Once the patents expire the knowledge will be in the public domain and free to use for everyone. Much better than keeping it a family/industrial secret for hundreds of years IMO.
Play stupid all you want, how about you show some numbers to prove otherwise? It's rather easy to go to any torrent site and see how many users are downloading pirated goods.
Apple is a company that has many employees under it's wing. Despite what you might have been lead to believe, Steve Jobs doesn't personally approve or reject of every app. People make mistakes, news at 11.
If you're curious as to the official stance of the US government during this time period, here it is from the Starr Memorandum.
The position of the United States was set forth by the State Department in connection with the 1970 Hearings before the Subcommittee on United States Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (91st Cong., 2d Sess.):
"Legal Status of Taiwan as Defined in Japanese Peace Treaty and Sino - Japanese Peace Treaty
"Article 2 of the Japanese Peace treaty, signed on September 8, 1951 at San Francisco, provides that 'Japan renounces all right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores.' The same language was used in Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace between China and Japan signed on April 28, 1952. In neither treaty did Japan cede this area to any particular entity. As Taiwan and the Pescadores are not covered by any existing international disposition, sovereignty over the area is an unsettled question subject to future international resolution.... "
If they belonged to Japan all along, why would the US consider returning them to Taiwan?
I don't believe that was ever officially considered an option by the US Government. However many Chinese nationalists believe it should have been given to Taiwan.
Did the CIA pay you to post that?
No. You can go through my thousands of posts on slashdot if you want proof that I'm not a CIA shill or any shill for that matter, unlike the other anonymous poster.
The GP's post is hardly insightful and by assuming so you reveal your own bias and ignorance. Those islands were controlled by Japan after the first Sino-Japanese war in 1895, 4 decades prior to the start of conflicts that led to WWII. The Chinese government of that era even officially recognized them as being administered by the Japanese government, they had never officially claimed them. The GP's point was that all land Japan gained during WWII should be returned to their owners, however as I've stated, they claimed those lands well before WWII. The US rightfully assumed control of the islands after WWII and they were hardly in a position to return them to communist China in 1972 during the Cold War. Fearing a loss of Taiwan to mainland China, the US government would also not want to hand them over to Taiwan, hence the passage of the islands to the Japanese.
There are two main reasons why China wants control of those islands, the first is the extensive oil and natural gas deposits that are claimed to be within the 200 mile EEZ. The other reason is that with control of those islands under a US friendly power(Japan), China has little military access to the Pacific Ocean. Any other reason is a bold faced lie.
1) Deliberately causing the destruction of billions of dollars worth of US military and civilian equipment is not going to get the Americans pissed off?
2) The Korean War is still going on, and it's not like China won it.
3) Good luck, if they were to do such a thing, business would pull out of China and international trade with their largest trading partners would collapse to a standstill. I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
The usage of bold letters and numerous similiar posts along with poor English in this thread indicate the parent is a PRC sympathizer at best or a paid PRC goon at worst.
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Once the patents expire the knowledge will be in the public domain and free to use for everyone. Much better than keeping it a family/industrial secret for hundreds of years IMO.
I think it reallys really cool actually. Very mechanical looking.
Yes you are a moron, but you didn't need me to tell you that.
Yes, but few if any actually use a third party torrent client to do so.
Play stupid all you want, how about you show some numbers to prove otherwise? It's rather easy to go to any torrent site and see how many users are downloading pirated goods.
Don't be silly, the vast majority of users use bit torrent to pirate software/music/movies/books.
Apple is a company that has many employees under it's wing. Despite what you might have been lead to believe, Steve Jobs doesn't personally approve or reject of every app. People make mistakes, news at 11.
100m? I think we can do better than that.
Who says Space Nutters aren't for life extension technology? I'm as much of a space nut as they come and I'm all for life extension tech :)
If you're curious as to the official stance of the US government during this time period, here it is from the Starr Memorandum.
I take that back, I'm assuming he's the same anonymous coward who has been making other posts in this thread in which he did mention that.
The GP's post referred to handing over the islands to Taiwan, I simply addressed it.
I don't believe that was ever officially considered an option by the US Government. However many Chinese nationalists believe it should have been given to Taiwan.
No. You can go through my thousands of posts on slashdot if you want proof that I'm not a CIA shill or any shill for that matter, unlike the other anonymous poster.
The GP's post is hardly insightful and by assuming so you reveal your own bias and ignorance. Those islands were controlled by Japan after the first Sino-Japanese war in 1895, 4 decades prior to the start of conflicts that led to WWII. The Chinese government of that era even officially recognized them as being administered by the Japanese government, they had never officially claimed them. The GP's point was that all land Japan gained during WWII should be returned to their owners, however as I've stated, they claimed those lands well before WWII. The US rightfully assumed control of the islands after WWII and they were hardly in a position to return them to communist China in 1972 during the Cold War. Fearing a loss of Taiwan to mainland China, the US government would also not want to hand them over to Taiwan, hence the passage of the islands to the Japanese.
There are two main reasons why China wants control of those islands, the first is the extensive oil and natural gas deposits that are claimed to be within the 200 mile EEZ. The other reason is that with control of those islands under a US friendly power(Japan), China has little military access to the Pacific Ocean. Any other reason is a bold faced lie.
1) Deliberately causing the destruction of billions of dollars worth of US military and civilian equipment is not going to get the Americans pissed off?
2) The Korean War is still going on, and it's not like China won it.
3) Good luck, if they were to do such a thing, business would pull out of China and international trade with their largest trading partners would collapse to a standstill. I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
FTFY
What world do you live in? Those 3 scenarios are tantamount to declarations of war...
See what I mean?
Yes I am being paid however, since I am at work at this hour.
The usage of bold letters and numerous similiar posts along with poor English in this thread indicate the parent is a PRC sympathizer at best or a paid PRC goon at worst.
How much does the PRC pay you to make these posts?
I was 2350 rated in 3v3s and 2100 rated in 2v2s :) I ganked the crap outta people, that's what I liked to do in WoW.
Steampunk = goblins
Vampire/werewolf = Worgen
Have you ever thought that someone who might like an Action-Adventure-RPG such as WoW wouldn't like a twitch First Person Shooter like TF2?
It's tomorrow already?
Cool story bro.