As I just wrote here, you might get dragged into civil court; but if your findings were that it's bullshit, I think any jury would find for the defendant -- that is if the matter wasn't dismissed summarily by the judge.
You're right, you won't get arrested for investigating the contents of a patent for validity.
You might, however, get dragged into civil court, especially if your verifiable findings of the aforementioned patent, is that it's complete bullshit. Con artists tend to be narcissists, and fastest way to make a narcissist violently angry is to reveal them as full of shit, embarassing/disgracing them.
That's because the average person is a dumb sheep with no taste to speak of and is used to crappy HFCS so they don't know what to make of actual sucrose when they get it.
Nice sarcasm by way of a historical reference, and by the way calling me a 'luddite' out of the side of your mouth is fucking lame.
It's not the scooters themselves it's the idiots using them which is pretty much all of them, which apparently you aren't picking up on for some reason. Too many of these people have problems walking down the street without screwing up, then you put them on a stand-up scooter that can go 10+ miles per hour, and actually expect there won't be any problems? Unsecured load (the rider, standing) plus that speed plus traffic plus the distinct probability that they'll have to stop quick for a pedestrian, car that didn't see them, or whatever? Yeah sure what could possibly go wrong?
Anyone who actually is proficient in using two-wheeled vehicles knows you're supposed to use both brakes simultaneously in all but a very short list of circumstances.
Source: being a motorcycle rider for over 35 years, being on a road racing team for the last 10 years.
Friend, so far as I'm concerned, putting a motor on a stand-up scooter is a momumentally stupid idea to begin with, and when they did it anyway it should have been limited in speed to a fast walk, not double-digit miles-per-hour speed.
You, like more and more I'm pleased to see, are starting to realize the trap that is so-called 'self-driving cars'. Imagine the utter horrror of realizing that the vehicle you're in is out of control, about to crash, and there's nothing you can do about it, other than sit there and scream. Worse than a 'normal' accident between two human-piloted vehicles, because it'll happen slower; you'll have more time to fully realize what's about to happen and how you have zero ability to prevent it.
We humans, being tool-makers and tool-users, can do so because the tool becomes, to our brain, an extension of our bodies. So it goes with driving a car (ideally, at least); you drive long enough, become proficient enough at it, the car feels like it's part of you. But you have to have control of the tool you're using, regardless of whether it's a knife, or a hammer, or a screwdriver, or an automobile; with a so-called 'self-driving car', you will have zero control. Thus, terror.
If this guy wants to be taken seriously then he needs to publish a paper that describes the science and the methods thoroughly enough that other scientists can design (an) experiment(s) to confirm the validity. 'Patents' mean nothing. 'Demonstrations' don't mean shit either. Repeatable and explainable by others independently is the only thing that counts.
Yours is basically the same point I've made in the past about things like GMO crops -- and been consistently shouted down for, as 'spreading FUD' or 'being a Luddite', or similar nonsense allegations. I of course agree wholeheartedly with you. However in the case of GMO foods, I gave up protesting, because The Horse Has Already Left The Barn; they're literally 'in the wind' now; any negative consequences of them are inevitable, we'll just have to wait and see what (if anything) happens. So it goes with 'GMO babies', if countries like China or whoever keeps screwing around with that. Our species is like 12-year-olds playing around with nuclear reactors, when it comes to some things. For all anyone knows hacking our own genes could create any number of unforseen side effects, and we might not know for a dozen generations, after it's so thoroughly propagated through the population that it becomes a global emergency. Guess we wait and see, nothing else to do about it now.
Oh, I see. So the comforting smells of food cooking is now a no-no, is that it? No wonder so many people are depressed: "Everything that makes you feel comfy and safe is BAD FOR YOU AND WILL KILL YOU!". What's next? The smell of fresh bread baking gives you heart disease? How fucking depressing.
When I refer to 'capitalism out of control' or 'capitalism gone bad', that's what I'm talking about: 'Profit above all else, fuck anyone who doesn't like it'. It's got to CHANGE.
ALL of them, friend AC. While you're at it, get off the Smartphone Treadmill; stop paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for a silly phone that'll be obsolete in 2 years, and get the cheapest plastic dumbphone that's good at being a telephone (shouldn't cost more than $50), and be content with that, use the money you saved on something actually important. You'll also save money every month paying the price-gouging wireless companies because you won't need any 'dataplan' anymore. All in all you'll save at least $1000 the first year, and probably $300-500 every year after that, and get a fair fraction of your overall privacy back.
How dare you deny Facebook it's God-given right to profit endlessly off the unsuspecting! Capitalism above all else, it's the American way! We Plebian 'citizens' and our puny, meaningless 'privacy rights' are nothing in the face of endless profiteering for Corporate America; never forget that 'corporations are people too', how dare you deny them their Consitutitional Rights! You should WILLINGLY give ALL your personal data to Facebook, and furthermore buy an entire fleet of 'digital assistants' to install in every room of your house (including the bathroom and bedrooms) so Facebook, Amazon, Google, and your Friends at the Federal Government can collect as much data as they want 24/7/365 (in order to protect and serve you, of course, LOL!) and be THANKFUL that they so graciously grant you the privilege of being able to do so! After all, sharing your entire life, 24/7, cradle-to-grave, including your innermost thoughts and feelings, is NORMAL; 'privacy' is only desired by people with something to HIDE that they're ASHAMED of, or if they're CRIMINALS or TERRORISTS! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11!!
