This seems to be the most important aspect of this discussion. The total of SETI's 'wasteful' expenses is like 14 million a year. 3/4 of that is privately donated, with 1/4 coming from competitively-awarded NASA Astrobiology research grants.
What are these supoosed "better ways" to look for alien life?
GP never said anything about the quality of the products. The argument was about treatment of the workers. Now, arguing that toyota's non-union employees have a better standard of living than GM's may be valid. But don't just strawman this into a discussion about cars.
If, however, Toyota does in fact treat its workers as well or better than unionized autoworkers, the point is proved: better treatment of workers = better products.
The article also notes that these ultra-high resolution GPS trackers can allow freedom as much as restrict it Yeah, and a scuba tank can offer death as much as it offers life, but rarely does when used properly.
You are not going from zero to full speed when starting playing dirty. While I'd like to agree with you in principle, the problem is that you're assuming the offenders are intelligent.
This was a really transparent and poorly executed scam, based probably on some sort of hubris-laden supposition that the American people will buy just about anything. Not too far from the truth, but apparently just far enough.
This is not something that is a simple mistake. Nobody mistakenly holds a fake press conference. Someone decided this, and someone made this happen. Most frighteningly, several citizens who are also civil servants think this is what the American people deserve.
Precisely right. Most Iraqi nationals view U.S. troops as an occupying force, and can you imagine what kind of insurgency Texas would provide if we had an occupying force here in the USA?
Copyright law entirely supports her right to do what she did Agreed.
but it was also updated to provide some rules for how to handle uploads of potentially infringing material What? Takedown notices are not really governed by any rules, and most companies will drop the "potentially" infringing material like a hot potato without review once one of these extra-constitutional letters are sent. That's a system that dramatically favors content owners who have large legal budgets. If the law supports what she did, then why should it be so easy for some multinational corporation to shut it down without them incurring any penalty?
Your attempt to sound informed on the subject by googling some relevant keywords and summarizing the resultant "i'm feeling lucky" link is quite laughable. Watch the goddamn video and tell me that the 30 seconds of garbled prince in the background with children screaming over it has any relevant effect on prince's ability to control/profit... man I am cracking up even trying to respond to you.
Umm, how about the one to not be snowed by a government agency? If it's not a right it should be.
But please, keep posting about how stories don't fit their categories because I'm sure it will do you some good soon. After all you are the first person to think of it, and now that you've pointed out the error in the editors' ways I'm sure they'll correct it expediently.
such as serving us pancakes. I don't know, but it seems like he should have challenged her and her kids to some basketball versus him... and the revolution.
Given varying levels of capture quality and compression, I think this is always going to be a sticky situation. I wonder if the filtering technology can identify partial clips of a copyrighted work and flag those as well.
My real curiosity though, is if Google/YouTube might be trying to build a huge searchable library of video media, as they already did with the books project, and this is a way to sort of lure the content providers in. I'd love to see what kind of license the content providers are extending to Youtube in providing this material.
It was supposed to be a stab at microsoft for not listening to their customers in the first place. I guess changing tense didn't really make that clear, sorry.
I doubt they've tried anything as ambitious as knowing what their usersare thinking. Fixed that for ya. But don't forget old "it looks like you're trying to..." Clippy.
Honestly I'd be happy if they could just get straight knowing what's on my filesystem.
There are times I would agree with you here, and it probably depends very heavily on how hot your graphics hardware is. But as far as productivity goes, only certain effects would actually be advantageous, for instance the expose-like function is really nice if you have a lot going on, and the cube just makes me more likely to use multiple desktops in a more effective way because the paradigm makes more sense to me. but shadows, window pop-in and pop-out effects, wobble, even transparency, are only going to slow you down if anything. I guess my point is, it's all in what you have enabled. try tuning your effects to what will actually help productivity, and see if you don't like it better.
free will Blah blah blah. You might as well be talking about ghosts. You can't prove it exists so why even bring it up?
murder is uncommon among humans That's a rich one. Iraq, Burma, Rwanda. And those are just the places with hundreds of murders per day. Hardly an uncommon phenomenon.
for an animal which presumably does not again, what proof do you have? Animals use tools, learn language, some species mate for life. They're not particularly different from us. But see I never mentioned animals at all. People don't murder each other largely because of societal convention. In more primitive cultures, murder is quite common. Thus I suggest that murder is a natural behavior for human beings.
The question was not about whether homosexuality was "right or wrong," but whether it was natural or not. Perfectly natural, but so is murder, and so are eating and crapping. The "Naturality" of something has nothing to do with its moral rectitude.
There were nutjobs at every turn so I'd be very unlikely to be believe any sporadic claims from anyone involved in that crowd.
I ROFL'ed at this, having walked through the protest in downtown portland that wound up getting teargassed when GWB was visiting. There certainly are a bunch of nutjobs in ANY crowd. Does that mean that "sporadic claims" of anything coming from people who were in the crowd are instantly invalidated? It sounds like you're letting one bad apple spoil the bunch.
