Um, your second "Clueless Customer Rep" lin is incorrect, that is what you are missing. It should read a bit more like this...
Thief: Knave here, I would like to remove the freeze on my account, I'm buying myself a sweet car. Clueless Customer Rep: Very good sir. Please enter your pin number to lift the freeze. Thief: Um, I just remembered I need to see a man about a horse. BRB.
(P.S. I know what PIN stands for and that I don't need the word number there, but that is what the CR would say. They are clueless, ya know.)
Strange logic, but if you say so. Never been like that at the few protests I've been to. The only time a gathering turned into a riot that I was at was when the police thought that there were too many people at a street festival. They decided that the best way to disperse the crowd, even though there had been no violence, was to send a line of mounted officers into the crowd to push them out of the festival area using the mass of the horses to intimidate the people. That turned into a riot. Luckily for me, I was already leaving and was a few blocks away on my motorcycle when it happened, but I got to see the middle and end of the incident. Stupid use of force and escalation of the situation by the police. That was what the city government decided.
A single act of violent disobedience by a single person at a protest with possibly hundreds or thousands of participants is a riot? Damn. That makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
I don't know exactly which case the OP is discussing, but the USPTO does allow the patenting of genes which are discovered, not invented, and as a holder of the patent of the gene, you do have the limited monopoly rights granted by patent law to the use of those genes by other parties. If it's just a marker gene, then any test that screens for cancer by looking at the allele and deciding if it indicates an elevated risk of cancer, you owe royalties. If it is actually a gene that can cause cancer and you make a drug that makes the allele related to the development of cancer not expressed for that gene you owe them royalties.
Boy, you don't even have to invent anything nowadays to get lucrtive patents. Yea!
Ah, I see. You feel that since technology isn't a panacea for us it's best to make no attempt to allow others to better themselves since they won't be perfect either. As we all know if your spelling, grammar, and basic math skills aren't flawless, there is no point in trying to do anything. Perfection, or squallor! No middle ground. The OLPC units are tools. Nothing more.
Because, if these children can gain access to a good education maybe they can learn to grow more food and earn more money so that they don't have to worry if the One Meal Per Child program is going to still be running when they are old enough to have children. It's just like the old, overused, adage about giving a man a fish.
So since they live in deplorable condition they should be kept ignorant so it propagates to the next generation?
These machines, at least the OLPC, are not designed to be time wasting game platforms. They are meant for education. Rather than have 5-10 paper books to carry around and protect from the elements you will have a small computer and your books will reside on a USB flash drive. You will do your assignments on the machine and zap them to the teacher using the wireless, or a USB drive.
Well, after thinking about it as I wrote this missive, you're right. When they find out they can't plaw WoW on their school property computers, they will throw them in the ditches and drop out of school.
Well, duh! It is a market because they are exchanging goods and services. Just not ones you would like to be exchanged. Rather than trading their hours for money like in a historical market, the open source developers, testers, and users are trading their efforts for lower costs. Sort of like being speculators in a market. There are many more types of exchanges than labor or goods for currency.
But congress also voted that the U.S. would abide by the Berne convention. They can't make the law you propose and still be considered a signitory of Berne. That's the reason for the silly loophole. It allows them to stay a signitory on the prime international copyright treaty and still let their corporate citizens violate it. Best of both worlds. As long as the SCOTUS never takes one of the questionable cases on their docket there is no problem.
Well, even if someone fought it through the appeals process the Supreme Court doesn't have to put the case on their docket. They can simply let it die giving their tacit approval knowing that if they took the case they would have to smack it down if they were to be honest about the Constitutional validity and adherence to the Berne convention.
Well, one uses the words "method" and "action" and the other doesn't.;) Seriously though, there isn't any real difference. It is just the U.S. congresses way of allowing Algorithms to be patented even though the Berne convention disallows them.
I was an early adopter also. I had a Sylvania from about 1990-91 that died last year. It took about 10-15 seconds to get up to temp (Longer near the end). Very yellow light. Ick. At about $16 it still more than paid for itself in electricity and replacement bulbs though. Now I pick them up for about $2 each and they get even more lumens per watt than the old ones. The newer ones seem to lag the first 5-10 times I turn them on, but they seem to get faster, with little or no lag, after a few starts.
