Terminal cancer can't be fixed - that's why it's called terminal. So you give the patient painkillers and try to maximize patient comfort for the last days. The painkillers are not supposed to "fix it".
Travis continues to have delusions of grandeur, while pissing investors' money away. Steve Jobs actually built companies. This guy just spends other people's money.
It does matter if not every bag is usually right on the weight limit - except for Comic Con. But that's not the passenger's problem. That's the airlines problem - they need to sort out their shit, not play stupid games.
Airline employees don't have to pick them up if they're in your carry on. This is probably one of those great ideas some union guy had "and we can blame it on the TSA".
Tribes with religion out-competed and out-survived tribes without religion.
A pretty basic tenet of any religion (or at least the ones that have become dominant today) is that THIS religion is the ONLY ONE TRUE religion, all else being heresy. Since heretics and unbelievers are essentially the same as non religious, why isn't there just one dominant religion? How do religions become extinct - if they provide such a great advantage over heretics and non believers? Why aren't we all worshiping animal gods, or throwing each other off pyramids, or worshiping the sun?
If tribe A with religion A manages to wipe out tribe B with religion B and gains an increased standard of living because of more available resources, how can you attribute the improvement to religion A? Surely the only time it was an advantage was when A was the only religion around. And even then this is not true if you say religion B is equivalent to no religion.
In fact if A and B were in a religious war, then religion A certainly was not an improvement in standard of living for tribe B who lost the war...
Only stupid people, certain political factions, and the media care or pay attention to transgender, bathrooms, etc.
This might come as news to you, but stupid people are the majority. Intelligence, like almost everything else, is distributed along a bell curve. If you put median intelligence at the 50% mark, then automatically 50% of the population are "stupid". It gets worse when you live somewhere within a standard deviation of the "smart" side - then almost everyone is stupid. It explains why, for instance, no matter how "smart" you vote in an election - the wrong person always wins.
China is going to win anyway. Right now their economy is pretty much at par with the US. China is growing at 7% per year. The US is growing an arguable 1% per year. In 10 years China will have doubled in size while the US treads water. Game Over.
Can you name any productivity improvement, ever, that did not lead to higher living standards?
Well of course if you limit yourself to only "improvements" then by definition they all lead to improvement in the standard of living. That's called selection bias.
Here's an invention that did not lead to improvement in standards of living: religion.
. If I have the patent to a process and equipment to implement that process
While I'm not an attorney, I seem to recall that software patents are MIGHTY SPECIFIC. You can't patent a "process" and all those claims that just add "on a computer" or "on a mobile phone" to older, expired patents have already been tested in court and found to be hogwash. You might be able to patent a specific algorithm. They'd have to demonstrate that the software used the same algorithm.
The issue is that 98% of people who use office exchange documents with the other 2%.
So logically it's the 98% that must adapt and keep up with the 2%, right? Something is wrong with the logic here. At some point the 2% need to realize that the tail doesn't wag the dog anymore.
Something absolutely unnecessary nowadays for 99.9% of the user base. Back when tech was young - hell yeah, you needed to upgrade constantly or you'd miss that critical new functionality. Now every few years brings marginal increments in "features" and very little new. Unless we're talking about that radical decision of making ALL THE MENUS IN CAPS...
My generation is the one that grew up with the constant upgrade drive. Fortunately (or not), we're starting to leave the workforce as we get older. Heck, do millennials even use word processors and spreadsheets?
If the contract between two businesses states that the company should get royalties or attribution for works produced by the software, then it's entirely possible that they are due royalties
You can't have a contract with someone and hope to enforce that contract on the 3rd party. Otherwise let's you and me sign a contract right now saying that any money earned by any of your neighbors is mine forever. Rearden LLC had a licensing agreement with one or more Chinese firms. Disney might have "borrowed" software from said Chinese firms. Said Chinese firms might even be liable TO DISNEY for not warning Disney about their arrangement with Rearden LLC. Disney never made any arrangements with Rearden LLC. Rearden LLC can go after the Chinese firms to try to enforce said contract. GOOD LUCK enforcing it with Disney.
Which is why instead of putting money into those like all the other nerds you might as well just take it to the casino and bet all that money on black. Or red. Either way you have a 47.4% of walking away with double your money, which is a lot better odds than you'll get by buying into these currencies and hoping you'll be able to get out with a profit. Sure - people have made money. A lot more people have lost money - which is how this works. Expect the "value" of these currencies to see-saw back and forth over time as new waves of suckers get taken to the cleaners.
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Terminal cancer can't be fixed - that's why it's called terminal. So you give the patient painkillers and try to maximize patient comfort for the last days. The painkillers are not supposed to "fix it".
Travis continues to have delusions of grandeur, while pissing investors' money away. Steve Jobs actually built companies. This guy just spends other people's money.
Any company paying for this crap has far more money than sense.
Welcome to the world of advertising...
It does matter if not every bag is usually right on the weight limit - except for Comic Con. But that's not the passenger's problem. That's the airlines problem - they need to sort out their shit, not play stupid games.
systemd?
