Frankly, the reason why nobody in the US knows this socialist propaganda is because we just don't care. It isn't any of my business how much money someone else has, nor is it my business to tell them what to do with their money. That is why it is called THEIR MONEY, and not OUR MONEY.
If the people of China are feeling the same way, good for them. Maybe they will finally figure out that the only people who need babysitting are government bureacrats.
There is a distinction between what has been proven to work, and what has been deployed. We've proven many systems work, but the political opposition always killed them off long enough to become obsolete.
Right now we have the THEL laser, which fits in the back of two tractor trailers, which is also capable of being deployed on satellites, by the hundreds if needed, but there isn't the political will to deploy it, primarily because the Chinese are not yet seen as a significant threat and the USSR is dead.
Even Aston Martin of the UCS admitted at one point, "The debate is no longer scientific." They changed their arguments to economic ones: whether the money put into a shield system is less than the cost of building offensive missiles, however that is a ver simplistic argument that ignores both opportunity costs and the the potential damages to the infrastructure of a successful attack.
UCS has be a left-wing front since the 1970's. I remember in the 1980's UCS was making all sorts of excuses about how star wars weapons will never work (all those which have now been tested and proven functional). Just what sort of 'scientists' are members of UCS? What is the distribution of members in the sciences? How many get their funding from government sources?
The fact is that the soft sciences and the non-mathematical sciences are predominantly populated by left-wingers whose disciplines have absolutely nothing to do with the issues they advocate. Meanwhile, you never see the media give equal attention to any sort of Engineer populated lobbying group....
1. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3, patents shall be available for any inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application. (5) Subject to paragraph 4 of Article 65, paragraph 8 of Article 70 and paragraph 3 of this Article, patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to the place of invention, the field of technology and whether products are imported or locally produced."
"Provisional Applications - Sections 111 and 119 of the patent law have been amended to establish a domestic priority system. The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property requires that the terms of protection of patents for the same invention granted by different countries should generally be independent of one another. This precludes the United States from measuring, in a foreign origin application, the term of protection from the filing date of a foreign filed application, even though the benefit of that foreign filing is subsequently claimed in the United States. To give U.S. inventors a similar opportunity, in the United States, of having an initial application filing which does not serve as the basis from which the term of protection is measured, a domestic priority system has been established that provides for provisional application filing in the United States."
Sorry to say, but you are quite wrong. Studied this stuff in my International Trade Law class...
D'oh, it's for abrupt breaking from the D, spoken in the front of the mouth, to the 'oh', spoken at the back of the mouth, rather than allowing the pronounciation to proceed calmly from front to back as in "Dough", it is meant to convey a jump from point A to B with no dallying in between.
BTW: It is apostrophed because it is a contraction of DOPE!!!!!
"RIM argued that because parts of the alleged infringement occurred on its relay and routing system that is based in Canada, U.S. patent law should not apply."
RIM seems to have conveniently forgotten the IP articles of both NAFTA and GATT, as well as the Hague Service Convention, and other international conventions of private law, to which both the US and Canada are party to. Thanks to these treaties and conventions, judicial acts in the US have 'full faith and credit' in Canada, and vice versa. All this story is about is a battle over jurisdiction in an attempt to get a more sympathetic jury, assuming that Waterloo residents will bias for RIM, and Americans will bias for NTP. Both companies have histories of litigating for profit.
China is testing its anti-satellite weapons system in preparation for the invasion of Taiwan, which will occur after the total collapse of the US Dollar. NOTE: China's nuke missile sub is now operational, the ICBMs for the subs are finishing development, and will be capable of striking Washington DC from the Pacific Ocean.
Tito paid $20 million for what was figured a $10 million cost flight (the Russians needed the extra cash to keep the rest of their program afloat, including their committment to the ISS). That was a government airline ticket.
The Libertarians among us will argue that private enterprise can do it more affordably. This might be born out. SpaceShipOne's achievement is essentially a replication of the capability of the German V-2 rocket.
