"- Rising consumer prices will be coming to USA once it cannot DISPOSE of its US dollars and bonds to producer nations"
Wrong! Bond prices are low and that means the USA can't print dollars fast enough for other people to buy. So the rest of your argument folds as house made of cards.
"- Great Depression was caused by the gov't spending into a recession it also caused. The 1920 recession was worse than 1929 (and worse than 2008) in terms of total job losses, however Harding turned it around by cutting 70% of gov't spending. 1920 recession was caused by Fed printing since 1913."
Wrong! Read history, the Great Depression was preceded by tight fiscal policy.
You are WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Thousands times wrong. And yet the world heeds idiots like you because your words just SOUND right even though they have no meaning. One moment you predict inflation and the other moment you predict high bond prices. And when neither prediction comes true you start twisting the meaning of the words.
Your kind of goldbuggers has so far been consistently wrong in predicting EVERYTHING in this crisis. Absolutely fucking everything: inflation, rising bond prices, national defaults, etc. Your every fucking prediction was untrue.
And Keynesian predictions were always right on money.
Want to prove me wrong? Show me a prediction of goldbuggy austerians which came true AND was different from prediction of Keynesian models. I dare you.
And it won't matter. If it's a natural disaster like in Japan and you are forced to move somewhere with a lot of other refugees, then your guns will only weigh you down and probably cause unnecessary tensions in relations with other people. Would you allow some stranger to sleep in your house if they carry a small arsenal?
And if it's a Mad Max scenario then your toys for shooting cans are worse than useless, they'll mark you as a good target for robbers and local gangsters. Your best bet is to forget everything and join the military (or whatever replaces it) as soon as possible - there's a strength in numbers.
It's possible that you'll be able to organize a self-defense committee, but it's far from certain and requires people with good leadership skills.
I've personally built a laser link using two laser pointers, it was capable of reliable communication at 115200bps at the distance of 2 kilometers. With better lasers and/or lenses, this distance can be easily extended to 10-15km.
The problem is, the responsibility of the Fed is very narrowly defined. It's basically responsible for the inflation and unemployment, and that's all (and really, it should stay this way).
The Fed is not responsible for auditing banks for predatory lending practice or regulating the derivatives. Had the Fed raised the rates, the USA (and probably the rest of the world) would have gone into a recession which would have stopped the predatory lending. But the moment the rates were lowered again, the predatory lending would have picked up the steam again.
Also, raising the rates during the period of low inflation is quite harmful in itself.
Your argument is invalid, and that's why - other prices are not rising, except for some commodities.
Look, oil has risen from $37 at the bottom of the financial crisis. Now it's back to $100. That's increase of 2.5 times! Inflation generally requires ALL prices to come up, and this hasn't happened so far - prices for non-energy-intensive goods and services are stable (within a few percents). There's no real inflation in the USA.
And please notice the part: "In the USA". Because there's also no inflation in the Eurozone! And the exchange rate of euro vs. dollar has not changed much since the start of the crisis (not by 2.5 times as it would be implied by oil prices).
What happens in reality is peak oil. There's a strong demand for energy from China, India and Brazil which have economies growing fast (China is back at 10%-a-year growth!) and there's just not enough oil.
"Stop the money printing, cut the government by an amount that would return it to pre-1913 levels, and you'll allow the economy to fix itself."
Yeah, fix itself in the sense "emasculate". Right into the Greatest Depression. Fiat money is one of the greatest inventions of the 20-th century.
PS: stop whining about 'inflation destroying savings'. You ain't seeing no inflation. Read about 1000% a year inflation after the USSR collapse - that'll teach you what the REAL inflation is.
No, the problem is: 1) Kernel is starved for _address_ _space_ for its internal structures. 2) Userspace is starved for address space, because it has to view all the RAM through a small aperture (think EMS in 80286). 3) Constant address space remapping is costly.
And it doesn't matter that you use 64-bit pointers internally, because you can't address data directly.
Yes, they do. First, if you're hosting a single web-site on a single server then you'll probably want to install more than 4Gb just because RAM is so cheap now. And you'll inevitably use it (for databases, file cache, etc.). If you're hosting multiple sites on a single server, then you DEFINITELY need more than 4Gb of RAM per server (as it's going to be the limiting component).
