The fact that there are thousands of small companies that depend on a single unique product they is protected under patent is your evidence. Check out all of the small single drug firms or small tech firms (IRobot) out there.
Your argument to eliminate patents creates an environment hostile to innovation whereby any small fry trying to get started immediately gets undercut by a bigger business that can copy the product and get it to market first. The incentive to innovate is squashed as small businesses can just be overpowered so they don't bother trying and big businesses don't bother since they can still make money off the old technology (Windows).
Are you including the commentaries? You have to rip those too.
"Well in this scene...wait, weren't you supposed to be in this scene?" "I think that was the day the catering truck had medditerranian tuna salad wraps. Those were good" "Oh yah, and they had little eclairs too. I love those." "Hey, what scene is this now?"
No, you're both wrong. You can't put two Flash memory chips in the same device otherwise they start fighting and you end losing one, especially if they are male chips.
What do you expect? The human brain is still running on OS "Homo Sapiens 2.0". It hasn't had an upgrade (or even a patch) since the last ice age. Networking is slow and undependable, memory is prone to faults (or even false data), graphics quality varies wildly, it sometimes ignores input and returns the same results constantly, and if you hit it too hard it shuts down and has to be rebooted. The only thing going for it really is very good parallel processing. Sadly, some people are still running on "Homo Erectus 1.0".
One problem with idealizing music from the 60s or 70s is that we only are aware of the best music to come from those years. Do a little digging and you'll find LOTS of crap and cheezy music that hasn't stood the test of time. People may do the same to current music years from now because the best work will be filtered out for them.
Things are always better "in the old days", less crime, friendlier, etc. Even the ancient Greeks couldn't escape the idea of a Golden Age that had passed. People in the 50's complained that kids then were rude, reading obscene comic books, and listening to bad music. Now we idealize the 50's.
If the Civilization games have taught us anything, one thing is that you can still keep trading with hostile governments and frequently at a bigger profit. The other is keep your triremes near the shore.
I briefly read the study and she does take age into account. She uses crime rates (not absolute numbers) and finds a correlation between lead exposure in youth and crime rates at age 22 (peak crime age) using FBI data. The rates for those who grew up before leaded gas exposure were flat and rise in synch with leaded gas usage/exposure. She also points out that rates dropped the most in those states that had the greatest lead exposures.
I'd cut and paste the text but Adobe isn't cooperating.
Lead was an antiknock additive. You can still get high octane gas, just without the lead. The price of gas, better made imports, and the greater desire for cargo space instead of HPs is what did in your hotrods.
I seriously doubt that a significant number of kids got those toys and even if they did they'd have to practically eat the things to get a significant lead dose out of them.
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Bush just asked for another $46 billion you'll never see again. Imagine if that was invested here in basic research.
The fact that there are thousands of small companies that depend on a single unique product they is protected under patent is your evidence. Check out all of the small single drug firms or small tech firms (IRobot) out there.
Your argument to eliminate patents creates an environment hostile to innovation whereby any small fry trying to get started immediately gets undercut by a bigger business that can copy the product and get it to market first. The incentive to innovate is squashed as small businesses can just be overpowered so they don't bother trying and big businesses don't bother since they can still make money off the old technology (Windows).
They left out The Illuminati, the Queen of England, and JR "Bob" Dobbs
He'd have his own show on CNN or MSNBC. Just look at the ranting crackpots who get airtime on those networks.
If we had a loser pays tort system in this country he'd be out of business by now.
I prefer to measure it in pecks of mp3s.
What if it is "classic punk" though? Does it get longer over time?
Are you including the commentaries? You have to rip those too.
"Well in this scene...wait, weren't you supposed to be in this scene?"
"I think that was the day the catering truck had medditerranian tuna salad wraps. Those were good"
"Oh yah, and they had little eclairs too. I love those."
"Hey, what scene is this now?"
For our non-US readers it might help to point out that 1 US Football Field = 5000 high quality goatse jpgs.
No, you're both wrong. You can't put two Flash memory chips in the same device otherwise they start fighting and you end losing one, especially if they are male chips.
But my seed is pure.
No, things haven't changed that much. Do a little searching and you dig up all of those great ads for cigarettes that have "Doctors recommend Camel cigarettes" and "Good for your 'T Zone'" bylines. Go back further and you find that radium will cure what ails you even when scientists already knew it caused illness. The case of New Jersey vs Radium Corp (and the slap on the wrist they got even when internal documents and practices showed they knew it was toxic) really stands out.
That is just human nature. It isn't resticted to /. by any means.
What do you expect? The human brain is still running on OS "Homo Sapiens 2.0". It hasn't had an upgrade (or even a patch) since the last ice age. Networking is slow and undependable, memory is prone to faults (or even false data), graphics quality varies wildly, it sometimes ignores input and returns the same results constantly, and if you hit it too hard it shuts down and has to be rebooted. The only thing going for it really is very good parallel processing. Sadly, some people are still running on "Homo Erectus 1.0".
He got his nurse. Booyah!
One problem with idealizing music from the 60s or 70s is that we only are aware of the best music to come from those years. Do a little digging and you'll find LOTS of crap and cheezy music that hasn't stood the test of time. People may do the same to current music years from now because the best work will be filtered out for them.
Things are always better "in the old days", less crime, friendlier, etc. Even the ancient Greeks couldn't escape the idea of a Golden Age that had passed. People in the 50's complained that kids then were rude, reading obscene comic books, and listening to bad music. Now we idealize the 50's.
Aren't urban schools always held up as crime ridden and underfunded?
I'm not capable of critical thinking? Says you! No, you're wrong! Jerk!
If the Civilization games have taught us anything, one thing is that you can still keep trading with hostile governments and frequently at a bigger profit. The other is keep your triremes near the shore.
According to your data, coward, there is a correlation.
Having kids makes you buy toys with lead paint?
Not to say if she is right or wrong but...
I briefly read the study and she does take age into account. She uses crime rates (not absolute numbers) and finds a correlation between lead exposure in youth and crime rates at age 22 (peak crime age) using FBI data. The rates for those who grew up before leaded gas exposure were flat and rise in synch with leaded gas usage/exposure. She also points out that rates dropped the most in those states that had the greatest lead exposures.
I'd cut and paste the text but Adobe isn't cooperating.
Lead was an antiknock additive. You can still get high octane gas, just without the lead. The price of gas, better made imports, and the greater desire for cargo space instead of HPs is what did in your hotrods.
I seriously doubt that a significant number of kids got those toys and even if they did they'd have to practically eat the things to get a significant lead dose out of them.