However I would think that if these things were so suspicious looking that someone might try to capture or disable one. And bugs anywhere in the summer aren't uncommon. So who knows.
You'll have better luck if you take "doctrine" out of your search, there are many different applications of laches in the law, but rarely is it referred to as a "doctrine".
From your link:
But laches may be excused from ignorance of the party's rights; from the obscurity of the transaction; by the pendency of a suit, and; where the party labors under a legal disability, as insanity, infancy and the like. (Emphasis mine)
Seriously though, patent prosecution laches only became viable fairly recently, in Symbol v. Lemelson, and it was a pretty extreme case. something like 35 years elapsed.
Laches doesn't apply as well to Patent law though because all patents are documented with the USPTO. It is the responsibility of an inventor to make sure that he's not stealing someone else's invention. The same does not hold true for trademark or copyright however.
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SETI is funded by donations.This seems to be the most important aspect of this discussion. The total of SETI's 'wasteful' expenses is like 14 million a year. 3/4 of that is privately donated, with 1/4 coming from competitively-awarded NASA Astrobiology research grants.
What are these supoosed "better ways" to look for alien life?
GP never said anything about the quality of the products. The argument was about treatment of the workers. Now, arguing that toyota's non-union employees have a better standard of living than GM's may be valid. But don't just strawman this into a discussion about cars.
If, however, Toyota does in fact treat its workers as well or better than unionized autoworkers, the point is proved: better treatment of workers = better products.
This was a really transparent and poorly executed scam, based probably on some sort of hubris-laden supposition that the American people will buy just about anything. Not too far from the truth, but apparently just far enough.
Precisely right. Most Iraqi nationals view U.S. troops as an occupying force, and can you imagine what kind of insurgency Texas would provide if we had an occupying force here in the USA?
Your attempt to sound informed on the subject by googling some relevant keywords and summarizing the resultant "i'm feeling lucky" link is quite laughable. Watch the goddamn video and tell me that the 30 seconds of garbled prince in the background with children screaming over it has any relevant effect on prince's ability to control/profit... man I am cracking up even trying to respond to you.
only an AC would make such an absurd comparison.
Umm, how about the one to not be snowed by a government agency? If it's not a right it should be.
But please, keep posting about how stories don't fit their categories because I'm sure it will do you some good soon. After all you are the first person to think of it, and now that you've pointed out the error in the editors' ways I'm sure they'll correct it expediently.
Given varying levels of capture quality and compression, I think this is always going to be a sticky situation. I wonder if the filtering technology can identify partial clips of a copyrighted work and flag those as well.
My real curiosity though, is if Google/YouTube might be trying to build a huge searchable library of video media, as they already did with the books project, and this is a way to sort of lure the content providers in. I'd love to see what kind of license the content providers are extending to Youtube in providing this material.
It was supposed to be a stab at microsoft for not listening to their customers in the first place. I guess changing tense didn't really make that clear, sorry.
Honestly I'd be happy if they could just get straight knowing what's on my filesystem.
There are times I would agree with you here, and it probably depends very heavily on how hot your graphics hardware is. But as far as productivity goes, only certain effects would actually be advantageous, for instance the expose-like function is really nice if you have a lot going on, and the cube just makes me more likely to use multiple desktops in a more effective way because the paradigm makes more sense to me. but shadows, window pop-in and pop-out effects, wobble, even transparency, are only going to slow you down if anything. I guess my point is, it's all in what you have enabled. try tuning your effects to what will actually help productivity, and see if you don't like it better.
Yes I dangerously grouped them with eating and crapping too, as they're all "natural" actions. I don't consider them equal in any other regard.
The question was not about whether homosexuality was "right or wrong," but whether it was natural or not. Perfectly natural, but so is murder, and so are eating and crapping. The "Naturality" of something has nothing to do with its moral rectitude.
I ROFL'ed at this, having walked through the protest in downtown portland that wound up getting teargassed when GWB was visiting. There certainly are a bunch of nutjobs in ANY crowd. Does that mean that "sporadic claims" of anything coming from people who were in the crowd are instantly invalidated? It sounds like you're letting one bad apple spoil the bunch.
However I would think that if these things were so suspicious looking that someone might try to capture or disable one. And bugs anywhere in the summer aren't uncommon. So who knows.
You'll have better luck if you take "doctrine" out of your search, there are many different applications of laches in the law, but rarely is it referred to as a "doctrine".
He hasn't admitted authorizing spying on U.S. Citizens in the past or anything. Those anti-war people are clearly paying attention to those pesky "facts" again.
If you start calling another crowd "anti-war", doesn't that mean you're "pro-war"? What kind of babbling idiot is pro-war?
Seriously though, patent prosecution laches only became viable fairly recently, in Symbol v. Lemelson, and it was a pretty extreme case. something like 35 years elapsed. Laches doesn't apply as well to Patent law though because all patents are documented with the USPTO. It is the responsibility of an inventor to make sure that he's not stealing someone else's invention. The same does not hold true for trademark or copyright however.