While development of that rocket took quite a bit of money, once they got production facilities going, they were pumping missiles out for the then-dollar cost of $14,000.00, which would be worth somewhere around $300,000-400,000 today, accounting for inflation. This amount wasn't accounting for labor costs, because the laborers were all jewish concentration-camp slave workers, so double that figure for a more real amount. This also doesn't count the cost of fuel, deployment, and launching.
Virgin Galactic is going to be offering rides (2 passenger seats per ship) for just under $200,000.00 a seat, or $400,000.00 per flight total revinue, which is at least 50% cheaper than the cost of a V-2.
Radio noise is a big problem with RFID. Discrimination is another. Not racial, but ID discrimination. If someone is sitting in the first or second row with a 'go-to' card, the reader may have a tough time discriminating between their card and yours as you enter the bus.... This is a real problem with RFID as many such cards and tags can be read up to 17 feet away. People need to buy a wallet that is made from cloth with steel mesh in it.
On the contrary, stores are already using RFID for security purposes, particularly in identifying people WITHOUT RFIDs in their clothes or shopping cards as people they don't want in their stores.
You also seem to forget that some people may want to pay with cash. I do, with everything I consume. I cut up my credit cards years ago. I don't bank, either. My money is still good, it is better than good, because at least it is legal tender, stores don't have to pay a percentage to a credit card company, or worry about reversed charges or bounced checks, fraudulent charges by unauthorized cardholders. Stores should LOVE to have someone like me for a customer, but they don't.
RFID is a further evolution of the SKU beyond barcodes. Do you know what SKU stands for? "Stock Keeping Unit" RFIDs in products people carry around is nothing more or less than the inventorying of human flesh. You are no longer a human being, you are a piece of meat to be bartered and sold. A slave, mere property.
Are you aware your RFID can be read up to 17 feet away from you? Are you aware that they identify you to the store when you walk in, so that they can not only tell what shoes and clothes you are wearing, when and where you bought those products, what other stores you shop at, but which credit cards you used (or whether, the horror, you used.... CASH!!!!).
The supposed benefits? They can target coupons specifically to you based on what they know of your buying habits.
It is documented that RFID/shopping card stores raise prices, not lower them, after implementation, contrary to their claims. They identify where you are (which might be nice in case someone accuses you of committing a crime during that period, but also makes your location available to big brother in case they want to drag you in).
There is no need to "chip" the people. They are willingly or unknowingly doing it by buying products from companies that don't think you have a right to know. Many shoes have RFIDs in them, as do clothing, in the seams, as well as womens underwear and other products.
To counteract this trend, I recommend people engage in what I call "delousing". As RFIDs are specialized sorts of electronic 'bugs', which are implanted in clothes seams (where lice hide), I propose that RFIDs be nicknamed "lice" and the practice of shielding, burning out, or removing RFIDs be known as "delousing".
Hopefully we'll have some delousing products available soon....the first is an RFID shielding wallet...
ResearchCo created Velcro with the funds NASA gave it, sure, but NASA wasted twice as much money figuring out who the right company was to give it to, overseeing them to make sure they are spending it wisely, and they had to give ResearchCo twice as much money as it would have needed if it came from private investors because private investors don't demand that you comply with every subclause of every damn government regulation, from OSHA, union, EPA, etc.
Private funds to ResearchCo gets three to four times more bang for the buck than government spending.
I see more liberal congressmonsters ho-humming about "how bad a draft would be", but "it's only fair", it's "more democratic" than just letting hick kids volunteer for all the glory, and because "failure is not an option", even though "Iraq was a mistake." Now they point out the risks if North Korea or Iran becomes another regional conflict issue, however, the real risks aren't North Korea, or Iran. Those are more mere distractions from the real risk.
China has $500 billion in US dollars in its vaults, being used to back their own currency, the Yuan. Over the last year, a number of other countries have detached their shakey currencies from the dollar and changed backing to the Euro, encouraged by the Chinese and other anti-US forces at work on the international stage. This means that many billions of dollars flowed out of the reserve banks of developing nations as Euros flowed in.
