watching, help them?
Your drooling class warfare is showing and clouding your thinking. Also, how does whether a rich person gets through security any easier have anything to do with keeping their destination secret from everyone but the FAA? It may, if true, be a possible security breach vector, but has nothing to do wih the OP topic.
Yes, but with Buckyballs, the government may only be saving a tiny few, but is only kicking in the balls a tiny few -- the Buckyball people. Yey! Praise da heroes!!!1!11
Touching those other things clops hundreds of millions in the balls, and thus won't be done.
In one, they are trying to look like the hero, in the other like an ass. It's about show and politics.
> innovative use of the Kepler data which aligned three planets...
Well, in Superman III, we learned weather satellites could be used to control the weather, so why couldn't astronomy satellites be used to align planets?
The error is in your assumption that government infrastructure is the primary driving force behind innovation and economic mitght. If it were, Europe, with its far greater iinfrastructure spending, would lead the US in per capita invention. In fact, they trail it. They didn't used to. It's bloated government that is he cause.
Obama's central thesis that's shaping up is that this infrastructure is the driver, rather than a secondary aspect to the innovation driven by a free econonomy and relatively light business burden.
Basically, even better bridges in Europe isn't yielding even better economic might. Therefore Obama's theory is full of fail, and he is not justified in using it as a rhetorical arguement for even greater tax rates.
Astounding. Pointing out that Europe, with its greater government infrastructure, greatly lags the US in per capita innovation, instead of leading it, were the president's economic theory to be true, gets modded down?!?!?
Buddy, this is the truest thing you will read in this half-century.
Barack's current position re: private enterprise is that, because government built a bridge over which drives shipping trucks, that therefore the economic might of the US is derived primarily, not secondarily (or tertiarily, most accurately -- government protecting property rights is secondarily) from government activity, and therefore is ethically justified in seizing ever-larger fractions of private enterprise, to lavish out on voters in exchange for votes.
This is fraud of the highest order.
Shame on the ignoranti for buying into it. Weaker, invention-wise, European nations buy into this fraud and suffer for it. If this theory were true, they should be in the lead of invention and advancement, per capita, but trail the US wildly in actual fact.
What you need to take away from the Internet issue is government kept a novelty alive via cash for a decade or two until private enterprise found a real use for it.
Only then did trillions of private money get dumped into it and did it stop being a snotty novelty for university professors.
In some decades space travel will explode with private money and interest. Jackassery will similarly claim NASA and government similarly played a huge role, and therefore are justified taking a huge chunk of those profits, too.
See, they invented space travel. They aren't just keeping a show novelty alive.
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The guy who had the patent for how windshield wipers worked took decades to prove it in court, getting settlements that never even covered his many hundreds of thousands in lawyer fees.
The system is set up for lawyers. Note 99% of politicians are also lawyers.
Didn't you read? It was delivered by the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle "koipond".
Let the supernerdage commence!
"Well, technically you're not weightless -- you're microbouyed in microgravity."
> The first victim of this outbreak was a pregnant woman.
Fuck...Bane!
Matters, even for nerds.
Oh, and if they can't prove it, via not guilty verdict, then they also have to give it back.
Doesn't bother me any.
It's about time we had it out with the government over this "we decide it's involved in a criminal act, and therefore may keep it forever" bullshit.
It's one thing to find a bloody gun by a body or something. It's another to seize someone's money or property, declare it ill-gotten, then fail to bring it to court with the owner standing right there.
Bzzzt! Sorry. You either take it to court within a reasonable period of time (the Constitution defines this quite well, thank you) and prove it, or you have to give it back.
Sadly, we may need a constitutional amendment to force this.
Even as I formulate this thought I know I will get downmodded, but it's reminiscent of the government-Internet vs. private enterprise thing.
Microsoft can, or could anyway (see Google's $50 billion and Apple's $100 billion in cash) just force something into existence and keep it's heart beating by brute force, long after other, smaller inventors and investors would have given up.
So, too, with government and the early Internet, or NASA for that matter. For the former, they kept it's heart alive for 20 years before industry found a real use for it. Valuable service? Vital service?
How's it lookin' when a private corporation hemorrhages cash for years doing the same thing? Valuable? Vital to anything?
Here's how the X-Box got fucked up -- Microsoft had this glorious Direct X, including 3D, for Windows.
