I agree, environment has a significant impact on the outcome of a fight. The extreme example would be in a body of water -- the better swimmer has an enormous advantage. But, you should watch more boxing. There is no standard ring size. The size of the ring is typically a big item in negotiations in headline fights. Brawlers typically want small rings, whereas boxers prefer large rings. You are also right that there are innumerable variables that go into a person's effectiveness in fighting. However, if you remove all of the variable except strength and weight, then you are left with the inevitable conclusion that size/weight have a direct correlation to a person's effectiveness in a fight. I wrestled in h.s. and college (once again, very set rules and environment). I sometimes defeated people bigger than me. Occasionally I lost to people smaller. But I generally had more success against people smaller than me and less success than people bigger than me. I've never had to use my training in a real world situation, for which I am very thankful. Whenever two grown men are involved in a fight, someone will be hurt.
You deliberately mischaracterize what I wrote. I never claimed that strength/weight were the only determinative factors. I stated that strength/weight had a direct relationship to a person's effectiveness as a fighter. If a 97 pound weaking with no training, and a 197 pound strongman with no training were involved in a fight, you can say goodbye to the 97 pound weakling. You indicate that you have been in, and won, fights with people significantly larger than yourself. You never indicate if these people have the same training you do. As I stated in my original post, all other things being equal, strength/weight directly impact how well a person fights. Bigger people hit harder. Bigger people can take more physical abuse. On the con side, bigger people get tired faster (it takes a lot more energy to fight when you are big). Answer me this, if strength/weight do not matter, why is it that women are abused by men much more often than vice versa. Strength/weight do matter. So does training. So does natural aptitude.
Duh. Yes, a person's weight and strength directly impact his/her effectiveness as a fighter. This is precisely why boxers, wrestlers, and other martial artists compete against people in their weight class. All other things being equal, if you put a bantamweight boxer in the ring with a heavyweight boxer, 99.9% (pulling this stat from a place where the sun doesn't shine) of the time the heavyweight will win (the other.1% involves a heart attack). Sure, a 97 pound weakling with a black belt might be able to beat the fat kid that everyone remembers from high school (or is that the average/. reader, is there a diff?). That does not justify your statement that weight/strength "has very little do with how well you fight." If everything other than wtrength/weight is equal, strength/weight plays a direct role in how dangerous a person is. There's a reason you gave your lunch money to the bigger kids -- they were bigger and more dangerous! Catch a clue.
As far as I can tell, NEC does not have a patent in the US on nanotubes themselves. NEC does have 5 US patents involving nanotubes: 1 6,331,690 Process for producing single-wall carbon nanotubes uniform in diameter and laser ablation apparatus used therein
2 6,157,043 Solenoid comprising a compound nanotube and magnetic generating apparatus using the compound nanotube
3 5,698,175 Process for purifying, uncapping and chemically modifying carbon nanotubes 4 5,641,466 Method of purifying carbon nanotubes
5 5,627,140 Enhanced flux pinning in superconductors by embedding carbon nanotubes with BSCCO materials
None of these patents cover the existence of nanotubes -- but the patents do cover various methods of creating nanotubes. I found 118 US patents which mention carbon nanotubes in the abstract to the patent at the US Patent and Trademark Office.
There are other patents which concern creation of carbon nanotubes which predate NEC's patents. For example: 5,482,601 Method and device for the production of carbon nanotubes.
Accordingly, I doubt that NEC has a patent on carbon nanotubes themselves. Instead, it appears that NEC has some patents on methods for manufacturing carbon nanotubes. If these methods are more efficient than other methods, I do not have any problem with NEC selling licenses to use their processes.
I'm not sure why the poster claims this opinion does not have precedential value. The 9th Circuit is an appellate court. Circuit opinions are normally decided by 3 justices. En banc is unusual. Accordingly, this opinion should be binding on all federal district (trial) courts in the 9th Circuit. This decision is not binding on any of the other circuits, but would be persuasive authority. I note that the opinion was withdrawn and then refiled on July 7, 2003 to moot a request for rehearing. The withdrawn opinion is not binding (since it was withdrawn), but the refiled and identical opinion should be binding.
When Gravity Fails,
A Fire in the Sun,The Exile Kiss.
All by George Alec Effinger, who died in 2002. GEE hated it when people classified these books as cyberpunk, but that is how the books were popularly classified. The books follow the exploits of Marid Audran in the middle-east. The stories start with Marid as a street hustler who catches the eye of a powerful "godfather" character, has his brain wired to accept "moddie" (software that alters personality) and "daddie" (data) chips, and learns to take responsibility for people other than himself. Think of Dashiell Hammet doing cyberpunk. Hardboiled cyberpunk. I cannot believe that no other/.ers have recommended this. The stories are captivating and GEE always remembered that the story is everything.