Airline employees don't have to pick them up if they're in your carry on. This is probably one of those great ideas some union guy had "and we can blame it on the TSA".
No, it's saying half the population is smarter than the other half. If you think that's genius, then so be it.
Tribes with religion out-competed and out-survived tribes without religion.
A pretty basic tenet of any religion (or at least the ones that have become dominant today) is that THIS religion is the ONLY ONE TRUE religion, all else being heresy. Since heretics and unbelievers are essentially the same as non religious, why isn't there just one dominant religion? How do religions become extinct - if they provide such a great advantage over heretics and non believers? Why aren't we all worshiping animal gods, or throwing each other off pyramids, or worshiping the sun?
If tribe A with religion A manages to wipe out tribe B with religion B and gains an increased standard of living because of more available resources, how can you attribute the improvement to religion A? Surely the only time it was an advantage was when A was the only religion around. And even then this is not true if you say religion B is equivalent to no religion.
In fact if A and B were in a religious war, then religion A certainly was not an improvement in standard of living for tribe B who lost the war...
Yes that's why it's a "standardized" test.
They know how to do one thing: Manipulate their currency.
Confirming that America does not manipulate the dollar...
Only stupid people, certain political factions, and the media care or pay attention to transgender, bathrooms, etc.
This might come as news to you, but stupid people are the majority. Intelligence, like almost everything else, is distributed along a bell curve. If you put median intelligence at the 50% mark, then automatically 50% of the population are "stupid". It gets worse when you live somewhere within a standard deviation of the "smart" side - then almost everyone is stupid. It explains why, for instance, no matter how "smart" you vote in an election - the wrong person always wins.
China is going to win anyway. Right now their economy is pretty much at par with the US. China is growing at 7% per year. The US is growing an arguable 1% per year. In 10 years China will have doubled in size while the US treads water. Game Over.
Can you name any productivity improvement, ever, that did not lead to higher living standards?
Well of course if you limit yourself to only "improvements" then by definition they all lead to improvement in the standard of living. That's called selection bias.
Here's an invention that did not lead to improvement in standards of living: religion.
Uhhh, using CNN as a reference to rule out fake news is.... well, next you'll confirm the existence of UFO's by checking this website.
. If I have the patent to a process and equipment to implement that process
While I'm not an attorney, I seem to recall that software patents are MIGHTY SPECIFIC. You can't patent a "process" and all those claims that just add "on a computer" or "on a mobile phone" to older, expired patents have already been tested in court and found to be hogwash. You might be able to patent a specific algorithm. They'd have to demonstrate that the software used the same algorithm.
It's not enough that China has created elevators and escalators that are already homicidal - they want to add AI to these creations? No! Never!
Still doesn't give Rearden a cut of Disney's movie income. How much is a license for the software? OK. We'll pay that. Sorry.
Outlook. Without that, we could switch reasonably easily.
And the amazing thing is Outlook is such a steaming pile of bloated buggy horseshit. And yet apparently no one can get rid of it.
The issue is that 98% of people who use office exchange documents with the other 2%.
So logically it's the 98% that must adapt and keep up with the 2%, right? Something is wrong with the logic here. At some point the 2% need to realize that the tail doesn't wag the dog anymore.
upgrade every year or two
Something absolutely unnecessary nowadays for 99.9% of the user base. Back when tech was young - hell yeah, you needed to upgrade constantly or you'd miss that critical new functionality. Now every few years brings marginal increments in "features" and very little new. Unless we're talking about that radical decision of making ALL THE MENUS IN CAPS...
My generation is the one that grew up with the constant upgrade drive. Fortunately (or not), we're starting to leave the workforce as we get older. Heck, do millennials even use word processors and spreadsheets?
If the contract between two businesses states that the company should get royalties or attribution for works produced by the software, then it's entirely possible that they are due royalties
You can't have a contract with someone and hope to enforce that contract on the 3rd party. Otherwise let's you and me sign a contract right now saying that any money earned by any of your neighbors is mine forever. Rearden LLC had a licensing agreement with one or more Chinese firms. Disney might have "borrowed" software from said Chinese firms. Said Chinese firms might even be liable TO DISNEY for not warning Disney about their arrangement with Rearden LLC. Disney never made any arrangements with Rearden LLC. Rearden LLC can go after the Chinese firms to try to enforce said contract. GOOD LUCK enforcing it with Disney.
I lent my pen to Bob and you stole the pen from Bob now every check you sign with that pen belongs to me. Yup, makes sense (shaking my head)...
It could matter, but it's also a wave.
Which is why instead of putting money into those like all the other nerds you might as well just take it to the casino and bet all that money on black. Or red. Either way you have a 47.4% of walking away with double your money, which is a lot better odds than you'll get by buying into these currencies and hoping you'll be able to get out with a profit. Sure - people have made money. A lot more people have lost money - which is how this works. Expect the "value" of these currencies to see-saw back and forth over time as new waves of suckers get taken to the cleaners.
After all, they're always asking on tv "what's in your wallet?"