"Hey! Let's build a console that uses it. Then PC game makers can push a button and basically generate binaries for it [b]and[/b] the PC!" Instant titles, titles, titles! That's what kills consoles, lack of titles!
And...nobody on the PC wants to play, on the PC, console-style titles. Just ask the Duke Nukem Forever or DC Universe Online devs.
I was just wondering about this today -- if my Android phone got stolen, what do I do? Call up, ummm, Android and have them tell the police the exact phone coordinates and the police waltz over and get it, presumably using a tracking app on their own Android devices?
The FAA still has official knowledge of these planes and their destination. Indeed, that's the only reason this trick works. This doesn't aid terrorists in any way. If they load up a small plane with explosives, how will keeping a destination private, except for the FAA, who is the one watching, help them?
Your drooling class warfare is showing and clouding your thinking. Also, how does whether a rich person gets through security any easier have anything to do with keeping their destination secret from everyone but the FAA? It may, if true, be a possible security breach vector, but has nothing to do wih the OP topic.
> actually includes more than 155,000 processor cores
Scientists and engineers toyed with putting Windows 8 on it, but Windows 8 with 150,000-200,000 core support was over $73 trillion.
Yes, but with Buckyballs, the government may only be saving a tiny few, but is only kicking in the balls a tiny few -- the Buckyball people. Yey! Praise da heroes!!!1!11
Touching those other things clops hundreds of millions in the balls, and thus won't be done.
In one, they are trying to look like the hero, in the other like an ass. It's about show and politics.
> innovative use of the Kepler data which aligned three planets...
Well, in Superman III, we learned weather satellites could be used to control the weather, so why couldn't astronomy satellites be used to align planets?
Or social spending for that matter.
"We cut $50 million, or 0.0025% of the social spending budget, to fund this."
"My opponent made draconian cuts that will deeply impact the most vulnerable among us -- seniors and the disabled."
Again, this costs fewer votes than the teeniest of cuts to massive social spending, or the military, or tax increases.
So unless you wanna make a stink about it, deal with it.
Sweet! Booty armor!
Breach of security? I'll say!
"I saw his single security report today. Five Slashdot logons, three coffees at Tim Horton's, and twenty seven visits to cockgobblers.com."
Tl:dr
Just tell me: What does this have to do with Bozo?
The error is in your assumption that government infrastructure is the primary driving force behind innovation and economic mitght. If it were, Europe, with its far greater iinfrastructure spending, would lead the US in per capita invention. In fact, they trail it. They didn't used to. It's bloated government that is he cause.
Obama's central thesis that's shaping up is that this infrastructure is the driver, rather than a secondary aspect to the innovation driven by a free econonomy and relatively light business burden.
Basically, even better bridges in Europe isn't yielding even better economic might. Therefore Obama's theory is full of fail, and he is not justified in using it as a rhetorical arguement for even greater tax rates.
> Non-violent triggers to mimic the rush of pleasure...
You think people have problems with bronies now...
Information wants to be free. Why should programmers get a pass when musicians and moviemakers don't?
Oh, I see what ypu did there.
Which, of course, is the whole problem when governmemt does it. Or when government forbids the people from doing it to governmemt.
Astounding. Pointing out that Europe, with its greater government infrastructure, greatly lags the US in per capita innovation, instead of leading it, were the president's economic theory to be true, gets modded down?!?!?
Buddy, this is the truest thing you will read in this half-century.
Barack's current position re: private enterprise is that, because government built a bridge over which drives shipping trucks, that therefore the economic might of the US is derived primarily, not secondarily (or tertiarily, most accurately -- government protecting property rights is secondarily) from government activity, and therefore is ethically justified in seizing ever-larger fractions of private enterprise, to lavish out on voters in exchange for votes.
This is fraud of the highest order.
Shame on the ignoranti for buying into it. Weaker, invention-wise, European nations buy into this fraud and suffer for it. If this theory were true, they should be in the lead of invention and advancement, per capita, but trail the US wildly in actual fact.
What you need to take away from the Internet issue is government kept a novelty alive via cash for a decade or two until private enterprise found a real use for it.
Only then did trillions of private money get dumped into it and did it stop being a snotty novelty for university professors.
In some decades space travel will explode with private money and interest. Jackassery will similarly claim NASA and government similarly played a huge role, and therefore are justified taking a huge chunk of those profits, too.
See, they invented space travel. They aren't just keeping a show novelty alive.