This devalued the dollar by up to 40%. This is the real reason oil is so expensive. If you adjusted for these exchange rate changes, the price of oil would be no different than it was prior to the Iraq war. I was looking at the price of Iranian crude yesterday: $34.00 weighted average between light and heavy crudes from Iran. Adjusted for the change in exchange rates prior to the Iraq war, that is equal to a pre-war price of less than $20.00/bbl, or $0.50 per gallon.
Now China is talking about shifting their own currency backing to a "mixed basket" of currencies, and is planning on dumping $200-$300 billion in US cash on the world currency markets in the next year. This will drop the value of the dollar even more, raising gas prices likely to about $3.50-$4.00 per gallon, unless other nations get creative about taking dollars off the market. These prices are reflective of the inflation adjusted prices we paid for oil during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979. Some of you remember those days, of inflation, mile long gas lines, rationing, and Carter's failed assault in the Iranian desert.
It isn't about currency or oil. It is about war. Not war in Iraq, or Iran, or North Korea, it's about war in Taiwan. China is pissed at Taiwan and it's independence minded President. Encouraged by US sales of advanced weapons systems, Taiwan has been talking a tougher line about complete independence from China. Ticked off by US spyplane flights offshore of Chinese military invasion exercises (you remember when our plane got forced down prior to 9-11), the Chinese know that the US is the final arbiter of any conflict between the island and the mainland. They want us out of that picture so they can have a free reign in determining the conflict for themselves.
For years China's military establishment has accepted as a given a major war with the US in the next few decades, over Taiwan ostensibly, and global dominance overall in the 21st Century. They see this scenario as their version of the Spanish-American War, where we are now the old and decadent Spanish Empire, ripe to be plucked of its prize fruits, on the road to recognition as a new global super-power.
Now, China is not stupid. After all, Sun Tsu, the general who united ancient China, is the author of the greatest war manual, The Art of War. This book is studied for years by Chinese officers. Sun Tsu says to strike where the enemy is not, where the enemy is weakest. He also says to win a battle before an arrow is fired. He was the man who prefected the art of the forking attack, of feints, flanking maneuvers, of taking the high ground and fading into the terrain.
China needs to neutralize the US as a threat in its plan to conqer Taiwan. They are now testing nuclear subs with missiles capable of striking any target in the US. Still, they need to neutralize our conventional forces capability.
This is why for many years, you have seen significant Chinese support for Islamo-Fascism. China supplied Pakistan with nuclear technology to counter the Indian nuclear threat to China. It also supplied the Pakistanis with weapons supplies for the Taliban and al Qaeda. It supplied Iraq and Iran with ballistic missile
How long ago was this? I might be able to help you find it. My company is an FL private eye firm. If you have the VIN, or the plate number (and state) when you had it, I can find it for you.
Ooooh! Ooooh! I saw this episode of Stargate SG-1. The core of the comet is made up of n'aquita and will cause an explosion the size of the solar system when we kick it off.... don't worry, though, we've got that trusty warp drive to warp it through the planet... uh, where's the warp drive?
When you are married, you own property *jointly*.
The principle of community property only applies in some states, and only applies to court ordered dissolution of assets. If her name was not on either the title, the registration, or the loan application, then it ain't hers until a judge says so, even if it IS a community property state.
How about no response times? My Smith & Wesson does a much better job, thanks. It doesn't suffer power outages, and it only runs outta ammo when I run outta perps... It doesn't go on strike, whine about overtime, refuse to report, need a pension, or hang out in donut shops. It doesn't confiscate taxes from me either.
it takes a considerable lack of conscience to pull off such a stunt
Their disregard for others is only matched by political buffoons who disarm law abiding citizens and expect them to survive criminal incidents long enough to call 911 and wait for cops to get off their donut laden fat asses to come do their public servant pay grade jobs.
What is so surprising about this incident is that cops actually showed up in time to catch the perpetrators. I guess that multi-thousand dollar circuit boards are more important than human lives to the cops as well.