"Since he gave us free will its up to us to surrive in the world and be prepared."
Well then friend, if you're asserting your agency, then perhaps you'd better 'believe' in climate science and start advocating for an end to fossil fuel use and other things that are carbon-positive and for other things that will help stem the tide of human-caused global warming. Wouldn't want to disappoint Dad, now, would you?
Someone with a gun who isn't a cop uses cop-like hand signals to make your SDC stop, so they can hijack you.
Meanwhile someone NOT in a SDC encounters the same situation, thinks "that's not a cop!" and FLOORS IT, getting away without being hijacked. Which car would you rather be in? The one piloted by an idiot machine that can't actually THINK, or the car YOU are piloting, and you CAN think?
The answer should be obvious.
Interesting, but what's the downside of the 'enhancements' done to these children? Likely we won't know until they're in their adult years (if they live that long).
The Golden Gate Bridge and Manhattan would be underwater, these idiots would be up to their necks in seawater, and they'd still be saying "It's normal! The Earth's weather just does this! THE SCIENCE IS WRONG, HUMANS DIDN'T CAUSE THIS! God gave us the Earth, we can do what we want with it! Human civilization can't POSSIBLY change the weather! We can burn all the fossil fuels we want, God said so! Jesus will come back and take us all to Heaven, none of this will matter! It's all part of God's Plan for us! WE MUST ENDURE!" or whatever other fucktarded nonsense they want to trot out to keep their delusions intact, just like drug addicts defending their addiction.
As a side note, I'd say that 'what will destroy the Human species' is right now a dead heat between 'human-caused climate change', 'nuclear war (with Russia and/or North Korea and/or China)', and 'pandemic due to the anti-vaxxer movement'. The only reason I'm not getting shit-faced drunk every day is I know The End won't come before I'm long dead and buried.
*sigh* I'm not blaming the scientists for doing research I'm blaming them for making gods-be-damned press releases that amount to clickbait for investors. You know it's true that they do this.
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Considering the overall atmosphere of Slashdot and my history with it, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or being nice. :-(
You're not wrong. Corporations will patent things all the time just so no one else can beat them to it.
As I just wrote here, you might get dragged into civil court; but if your findings were that it's bullshit, I think any jury would find for the defendant -- that is if the matter wasn't dismissed summarily by the judge.
You're right, you won't get arrested for investigating the contents of a patent for validity.
You might, however, get dragged into civil court, especially if your verifiable findings of the aforementioned patent, is that it's complete bullshit. Con artists tend to be narcissists, and fastest way to make a narcissist violently angry is to reveal them as full of shit, embarassing/disgracing them.
"..fizzy piss water."
You're confused, AC; you're actually thinking of Budweiser, or maybe Pabst Blue Ribbon.
That's because the average person is a dumb sheep with no taste to speak of and is used to crappy HFCS so they don't know what to make of actual sucrose when they get it.
Nice sarcasm by way of a historical reference, and by the way calling me a 'luddite' out of the side of your mouth is fucking lame.
It's not the scooters themselves it's the idiots using them which is pretty much all of them, which apparently you aren't picking up on for some reason. Too many of these people have problems walking down the street without screwing up, then you put them on a stand-up scooter that can go 10+ miles per hour, and actually expect there won't be any problems? Unsecured load (the rider, standing) plus that speed plus traffic plus the distinct probability that they'll have to stop quick for a pedestrian, car that didn't see them, or whatever? Yeah sure what could possibly go wrong?
Anyone who actually is proficient in using two-wheeled vehicles knows you're supposed to use both brakes simultaneously in all but a very short list of circumstances.
Source: being a motorcycle rider for over 35 years, being on a road racing team for the last 10 years.
Friend, so far as I'm concerned, putting a motor on a stand-up scooter is a momumentally stupid idea to begin with, and when they did it anyway it should have been limited in speed to a fast walk, not double-digit miles-per-hour speed.
You, like more and more I'm pleased to see, are starting to realize the trap that is so-called 'self-driving cars'. Imagine the utter horrror of realizing that the vehicle you're in is out of control, about to crash, and there's nothing you can do about it, other than sit there and scream. Worse than a 'normal' accident between two human-piloted vehicles, because it'll happen slower; you'll have more time to fully realize what's about to happen and how you have zero ability to prevent it.
We humans, being tool-makers and tool-users, can do so because the tool becomes, to our brain, an extension of our bodies. So it goes with driving a car (ideally, at least); you drive long enough, become proficient enough at it, the car feels like it's part of you. But you have to have control of the tool you're using, regardless of whether it's a knife, or a hammer, or a screwdriver, or an automobile; with a so-called 'self-driving car', you will have zero control. Thus, terror.
