Resistance to insects is the biggest potential problem for humans, because that often means the plant manufactures its own pesticides. Sometimes, these pesticides are toxic to some humans; sometimes they are toxic to beneficial insects such as honeybees.
I've bought tomato seeds, and tomato plants available at garden stores are grown from seed. I don't know how most grocery store tomatoes are started (particularly the hydroponics), but homegrown tomatoes are from seed.
These plants are patented, not copyrighted. Patents expire in 20 years, so a patient farmer need only wait. Farming doesn't move as fast as computers; not all small farmers have to use the newest product.
{humor} Rover doesn't make very good cars either. {/humor}
In recent Consumer Reports evaluations, Toyota has fallen out of the top spots of reliability in 6 and 8 cylinder models, and Buick (GM) is in the top 10.
To a certain extent, airplane baggage systems are LIFO. That guy who just barely got to the airport on time has his luggage put in last, nearest the door. When the luggage comes out, the container nearest the door comes out first. The poor planner wins, either oblivious to his good fortune or proud of his slipshod actions.
RTFA. They were arresting executives, not the peons. Brazil's claim is massive fraud to evade taxes. That said, the ratio of police to those arrested was about 10 to 1, which suggests Brazil is acting in a very heavy-handed and inappropriate manner.
Your post is what happens when you don't identify the fundamentals.
A manufacturer who doesn't properly handle toxic waste is violating the rights of the persons upon whom the toxins impinge. Laws should identify those rights and devise a method for ensuring that rights are not violated (and compensating those whose rights are violated).
A business that doesn't provide handicapped access is violating no-one's rights; the property is privately owned and any visitor is there by permission, not by right. Providing handicapped access should be entirely the decision of the property owner, laws to the contrary notwithstanding. Freedom includes the right to be nasty and suffer the consequences.
A white-only restaurant would prevent access by non-whites by physical force. No-one is preventing a visually-impaired person from visiting Target's site except that own person's limits.
Do you expect wheelchair ramps on Mount Everest? Are we to forbid people from developing complex mathematical formulae, because some people are too stupid to understand them?
From another vantage, consider that ultimately, you are forcing the owners of businesses to build wheelchair ramps at gunpoint. This is what you consider justice?
TFA shows LEDs lit by a single generator. Output voltage is proportional to (magnet strength) times (magnet velocity) times (number of turns in the coil). Pick your output voltage and build accordingly.
My guess is that generators in series can't easily be synchronized, but generators in parallel would tend to self-synchonize (assuming near-identical construction and side-by-side location).
The US was created as a rebellion against England's protectionism. The US grew in spite of , not because of, protectionism. Economic efficiency always demands using the least expensive of equivalent alternatives, and that means no protectionism.
Protected industries grew; their customers failed to grow because of the higher prices. The net effect was inferior to free trade.
Links in the article lead to the details you ask for. Electrical efficiency appears to be about 11% in sunlight, although this is my estimate extrapolating their graph of packing density. Flat, quality silicon cells run 15% to 23%, IIRC.
The balls are p-type silicon doped n-type on the surface. A small, flat slice is removed to expose the p-type interior. Contact to the n-type region is any convenient place on the spherical surface; contact to the p-type region is the center of the flat area.
You don't know that they've been sitting on it. Do you think they've been out inspecting foreign manufacturing facilities to see if their patent is being used? From the time a patent is filed, it takes time to
read and understand the patent
design a machine to use the patent
use the machine to made disk drives
get the drives into use
discover that the drives require the patented technology in order to be manufactured
contact the manufacturer informing them of claimed infringement and demanding payment
get lawyers involved in negotiating terms
sue
suit gets public attention
Some of the steps can easily require more than a year apiece.
"If you file a patent that you do not make use of or license, within the time of a single year, it becomes public domain".
There are many reasons why that is unreasonable. Consider the possibility that you invent something that will improve only very large passenger jets, and that it requires substantial changes in the jet design so that it could only be used in a completely new model. You can't afford to build your own, and neither Boeing nor Airbus is going to put out a completely new design within five years, let alone a single year. For this, you should lose your patent?
Or assume you invent something beyond your ability to actually fabricate, and all potential licensees refuse to deal with you. It becomes public domain because everyone refuses to license the idea.
Sure they want to get paid by manufacturers building products in a foreign country with tools patented only in the US. Tough luck. That's not how the laws are written. As long as the tool requiring the patent wasn't built in the US or imported into the US, it's not infringing.
The U.S. Constitution (and I assume state constitutions) state that the Constitution (and treaties, and laws properly made) are the supreme law of the land. There is an order of priority here; newer laws can override older laws, the Constitution overrides everything else except its ammendments, and the newer ammendments override the older. Hence if a law contradicts the Constitution, the jury is duty-bound to recognize that fact and act accordingly.
A right is NOT something granted to you by some entity. That description more nearly fits the word "privilege" or "permission". According to Ayn Rand (and her definition seems correct to me), "A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context." Rights are yours because you are a human being. Rights can be violated, in many places some rights are not recognized, but they do not cease to exist if they are violated or not recognized.
Shooting a hole in a tire of a moving car is very difficult, particularly with a handgun (and it will be really far away by the time you can make a rifle ready to shoot). Most modern cars are front wheel drive, and shooting out a rear tire (the only tire visible on a car moving away from you) will be of limited effectiveness. The implied claim that police frequently use bullets to stop a car is a fantasy.