Geezus cripes, we haven't even had a chance yet to despoil the lifeless 'environment' and they want it all shut off from settlement. I laughed when Kim Stanley Robinson wrote that people would worship "the intrinsic value of rock", but it seems that human insanity can never be overestimated.
Question: if there are no trees on Mars to hug, aren't we going to need a new name to call these nuts?
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If the people of China are feeling the same way, good for them. Maybe they will finally figure out that the only people who need babysitting are government bureacrats.
There is a distinction between what has been proven to work, and what has been deployed. We've proven many systems work, but the political opposition always killed them off long enough to become obsolete. Right now we have the THEL laser, which fits in the back of two tractor trailers, which is also capable of being deployed on satellites, by the hundreds if needed, but there isn't the political will to deploy it, primarily because the Chinese are not yet seen as a significant threat and the USSR is dead. Even Aston Martin of the UCS admitted at one point, "The debate is no longer scientific." They changed their arguments to economic ones: whether the money put into a shield system is less than the cost of building offensive missiles, however that is a ver simplistic argument that ignores both opportunity costs and the the potential damages to the infrastructure of a successful attack.
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c) Dogs with 4 stomaches that can live off grass, thus your best friend is also your lawn mower.
UCS has be a left-wing front since the 1970's. I remember in the 1980's UCS was making all sorts of excuses about how star wars weapons will never work (all those which have now been tested and proven functional). Just what sort of 'scientists' are members of UCS? What is the distribution of members in the sciences? How many get their funding from government sources? The fact is that the soft sciences and the non-mathematical sciences are predominantly populated by left-wingers whose disciplines have absolutely nothing to do with the issues they advocate. Meanwhile, you never see the media give equal attention to any sort of Engineer populated lobbying group....
"SECTION 5: PATENTS
Article 27
Patentable Subject Matter
1. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3, patents shall be available for any inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application. (5) Subject to paragraph 4 of Article 65, paragraph 8 of Article 70 and paragraph 3 of this Article, patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to the place of invention, the field of technology and whether products are imported or locally produced."
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/uruguay/S UMMARY.html
"Provisional Applications - Sections 111 and 119 of the patent law have been amended to establish a domestic priority system. The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property requires that the terms of protection of patents for the same invention granted by different countries should generally be independent of one another. This precludes the United States from measuring, in a foreign origin application, the term of protection from the filing date of a foreign filed application, even though the benefit of that foreign filing is subsequently claimed in the United States. To give U.S. inventors a similar opportunity, in the United States, of having an initial application filing which does not serve as the basis from which the term of protection is measured, a domestic priority system has been established that provides for provisional application filing in the United States."
Sorry to say, but you are quite wrong. Studied this stuff in my International Trade Law class...
D'oh, it's for abrupt breaking from the D, spoken in the front of the mouth, to the 'oh', spoken at the back of the mouth, rather than allowing the pronounciation to proceed calmly from front to back as in "Dough", it is meant to convey a jump from point A to B with no dallying in between.
BTW: It is apostrophed because it is a contraction of DOPE!!!!!
RIM seems to have conveniently forgotten the IP articles of both NAFTA and GATT, as well as the Hague Service Convention, and other international conventions of private law, to which both the US and Canada are party to. Thanks to these treaties and conventions, judicial acts in the US have 'full faith and credit' in Canada, and vice versa. All this story is about is a battle over jurisdiction in an attempt to get a more sympathetic jury, assuming that Waterloo residents will bias for RIM, and Americans will bias for NTP. Both companies have histories of litigating for profit.
Might I suggest a combination of scramjet and laser launcher for the second stage? I have a nice conceptual design.
Which explains why you are not a dot com billionaire....
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/as at.htm
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/22 /141829.shtml
http://www.rmfdevelopment.com/political/ChineseASA T_capability.htm
The Libertarians among us will argue that private enterprise can do it more affordably. This might be born out. SpaceShipOne's achievement is essentially a replication of the capability of the German V-2 rocket.
