If children don't spend hour after endless hour sitting behind a desk in the classroom, how are they going to adapt to spending hour after endless hour sitting behind a desk in the cubicle?
Well, this is a poster child for why the US should not follow such conventions. Killing someone with a laser while risking eye damage to those nearby is far more humane than bombing the entire neighborhood. Screw the inhumane convention.
The convention specifically allows for such collateral damage. As with the other parts of various conventions (such as the parts on the rights of prisoners of war, which do in fact exclude certain persons), handwringing types like to ignore those parts so they can say "Bad USA, bad, bad".
- That fat limey bastard did more for the entire world than, most probably, your entire ancestral lineage dating back to the dark ages. You should probably have a bit of gratitude, after all, you made your post in English.
More TO the entire world, anyway. He's the #1 person responsible for the Middle East situation today.
- Republicans are fascist? Really? Do I need to present you with a list of the recent Democrat leaders with deep ties to American Corporatism? Or would it just be easier to completely Godwin and say, "I guess that makes Democrats the Gestapo."
Just because Democrats are fascist too doesn't make Republicans any less fascist. Bush's and Obama's policies vis-a-vis the economy are indistinguishable, for instance.
Shut down the power plants. No more chemical plants, metal smelting or mining (because they're all inherently bad). Mass genocide. It's so clear to me now!
Now you're on to the environmentalist plan. One more thing: before dying of starvation, they'd request that you throw yourself into Lake Superior, so you don't rot and release greenhouse gases.
Just yesterday I saw a report where they did mention that marshs and swamps are 20% more effective in consuming/storing CO2 than plants covering the same size of area.
Did it account for the fact that swamps and marshes emit methane at a prodigious rate?
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The guy who looks around for an aquatic bird when someone says "duck!" might have a valid semantic point, but he still looks like an elitist fool when something smacks him upside the head.
Unless he's on a nature tour. Slashdot is more of a freak show than a nature tour, but still, until I got to the part about arrest records, I assumed the summary was talking about businesses that actually want to hire hackers in the non-pejorative sense. Since management's usual tendency is to prefer not to employ such people, it would have been a breath of fresh air.
Even the stupidest hardened criminal can pretend remorse when it'll get him something... do hiring managers really think they're going to screen out the unrepentant with questions whose "right answers" are obvious. I mean, the few fools who suggest in an interview that the way to handle a bad supervisor is to break into his account and use it to download child porn are going to be pretty obvious in any case.
I sometimes feel people forget the original purpose of the patent system. The alternative to patents is NOT that everything is free and open. The alternative is that companies keep things super-secret.
Pretty damn tough to do if they sell a product embodying the patent. Works for manufacturing processes, but most software patents do not cover anything which could be practically kept secret.
Try prosecuting a patent, and watch the examiner pull little elements of your claims from totally unrelated fields of art and mix them together in a blender and call it "obviousness," and then say that again with a straight face.
Those are the examiners who are doing their job. Seems to be a minority of them, as we keep getting patents to the effect of "Doing something already done elsewhere ON THE INTERNET", "ON A LIMITED FUNCTION COMPUTING DEVICE", "ON A MULTIMEDIA PORTABLE DEVICE", etc. And patents where the claim isn't just obvious, it's been done before. Not to mention the dodge of "Machine-readable media containing description of non-patentable material".
Like AC above you, you seem to assume that the actual owner of a trademark doesn't know his own goods, and/or his own supply chain. I think that if one receives such a notice, the recipient has an obligation to examine the claims, at the least. If such examination seems to have any merit, then compliance with the notice only makes sense.
The actual owner of a trademark may NOT know his own supply chain. Furthermore, even if he does, he may lie about it. For instance, suppose a store which had a lot of Vuitton bags went bankrupt, and the bags were picked up for pennies on the dollar by a liquidator. The liquidator then sells the (perfectly genuine) bags on his website for less then the Vuitton minimum advertised price. Vuitton asserts that the bags are fake to get the site shut down; the liquidator denies it. What's the ISP to do, measure the penis size of the lawyers for both sides and obey the larger one?
So, I'm an ISP, and I host someone who runs a second-hand store. They sell legitimate "Louis Vuitton" crap, but at prices well below retail.
Louis Vuitton "informs" me that the material is counterfeit. I'm supposed to verify this how?
Look, it's simple enough. Louis Vuitton has big pockets and can sue you for millions of dollars for trademark infringement. The secondhand store probably doesn't have enough to pay a lawyer, and at worst, they can sue you for thousands of dollars for breach of contract if you cut them off. So you do what Louis says. Capiche?
The Large Hadron Collider will be the rosetta stone explaining the energy matter interface, allowing creation of psuedo matter, having the mass and "solidness" of matter that can be turned on and off like a switch, which in turn will lead to force fields which in turn will lead to antigravity.
And also, it will give every little girl a pony. Me, I'm holding out for switching matter over to antimatter, ala _Moving Mars_.