Maybe ARM is justified for large Google-style server farms doing specialized work which does not require great amounts of RAM.
ARM _still_ has no real 64-bit support (only something resembling PAE on x86). So building a single-image server beyond 2-4 way is not really feasible.
It's fun that we're having all the past x86 problems with ARM.
The statement: "... my plan is to get a Clear Spot (their 4G WiMAX coverage is good for me) to use with my unlocked Nexus S (which will only ever use WiFi)" kinda implies that data would still go over mobile network.
VoIP over mobile networks is nowhere close to being reliable. Yes, it works if you're lucky enough but expect horrible jitter due to bufferbloat, inability to call sometimes because data network is congested, big lags, problems with filtering, etc.
We've tried it for secure voice communication. It JustDoesntWork(tm).
"First, any publication is prior art. Even setting it up on your web site for all to see (though harder to prove, of course)."
No, it's not true. There are lots of cases when publications in obscure local university journals were not considered prior art.
"I should also point out that at least where I live (first to file since forever), if you use an invention but do not publish it, and someone issues a patent after you went to market, they cannot take you out of the market. The patent only applies to people who use the invention after the filing date."
Yup. We also have it (in Russia and Ukraine), it's called 'prior-use right'.
However, US patent reform does not contain any similar clause.
I don't blame examiners, they spend less than a day working on a patent. And it's simply not possible to do exhaustive prior art searches with that amount of time.
What we should do is ban all software and business method patents. That'll solve most of USPTO problems.
"1. Made your invention public, either through a patent (a provisional patent costs very little money) or through publishing."
How? I have a non-trivial program. What should I patent? Potentially there might be tens of patentable inventions there.
Besides, defensive publication is not free.
So everyone must patent everything (expending valuable resources), whether it's significant or not. Nice.
And then there's software. A project on Sourceforge might NOT be considered a prior art if it's not very widely used. Do you do defensive publications (which are not free) for every line of your code?
Now, unless someone actually *steals* your research, why should they suffer because you gave them the silent treatment?
Of course, patent holder should not suffer. However, why should YOU suffer if someone patents an insignificant trivia (for you)? Automatic licenses for prior use solve both of these problems nicely.
Unfortunately, I have a rather extensive experience with the USPTO. They do prior art searches, but they are so laughably insufficient that it's no wonder a lot of troll patents get granted.
Also, one should not that NOT all prior art is acceptable for USPTO.
For example, imagine that you've invented a new metal alloy and used it to make better golf clubs. You have not published anywhere about your invention (maybe because you don't consider it significant).
Then somebody else discovers this alloy and patents it. USPTO would correctly grant this patent, because there's no public prior art. AND you (probably) won't be able to contest this patent based on your unpublished prior art. So you might find yourself in a situation where you have to pay for a license for a thing that you've invented independently!
Mandatory automatic patent license ensures that you can continue to use your invention, and patent holder can continue use his patent.
Also don't forget SONET/SDH, they need very precise timing signals too. Though in this case atomic clocks might be used, as they are getting cheaper and smaller.
That's not so simple. Our company was approached by a patent troll and we had to pay him. Simply because a process of revoking the patent would have cost us much more, even if we win at the end.
In theory prior art should get patent revoked. In practice, it will cost you A LOT to get a patent revoked. So it'll be cheaper to buy a license from a patent troll.
Making 'prior use' licenses automatic will indeed be easier and cheaper since all you need to show is that you were using the patented invention prior to the filing date (or filing date minus one year). In this case you won't need to litigate anything.
It will make it easier for patent trolls. It's quite hard to get a patent revoked due to prior art and courts also tend to side with patent holders.
The 'first to file' system needs also the 'prior use' clause - anyone who was using the invention prior to the filing date should get an automatic license for this patent.
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"- Rising consumer prices will be coming to USA once it cannot DISPOSE of its US dollars and bonds to producer nations"
Wrong! Bond prices are low and that means the USA can't print dollars fast enough for other people to buy. So the rest of your argument folds as house made of cards.
