But not having a second amendment didn't stop the US Revolution against the British in the first place, did it?
We still had the right to bear arms, the 2nd ammendment just recognizes. Same deal with the French. The Constitution specifies what the feds are allowed to do. Everything else is reserved to the people and the states.
Automating widespread surveillance of civilians allows for more concentrated power, abuse of that power, and makes politically motivated harrassment easy. Why wouldn't you be worried? Instead of asking why people opposes this, perhaps you should be asking why the government should have this.
Nope, the only way we can move to a Hydrogen economy would be to build a whole 'lotta nuclear power plants.
Sounds like a plan. Let's get some thorium breeders online and give the mideast a two finger salute. Do you have any idea how much of that stuff is lying around?
What I did say is, if you are going to accurately tout the net gain of space exploration, you need to subtract the opporunity cost of spending the resources to do so.
What you're missing is that the space program drove those innovations to a usable stage, whereas pure research rarely does this. That's left to others. There's also the question of whether some of the things we got would have been built without the program - most of the applications were discovered after the stuff had been built.
That happens for the life of the patent, and after it expires (IF it ever does as the current rate)
Patents' lifespan has been changed a grand total of once, from 17 years from grant to 20 years from filing. This represents a whole year or two extension, and was done (AFAIK) in part to combat submarine patents.
there still is no incentive to develop it, since it is now public domain if you do, free to be copied by anyone else.
Not true. Any and all improvements are elligible for patenting. Only the original invention is PD.
from what I understand, in theory you can become allergic to basically anything at anytime without warning
You understand wrong. Medical implants are generally constructed of inert material that the body doesn't care about. I myself have a piece of titanium in my neck - it won't be causing a reaction anytime soon.
Surprisingly, the implants for artifical hearing work very well: having the auditory nerve laid out, low frequency to high frequency, along the bony tube of the cochlea helps localize the current to just the nerves you want to hit with each electrode.
Also, mapper chips that gave cartriges features such as additional ROM, battery-backed storage, more sound channels, and so on, were being developed for years afterwards.
How would that apply to cloning the console? All those things are on the cartridge.
And the creation of the bureaucracy may not be an accident. Instead of paying someone a check to sit at home, you turn them into a bureaucrat who helps hand out the checks.
So now you have someone doing a useless job instead of potentially contributing. In the name of making them do something, you now have to pay for the admin overhead, salary, and, in this case, inefficiency for the customer (the taxpayers who have to shuffle 67 forms to register a birth). That's much better than paying welfare that keeps you alive and subsidising education.
Yes, the amusing thing is that most standard of living indexes (by the Economist, World Bank, UN etc) the USA is often beaten by countries with quite socialist systems.
No, the hilarious thing is that the paragon of all socialist systems, Sweden, made most of its growth and owes its standard of living to the period when it was more capitalist - they saved up and now they're retired (or something like that).
For example, having your program classified as spyware and blocking it from being installed costs said spyware company "customers" and hence, potentially at least, revenue.
Using the libel statutes as a basis, damaging though it may be, you can't sue if it's true, and this stuff is advertised as spyware. That's like getting turned down for a date because the girl found out you were a lech.
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I find it amusing that you think Fox News is somehow more worthy of scrutiny than CBS
Pop quiz, asshole: which news shows promotes itself as 'Fair and Balanced'?
But not having a second amendment didn't stop the US Revolution against the British in the first place, did it?
We still had the right to bear arms, the 2nd ammendment just recognizes. Same deal with the French. The Constitution specifies what the feds are allowed to do. Everything else is reserved to the people and the states.
Jon wrote code that was designed and widely used for copyright infringement[0].
No he didn't. Playing a DVD on linux is not copyright infringement.
Well, there was that little incident where they attacked Washington and burned down the White House. But that was nearly 200 years ago now.
Well, we did invade Canada, so we had it coming.
If they raised the limit to 120km/h, then police wouldnt bother pulling anyone over unless they were going >145km/h.
And only the few going over 120 now will be speeding then.
I'm not seeing the 'why' pinned down precisely.
Automating widespread surveillance of civilians allows for more concentrated power, abuse of that power, and makes politically motivated harrassment easy. Why wouldn't you be worried? Instead of asking why people opposes this, perhaps you should be asking why the government should have this.
