Somewhere in China nameless faceless technicians stand at game boards whacking words like freedom, government accountability and corruption so they don't ruin the socialist paradise. Of course a country with no freedom, no government accountability and rampant corruption can't possibly be a paradise for anyone but the corrupt. That is why they need censorship, to perpetuate the lie.
How does this patent provide an advance in the technical arts? That is always a missing item in these patents and it should be the most important, but it seems never to be considered.
Copyrights were created to give artists incentives to create art, specifically writing books. Now it has been warped and twisted into this giant cow that corporate pigs suckle at getting fatter every day. The artists are still starving. Artists are starting to complain about copyright getting in the way of art. They need shorter duration and greater fair use. Our culture is slowly being strangled by excessive copyright and DRM will ensure our art is forgotten.
Our local resource center for our less affluent residents provides free internet access. It is supposed to have a filter for porn, only porn. Someone asked me to help them find information on medical marijuana and it was blocked by the filter. It wasn't porn but it was blocked. I asked the manager what else is being blocked? They didn't know. They didn't know how to change it either. I just hope no one dies because of that filter.
Filter's always filter out more than they are supposed to, including legitimate political dissent. How free is your country if the government can control what you see, hear and read?
Members of Alcoholics Anonymous do not lose membership in AA if they are identified as a member. They usually end up slipping back into their old ways but AA will keep taking them back.
It is totally unethical for a government to enact legislation to create a tax on innovation in the form of patents and then turn around and gather all the patents for itself. This is a guarantee that poor quality patents will be issued and subsequently bought by the French government who will no doubt make it a criminal act to not pay them the innovation tax. If France adopts this it will destroy that sector of the French economy. But what else would you expect of the French, experts at shooting themselves in the foot.
What is the difference between a waive and a gesture? Nothing! A gesture based interface amounts to a language. Presumably users are supposed to learn a different gesture language for each device. And they wonder why products fail!
Just have a dictatorship, no one will mention all the evil things it does to maintain control. What our society really needs is to stop having secrets at all. It's 2011 and a commercial quantum computer is for sale which means cracking encryption will soon be quick and easy. We can't keep secrets in today's world so we need to learn how to live without them.
It makes no sense for a company to be issuing software updates to stop people from playing with hardware they own outright. How can it possibly injure TI if someone plays a homebrew game on a TI calculator? In a troubled economy, how can a company squander resources on hardware they have already sold? This is like a baker who sues you for making toast with his bread! It's absolutely ridiculous! Don't investors look at this say, "TI, what the duck are you doing?"
Their problem is that somewhere along the line some creative evangelist dreamt up the idea that everything in the bible must be true or else how would they know what to believe. The answer is painfully simple, you have to have faith. Anyone who is campaigning for Intelligent (cough) Design is actually pronouncing to the world that they have no faith. Someone really should point this out to them.
The Interstate Freeway system provided transportation throughout the US so goods could get from suppliers to consumers in a fast efficient way. Breaking this model will break the economy as well. Tax cuts may well spell the end of American economic dominance, not spurring it on as some would have us believe.
It's no more wrong than patenting heart muscle and suing everyone who's alive except lawyers, who are all heartless. With the current patent system, it could happen!
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Somewhere in China nameless faceless technicians stand at game boards whacking words like freedom, government accountability and corruption so they don't ruin the socialist paradise. Of course a country with no freedom, no government accountability and rampant corruption can't possibly be a paradise for anyone but the corrupt. That is why they need censorship, to perpetuate the lie.
How does this patent provide an advance in the technical arts? That is always a missing item in these patents and it should be the most important, but it seems never to be considered.
Copyrights were created to give artists incentives to create art, specifically writing books. Now it has been warped and twisted into this giant cow that corporate pigs suckle at getting fatter every day. The artists are still starving. Artists are starting to complain about copyright getting in the way of art. They need shorter duration and greater fair use. Our culture is slowly being strangled by excessive copyright and DRM will ensure our art is forgotten.
Our local resource center for our less affluent residents provides free internet access. It is supposed to have a filter for porn, only porn. Someone asked me to help them find information on medical marijuana and it was blocked by the filter. It wasn't porn but it was blocked. I asked the manager what else is being blocked? They didn't know. They didn't know how to change it either. I just hope no one dies because of that filter. Filter's always filter out more than they are supposed to, including legitimate political dissent. How free is your country if the government can control what you see, hear and read?
Salvia is a common garden plant found everywhere. They might as well outlaw dandelions.
It always seems like the people who are complaining the loudest are those who would have no audience at all were it not for file traders.
Bush built copyright prisons for children so now they need the laws to fill them! It's just business as usual.
Members of Alcoholics Anonymous do not lose membership in AA if they are identified as a member. They usually end up slipping back into their old ways but AA will keep taking them back.
It is totally unethical for a government to enact legislation to create a tax on innovation in the form of patents and then turn around and gather all the patents for itself. This is a guarantee that poor quality patents will be issued and subsequently bought by the French government who will no doubt make it a criminal act to not pay them the innovation tax. If France adopts this it will destroy that sector of the French economy. But what else would you expect of the French, experts at shooting themselves in the foot.
Call it unvirtual reality donkey kong! That would keep them out of trouble for 12 hours a day!
What is the difference between a waive and a gesture? Nothing! A gesture based interface amounts to a language. Presumably users are supposed to learn a different gesture language for each device. And they wonder why products fail!
Just have a dictatorship, no one will mention all the evil things it does to maintain control. What our society really needs is to stop having secrets at all. It's 2011 and a commercial quantum computer is for sale which means cracking encryption will soon be quick and easy. We can't keep secrets in today's world so we need to learn how to live without them.
Where in the constitution does it say business has a right to profit from societies needs?
Getting ready to roast some souls! Misery, Satan
It makes no sense for a company to be issuing software updates to stop people from playing with hardware they own outright. How can it possibly injure TI if someone plays a homebrew game on a TI calculator? In a troubled economy, how can a company squander resources on hardware they have already sold? This is like a baker who sues you for making toast with his bread! It's absolutely ridiculous! Don't investors look at this say, "TI, what the duck are you doing?"
Their problem is that somewhere along the line some creative evangelist dreamt up the idea that everything in the bible must be true or else how would they know what to believe. The answer is painfully simple, you have to have faith. Anyone who is campaigning for Intelligent (cough) Design is actually pronouncing to the world that they have no faith. Someone really should point this out to them.
The Interstate Freeway system provided transportation throughout the US so goods could get from suppliers to consumers in a fast efficient way. Breaking this model will break the economy as well. Tax cuts may well spell the end of American economic dominance, not spurring it on as some would have us believe.
If it burned human fat Jenny Craig Airlines with autoliposucting seats could have great rates and you get to your destination 50 lbs lighter!
See how they like it!
My latest psychic prediction.
Their arrival has been delayed by bad weather.
Shouldn't that be "restricting the flow of CHEAP talent" because Microsoft brings in foreign talent and pays them a lot less native talent.
Unless it's entertainment. For that it's 'yo pays yo money an yo takes yo chances, sucka!'
It's no more wrong than patenting heart muscle and suing everyone who's alive except lawyers, who are all heartless. With the current patent system, it could happen!
All imports from all countries should be banned because some employees creating those products will come down with unlicensed cases of Alzheimers.