But you can enter into a contract with the broadcasters at whatever rate you want, you just have to notify SoundExchange of this fact and they will bill accordingly. Negotiate a zero royalty and that would be what they can collect. The pisser is you can't just agree to forgo this and not collect if you wish, you have to negotiate with each entity.
Well, around 50 years ago would be a bit later that the internment so I wouldn't say it was around, but you are free to..
That said, putting people in jail for having ancestors from Japan is only slightly dumber than sticking people in jail for possesing cannabis sativa leaves, or having sex with a consenting person who has the mental capacity to judge the risks and rewards for said action, but we do that too.
Nowadays we also arrest kids for doing their in class assignments if the teacher doesn't like the topic.
We just have different stupid freedom inhibitng laws now than we did 65 years ago.
They won't be since they will be in jail. I'm sure some reader/viewer found a piece of their work disturbing therefore "they gots some jail time a comin'" for disturbing their peace.
They are based "OUT OF" Madison because they ship their frigging product OUT OF Madison to the rest of the world that is not IN Madison, got it Grammar Nitwit? It's a term that comes from the physical manufacturing and sales economy the U.S. used to have, and we have not yet seen fit to thow it upon the pyre of "not acceptable idioms".
Not sure why that set me off so badly, but it did.
See, theres your problem. You don't have any experience in local government. You think law enforcement is mostly about public safety and social order. That is just a small part of it. It is much easier to turn your law enforcement entities into revenue generators than to get the funding other ways. If the officers ticket 10 people a day for a $200 fine that is $2000 income per day for the village/town/city. See, that was easy!
Next time I will include the joke and sarcasm tags just for you. At least you were too embarrassed to post as yourself since you OBVIOUSLY lost your sense of humor. I'd look under the bed and behind the sofa if I was you. That's where I usually find mine after I've lost it.
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Um, your second "Clueless Customer Rep" lin is incorrect, that is what you are missing. It should read a bit more like this...
Thief: Knave here, I would like to remove the freeze on my account, I'm buying myself a sweet car.
Clueless Customer Rep: Very good sir. Please enter your pin number to lift the freeze.
Thief: Um, I just remembered I need to see a man about a horse. BRB.
(P.S. I know what PIN stands for and that I don't need the word number there, but that is what the CR would say. They are clueless, ya know.)
And once they run out of hidey holes you either have to squish them or live with them. Neither choice is plesant.
Strange logic, but if you say so. Never been like that at the few protests I've been to. The only time a gathering turned into a riot that I was at was when the police thought that there were too many people at a street festival. They decided that the best way to disperse the crowd, even though there had been no violence, was to send a line of mounted officers into the crowd to push them out of the festival area using the mass of the horses to intimidate the people. That turned into a riot. Luckily for me, I was already leaving and was a few blocks away on my motorcycle when it happened, but I got to see the middle and end of the incident. Stupid use of force and escalation of the situation by the police. That was what the city government decided.
A single act of violent disobedience by a single person at a protest with possibly hundreds or thousands of participants is a riot? Damn. That makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
I don't know exactly which case the OP is discussing, but the USPTO does allow the patenting of genes which are discovered, not invented, and as a holder of the patent of the gene, you do have the limited monopoly rights granted by patent law to the use of those genes by other parties. If it's just a marker gene, then any test that screens for cancer by looking at the allele and deciding if it indicates an elevated risk of cancer, you owe royalties. If it is actually a gene that can cause cancer and you make a drug that makes the allele related to the development of cancer not expressed for that gene you owe them royalties.
Boy, you don't even have to invent anything nowadays to get lucrtive patents. Yea!
Well, at least they had the balls to "sign their names" as you put it. You on the other hand...
No, no strawman. Simple sarcasm. Can't wait for basic reading skills to come to the troll world.
Ah, I see. You feel that since technology isn't a panacea for us it's best to make no attempt to allow others to better themselves since they won't be perfect either. As we all know if your spelling, grammar, and basic math skills aren't flawless, there is no point in trying to do anything. Perfection, or squallor! No middle ground. The OLPC units are tools. Nothing more.
Riiiiight.