"- Great Depression was caused by the gov't spending into a recession it also caused. The 1920 recession was worse than 1929 (and worse than 2008) in terms of total job losses, however Harding turned it around by cutting 70% of gov't spending. 1920 recession was caused by Fed printing since 1913."
Wrong! Read history, the Great Depression was preceded by tight fiscal policy.
You are WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Thousands times wrong. And yet the world heeds idiots like you because your words just SOUND right even though they have no meaning. One moment you predict inflation and the other moment you predict high bond prices. And when neither prediction comes true you start twisting the meaning of the words.
Your kind of goldbuggers has so far been consistently wrong in predicting EVERYTHING in this crisis. Absolutely fucking everything: inflation, rising bond prices, national defaults, etc. Your every fucking prediction was untrue.
And Keynesian predictions were always right on money.
Want to prove me wrong? Show me a prediction of goldbuggy austerians which came true AND was different from prediction of Keynesian models. I dare you.
And it won't matter. If it's a natural disaster like in Japan and you are forced to move somewhere with a lot of other refugees, then your guns will only weigh you down and probably cause unnecessary tensions in relations with other people. Would you allow some stranger to sleep in your house if they carry a small arsenal?
And if it's a Mad Max scenario then your toys for shooting cans are worse than useless, they'll mark you as a good target for robbers and local gangsters. Your best bet is to forget everything and join the military (or whatever replaces it) as soon as possible - there's a strength in numbers.
It's possible that you'll be able to organize a self-defense committee, but it's far from certain and requires people with good leadership skills.
I've personally built a laser link using two laser pointers, it was capable of reliable communication at 115200bps at the distance of 2 kilometers. With better lasers and/or lenses, this distance can be easily extended to 10-15km.
I used the system described here: http://www.cqham.ru/link_1.htm (sorry, no English version)
The problem is, the responsibility of the Fed is very narrowly defined. It's basically responsible for the inflation and unemployment, and that's all (and really, it should stay this way).
The Fed is not responsible for auditing banks for predatory lending practice or regulating the derivatives. Had the Fed raised the rates, the USA (and probably the rest of the world) would have gone into a recession which would have stopped the predatory lending. But the moment the rates were lowered again, the predatory lending would have picked up the steam again.
Also, raising the rates during the period of low inflation is quite harmful in itself.
Your argument is invalid, and that's why - other prices are not rising, except for some commodities.
Look, oil has risen from $37 at the bottom of the financial crisis. Now it's back to $100. That's increase of 2.5 times! Inflation generally requires ALL prices to come up, and this hasn't happened so far - prices for non-energy-intensive goods and services are stable (within a few percents). There's no real inflation in the USA.
And please notice the part: "In the USA". Because there's also no inflation in the Eurozone! And the exchange rate of euro vs. dollar has not changed much since the start of the crisis (not by 2.5 times as it would be implied by oil prices).
What happens in reality is peak oil. There's a strong demand for energy from China, India and Brazil which have economies growing fast (China is back at 10%-a-year growth!) and there's just not enough oil.
"Stop the money printing, cut the government by an amount that would return it to pre-1913 levels, and you'll allow the economy to fix itself."
Yeah, fix itself in the sense "emasculate". Right into the Greatest Depression. Fiat money is one of the greatest inventions of the 20-th century.
PS: stop whining about 'inflation destroying savings'. You ain't seeing no inflation. Read about 1000% a year inflation after the USSR collapse - that'll teach you what the REAL inflation is.
No, the problem is:
1) Kernel is starved for _address_ _space_ for its internal structures.
2) Userspace is starved for address space, because it has to view all the RAM through a small aperture (think EMS in 80286).
3) Constant address space remapping is costly.
And it doesn't matter that you use 64-bit pointers internally, because you can't address data directly.
PAE-like schemes always have a lot problems. Just read Linus' rants about it :)
Yes, they do. First, if you're hosting a single web-site on a single server then you'll probably want to install more than 4Gb just because RAM is so cheap now. And you'll inevitably use it (for databases, file cache, etc.). If you're hosting multiple sites on a single server, then you DEFINITELY need more than 4Gb of RAM per server (as it's going to be the limiting component).
Maybe ARM is justified for large Google-style server farms doing specialized work which does not require great amounts of RAM.