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I agree, environment has a significant impact on the outcome of a fight. The extreme example would be in a body of water -- the better swimmer has an enormous advantage. But, you should watch more boxing. There is no standard ring size. The size of the ring is typically a big item in negotiations in headline fights. Brawlers typically want small rings, whereas boxers prefer large rings. You are also right that there are innumerable variables that go into a person's effectiveness in fighting. However, if you remove all of the variable except strength and weight, then you are left with the inevitable conclusion that size/weight have a direct correlation to a person's effectiveness in a fight. I wrestled in h.s. and college (once again, very set rules and environment). I sometimes defeated people bigger than me. Occasionally I lost to people smaller. But I generally had more success against people smaller than me and less success than people bigger than me. I've never had to use my training in a real world situation, for which I am very thankful. Whenever two grown men are involved in a fight, someone will be hurt.
You deliberately mischaracterize what I wrote. I never claimed that strength/weight were the only determinative factors. I stated that strength/weight had a direct relationship to a person's effectiveness as a fighter. If a 97 pound weaking with no training, and a 197 pound strongman with no training were involved in a fight, you can say goodbye to the 97 pound weakling. You indicate that you have been in, and won, fights with people significantly larger than yourself. You never indicate if these people have the same training you do. As I stated in my original post, all other things being equal, strength/weight directly impact how well a person fights. Bigger people hit harder. Bigger people can take more physical abuse. On the con side, bigger people get tired faster (it takes a lot more energy to fight when you are big). Answer me this, if strength/weight do not matter, why is it that women are abused by men much more often than vice versa. Strength/weight do matter. So does training. So does natural aptitude.
Duh. Yes, a person's weight and strength directly impact his/her effectiveness as a fighter. This is precisely why boxers, wrestlers, and other martial artists compete against people in their weight class. All other things being equal, if you put a bantamweight boxer in the ring with a heavyweight boxer, 99.9% (pulling this stat from a place where the sun doesn't shine) of the time the heavyweight will win (the other .1% involves a heart attack). Sure, a 97 pound weakling with a black belt might be able to beat the fat kid that everyone remembers from high school (or is that the average /. reader, is there a diff?). That does not justify your statement that weight/strength "has very little do with how well you fight." If everything other than wtrength/weight is equal, strength/weight plays a direct role in how dangerous a person is. There's a reason you gave your lunch money to the bigger kids -- they were bigger and more dangerous! Catch a clue.
1 6,331,690 Process for producing single-wall carbon nanotubes uniform in diameter and laser ablation apparatus used therein
2 6,157,043 Solenoid comprising a compound nanotube and magnetic generating apparatus using the compound nanotube
3 5,698,175 Process for purifying, uncapping and chemically modifying carbon nanotubes
4 5,641,466 Method of purifying carbon nanotubes
5 5,627,140 Enhanced flux pinning in superconductors by embedding carbon nanotubes with BSCCO materials
None of these patents cover the existence of nanotubes -- but the patents do cover various methods of creating nanotubes. I found 118 US patents which mention carbon nanotubes in the abstract to the patent at the US Patent and Trademark Office.
There are other patents which concern creation of carbon nanotubes which predate NEC's patents. For example: 5,482,601 Method and device for the production of carbon nanotubes.
Accordingly, I doubt that NEC has a patent on carbon nanotubes themselves. Instead, it appears that NEC has some patents on methods for manufacturing carbon nanotubes. If these methods are more efficient than other methods, I do not have any problem with NEC selling licenses to use their processes.
H.P. Lovecraft foresaw this type of discovery in his novella _At the Mountains of Madness_. Could this be evidence of the old ones??!
I'm not sure why the poster claims this opinion does not have precedential value. The 9th Circuit is an appellate court. Circuit opinions are normally decided by 3 justices. En banc is unusual. Accordingly, this opinion should be binding on all federal district (trial) courts in the 9th Circuit. This decision is not binding on any of the other circuits, but would be persuasive authority. I note that the opinion was withdrawn and then refiled on July 7, 2003 to moot a request for rehearing. The withdrawn opinion is not binding (since it was withdrawn), but the refiled and identical opinion should be binding.
When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, The Exile Kiss. All by George Alec Effinger, who died in 2002. GEE hated it when people classified these books as cyberpunk, but that is how the books were popularly classified. The books follow the exploits of Marid Audran in the middle-east. The stories start with Marid as a street hustler who catches the eye of a powerful "godfather" character, has his brain wired to accept "moddie" (software that alters personality) and "daddie" (data) chips, and learns to take responsibility for people other than himself. Think of Dashiell Hammet doing cyberpunk. Hardboiled cyberpunk. I cannot believe that no other /.ers have recommended this. The stories are captivating and GEE always remembered that the story is everything.