Because, if these children can gain access to a good education maybe they can learn to grow more food and earn more money so that they don't have to worry if the One Meal Per Child program is going to still be running when they are old enough to have children. It's just like the old, overused, adage about giving a man a fish.
So since they live in deplorable condition they should be kept ignorant so it propagates to the next generation?
These machines, at least the OLPC, are not designed to be time wasting game platforms. They are meant for education. Rather than have 5-10 paper books to carry around and protect from the elements you will have a small computer and your books will reside on a USB flash drive. You will do your assignments on the machine and zap them to the teacher using the wireless, or a USB drive.
Well, after thinking about it as I wrote this missive, you're right. When they find out they can't plaw WoW on their school property computers, they will throw them in the ditches and drop out of school.
Well, duh! It is a market because they are exchanging goods and services. Just not ones you would like to be exchanged. Rather than trading their hours for money like in a historical market, the open source developers, testers, and users are trading their efforts for lower costs. Sort of like being speculators in a market. There are many more types of exchanges than labor or goods for currency.
But congress also voted that the U.S. would abide by the Berne convention. They can't make the law you propose and still be considered a signitory of Berne. That's the reason for the silly loophole. It allows them to stay a signitory on the prime international copyright treaty and still let their corporate citizens violate it. Best of both worlds. As long as the SCOTUS never takes one of the questionable cases on their docket there is no problem.
Well, even if someone fought it through the appeals process the Supreme Court doesn't have to put the case on their docket. They can simply let it die giving their tacit approval knowing that if they took the case they would have to smack it down if they were to be honest about the Constitutional validity and adherence to the Berne convention.
Well, one uses the words "method" and "action" and the other doesn't. ;) Seriously though, there isn't any real difference. It is just the U.S. congresses way of allowing Algorithms to be patented even though the Berne convention disallows them.
I was an early adopter also. I had a Sylvania from about 1990-91 that died last year. It took about 10-15 seconds to get up to temp (Longer near the end). Very yellow light. Ick. At about $16 it still more than paid for itself in electricity and replacement bulbs though. Now I pick them up for about $2 each and they get even more lumens per watt than the old ones. The newer ones seem to lag the first 5-10 times I turn them on, but they seem to get faster, with little or no lag, after a few starts.
Since I don't get paid for it I guess I'm actually a karma slut.
But you can enter into a contract with the broadcasters at whatever rate you want, you just have to notify SoundExchange of this fact and they will bill accordingly. Negotiate a zero royalty and that would be what they can collect. The pisser is you can't just agree to forgo this and not collect if you wish, you have to negotiate with each entity.
Well, around 50 years ago would be a bit later that the internment so I wouldn't say it was around, but you are free to..
That said, putting people in jail for having ancestors from Japan is only slightly dumber than sticking people in jail for possesing cannabis sativa leaves, or having sex with a consenting person who has the mental capacity to judge the risks and rewards for said action, but we do that too.
Nowadays we also arrest kids for doing their in class assignments if the teacher doesn't like the topic.
We just have different stupid freedom inhibitng laws now than we did 65 years ago.
It. Have "it" removed. Remember, you need to dehumanize the enemy to make it easier for the panicy masses destroy them.
They won't be since they will be in jail. I'm sure some reader/viewer found a piece of their work disturbing therefore "they gots some jail time a comin'" for disturbing their peace.
'Course you are, G. Neva said you ain't. Nobody disin' you. Peace.
They are based "OUT OF" Madison because they ship their frigging product OUT OF Madison to the rest of the world that is not IN Madison, got it Grammar Nitwit? It's a term that comes from the physical manufacturing and sales economy the U.S. used to have, and we have not yet seen fit to thow it upon the pyre of "not acceptable idioms".
Not sure why that set me off so badly, but it did.
See, theres your problem. You don't have any experience in local government. You think law enforcement is mostly about public safety and social order. That is just a small part of it. It is much easier to turn your law enforcement entities into revenue generators than to get the funding other ways. If the officers ticket 10 people a day for a $200 fine that is $2000 income per day for the village/town/city. See, that was easy!
Next time I will include the joke and sarcasm tags just for you. At least you were too embarrassed to post as yourself since you OBVIOUSLY lost your sense of humor. I'd look under the bed and behind the sofa if I was you. That's where I usually find mine after I've lost it.