The principle is called "laches", and it does apply. The reasoning is somewhat similar to entrapment. The failure to protect a patent while its claims are being used for a long time, creates the presumption that the use is not infringing and can be relied upon for financially important purposes. When, after a long period of claimed infringement the patent holder sues, the damage is much greater than if the patent was protected earlier. If the patent had been protected earlier, the alleged infringer would have had the option of selecting another technology. A lawyer could easily argue that the delay was malicious, designed to maximize the harm to the user of the technology. Whether malicious or not, the damage can easily be much greater than if the patent was enforced at a reasonable time. Justice does not look kindly on deliberately causing unnecessary damage.
IR vision would indeed be cool. The most interesting range (about 10 microns) would allow you to see animals in the dark. The primary difficulty would be that you too radiate at that wavelength, which would tend to fog your vision.
Better yet, use a (fused) quartz prism, which should be good to 230 nm. With the proper setup, you should be able to get a very sharply defined continuum. The trick, of course, is to calibrate it.
As of about 1980, the last time I had a U.S. security clearance, I was aware of three levels of information that could not be divulged (there were other named factors, but they're not relevant here.) The levels were "classified", "secret", and "top secret".
Religion is the normative study of how things should be.
Not even close. Religion consists of two parts. One is a claimed history, made up of oral tradition put on paper plus whole-cloth lies. The second is an arbitrary ethical code blunted by repeated collisions with reality.
Accusing a large portion of slashdotters of being Logical Positivists is assuming unavailable facts (in addition to being silly and insulting).
If the text that defines a religion is not to be taken literally, then it loses all meaning. If moral strictures are optional, there's no guidance to be had and no basis for comparison.
Since the text that defines a religion is (directly or indirectly) the word of god, it must be perfect, eternal and immutable or it collapses under the weight of its own flaws. This distinguishes it from man-made law, which, like science, is subject to revision as new things are discovered or conditions change.
Of course, changes in human law can be for either better or worse. Consider Prohibition.
If your claim is that the U.S. Constitution "warranted and condoned" slavery, you are ignoring context and failing to understand what you read.
Neither of the obsolete restrictions on voting, when removed, was a pure improvement. Women more than men regard the government as daddy (or sugar daddy) and this tends toward the welfare state. Similarly, when non-landowners were allowed to vote, people without a stake in society, who tended to vote to tear down their superiors, were given more power.
If Robert A. Heinlein is to be believed, the story of the rape mob is something of a joke. The mob was a mob of homosexual men, out to rape another man. Offering up his daughters was a low risk proposition, the mob wasn't interested in them.
The plane that hit the Pentagon did its damage with momentum and fire. Granted that a few pounds of poorly placed high explosive will cause limited damage, but it can cause much more damage per pound. If it penetrates a window and explodes inside the building, it's likely to destroy several rooms, possibly blow out a portion of the external wall, and potentially kill dozens of people.
This guy failed because he couldn't keep his mouth shut, couldn't synthesize his own explosives and otherwise not attract attention.
As noted by a poster far above, some protestors deliberately try to incite police violence. At best, this is very unwise behavior. This is a leftist tactic; you will not see "Tea Party" people baiting cops.
While you're at it, why don't you mention that unions bussed their rent-a-mobs into Wisconsin, in contrast to Tea Party rallies where most participants are there on their own volition.
Clever attempt to reword the GP, but it doesn't succeed. '"Accident"' is not the same as 'something illegal'.
To "egg on" as protestors frequently do involves such things as obstructing traffic (which is illegal), abusive language, verbal threats (also illegal), and refusing to obey the orders of a policeman who is trying to solve the three problems just mentioned (also illegal).
Capitalism is consensual trade. Government only becomes involved when it is necessary to adjudicate disagreements.
If government has the power to favor one company over another, it's not a capitalistic system. If government does favor one company over another, that's evidence of corruption. "Political favors" ARE corruption.
Some people work better than others. Some people are lazy and try to avoid work entirely. Some people save and invest money, some people are spendthrifts. Under capitalism (i.e. in the absence of government interference) people who work well and invest frequently become a lot richer than those who don't work and waste what little they have. This is what leads jealous and vindictive people like you to say "wealth concentrates."
People who work well and invest tend to want a capitalistic system. People who are lazy and want to cheat or steal their way to wealth seek to take a capitalistic system and corrupt it into "crony capitalism", and then lie about what they're doing and call it capitalism. Naturally, there will always be people who hate freedom and justice and will call the thieves and their allies in government "capitalists".
