If everything had a price one company with the money would end up owning everything.
Until one bright boy made a successful guess at the next step said business would need to make, stifling their growth and giving the next guy a monopoly. Kind of like Kings usurping Kings.
Previously, there were checks and balances placed in society to prevent the atrocities of the Industrial Revolution from happening again. And life was good.
As more and more people forgot about the conditions of labor which were impressed upon the workforce, these checks and balances were overlooked and neglected, and big business took over. Like a kid in a candy store, these entities destroyed the system which fostered competition, and made it a tool to oppress the people. Big Business became Government, and further cemented the position as our overlords.
The current patent system is just a tool used for this purpose.
It probably was popularized by Clint Eastwood in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' when he said, "I'll kick you so hard, you'll be wearing your ass for a hat".
Although, UrbanDictionary.com says:
5 definitions found.
asshat
One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat. Asshat
asshat
One who enters into a new environment without taking the time to learn any of the social rules of the place. Then they promptly make pretty much every social gaff you can imagine this side of shitting on the dinner table.
You know, a moron.
Scrappy Doo is one of the few existing examples of an animated asshat.
asshat
a person who has no common sense or just plain stupid.
Some of the people on notPopular.com are asshats.
asshat
exclamation said when being woken up for the third time by your drunken roomates
i hope this asshat likes the taste of concrete
asshat
1. A hat worn by a drunken fool, or ass.
2. A foolish person, as one who would wear an asshat.
1. At the party, Jon made a fool of himself when he donned his asshat, the lampshade.
2. By bothering everyone at work, that asshat has made a real fool of himself.
But if Joe consumer is completely unaware of it, then it is misleading. That would be like only being able to use Canon film in your Canon camera, and to a further extent only GM windshield washer fluid in your buick.
Last time I checked, there were no statements on the boxes that declared that the printer could not be used with third party cartridges.
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If everything had a price one company with the money would end up owning everything.
Until one bright boy made a successful guess at the next step said business would need to make, stifling their growth and giving the next guy a monopoly. Kind of like Kings usurping Kings.
Ain't the system wonderful?
Especially if you're in the bullet manufacturing business, or you make rope for a living.
Morticians should also benefit, as well as grave-diggers. It's the trickle-down effect.
Previously, there were checks and balances placed in society to prevent the atrocities of the Industrial Revolution from happening again. And life was good.
As more and more people forgot about the conditions of labor which were impressed upon the workforce, these checks and balances were overlooked and neglected, and big business took over. Like a kid in a candy store, these entities destroyed the system which fostered competition, and made it a tool to oppress the people. Big Business became Government, and further cemented the position as our overlords.
The current patent system is just a tool used for this purpose.
He just has to tell the apple fanboys that a G5 is, and they'll believe it.
For his next trick, Jobs is going to walk on water.
Wall-hacking at the speed of light. YES!
Ooh, those poor Palestinians...
:)
SARS is going to look like a field trip to the zoo
Check out Terroristwarning.com for all kinds of terrifying tidbits (man, ain't the internet great?).
Terroristwarning.com
And for something lighthearted...
You'd look awful suspicious if it did happen, what with that giant map with all the targets labelled and all...
It probably was popularized by Clint Eastwood in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' when he said, "I'll kick you so hard, you'll be wearing your ass for a hat".
Although, UrbanDictionary.com says:
5 definitions found.
asshat
One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat. Asshat
asshat
One who enters into a new environment without taking the time to learn any of the social rules of the place. Then they promptly make pretty much every social gaff you can imagine this side of shitting on the dinner table.
You know, a moron.
Scrappy Doo is one of the few existing examples of an animated asshat.
asshat
a person who has no common sense or just plain stupid.
Some of the people on notPopular.com are asshats.
asshat
exclamation said when being woken up for the third time by your drunken roomates
i hope this asshat likes the taste of concrete
asshat
1. A hat worn by a drunken fool, or ass.
2. A foolish person, as one who would wear an asshat.
1. At the party, Jon made a fool of himself when he donned his asshat, the lampshade.
2. By bothering everyone at work, that asshat has made a real fool of himself.
Hope this helps...
Here's the RedNova article on it.
In this species, the male latches on to the female and doesn't let go.
Man, where can I get a job like that?
It turned out to be a rotting corpse of a giant sea squid.
Just have to...
What if the current occupant has your name?
Eg. Admin, root, abuse, spam....
You still have to find a balance. If you're modifying your product to fit every slight change in the market, then you're too far behind.
Successful developers have the market modified to fit its products. Think Cisco.
But if Joe consumer is completely unaware of it, then it is misleading. That would be like only being able to use Canon film in your Canon camera, and to a further extent only GM windshield washer fluid in your buick.
Last time I checked, there were no statements on the boxes that declared that the printer could not be used with third party cartridges.
Then we'd have a real webserver (except they'd probably flood themselves off under normal operation.)
Try installing some text-to-speech software and reading slashdot.
I'm sure that will go over well. It's a clusterfuck as a visual medium, imagine it as read by Dr. Sbaitso...
I get all kinds of spam from getbettermail.com, MSFT's new enterprise. They're protecting their interests.
parser?
Security patches are about the only reason. But putting an NT4 box in the DMZ is asking for trouble...
Symantec usuall says the same thing in all their writeups.
And they use linux in their software appliances too.