While development of that rocket took quite a bit of money, once they got production facilities going, they were pumping missiles out for the then-dollar cost of $14,000.00, which would be worth somewhere around $300,000-400,000 today, accounting for inflation. This amount wasn't accounting for labor costs, because the laborers were all jewish concentration-camp slave workers, so double that figure for a more real amount. This also doesn't count the cost of fuel, deployment, and launching.
Virgin Galactic is going to be offering rides (2 passenger seats per ship) for just under $200,000.00 a seat, or $400,000.00 per flight total revinue, which is at least 50% cheaper than the cost of a V-2.
Radio noise is a big problem with RFID. Discrimination is another. Not racial, but ID discrimination. If someone is sitting in the first or second row with a 'go-to' card, the reader may have a tough time discriminating between their card and yours as you enter the bus.... This is a real problem with RFID as many such cards and tags can be read up to 17 feet away. People need to buy a wallet that is made from cloth with steel mesh in it.
You also seem to forget that some people may want to pay with cash. I do, with everything I consume. I cut up my credit cards years ago. I don't bank, either. My money is still good, it is better than good, because at least it is legal tender, stores don't have to pay a percentage to a credit card company, or worry about reversed charges or bounced checks, fraudulent charges by unauthorized cardholders. Stores should LOVE to have someone like me for a customer, but they don't.
Are you aware your RFID can be read up to 17 feet away from you? Are you aware that they identify you to the store when you walk in, so that they can not only tell what shoes and clothes you are wearing, when and where you bought those products, what other stores you shop at, but which credit cards you used (or whether, the horror, you used.... CASH!!!!).
The supposed benefits? They can target coupons specifically to you based on what they know of your buying habits.
It is documented that RFID/shopping card stores raise prices, not lower them, after implementation, contrary to their claims. They identify where you are (which might be nice in case someone accuses you of committing a crime during that period, but also makes your location available to big brother in case they want to drag you in).
There is no need to "chip" the people. They are willingly or unknowingly doing it by buying products from companies that don't think you have a right to know. Many shoes have RFIDs in them, as do clothing, in the seams, as well as womens underwear and other products.
To counteract this trend, I recommend people engage in what I call "delousing". As RFIDs are specialized sorts of electronic 'bugs', which are implanted in clothes seams (where lice hide), I propose that RFIDs be nicknamed "lice" and the practice of shielding, burning out, or removing RFIDs be known as "delousing".
Hopefully we'll have some delousing products available soon....the first is an RFID shielding wallet...
Mike Lorrey, founder YNGVE Delousing Technologies
ResearchCo created Velcro with the funds NASA gave it, sure, but NASA wasted twice as much money figuring out who the right company was to give it to, overseeing them to make sure they are spending it wisely, and they had to give ResearchCo twice as much money as it would have needed if it came from private investors because private investors don't demand that you comply with every subclause of every damn government regulation, from OSHA, union, EPA, etc. Private funds to ResearchCo gets three to four times more bang for the buck than government spending.
Only a true fanboy nerd would nitpick a nitpickers guide. Doing so goes beyond pedantry all the way to Aspergers-like symptoms...
