"Can we get an "R" and "D" next to each candidates name?"
You say that as if there's a significant difference between the two. There isn't - they're both out to re-purpose your money toward their own ends, and build up their own power and control over your life.
"don't claim you have a government monopoly that you don't, and we're enabling bounty hunters to fuck you up if you do. "
The presence of a patent number isn't a monopoly claim. It's a reference to detailed information about (at least one feature of) the product. The manufacturer is actually informing its (potential) competition on how to find detailed information on the design of its product. That's exactly what the patent system is supposed to do, make detailed information on inventions available to all. Having expired patent numbers on products should be encouraged. If the patented feature has value, then the free market encourages removal of the number to prevent disclosing that information after it becomes publicly useful.
And, exactly what do you think libertarians should be up in arms about? About patents themselves, or about the type of patent troll discussed here?
" possible compromise is to have products also list the year the patent will expire, and remove all ambiguity."
Until Congress extends or otherwise changes patent terms, as is its wont.
Also, from the summary:"it's against the law to sell a product that's marked with an expired patent number."
Do I smell legislatively forced obsolescence? Does this mean I can't sell old tools in a garage sale, without the mentioned patent trolls coming after me?
From my own experience, even if you catch a teacher flunking students intentionally you still can't get them fired. At least not if they have tenure.
You're confused. The problem is not one of flunking good students, it's one of passing poor ones to the next teacher in line, so they don't have to work on educating them.
I have no doubts that records from this time period will survive for far longer than from previous societies.
Because punched tape, punched cards, cassette tapes, 9 track tapes, QIC tapes, 8" floppies, 5 1/4" floppies, 3.5" floppies, IOMega discs, Syquest discs, MO discs, ZIP discs, JAZ discs, VHS tapes, 8mm tapes, SmartMedia cards, and xD cards last so much longer than stone tablets.
Typefaces can't be copyrighted. Code which draw them algorithmically, yes, but not fonts [sic]. They are specifically excluded from copyright (in the US).
37 CFR 202.1:
Material not subject to copyright.
The following are examples of works not subject to copyright and applications for registration of such works cannot be entertained: ...
(e) Typeface as typeface.
You can state that as fact, just as Locke states the opposite. Hobbes vs. Locke, it appears.
the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has cut;
and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in
common with others, become my property, without the assignation or consent
of any body. The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common
state they were in, hath fixed my property in them... The only way whereby
any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of
civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a
community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst
another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security
against any, that are not of it.... The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.
Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the common-wealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.
--- John Locke, 2nd Treatise of Gov't vis-a-vis US Const, 5th and 14th Amendments.
The argument then becomes whether ideas can be property. The US Constitution, by implication, says no - "Writings and Discoveries" are an "exclusive right" only for a "limited time," a clear statement that "intellectual property" is not property at all, but a limited and artificially constructed grant of rights.
Whoever manufactures, sells, or possesses any badge,
identification card, or other insignia, of the design prescribed by
the head of any department or agency of the United States for use
by any officer or employee thereof, or any colorable imitation
thereof, or photographs, prints, or in any other manner makes or
executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the
likeness of any such badge, identification card, or other insignia,
or any colorable imitation thereof, except as authorized under
regulations made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this title
or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
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"Can we get an "R" and "D" next to each candidates name?"
You say that as if there's a significant difference between the two. There isn't - they're both out to re-purpose your money toward their own ends, and build up their own power and control over your life.
"The same thing we do every day, Pinky, try to take over the world!"
No. Reading is useless without understanding. The OP was correct in asking. Your hand is not opaque, it is translucent.
2) Stick RFID tag to rack...
3) ???
4) Profit!
Mine is 640x480, you insensitive clod.
Else how could an ISP charge more for the same service re-labeled as "business Internet?" Meh. You're quite simply wrong, and apparently a noobie.
Does this somehow help them? The article doesn't say.
How much of their fishing territory does this eliminate (article says 150,000 square miles, but doesn't mention the current total area)?
Basically, the article is poorly written, even mixing units - square miles, then square kilometers. Has all the appearance of a "puff piece."
Chuck Norris wouldn't need a crowbar.
You're creating a false dichotomy. Both major parties function primarily to build and maintain governmental power.
[quote]I thought Obama was a kenyan muslim...[/quote]
No, he's a "Keynesian muslim."
"don't claim you have a government monopoly that you don't, and we're enabling bounty hunters to fuck you up if you do. "
The presence of a patent number isn't a monopoly claim. It's a reference to detailed information about (at least one feature of) the product. The manufacturer is actually informing its (potential) competition on how to find detailed information on the design of its product. That's exactly what the patent system is supposed to do, make detailed information on inventions available to all. Having expired patent numbers on products should be encouraged. If the patented feature has value, then the free market encourages removal of the number to prevent disclosing that information after it becomes publicly useful.
And, exactly what do you think libertarians should be up in arms about? About patents themselves, or about the type of patent troll discussed here?
"Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) program"
They _could_ have called it the Bitchin' Optical Retrieval and Analysis Tool (BORAT).
" possible compromise is to have products also list the year the patent will expire, and remove all ambiguity."
Until Congress extends or otherwise changes patent terms, as is its wont.
Also, from the summary:"it's against the law to sell a product that's marked with an expired patent number."
Do I smell legislatively forced obsolescence? Does this mean I can't sell old tools in a garage sale, without the mentioned patent trolls coming after me?
The summary left out the "up to..." with regard to speeds.
From my own experience, even if you catch a teacher flunking students intentionally you still can't get them fired. At least not if they have tenure.
You're confused. The problem is not one of flunking good students, it's one of passing poor ones to the next teacher in line, so they don't have to work on educating them.
I have no doubts that records from this time period will survive for far longer than from previous societies.
Because punched tape, punched cards, cassette tapes, 9 track tapes, QIC tapes, 8" floppies, 5 1/4" floppies, 3.5" floppies, IOMega discs, Syquest discs, MO discs, ZIP discs, JAZ discs, VHS tapes, 8mm tapes, SmartMedia cards, and xD cards last so much longer than stone tablets.
Wow.... "the turfs my servant has cut".... He was a slave owner
Either you never mowed lawns as a kid, or you thought yourself a slave for doing so. Either way, you're ignorant of what was being said.
37 CFR 202.1:
Material not subject to copyright.
The following are examples of works not subject to copyright and applications for registration of such works cannot be entertained:
...
(e) Typeface as typeface.
the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has cut; and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property, without the assignation or consent of any body. The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them ... The only way whereby
any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of
civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a
community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst
another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security
against any, that are not of it. ... The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.
---Locke, ibid.
Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the common-wealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.
--- John Locke, 2nd Treatise of Gov't vis-a-vis US Const, 5th and 14th Amendments.
The argument then becomes whether ideas can be property. The US Constitution, by implication, says no - "Writings and Discoveries" are an "exclusive right" only for a "limited time," a clear statement that "intellectual property" is not property at all, but a limited and artificially constructed grant of rights.
Are you an idiot in real life, too, or do you only play one on slashdot?
Whoever manufactures, sells, or possesses any badge, identification card, or other insignia, of the design prescribed by the head of any department or agency of the United States for use by any officer or employee thereof, or any colorable imitation thereof, or photographs, prints, or in any other manner makes or executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the likeness of any such badge, identification card, or other insignia, or any colorable imitation thereof, except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
18 USC 701
part of their education should include concern for the intellectual property of others.
"Intellectual property?" I prefer the term "thought hoarding."
Well, that leaves retail.
"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
What does a phrase from the US Constitution have to do with selling copyrighted software in South America?