I haven't seen any news of the black gangs targeting and beating whites in several US cities recently, which is much more newsworthy, but not politically correct. Additionally, protestors against Wall Street is hardly something new, the filthy hippies have been doing it for decades.
Cuba is very regimented, and geographically limited, and isolated, compared to Africa. Also, in Cuba, there's not much incidence of intermingling with the body fluids of monkeys. The cases are not equivalent.
You never had to wait for the buttons, they buffered it, even in the earliest pushbutton phones.
This is simply not true. I've used and designed touchtone (DTMF) and pulse dialing circuits, and seen plenty of other designs including the Bell circuits. I've read the specifications. The DTMF spec is minimum 50 ms on, 50 ms off, so that 10 numbers can be dialed in 1 second. Pressing pushbuttons that fast reliably is not easy.
37 years ago I worked on a project to integrate a phone and a calculator. Stupid idea, it would have been easiest with 1974 technology just to glue a calculator on the side of the phone. But the boss wanted just one keyboard, and using the phone keyboard was slightly cheaper than using the calculator keyboard. So people would calculate on their phone, not call on their calculator. Time marches on.
Given that the ozone is recovering (and faster than initially predicted), and that it will continue improving without additional restrictions on CFCs, it is not reasonable to outlaw CFC for asthma inhalers until an effective and reasonably priced alternative is available.
Republicans cheering the poor dying? Let's compare that to the democrats cheering everyone dying: specifically, Obama's "just let her take a pill" referring to an old person being denied treatment under Obamacare and being only able to get a palliative. Under leftist medical programs, the government determines everything medical: who gets treated, which treatments are the only legal ones, and what medicines you can buy. If you're seriously ill and you've made an enemy in the bureaucracy, you're as good as dead.
Slashdot Mirror
The principle is called "laches", and it does apply. The reasoning is somewhat similar to entrapment. The failure to protect a patent while its claims are being used for a long time, creates the presumption that the use is not infringing and can be relied upon for financially important purposes. When, after a long period of claimed infringement the patent holder sues, the damage is much greater than if the patent was protected earlier. If the patent had been protected earlier, the alleged infringer would have had the option of selecting another technology. A lawyer could easily argue that the delay was malicious, designed to maximize the harm to the user of the technology. Whether malicious or not, the damage can easily be much greater than if the patent was enforced at a reasonable time. Justice does not look kindly on deliberately causing unnecessary damage.
IR vision would indeed be cool. The most interesting range (about 10 microns) would allow you to see animals in the dark. The primary difficulty would be that you too radiate at that wavelength, which would tend to fog your vision.
Better yet, use a (fused) quartz prism, which should be good to 230 nm. With the proper setup, you should be able to get a very sharply defined continuum. The trick, of course, is to calibrate it.
IBM has greater sales than Apple; Apple has higher profits. Exxon-Mobile dwarfs them both in sales and profits.
My memory failed me. The proper lowest grade is "confidential", not "classified" which covers the whole scale. I apologize, my error.
As of about 1980, the last time I had a U.S. security clearance, I was aware of three levels of information that could not be divulged (there were other named factors, but they're not relevant here.) The levels were "classified", "secret", and "top secret".
Not even close. Religion consists of two parts. One is a claimed history, made up of oral tradition put on paper plus whole-cloth lies. The second is an arbitrary ethical code blunted by repeated collisions with reality.
Accusing a large portion of slashdotters of being Logical Positivists is assuming unavailable facts (in addition to being silly and insulting).
That "many of the moral advances that you cite were developed by religious people" is due primarily to the fact that most people are religious.
Do you mean Washington Irving?
If the text that defines a religion is not to be taken literally, then it loses all meaning. If moral strictures are optional, there's no guidance to be had and no basis for comparison.
Since the text that defines a religion is (directly or indirectly) the word of god, it must be perfect, eternal and immutable or it collapses under the weight of its own flaws. This distinguishes it from man-made law, which, like science, is subject to revision as new things are discovered or conditions change.
Of course, changes in human law can be for either better or worse. Consider Prohibition.
If your claim is that the U.S. Constitution "warranted and condoned" slavery, you are ignoring context and failing to understand what you read.