I see more liberal congressmonsters ho-humming about "how bad a draft would be", but "it's only fair", it's "more democratic" than just letting hick kids volunteer for all the glory, and because "failure is not an option", even though "Iraq was a mistake." Now they point out the risks if North Korea or Iran becomes another regional conflict issue, however, the real risks aren't North Korea, or Iran. Those are more mere distractions from the real risk. China has $500 billion in US dollars in its vaults, being used to back their own currency, the Yuan. Over the last year, a number of other countries have detached their shakey currencies from the dollar and changed backing to the Euro, encouraged by the Chinese and other anti-US forces at work on the international stage. This means that many billions of dollars flowed out of the reserve banks of developing nations as Euros flowed in. This devalued the dollar by up to 40%. This is the real reason oil is so expensive. If you adjusted for these exchange rate changes, the price of oil would be no different than it was prior to the Iraq war. I was looking at the price of Iranian crude yesterday: $34.00 weighted average between light and heavy crudes from Iran. Adjusted for the change in exchange rates prior to the Iraq war, that is equal to a pre-war price of less than $20.00/bbl, or $0.50 per gallon. Now China is talking about shifting their own currency backing to a "mixed basket" of currencies, and is planning on dumping $200-$300 billion in US cash on the world currency markets in the next year. This will drop the value of the dollar even more, raising gas prices likely to about $3.50-$4.00 per gallon, unless other nations get creative about taking dollars off the market. These prices are reflective of the inflation adjusted prices we paid for oil during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979. Some of you remember those days, of inflation, mile long gas lines, rationing, and Carter's failed assault in the Iranian desert. It isn't about currency or oil. It is about war. Not war in Iraq, or Iran, or North Korea, it's about war in Taiwan. China is pissed at Taiwan and it's independence minded President. Encouraged by US sales of advanced weapons systems, Taiwan has been talking a tougher line about complete independence from China. Ticked off by US spyplane flights offshore of Chinese military invasion exercises (you remember when our plane got forced down prior to 9-11), the Chinese know that the US is the final arbiter of any conflict between the island and the mainland. They want us out of that picture so they can have a free reign in determining the conflict for themselves. For years China's military establishment has accepted as a given a major war with the US in the next few decades, over Taiwan ostensibly, and global dominance overall in the 21st Century. They see this scenario as their version of the Spanish-American War, where we are now the old and decadent Spanish Empire, ripe to be plucked of its prize fruits, on the road to recognition as a new global super-power. Now, China is not stupid. After all, Sun Tsu, the general who united ancient China, is the author of the greatest war manual, The Art of War. This book is studied for years by Chinese officers. Sun Tsu says to strike where the enemy is not, where the enemy is weakest. He also says to win a battle before an arrow is fired. He was the man who prefected the art of the forking attack, of feints, flanking maneuvers, of taking the high ground and fading into the terrain. China needs to neutralize the US as a threat in its plan to conqer Taiwan. They are now testing nuclear subs with missiles capable of striking any target in the US. Still, they need to neutralize our conventional forces capability. This is why for many years, you have seen significant Chinese support for Islamo-Fascism. China supplied Pakistan with nuclear technology to counter the Indian nuclear threat to China. It also supplied the Pakistanis with weapons supplies for the Taliban and al Qaeda. It supplied Iraq and Iran with ballistic missile
He's shifting from usenet to Wiki? Why, so he'll be read by even fewer people?
How long ago was this? I might be able to help you find it. My company is an FL private eye firm. If you have the VIN, or the plate number (and state) when you had it, I can find it for you.
Ooooh! Ooooh! I saw this episode of Stargate SG-1. The core of the comet is made up of n'aquita and will cause an explosion the size of the solar system when we kick it off.... don't worry, though, we've got that trusty warp drive to warp it through the planet... uh, where's the warp drive?
When you are married, you own property *jointly*. The principle of community property only applies in some states, and only applies to court ordered dissolution of assets. If her name was not on either the title, the registration, or the loan application, then it ain't hers until a judge says so, even if it IS a community property state.
How about no response times? My Smith & Wesson does a much better job, thanks. It doesn't suffer power outages, and it only runs outta ammo when I run outta perps... It doesn't go on strike, whine about overtime, refuse to report, need a pension, or hang out in donut shops. It doesn't confiscate taxes from me either.
Their disregard for others is only matched by political buffoons who disarm law abiding citizens and expect them to survive criminal incidents long enough to call 911 and wait for cops to get off their donut laden fat asses to come do their public servant pay grade jobs.
What is so surprising about this incident is that cops actually showed up in time to catch the perpetrators. I guess that multi-thousand dollar circuit boards are more important than human lives to the cops as well.
Question: if there are no trees on Mars to hug, aren't we going to need a new name to call these nuts?