I REALLY did not want the image of Barney eating Baby Bop planted in my head. I already suspected that purple monstrosity was perverted - this will just make me cringe even more every time I hear that sodding theme song...
Like in Florida, where 1200 dollars a month is the maximum, even if you live in a high cost area like Miami.
That 1200 a month was half of my cost for my house and utilities. Let's not even add in food, gas, insurance, internet access, cell phone - any of those things that you need to get a job - and the 1200 a month that I got for holding jobs since I was 14 didn't go far.
I usually find that those that say "... unemployment benefits, both the size and duration, are a better option than a good job at a good wage." have never tried to live on such.
These chaps are presumably anarchists, quite possibly with a primitivist or environmental radical vein. Why, then, are they focusing on assorted minor R&D projects that may, at some point in the future, assist The Man's technocratic hegemony over his fellow man and/or nature, rather than hitting the targets that contribute in an overwhelming way, right now?
Because now we are seeing that James Cameron didn't actually make this shit up, he was only reporting what would have already happened in the future as told to him by a time-traveling resistance fighter....
Damn it, I get so confused when I think about time travel. Is tomorrow last Tuesday or next Tuesday?
Turn your TV on and you can still watch reruns of House and Firefly, but you do have to put up with commercials. Why, I can even record them to my VCR and/or DVR, but the commercials are still in there.
If I go and buy the DVDs (or, twelve years ago, the VHS) I get to see them commercial free.
So, what we have is a way I can watch them for free, but I have to watch a commercial too or I can watch them without commercials if I buy it. The only difference with the patent is that now we did it on a website! Such innovation!
There is a product there -chemicals or potash. You improved a method for creating a physical thing, not expressed an idea on how to put a thought in someone's head. An expression of an idea can be copyrighted - a process that leads to a product can be patented.
I could check my email in another tab for fifteen or thirty seconds while the advertising plays. Maybe I should patent this - "A Method for Avoiding Advertisements Placed at the Start of Internet Videos"
Isn't the concept of an advertisement running before you see content as old as radio and TV? Didn't I have to watch Timex commercials to see the TV shows they sponsored?
I think this is just another example of "Same old stuff, but now on the Interwebs!"
Unless there is an actual physical product. patents are inappropriate. Copyright a presentation of an idea, but patenting a thought is a path to policing thought... and wasting time having the courts arbitrate such.
The average tax for all local, state and federal taxes on diesel fuel is only 5.1 cents per gallon more than the tax on gasoline, That still does not explain the nominally 45 cent difference in price (on average). There are additional factors, such as refining cost and capacity and competition with heating oil refinery capacity, that help to explain the difference, but the saying that diesel is a cheaper fuel is wrong. There are costs beyond the price also that actually make gasoline more cost effective.
I'll have to go down to the local planning office in Alpha Centauri and see if they've got a permit for a supernova that close to the planned hyperspace bypass...
At a sufficient level of incompetence, you don't realize that you are being malicious. You are so incompetent you cannot even see your own malice.
Most people do not take others into consideration when going about their daily lives. The person that cut you off on the road today? They didn't PLAN to do that to you. They were just on their cell phone, drinking a cup of coffee, eating a burrito and checking their GPS. You, in that car behind and to the right of them, didn't even enter into their calculations. They did not MEAN to cut you off, but they did. And when you recover from stepping on the brakes and swerving to avoid them and you pass them because they are doing about twenty MPH below the speed limit, they wonder why you are giving them the finger. To them, you are the one with malice because you targeted them.
Same thing with the cops that were convinced this guy was guilty of SOMETHING. The thought that what they were doing to him was ruining his life probably never entered into their minds. That they would drag his life down a rabbit hole and plop into the middle of a Kafka story did not occur to them. Remember, they spend every day in the middle of Wonderland, surrounded by all sorts of strange things like lawyers and courts and hearings. The thought that they were dragging this guy away from his life did not enter into their consideration because they were not out of their comfort zone.
And shit rolls down hill. Maybe a prosecutor looked at this case early on, someone that knew their stuff and thought that the case was weak, but could not bring themselves to believe that the cops would be so incompetent that they could not tell the difference between thoughts and criminal acts. Very few people are willing to question the competence of those they work with so that one small problem snowballs into a great big problem.
This is why I think one of the marks of a really smart person is that they know their weakness. If they are REALLY smart they build a team around them that compensates for their incompetence. But obviously, very few people are that smart.
It would require dozens, perhaps hundreds, of law enforcement and judiciary personnel to be corrupt to the point of downright evil in order for that to happen.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
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Check your maths. My calculations place it about .001 km from Earth...
I don't know! ...aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!......
Oh good... I hope they bring back M.A.S.H.
No, the summary said "Earth-shaking" news. We only pull Marvin out for "Earth-shattering" news...
Funny - I read the article backward and I got that Paul is dead.
White? Red? Or would you serve it with some fava beans and a fine chianti?
I REALLY did not want the image of Barney eating Baby Bop planted in my head. I already suspected that purple monstrosity was perverted - this will just make me cringe even more every time I hear that sodding theme song...