If you know that you will be "caught" and have to pay everytime you speed, you probably won't do it if you really don't have to.
That'd be great if speed limits were set with safety in mind, instead of revenue.
What we need is a law that makes research a defence to copyright infringement.
This isn't copyright infringement. If it's anything, it's violation of a contract, but that depends on the clause being upheld.
Well, that and leaving a hydrogen car around for a month or two results in an empty fuel tank.
Nope, the only way we can move to a Hydrogen economy would be to build a whole 'lotta nuclear power plants.
Sounds like a plan. Let's get some thorium breeders online and give the mideast a two finger salute. Do you have any idea how much of that stuff is lying around?
What I did say is, if you are going to accurately tout the net gain of space exploration, you need to subtract the opporunity cost of spending the resources to do so.
What you're missing is that the space program drove those innovations to a usable stage, whereas pure research rarely does this. That's left to others. There's also the question of whether some of the things we got would have been built without the program - most of the applications were discovered after the stuff had been built.
No, the net effect of gas at $4/gallon would be having to pay higher prices for ALL goods and service
If that lasted too long, do you think we might go back to trains?
God, don't schools teach economics at all these days?
People being myopic is nothing new. I also notice that this doesn't get much press.
That happens for the life of the patent, and after it expires (IF it ever does as the current rate)
Patents' lifespan has been changed a grand total of once, from 17 years from grant to 20 years from filing. This represents a whole year or two extension, and was done (AFAIK) in part to combat submarine patents.
there still is no incentive to develop it, since it is now public domain if you do, free to be copied by anyone else.
Not true. Any and all improvements are elligible for patenting. Only the original invention is PD.
If its physically impossible, such as a cure for cancer,
I'd love to hear how a cure for cancer is physically impossible...
I wonder if you'd be able to tell your own conclusions from what was being fed to you?
Given the number of people today who can't do this, I fail to see your point.
from what I understand, in theory you can become allergic to basically anything at anytime without warning
You understand wrong. Medical implants are generally constructed of inert material that the body doesn't care about. I myself have a piece of titanium in my neck - it won't be causing a reaction anytime soon.
What's so damn bad about someone making a mistake so minor that anybody with an IQ higher than a banana can still understand?
It's jarring and shows a lack of care, that's what. If you can't be bothered to spell right, what does that say about the content of your words?
Surprisingly, the implants for artifical hearing work very well: having the auditory nerve laid out, low frequency to high frequency, along the bony tube of the cochlea helps localize the current to just the nerves you want to hit with each electrode.
Does that work if the nerve has died?
Also, mapper chips that gave cartriges features such as additional ROM, battery-backed storage, more sound channels, and so on, were being developed for years afterwards.
How would that apply to cloning the console? All those things are on the cartridge.
And the creation of the bureaucracy may not be an accident. Instead of paying someone a check to sit at home, you turn them into a bureaucrat who helps hand out the checks.
So now you have someone doing a useless job instead of potentially contributing. In the name of making them do something, you now have to pay for the admin overhead, salary, and, in this case, inefficiency for the customer (the taxpayers who have to shuffle 67 forms to register a birth). That's much better than paying welfare that keeps you alive and subsidising education.
Yes, the amusing thing is that most standard of living indexes (by the Economist, World Bank, UN etc) the USA is often beaten by countries with quite socialist systems.
No, the hilarious thing is that the paragon of all socialist systems, Sweden, made most of its growth and owes its standard of living to the period when it was more capitalist - they saved up and now they're retired (or something like that).
Right, like this license?
That's not a EULA, it's a distribution license. You don't have to accept it to use the software it's attached to.
For example, having your program classified as spyware and blocking it from being installed costs said spyware company "customers" and hence, potentially at least, revenue.
Using the libel statutes as a basis, damaging though it may be, you can't sue if it's true, and this stuff is advertised as spyware. That's like getting turned down for a date because the girl found out you were a lech.
It has nothing to do with laws or court cases in foreign lands
We do use English common law as precedent in some cases, so yes, they do have an effect.
In case you're not being sarcastic, you might be shocked to read about Jose Padilla
You may be shocked to hear that, sometimes, Bush's government (well every government, really) does things that it knows are illegal.