As the fictions start coming down and more and more people realize that their leverage was never real leverage at all, just a fiction, the disparity will become increasingly obvious, and there will be a revolt.
We'll just have to lock you up in a little room and make you watch Bambi, Peter Pan, and The Sound of Music until you get all those unhappy thoughts right out of your head.
I hear about the internet being able to "route around the damage"? Doesn't appear to be the case, does it? Besides, it doesn't seem to have much effect on elections anyway. The Americans are still electing crooked politicians in spite of the internet. It doesn't present much of a threat to the status quo as one would hope. Still waiting for an effective wireless mesh so that we can cut the corporate cable...
Apple's doing it now - probably have copied MS's tactics in a million other ways, because it makes sense.
Wag the dog. Microsoft copied Apple's tactics of the 80's. But with software, not the hardware. Apple's lock-in has always been much more severe and still is. But I still like using it more than any other.
No, patents have their place or the founding fathers would have forbade them altogether.
That was over 200 years ago. Patents had their place...maybe. These days we have to create shortages just to keep the "market" afloat. It must expand and grow infinitely, or we will all die a horrible, screaming death. Bunch of damn pirates are running the economy.
Sorry, sorry, it's a pet peave of mine when some/. poster thinks that scientists don't consider the most obvious and well known aspects of their field. If you, someone not in their field, have considered it, chances are pretty damn good they have too.
Sometimes the most obvious is the most overlooked. If I had a thousand bucks for every time I stumbled into the shop and asked, *Is it plugged in?*, I would have at least 2000 dollars.
So something Clinton possibly could have done is equal to things we not only know for a fact Bush has done...
Considering the government's history, it's close enough. I will not give those in authority the benefit of a doubt. I demand a much higher standard from them. It should go with the job.
Actually, we do know. Watch Sicko.
I'm not moving to Cuba, and the weather in Canada sucks. And though I'm sure he's very entertaining, Michael Moore's credibility is not exactly above reproach. I do like the idea of universal health care, and I'm not arguing against it. and I like things such as no fault auto insurance paid by gas taxes or licensing fees. But the suggested methods coming from the candidates is deeply flawed and simply subject to too much corruption and abuse. Especially Hillary's mandate that we should be forced to buy from from our pocket to pay her friends in the insurance industry and making us do all the paperwork. And that other guy's plan is simply inadequate. Doing it wrong is worse than not doing it at all. And no national ID is needed either when a simple drivers license or state ID will do just fine. I don't want these people placing their bureaucratic workload on me. This is precisely what we pay the government for. Bureaucracy is their job, not mine.
I can guarantee that the dems will not give you what your looking for. They never have in the past, and they're not about to start now, seeing as that we are perfectly willing to keep corrupt politicians, democrat and republican, in office. Nader may be a loon, but he's absolutely correct about the single party system beholden to the corporate hydra that we are under. We simply will not see any improvement as long as that is the case.
I read that stuff back in the 60's. And the sun's life expectancy was going to be around 9 billion years or so. Nobody was saying that the earth would escape.
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They kinda did, back in '62.
As the fictions start coming down and more and more people realize that their leverage was never real leverage at all, just a fiction, the disparity will become increasingly obvious, and there will be a revolt.
We'll just have to lock you up in a little room and make you watch Bambi, Peter Pan, and The Sound of Music until you get all those unhappy thoughts right out of your head.
And don't forget Eminent Domain... In case we want to build a shopping mall. I mean Railroad's comin' through - right now!
Or what you might more likely see is a big push for some sort of compulsory license scheme, of which they would muscle in on the collections business.
The US policy towards Cuba is based on anger over losing control of the country.
I don't know who was madder. The government, or Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano.
...tourism, cheap gas, and free technology.
And floating Buicks
No, that would be a bad example...
Well, if you're looking for a good example...
That's war for ya
I hear about the internet being able to "route around the damage"? Doesn't appear to be the case, does it? Besides, it doesn't seem to have much effect on elections anyway. The Americans are still electing crooked politicians in spite of the internet. It doesn't present much of a threat to the status quo as one would hope. Still waiting for an effective wireless mesh so that we can cut the corporate cable...
Tailgaters!! Not slow drivers, not left lane hogs, not people slamming on the brakes.
They should be able to fill it just as fast. Just open the slides, tilt them up, and slide them in from above.
I can tell you in two words. It sucks. Now pay up dammit!
The Federal Reserve and the IRS, maybe. Good luck boycotting that.
...those 2000 times...
:-) Actually I doubt it was more than twice...
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I'm the ANTI-Patent Troll. HAHAHAHAaaa!
Eat me!
Apple's doing it now - probably have copied MS's tactics in a million other ways, because it makes sense.
Wag the dog. Microsoft copied Apple's tactics of the 80's. But with software, not the hardware. Apple's lock-in has always been much more severe and still is. But I still like using it more than any other.
This post is fair and balanced
No, patents have their place or the founding fathers would have forbade them altogether.
That was over 200 years ago. Patents had their place...maybe. These days we have to create shortages just to keep the "market" afloat. It must expand and grow infinitely, or we will all die a horrible, screaming death. Bunch of damn pirates are running the economy.
Sorry, sorry, it's a pet peave of mine when some /. poster thinks that scientists don't consider the most obvious and well known aspects of their field. If you, someone not in their field, have considered it, chances are pretty damn good they have too.
Sometimes the most obvious is the most overlooked. If I had a thousand bucks for every time I stumbled into the shop and asked, *Is it plugged in?*, I would have at least 2000 dollars.
Software patents are stupid.
* patents are stupid.
I don't recall what is wrong with a prenup.
The comment had to do with how easy they are to wiggle out out of than anything else. I suspect a Microsoft covenant would be even easier.
A marriage analogy works just as well. A Microsoft "covenant" is about as good as a prenuptial agreement.
So something Clinton possibly could have done is equal to things we not only know for a fact Bush has done...
Considering the government's history, it's close enough. I will not give those in authority the benefit of a doubt. I demand a much higher standard from them. It should go with the job.
Actually, we do know. Watch Sicko.
I'm not moving to Cuba, and the weather in Canada sucks. And though I'm sure he's very entertaining, Michael Moore's credibility is not exactly above reproach. I do like the idea of universal health care, and I'm not arguing against it. and I like things such as no fault auto insurance paid by gas taxes or licensing fees. But the suggested methods coming from the candidates is deeply flawed and simply subject to too much corruption and abuse. Especially Hillary's mandate that we should be forced to buy from from our pocket to pay her friends in the insurance industry and making us do all the paperwork. And that other guy's plan is simply inadequate. Doing it wrong is worse than not doing it at all. And no national ID is needed either when a simple drivers license or state ID will do just fine. I don't want these people placing their bureaucratic workload on me. This is precisely what we pay the government for. Bureaucracy is their job, not mine.
I can guarantee that the dems will not give you what your looking for. They never have in the past, and they're not about to start now, seeing as that we are perfectly willing to keep corrupt politicians, democrat and republican, in office. Nader may be a loon, but he's absolutely correct about the single party system beholden to the corporate hydra that we are under. We simply will not see any improvement as long as that is the case.
Nowadays one tries to break power generation up into much smaller parts - perhaps as far as to your own cellar.
Or at least your hot tub
he bigger question would be how do you determine the value of the IP to assess it for taxation.
Use the RIAA formula. Was it $750 per song? Or several hundred thousand? I can't remember.
I read that stuff back in the 60's. And the sun's life expectancy was going to be around 9 billion years or so. Nobody was saying that the earth would escape.