Except if you have to run illegally, you'll have a limited market and be competing with other smugglers who likely aren't the kind of competition that will respect any patent you have.
If you're in favor of treating non-citizens any differently than citizens with regards to rights, you're opposed to the principles the Constitution was written to uphold.
The US Constitution is a government, of, by, and for the citizens of the United States. It's nonsense to suggest otherwise. It was not the global police force, and not even the police force of everyone living in the US.
No. You are not getting it. It doesn't matter how hard you try, they NEVER know what they want.
It's worse than that.
The only people who tell you what they want are the know nothing fly by night management Eloi who plan to be elsewhere long before the collapse.
The government morlocks who actually know what they're talking about don't want to tell you - they don't want to be automated out of their positions, they don't want to lose their power, they don't want electronic trails of their activities, and they know that they never be blamed if they do nothing - only those who act get in trouble.
>95% of failed, past due or overbudget IT projects are a result of insufficient, incorrect or everchanging requirements from the customer organization and the people on our side who interface with them.
Bingo.
The customer organization is multiple organizations, all with different agendas, some of which are surely to scuttle the project. Each organization is made of multiple people who come and go over time, with each new regime reevaluating and changing direction.
One of the sweet dynamics is not just that the government changes requirements - every new Eloi administration does that. But the morlocks in government who are actually in the know about the details don't want to tell you, because their butts are on the line only if they commit to a big mistake, and not if they accomplish nothing.
Of course the government contracting business is a racket of greasing the government players. But the contractors really would prefer to build something that works.
Gotta love them "living constitutions." No? You don't love them. Me neither.
And the bad news is, we're outnumbered those who do.
Those in power love them, because it removes a check on their power. And those who wish to be slaves, and want their neighbors to be slaves as well, love them too.
Everyone is going to have a smartphone in their pockets, which they'll change every 2 years. I'm hoping a new car will last longer than 2 years, so let's just leave the smart phone capabilities up to my smart phone.
How about they just wifi up the car and leave me a slot to put a tablet or something?
Somehow socialized medicine works in every other advanced country, with better results, lower cost, and greater patient satisfaction, so that's one data point.
As Thomas Sowell would ask, "compared to what?"
I thought we had spent the last century deciding testing whether a free market or government central planning produced better goods and services. As Reagan's strategy bore out, "We win; they lose."
At least in reality, the question was settled over which system was superior. In policy, you always can force people into an inferior system if you have the guns.
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And anyone who suggests otherwise is a racist, sexist, homophone!
Except if you have to run illegally, you'll have a limited market and be competing with other smugglers who likely aren't the kind of competition that will respect any patent you have.
Unless, of course, you're saying that because someone is born somewhere other than inside the borders you defend, they are not human
That must be exactly what I was saying. Who could think otherwise?
*plonk*
Particularly considering who they're competing with.
Trillionaire Governments Openly Fund Vast Climate Scare Network.
Which shows that the US was set up as a federal republic of states, not one big state.
Minus gun rights - Hell, Obama is the best guns salesman, ever.
Prohibitionists are the marketing arm of the dealers.
If you're in favor of treating non-citizens any differently than citizens with regards to rights, you're opposed to the principles the Constitution was written to uphold.
The US Constitution is a government, of, by, and for the citizens of the United States. It's nonsense to suggest otherwise. It was not the global police force, and not even the police force of everyone living in the US.
Does Canada have anit-SLAPP laws?
In the US, it's on a state by state basis.
Reason had a recent article on Anti-SLAPP laws:
http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/18/conservative-historians-defamation-suit
It's all heat energy, but not enough to ignite fission/fusion?
The aversion to testing is the aversion to accountability.
Ok..talk about a GREAT $$$$ making endeavour!!
Make another vaccine (or possibly something in pill form), that increases that second enzyme, and makes hangovers less and less painful!!
Nice!
Let's see you get that one through the FDA. Anything that makes life better is *not* allowed.
That's getting a little creepy.
No. You are not getting it. It doesn't matter how hard you try, they NEVER know what they want.
It's worse than that.
The only people who tell you what they want are the know nothing fly by night management Eloi who plan to be elsewhere long before the collapse.
The government morlocks who actually know what they're talking about don't want to tell you - they don't want to be automated out of their positions, they don't want to lose their power, they don't want electronic trails of their activities, and they know that they never be blamed if they do nothing - only those who act get in trouble.
>95% of failed, past due or overbudget IT projects are a result of insufficient, incorrect or everchanging requirements from the customer organization and the people on our side who interface with them.
Bingo.
The customer organization is multiple organizations, all with different agendas, some of which are surely to scuttle the project. Each organization is made of multiple people who come and go over time, with each new regime reevaluating and changing direction.
One of the sweet dynamics is not just that the government changes requirements - every new Eloi administration does that. But the morlocks in government who are actually in the know about the details don't want to tell you, because their butts are on the line only if they commit to a big mistake, and not if they accomplish nothing.
Of course the government contracting business is a racket of greasing the government players. But the contractors really would prefer to build something that works.
Am I the only one whose ears perked up at that? Hundreds of kT? Fat Man was only 20 kT.
Luckily it exploded in the upper atmosphere, but hundreds of kT at ground level would be a BIG deal if got close to anything.
Would those in the know explain why there wasn't significant EMP from the blast?
In Soviet Russia, space probes you!
> Fighting cancer by affecting this gene's expression is a method.
The method you use to effect the gene expression might be reasonably patentable, but patenting a motivation to effect gene expression shouldn't be.
We aren't rewarding innovation anymore -- we are rewarding ownership of things nobody should have a right to.
It's a rent seeking society, whether backed by government granted monopoly, licensing, or taxation.
Gotta love them "living constitutions." No? You don't love them. Me neither.
And the bad news is, we're outnumbered those who do.
Those in power love them, because it removes a check on their power. And those who wish to be slaves, and want their neighbors to be slaves as well, love them too.
More of them than us.
If the company owns our genes, shouldn't they be held responsible then they go wrong?
But eventually, the bionic eyes will be able to do things a natural eye cannot.
I, for one, welcome our new cyborg Overlords.
Better yet, I may be one of your new Cyborg Overlords. Start sucking up to me now, and beat the Christmas rush!
Were you under the impression that the US has had a "free market" in health care, to which the European socialized medicine could be compared?
Everyone is going to have a smartphone in their pockets, which they'll change every 2 years. I'm hoping a new car will last longer than 2 years, so let's just leave the smart phone capabilities up to my smart phone.
How about they just wifi up the car and leave me a slot to put a tablet or something?
Somehow socialized medicine works in every other advanced country, with better results, lower cost, and greater patient satisfaction, so that's one data point.
As Thomas Sowell would ask, "compared to what?"
I thought we had spent the last century deciding testing whether a free market or government central planning produced better goods and services. As Reagan's strategy bore out, "We win; they lose."
At least in reality, the question was settled over which system was superior. In policy, you always can force people into an inferior system if you have the guns.
Here's what you can do: You can tell people that the U.S. Constitution is outdated trash and needs to be replaced ...
It was replaced a long time ago. Hasn't been operative since at least FDR.