"as I don't mind abortion within the first trimester". Well, that's big of you.
Do you think the unborn child MINDS being cut up while still alive? Gee...
In the first trimester there is no mind. You might as well be writing about a tomato objecting to being eaten.
Just for the sake of argument, let's assume that we want to create a human-grasshopper hybrid, consisting of lots of human genetic material and just a little bit from the grasshopper. Extensive computer simulation shows that the result will be for all practical purposes human and will be completely free from ever developing cancer or heart disease.
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Arrests do not equal prison population. There's a correlation, but most marijuana arrests do not result in prison time.
Resistance to insects is the biggest potential problem for humans, because that often means the plant manufactures its own pesticides. Sometimes, these pesticides are toxic to some humans; sometimes they are toxic to beneficial insects such as honeybees.
I've bought tomato seeds, and tomato plants available at garden stores are grown from seed. I don't know how most grocery store tomatoes are started (particularly the hydroponics), but homegrown tomatoes are from seed.
These plants are patented, not copyrighted. Patents expire in 20 years, so a patient farmer need only wait. Farming doesn't move as fast as computers; not all small farmers have to use the newest product.
In recent Consumer Reports evaluations, Toyota has fallen out of the top spots of reliability in 6 and 8 cylinder models, and Buick (GM) is in the top 10.
To a certain extent, airplane baggage systems are LIFO. That guy who just barely got to the airport on time has his luggage put in last, nearest the door. When the luggage comes out, the container nearest the door comes out first. The poor planner wins, either oblivious to his good fortune or proud of his slipshod actions.
How many of these can fit in the Library of Congress?
RTFA. They were arresting executives, not the peons. Brazil's claim is massive fraud to evade taxes. That said, the ratio of police to those arrested was about 10 to 1, which suggests Brazil is acting in a very heavy-handed and inappropriate manner.
A manufacturer who doesn't properly handle toxic waste is violating the rights of the persons upon whom the toxins impinge. Laws should identify those rights and devise a method for ensuring that rights are not violated (and compensating those whose rights are violated).
A business that doesn't provide handicapped access is violating no-one's rights; the property is privately owned and any visitor is there by permission, not by right. Providing handicapped access should be entirely the decision of the property owner, laws to the contrary notwithstanding. Freedom includes the right to be nasty and suffer the consequences.
Do you expect wheelchair ramps on Mount Everest? Are we to forbid people from developing complex mathematical formulae, because some people are too stupid to understand them?
From another vantage, consider that ultimately, you are forcing the owners of businesses to build wheelchair ramps at gunpoint. This is what you consider justice?
My guess is that generators in series can't easily be synchronized, but generators in parallel would tend to self-synchonize (assuming near-identical construction and side-by-side location).
Protected industries grew; their customers failed to grow because of the higher prices. The net effect was inferior to free trade.
The balls are p-type silicon doped n-type on the surface. A small, flat slice is removed to expose the p-type interior. Contact to the n-type region is any convenient place on the spherical surface; contact to the p-type region is the center of the flat area.
Some of the steps can easily require more than a year apiece.
There are many reasons why that is unreasonable. Consider the possibility that you invent something that will improve only very large passenger jets, and that it requires substantial changes in the jet design so that it could only be used in a completely new model. You can't afford to build your own, and neither Boeing nor Airbus is going to put out a completely new design within five years, let alone a single year. For this, you should lose your patent?Or assume you invent something beyond your ability to actually fabricate, and all potential licensees refuse to deal with you. It becomes public domain because everyone refuses to license the idea.
Profit! (everyone but the inventor)
Sure they want to get paid by manufacturers building products in a foreign country with tools patented only in the US. Tough luck. That's not how the laws are written. As long as the tool requiring the patent wasn't built in the US or imported into the US, it's not infringing.
If he's writing about comic books, the comic books are the references. Writing separate footnotes citing what was just discussed is a waste of effort.
In some places trimming is badly needed. I've seen articles with whole paragraphs repeated word for word.
The U.S. Constitution (and I assume state constitutions) state that the Constitution (and treaties, and laws properly made) are the supreme law of the land. There is an order of priority here; newer laws can override older laws, the Constitution overrides everything else except its ammendments, and the newer ammendments override the older. Hence if a law contradicts the Constitution, the jury is duty-bound to recognize that fact and act accordingly.
A right is NOT something granted to you by some entity. That description more nearly fits the word "privilege" or "permission". According to Ayn Rand (and her definition seems correct to me), "A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context." Rights are yours because you are a human being. Rights can be violated, in many places some rights are not recognized, but they do not cease to exist if they are violated or not recognized.
My dictionary says that a customer is someone who buys something. So if you haven't paid for it, you're not a customer.
Shooting a hole in a tire of a moving car is very difficult, particularly with a handgun (and it will be really far away by the time you can make a rifle ready to shoot). Most modern cars are front wheel drive, and shooting out a rear tire (the only tire visible on a car moving away from you) will be of limited effectiveness. The implied claim that police frequently use bullets to stop a car is a fantasy.
The proper term is elephantiasis.
Where's your silly version of ethics now?