If this guy wants to be taken seriously then he needs to publish a paper that describes the science and the methods thoroughly enough that other scientists can design (an) experiment(s) to confirm the validity. 'Patents' mean nothing. 'Demonstrations' don't mean shit either. Repeatable and explainable by others independently is the only thing that counts.
Haters gonna hate. Seethe harder.
STFU.
Yours is basically the same point I've made in the past about things like GMO crops -- and been consistently shouted down for, as 'spreading FUD' or 'being a Luddite', or similar nonsense allegations. I of course agree wholeheartedly with you. However in the case of GMO foods, I gave up protesting, because The Horse Has Already Left The Barn; they're literally 'in the wind' now; any negative consequences of them are inevitable, we'll just have to wait and see what (if anything) happens. So it goes with 'GMO babies', if countries like China or whoever keeps screwing around with that. Our species is like 12-year-olds playing around with nuclear reactors, when it comes to some things. For all anyone knows hacking our own genes could create any number of unforseen side effects, and we might not know for a dozen generations, after it's so thoroughly propagated through the population that it becomes a global emergency. Guess we wait and see, nothing else to do about it now.
Oh, I see. So the comforting smells of food cooking is now a no-no, is that it? No wonder so many people are depressed: "Everything that makes you feel comfy and safe is BAD FOR YOU AND WILL KILL YOU!". What's next? The smell of fresh bread baking gives you heart disease? How fucking depressing.
When I refer to 'capitalism out of control' or 'capitalism gone bad', that's what I'm talking about: 'Profit above all else, fuck anyone who doesn't like it'. It's got to CHANGE.
Cowardly idiots like you get what you deserve. Enjoy having your life under a microscope.
ALL of them, friend AC. While you're at it, get off the Smartphone Treadmill; stop paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for a silly phone that'll be obsolete in 2 years, and get the cheapest plastic dumbphone that's good at being a telephone (shouldn't cost more than $50), and be content with that, use the money you saved on something actually important. You'll also save money every month paying the price-gouging wireless companies because you won't need any 'dataplan' anymore. All in all you'll save at least $1000 the first year, and probably $300-500 every year after that, and get a fair fraction of your overall privacy back.
How dare you deny Facebook it's God-given right to profit endlessly off the unsuspecting! Capitalism above all else, it's the American way! We Plebian 'citizens' and our puny, meaningless 'privacy rights' are nothing in the face of endless profiteering for Corporate America; never forget that 'corporations are people too', how dare you deny them their Consitutitional Rights! You should WILLINGLY give ALL your personal data to Facebook, and furthermore buy an entire fleet of 'digital assistants' to install in every room of your house (including the bathroom and bedrooms) so Facebook, Amazon, Google, and your Friends at the Federal Government can collect as much data as they want 24/7/365 (in order to protect and serve you, of course, LOL!) and be THANKFUL that they so graciously grant you the privilege of being able to do so! After all, sharing your entire life, 24/7, cradle-to-grave, including your innermost thoughts and feelings, is NORMAL; 'privacy' is only desired by people with something to HIDE that they're ASHAMED of, or if they're CRIMINALS or TERRORISTS! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11!!
"Since he gave us free will its up to us to surrive in the world and be prepared."
Well then friend, if you're asserting your agency, then perhaps you'd better 'believe' in climate science and start advocating for an end to fossil fuel use and other things that are carbon-positive and for other things that will help stem the tide of human-caused global warming. Wouldn't want to disappoint Dad, now, would you?
Problem solved.
Someone with a gun who isn't a cop uses cop-like hand signals to make your SDC stop, so they can hijack you.
Meanwhile someone NOT in a SDC encounters the same situation, thinks "that's not a cop!" and FLOORS IT, getting away without being hijacked.
Which car would you rather be in? The one piloted by an idiot machine that can't actually THINK, or the car YOU are piloting, and you CAN think?
The answer should be obvious.
Interesting, but what's the downside of the 'enhancements' done to these children? Likely we won't know until they're in their adult years (if they live that long).
The Golden Gate Bridge and Manhattan would be underwater, these idiots would be up to their necks in seawater, and they'd still be saying "It's normal! The Earth's weather just does this! THE SCIENCE IS WRONG, HUMANS DIDN'T CAUSE THIS! God gave us the Earth, we can do what we want with it! Human civilization can't POSSIBLY change the weather! We can burn all the fossil fuels we want, God said so! Jesus will come back and take us all to Heaven, none of this will matter! It's all part of God's Plan for us! WE MUST ENDURE!" or whatever other fucktarded nonsense they want to trot out to keep their delusions intact, just like drug addicts defending their addiction.
As a side note, I'd say that 'what will destroy the Human species' is right now a dead heat between 'human-caused climate change', 'nuclear war (with Russia and/or North Korea and/or China)', and 'pandemic due to the anti-vaxxer movement'. The only reason I'm not getting shit-faced drunk every day is I know The End won't come before I'm long dead and buried.
*sigh* I'm not blaming the scientists for doing research I'm blaming them for making gods-be-damned press releases that amount to clickbait for investors. You know it's true that they do this.