If the world were populated with jackassery such as yourself, more people would die, not less, as technology would lag as people gave up developing it because it got looted as soon as they developed it.
You are part of the problem, not part of the solution, regardless of how big and kind you think your heart is.
A kind heart + slower tech = mass murder. The road to Hell is paved with good intent.
You assume this is abusing farmers rather than farmers fraudulently using Monsanto seed without paying for it.
I have sympathy for farmers who have tainted seed.
I have no sympathy for farmers who steal or lie about their seed.
It's one thing to say this or that should not be patentable, but it is allowed currently, and deserves the full legal protections of the government, which is why we have patents.
Presumably there is a high level business executive at Microsoft saying, "Let's create an also-ran copycat tablet OS, charge way more money than the successful competitors with already huge markets, and dump billions into it. Obviously people will buy it because [unintelligible]. Sound good? It's a plan, then!"
I'm convinced police should tape even more of their own activities. Trying to hide it is stupidity on their part -- they should revel in it.
And, while there are, of course, legitimate horror stories of police abuse, one could expect these protesters to fraudulentize (?) their claims even more as they suffer from martyr disasterbation syndromes.
My wife worked in one of the auto Big 3's anti-counterfeiting group for awhile. It's a big problem for companies.
The easiest trick is to just look up part numbers on the internet and figure out if the smarm-meisters are offering legitimate stuff.
Another problem is the people they contract to in other countries to run their assembly lines often, violating contract, run off extra parts, and frequently with substandard materials at that.
And, sorry, so what if some demagogue jackass in EU can suggest "The People" want to have cheaper counterfeit stuff -- that's not how freedom works to be productive. The choice isn't between well-engineered, somewhat expensive stuff and cheap knockoffs. It's between well-engineered, somewhat expensive stuff and nothing.
There are no knockoffs if there's nothing to knock off of.
And as a side note, how outrageous to suggest there's something noble or justifiable in generating a mob who wants to thieve things, and that the mob is justified because it's a mob.
No. "Shameful" is a better word. You fail to recognize the primary problem of human history: that of thwarting the impulse to take that which is not yours so people can have a stable environment to work hard to produce nice things.
If these scientists were smarter, they'd realize "lifetime memberships" are a scam business model. Where does the money to run the business a few years or a decade down the road come from?
I assure you they are not saving and investing it. Their business model spends it immediately as a joyous flood of income, and then relies on continuing to get more buy-in over the years, which, of course, cannot happen indefinitely.
In the early 1980s, the number of "lifetime membership" fitness clubs exploded, and a few years later most were gone.
Audiophile stuff is notoriously overpriced for quality and subject to the placebo effect. Expensive things are rated better, but when offered in a blind test often are no better, or worse, than cheaper stuff.
"Gold plated contacts" are one such proven utterly worthless thing.
So what we need are not a thousand testimonials, but rather some double-blind studies rating ear buds.
Nobody even tried this to test it out? They didn't learn from previous missions?
I recall Voyager gathering samples, dumping it into a container, and pouring chemicals on it. Whoa! Carbon, life.
Then someone said, well, no, probably not, there were other explanations.
Why didn't someone say, "Presume the test is positive -- let's shoot holes in it." them iterate proving the test until there are no more holes they can think of.
Speaking of global warming, where is the incease in arable land as massive northern reaches become more plantable? Where are the better growing condotions due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere. Deserts are shrinking not expanding.
And yet, histpry shows that when government gets greater control, humanity suffers far more than at the hands of "evil" corporations.
No corporation can force you to buy their product, unlike governments, or government-corporate partnerships, the latter of which only arise in populist response to political demagoguery from the left.
"Prove it?" Sure. look around you at the past 150 years of human history.
A couple of days ago, someone pointed out shameful crap in the Google+ death thread about Bing and stuff, which weren't the result of companies saying, "I can do it better", but rather them saying, "I can do it, too."
Ooh, look, Windows 8. Microsoft can do a desktop qua smartphone, too?
Why? You have no evidence of this, beyond some issues with farmers and patents, which is hardly cause to restrict research.
Meanwhile the downside could be incalculable, as massively beneficial plants don't get created as quickly. Or at all.
One wouldn't do the following, but it is as if this is what you are suggesting: If you are making new machinery, it MUST be kept isolated from nature blah blah blah.
How well-off would humanity be today had we put a massive clampdown on normal technology growth?
Upside vs. downside. You may have just murdered billions through starvation.
And it needs to be fast and easy. Tap the app, boom, instant video transmission and recording. During an incident is not the time to have to plow through all kinds of crap.
It needs a "live feed" option to put it live to some web site that records it, just in case the police seize the phone for video evidence then "lose" the video.
This guy points out how police are misusing their powers to frisk people so they can find marijuana and issue a profitable ticket, and this is modded flamebait?
It's purely a stylistic thing. Fuck the copycats, more power to 'em.
If you wanna argue they weren't first or that it's not original that's one thing. But they started doing it; others wanna glom on to a stylistic change. Fuck 'em.
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If the world were populated with jackassery such as yourself, more people would die, not less, as technology would lag as people gave up developing it because it got looted as soon as they developed it.
You are part of the problem, not part of the solution, regardless of how big and kind you think your heart is.
A kind heart + slower tech = mass murder. The road to Hell is paved with good intent.
You assume this is abusing farmers rather than farmers fraudulently using Monsanto seed without paying for it.
I have sympathy for farmers who have tainted seed.
I have no sympathy for farmers who steal or lie about their seed.
It's one thing to say this or that should not be patentable, but it is allowed currently, and deserves the full legal protections of the government, which is why we have patents.
Fuck the brain-computer device. Let me put some of these in blood to control glucose for diabetes.