We have a whale, another species on this planet, use human speech and the first thing he says is, essentially, "Get off my damn lawn, kid."
Yea, but figuring out the changes needed for Daylight Savings Time adjustments on NT server is pure hell...
Biden actually disclosed that there's a bunker in the vice presidents house in D.C. Which again, isn't a huge surprise.
No, that isn't a huge surprise but telling the world that that's where Waldo is at was unforgivable...
Like in Florida, where 1200 dollars a month is the maximum, even if you live in a high cost area like Miami. That 1200 a month was half of my cost for my house and utilities. Let's not even add in food, gas, insurance, internet access, cell phone - any of those things that you need to get a job - and the 1200 a month that I got for holding jobs since I was 14 didn't go far. I usually find that those that say "... unemployment benefits, both the size and duration, are a better option than a good job at a good wage." have never tried to live on such.
These chaps are presumably anarchists, quite possibly with a primitivist or environmental radical vein. Why, then, are they focusing on assorted minor R&D projects that may, at some point in the future, assist The Man's technocratic hegemony over his fellow man and/or nature, rather than hitting the targets that contribute in an overwhelming way, right now?
Because now we are seeing that James Cameron didn't actually make this shit up, he was only reporting what would have already happened in the future as told to him by a time-traveling resistance fighter....
Damn it, I get so confused when I think about time travel. Is tomorrow last Tuesday or next Tuesday?
If I go and buy the DVDs (or, twelve years ago, the VHS) I get to see them commercial free.
So, what we have is a way I can watch them for free, but I have to watch a commercial too or I can watch them without commercials if I buy it. The only difference with the patent is that now we did it on a website! Such innovation!
It's about offering the content for sale AND offering it for free, but you only get it for free if you watch an ad first.
You mean like the House or Firefly boxed DVD sets?
There is a product there -chemicals or potash. You improved a method for creating a physical thing, not expressed an idea on how to put a thought in someone's head. An expression of an idea can be copyrighted - a process that leads to a product can be patented.
I could check my email in another tab for fifteen or thirty seconds while the advertising plays. Maybe I should patent this - "A Method for Avoiding Advertisements Placed at the Start of Internet Videos"
Isn't the concept of an advertisement running before you see content as old as radio and TV? Didn't I have to watch Timex commercials to see the TV shows they sponsored?
I think this is just another example of "Same old stuff, but now on the Interwebs!"
Unless there is an actual physical product. patents are inappropriate. Copyright a presentation of an idea, but patenting a thought is a path to policing thought... and wasting time having the courts arbitrate such.
The average tax for all local, state and federal taxes on diesel fuel is only 5.1 cents per gallon more than the tax on gasoline, That still does not explain the nominally 45 cent difference in price (on average). There are additional factors, such as refining cost and capacity and competition with heating oil refinery capacity, that help to explain the difference, but the saying that diesel is a cheaper fuel is wrong. There are costs beyond the price also that actually make gasoline more cost effective.
I'll have to go down to the local planning office in Alpha Centauri and see if they've got a permit for a supernova that close to the planned hyperspace bypass...
Have you ever actually checked the retail price per gallon of diesel as compared to regular unleaded gasoline? Diesel is NOT cheaper.
At a sufficient level of incompetence, you don't realize that you are being malicious. You are so incompetent you cannot even see your own malice.
Most people do not take others into consideration when going about their daily lives. The person that cut you off on the road today? They didn't PLAN to do that to you. They were just on their cell phone, drinking a cup of coffee, eating a burrito and checking their GPS. You, in that car behind and to the right of them, didn't even enter into their calculations. They did not MEAN to cut you off, but they did. And when you recover from stepping on the brakes and swerving to avoid them and you pass them because they are doing about twenty MPH below the speed limit, they wonder why you are giving them the finger. To them, you are the one with malice because you targeted them.
Same thing with the cops that were convinced this guy was guilty of SOMETHING. The thought that what they were doing to him was ruining his life probably never entered into their minds. That they would drag his life down a rabbit hole and plop into the middle of a Kafka story did not occur to them. Remember, they spend every day in the middle of Wonderland, surrounded by all sorts of strange things like lawyers and courts and hearings. The thought that they were dragging this guy away from his life did not enter into their consideration because they were not out of their comfort zone.
And shit rolls down hill. Maybe a prosecutor looked at this case early on, someone that knew their stuff and thought that the case was weak, but could not bring themselves to believe that the cops would be so incompetent that they could not tell the difference between thoughts and criminal acts. Very few people are willing to question the competence of those they work with so that one small problem snowballs into a great big problem.
This is why I think one of the marks of a really smart person is that they know their weakness. If they are REALLY smart they build a team around them that compensates for their incompetence. But obviously, very few people are that smart.
It would require dozens, perhaps hundreds, of law enforcement and judiciary personnel to be corrupt to the point of downright evil in order for that to happen.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Next week Scientist discover that animals hate fire because it's hot.
Animals don't hate fire because it's hot. They hate fire because it is hot AND filthy rich...
Folks, THAT is the new business model - "pay for custom slanted news!"
Fox already holds that patent.
...it's really, really, *really* hot.
Yea, but it's a dry heat...