After all the publicity this has gotten, if there's _still_ a hole for Child's to access, then they deserve whatever skull-fucking he can give them.
After holding him in jail on excessive bail for bogus charges for 14 months, they deserve whatever skull-fucking he can give them regardless. Maybe they know that and that's why they are afraid to release him.
Why is it that people on/. who live and breath new technology always have such a hard time with new technology economics? Why is it so hard to understand that new technology R & D is obscenely expensive relative to the commoditized versions that eventually follow.
You have some expectation of commoditizing solar power stations? What do you figure the total market for them is? And how much of that cost is because it's new (which will change) and how much because it's in space (which won't)? I'll admit it's more likely to be practical than solar-panel roadways, but IMO it's still a long shot as a practical power source.
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If children don't spend hour after endless hour sitting behind a desk in the classroom, how are they going to adapt to spending hour after endless hour sitting behind a desk in the cubicle?
Only if they have non-integer spin. Otherwise it's kinda boring.
A lot less than for an app which makes me look like Brad Pitt in front of attractive women. Got one of those?
The lawyer will just tell you that the only way to avoid being sued is to not sell the product. Lawyers are great at "no".
The convention specifically allows for such collateral damage. As with the other parts of various conventions (such as the parts on the rights of prisoners of war, which do in fact exclude certain persons), handwringing types like to ignore those parts so they can say "Bad USA, bad, bad".
Thank you Marie Antoinette.
More TO the entire world, anyway. He's the #1 person responsible for the Middle East situation today.
Just because Democrats are fascist too doesn't make Republicans any less fascist. Bush's and Obama's policies vis-a-vis the economy are indistinguishable, for instance.
All the legislature has to do is exempt it; the Charter has an explicit out called the "notwithstanding" clause.
Now you're on to the environmentalist plan. One more thing: before dying of starvation, they'd request that you throw yourself into Lake Superior, so you don't rot and release greenhouse gases.
Did it account for the fact that swamps and marshes emit methane at a prodigious rate?
Unless he's on a nature tour. Slashdot is more of a freak show than a nature tour, but still, until I got to the part about arrest records, I assumed the summary was talking about businesses that actually want to hire hackers in the non-pejorative sense. Since management's usual tendency is to prefer not to employ such people, it would have been a breath of fresh air.
The courts generally defer to the patent office on the validity of patents. So nobody does their job and stupid patents get upheld.
Even the stupidest hardened criminal can pretend remorse when it'll get him something... do hiring managers really think they're going to screen out the unrepentant with questions whose "right answers" are obvious. I mean, the few fools who suggest in an interview that the way to handle a bad supervisor is to break into his account and use it to download child porn are going to be pretty obvious in any case.
Pretty damn tough to do if they sell a product embodying the patent. Works for manufacturing processes, but most software patents do not cover anything which could be practically kept secret.
Those are the examiners who are doing their job. Seems to be a minority of them, as we keep getting patents to the effect of "Doing something already done elsewhere ON THE INTERNET", "ON A LIMITED FUNCTION COMPUTING DEVICE", "ON A MULTIMEDIA PORTABLE DEVICE", etc. And patents where the claim isn't just obvious, it's been done before. Not to mention the dodge of "Machine-readable media containing description of non-patentable material".
The actual owner of a trademark may NOT know his own supply chain. Furthermore, even if he does, he may lie about it. For instance, suppose a store which had a lot of Vuitton bags went bankrupt, and the bags were picked up for pennies on the dollar by a liquidator. The liquidator then sells the (perfectly genuine) bags on his website for less then the Vuitton minimum advertised price. Vuitton asserts that the bags are fake to get the site shut down; the liquidator denies it. What's the ISP to do, measure the penis size of the lawyers for both sides and obey the larger one?
Look, it's simple enough. Louis Vuitton has big pockets and can sue you for millions of dollars for trademark infringement. The secondhand store probably doesn't have enough to pay a lawyer, and at worst, they can sue you for thousands of dollars for breach of contract if you cut them off. So you do what Louis says. Capiche?
And also, it will give every little girl a pony. Me, I'm holding out for switching matter over to antimatter, ala _Moving Mars_.
I'm pretty sure one bit can kill you... if your logic levels are 50,000V and -50,000V, anyway.
After holding him in jail on excessive bail for bogus charges for 14 months, they deserve whatever skull-fucking he can give them regardless. Maybe they know that and that's why they are afraid to release him.
The PTB aren't that stupid. Sovereign immunity and immunity to lawsuits for public officials acting in the performance of their duty will stop that.
You have some expectation of commoditizing solar power stations? What do you figure the total market for them is? And how much of that cost is because it's new (which will change) and how much because it's in space (which won't)? I'll admit it's more likely to be practical than solar-panel roadways, but IMO it's still a long shot as a practical power source.
I don't know about yours, but MY human body is in fact a highly effective absorber of microwaves.
Apple Inc has no registered sound marks, though they might claim the sound as a trademark anyway.