ARM _still_ has no real 64-bit support (only something resembling PAE on x86). So building a single-image server beyond 2-4 way is not really feasible.
It's fun that we're having all the past x86 problems with ARM.
"Fact is is that Nuclear Power is Hooked on Subsidies [cato.org]."
So is any other kind of power generation, from the fossil fuel power to new 'green' alternatives.
Russia has one working power-generating breeder reactor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloyarsk_Nuclear_Power_Station ) and another one under construction.
So it's certainly possible, but up until now not cost-effective.
Technically, electrons have zero flavor charge. So they are flavorless!
Don't worry, this protein will be Intellectually Designed.
Reread the whole question, please.
The statement: "... my plan is to get a Clear Spot (their 4G WiMAX coverage is good for me) to use with my unlocked Nexus S (which will only ever use WiFi)" kinda implies that data would still go over mobile network.
VoIP over mobile networks is nowhere close to being reliable. Yes, it works if you're lucky enough but expect horrible jitter due to bufferbloat, inability to call sometimes because data network is congested, big lags, problems with filtering, etc.
We've tried it for secure voice communication. It JustDoesntWork(tm).
"First, any publication is prior art. Even setting it up on your web site for all to see (though harder to prove, of course)."
No, it's not true. There are lots of cases when publications in obscure local university journals were not considered prior art.
"I should also point out that at least where I live (first to file since forever), if you use an invention but do not publish it, and someone issues a patent after you went to market, they cannot take you out of the market. The patent only applies to people who use the invention after the filing date."
Yup. We also have it (in Russia and Ukraine), it's called 'prior-use right'.
However, US patent reform does not contain any similar clause.
I don't blame examiners, they spend less than a day working on a patent. And it's simply not possible to do exhaustive prior art searches with that amount of time. What we should do is ban all software and business method patents. That'll solve most of USPTO problems.
"1. Made your invention public, either through a patent (a provisional patent costs very little money) or through publishing." How? I have a non-trivial program. What should I patent? Potentially there might be tens of patentable inventions there. Besides, defensive publication is not free.
That's your own fault for sleeping on your specs.
So everyone must patent everything (expending valuable resources), whether it's significant or not. Nice.
And then there's software. A project on Sourceforge might NOT be considered a prior art if it's not very widely used. Do you do defensive publications (which are not free) for every line of your code?
Now, unless someone actually *steals* your research, why should they suffer because you gave them the silent treatment?
Of course, patent holder should not suffer. However, why should YOU suffer if someone patents an insignificant trivia (for you)? Automatic licenses for prior use solve both of these problems nicely.
Unfortunately, I have a rather extensive experience with the USPTO. They do prior art searches, but they are so laughably insufficient that it's no wonder a lot of troll patents get granted.
Also, one should not that NOT all prior art is acceptable for USPTO.
For example, imagine that you've invented a new metal alloy and used it to make better golf clubs. You have not published anywhere about your invention (maybe because you don't consider it significant).
Then somebody else discovers this alloy and patents it. USPTO would correctly grant this patent, because there's no public prior art. AND you (probably) won't be able to contest this patent based on your unpublished prior art. So you might find yourself in a situation where you have to pay for a license for a thing that you've invented independently!
Mandatory automatic patent license ensures that you can continue to use your invention, and patent holder can continue use his patent.
Also don't forget SONET/SDH, they need very precise timing signals too. Though in this case atomic clocks might be used, as they are getting cheaper and smaller.
That's not so simple. Our company was approached by a patent troll and we had to pay him. Simply because a process of revoking the patent would have cost us much more, even if we win at the end.
In theory prior art should get patent revoked. In practice, it will cost you A LOT to get a patent revoked. So it'll be cheaper to buy a license from a patent troll.
Making 'prior use' licenses automatic will indeed be easier and cheaper since all you need to show is that you were using the patented invention prior to the filing date (or filing date minus one year). In this case you won't need to litigate anything.
BTW, that's how patents work in xUSSR.
It will make it easier for patent trolls. It's quite hard to get a patent revoked due to prior art and courts also tend to side with patent holders. The 'first to file' system needs also the 'prior use' clause - anyone who was using the invention prior to the filing date should get an automatic license for this patent.