Neither of the obsolete restrictions on voting, when removed, was a pure improvement. Women more than men regard the government as daddy (or sugar daddy) and this tends toward the welfare state. Similarly, when non-landowners were allowed to vote, people without a stake in society, who tended to vote to tear down their superiors, were given more power.
If Robert A. Heinlein is to be believed, the story of the rape mob is something of a joke. The mob was a mob of homosexual men, out to rape another man. Offering up his daughters was a low risk proposition, the mob wasn't interested in them.
Typical religious comment. Only two sentences, and already you've contradicted yourself.
Almost all of medical science deals with the physical flaws of men. Large parts of so-called "political science" deals with the ethical flaws of men.
The concept of redemption is void, so "redemption by faith" is just compound silliness.
The plane that hit the Pentagon did its damage with momentum and fire. Granted that a few pounds of poorly placed high explosive will cause limited damage, but it can cause much more damage per pound. If it penetrates a window and explodes inside the building, it's likely to destroy several rooms, possibly blow out a portion of the external wall, and potentially kill dozens of people.
This guy failed because he couldn't keep his mouth shut, couldn't synthesize his own explosives and otherwise not attract attention.
Let's not be silly.
Destroying all cable companies solves what problem?
As noted by a poster far above, some protestors deliberately try to incite police violence. At best, this is very unwise behavior. This is a leftist tactic; you will not see "Tea Party" people baiting cops.
While you're at it, why don't you mention that unions bussed their rent-a-mobs into Wisconsin, in contrast to Tea Party rallies where most participants are there on their own volition.
Clever attempt to reword the GP, but it doesn't succeed. '"Accident"' is not the same as 'something illegal'.
To "egg on" as protestors frequently do involves such things as obstructing traffic (which is illegal), abusive language, verbal threats (also illegal), and refusing to obey the orders of a policeman who is trying to solve the three problems just mentioned (also illegal).
Capitalism is consensual trade. Government only becomes involved when it is necessary to adjudicate disagreements.
If government has the power to favor one company over another, it's not a capitalistic system. If government does favor one company over another, that's evidence of corruption. "Political favors" ARE corruption.
Some people work better than others. Some people are lazy and try to avoid work entirely. Some people save and invest money, some people are spendthrifts. Under capitalism (i.e. in the absence of government interference) people who work well and invest frequently become a lot richer than those who don't work and waste what little they have. This is what leads jealous and vindictive people like you to say "wealth concentrates."
People who work well and invest tend to want a capitalistic system. People who are lazy and want to cheat or steal their way to wealth seek to take a capitalistic system and corrupt it into "crony capitalism", and then lie about what they're doing and call it capitalism. Naturally, there will always be people who hate freedom and justice and will call the thieves and their allies in government "capitalists".
I haven't seen any news of the black gangs targeting and beating whites in several US cities recently, which is much more newsworthy, but not politically correct. Additionally, protestors against Wall Street is hardly something new, the filthy hippies have been doing it for decades.
Cuba is very regimented, and geographically limited, and isolated, compared to Africa. Also, in Cuba, there's not much incidence of intermingling with the body fluids of monkeys. The cases are not equivalent.
This is simply not true. I've used and designed touchtone (DTMF) and pulse dialing circuits, and seen plenty of other designs including the Bell circuits. I've read the specifications. The DTMF spec is minimum 50 ms on, 50 ms off, so that 10 numbers can be dialed in 1 second. Pressing pushbuttons that fast reliably is not easy.
37 years ago I worked on a project to integrate a phone and a calculator. Stupid idea, it would have been easiest with 1974 technology just to glue a calculator on the side of the phone. But the boss wanted just one keyboard, and using the phone keyboard was slightly cheaper than using the calculator keyboard. So people would calculate on their phone, not call on their calculator. Time marches on.
Given that the ozone is recovering (and faster than initially predicted), and that it will continue improving without additional restrictions on CFCs, it is not reasonable to outlaw CFC for asthma inhalers until an effective and reasonably priced alternative is available.
Republicans cheering the poor dying? Let's compare that to the democrats cheering everyone dying: specifically, Obama's "just let her take a pill" referring to an old person being denied treatment under Obamacare and being only able to get a palliative. Under leftist medical programs, the government determines everything medical: who gets treated, which treatments are the only legal ones, and what medicines you can buy. If you're seriously ill and you've made an enemy in the bureaucracy, you're as good as dead.