If Google was basing their business model on hosting illegal copies of Doctor Who, then I would have no problem with the Brits requesting extradition.
Before people with burning ears downmod me, ask yourselves this: Is Google basing their business model on illegal file sharing?
Or even "legal file sharing, wink wink"?
Presumably there is a high level business executive at Microsoft saying, "Let's create an also-ran copycat tablet OS, charge way more money than the successful competitors with already huge markets, and dump billions into it. Obviously people will buy it because [unintelligible]. Sound good? It's a plan, then!"
I'm convinced police should tape even more of their own activities. Trying to hide it is stupidity on their part -- they should revel in it.
And, while there are, of course, legitimate horror stories of police abuse, one could expect these protesters to fraudulentize (?) their claims even more as they suffer from martyr disasterbation syndromes.
My wife worked in one of the auto Big 3's anti-counterfeiting group for awhile. It's a big problem for companies.
The easiest trick is to just look up part numbers on the internet and figure out if the smarm-meisters are offering legitimate stuff.
Another problem is the people they contract to in other countries to run their assembly lines often, violating contract, run off extra parts, and frequently with substandard materials at that.
And, sorry, so what if some demagogue jackass in EU can suggest "The People" want to have cheaper counterfeit stuff -- that's not how freedom works to be productive. The choice isn't between well-engineered, somewhat expensive stuff and cheap knockoffs. It's between well-engineered, somewhat expensive stuff and nothing.
There are no knockoffs if there's nothing to knock off of.
And as a side note, how outrageous to suggest there's something noble or justifiable in generating a mob who wants to thieve things, and that the mob is justified because it's a mob.
No. "Shameful" is a better word. You fail to recognize the primary problem of human history: that of thwarting the impulse to take that which is not yours so people can have a stable environment to work hard to produce nice things.
If these scientists were smarter, they'd realize "lifetime memberships" are a scam business model. Where does the money to run the business a few years or a decade down the road come from?
I assure you they are not saving and investing it. Their business model spends it immediately as a joyous flood of income, and then relies on continuing to get more buy-in over the years, which, of course, cannot happen indefinitely.
In the early 1980s, the number of "lifetime membership" fitness clubs exploded, and a few years later most were gone.
Audiophile stuff is notoriously overpriced for quality and subject to the placebo effect. Expensive things are rated better, but when offered in a blind test often are no better, or worse, than cheaper stuff.
"Gold plated contacts" are one such proven utterly worthless thing.
So what we need are not a thousand testimonials, but rather some double-blind studies rating ear buds.
They launched knowing it was contaminated?
The only facepalm I wanna see is the facepalm of a guy at the defendant's table as he is sentenced to 5 years in jail.
Nobody even tried this to test it out? They didn't learn from previous missions?
I recall Voyager gathering samples, dumping it into a container, and pouring chemicals on it. Whoa! Carbon, life.
Then someone said, well, no, probably not, there were other explanations.
Why didn't someone say, "Presume the test is positive -- let's shoot holes in it." them iterate proving the test until there are no more holes they can think of.
Is that so hard before you spend billions?
Speaking of global warming, where is the incease in arable land as massive northern reaches become more plantable? Where are the better growing condotions due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere. Deserts are shrinking not expanding.
And yet, histpry shows that when government gets greater control, humanity suffers far more than at the hands of "evil" corporations.
No corporation can force you to buy their product, unlike governments, or government-corporate partnerships, the latter of which only arise in populist response to political demagoguery from the left.
"Prove it?" Sure. look around you at the past 150 years of human history.
Unlike penii, aren't "micro" and "soft" good qualities for a vagina?
A couple of days ago, someone pointed out shameful crap in the Google+ death thread about Bing and stuff, which weren't the result of companies saying, "I can do it better", but rather them saying, "I can do it, too."
Ooh, look, Windows 8. Microsoft can do a desktop qua smartphone, too?
"Daddy? Why didn't they used to let people use their phones while driving?"
"That was only for a few years, son. Some politicians wanted to feel important, but then robot cars went into production."
Why is there no feedback to punish the patent department for allowing such idiotic patents?
Why? You have no evidence of this, beyond some issues with farmers and patents, which is hardly cause to restrict research.
Meanwhile the downside could be incalculable, as massively beneficial plants don't get created as quickly. Or at all.
One wouldn't do the following, but it is as if this is what you are suggesting: If you are making new machinery, it MUST be kept isolated from nature blah blah blah.
How well-off would humanity be today had we put a massive clampdown on normal technology growth?
Upside vs. downside. You may have just murdered billions through starvation.
And it needs to be fast and easy. Tap the app, boom, instant video transmission and recording. During an incident is not the time to have to plow through all kinds of crap.
It needs a "live feed" option to put it live to some web site that records it, just in case the police seize the phone for video evidence then "lose" the video.
This guy points out how police are misusing their powers to frisk people so they can find marijuana and issue a profitable ticket, and this is modded flamebait?
Ok, Hitler Youth.
It's built in to Excel. We use it all the time to generate C code from massive tables of translation and configuration data.
I'd prefer lisp. I could do it through COM links or whatever the kids call it nowadays but it works and is convenient.
It's purely a stylistic thing. Fuck the copycats, more power to 'em.
If you wanna argue they weren't first or that it's not original that's one thing. But they started doing it; others wanna glom on to a stylistic change. Fuck 'em.
Wait, Metro. Wait, wut?
Oh, wait! That's that Windows 8 tablet/smart phone type interface bullshit, isn't it?
Fuck you Micros...wait, wut?
It's normal dev too?
Ok, then. n/m
Time to pull this out:
Politician: What good is electricity?
Engineer: Sir, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it.
Don't let these jackasses do it!
And would it kill you to demand all tax increases be temporary instead ot tax decreases?