Not necessarily true. Maybe it would have been developed by universities or something. It's like saying the radio wouldn't have existed if none of the people involved in creating the first radio were born. Other people would probably have invented it.
After reading those song titles of Lady Gaga's, I started humming them, and now I can't get them out! Reading an article about removing earworms leads to earworm. Epic fail! Guess I should go do some anagrams.
Enough people use the term "beg the question" this way that I've just gotten used to it by now. It doesn't bother me anymore. It's over, man. The war is lost. It's in common use now. Rewire the part of your brain that gets annoyed by it. You will be happier in the long run.
No vigilantes. You basically set up a few thousand people to be the executioners. Those people are also bad, because killing is bad, so then you get them to kill each other. When there's only one left he kills himself. Then only the clean and pure and good people survive. Yay! Plus the corpses of the damned will provide food for a good while if processed properly.
Speak for yourself! I hardly know what's going on in the world. I get most of my news from people telling me about stuff and wondering how I haven't already heard about it.
These lawsuits are really affecting my decision to but a new iPhone. I just don't want to support such business practices. On the other hand the iPhone 5 is super shiny... decisions, decisions.
How the @#$% do I get strike-through to work? I tried s, del, strike, strikeout, strikethrough, and none of them worked. Yes I enabled HTML Formatting for comments.
Built-in GPS so the government^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hyou always know where you are. Use the GPS location to figure out when the sun rises and sets, and allow setting alarms in relation to that (e.g. 10 mins after sunrise). That way you always wake up with the sun. Winning!
Uhm, if the number of requests went up by 70%, and Google now complies with 66% of requests instead of 76%, that means they are now giving away 47.63% more data than in 2009.
It would be risky. It would require a good amount of capital. There would be a good chance of failure. Yet there might also be a chance of success with enough upside to make it worth it! And every unit the company sells successfully is a benefit to the consumer that bought it.
But nobody is even going to try if patents make it illegal to do so.
"If patent litigation caused by the U.S. patent system stifled innovation, U.S. software companies would not be the most successful in the world."
This is not an argument at all. It's possible they stifle innovation as it is now, so they would be even better off without the patent system.
Or, another possibility: Perhaps the patent system is not stifling software companies as much as other businesses as of yet. Do you want it to become as difficult to create a new software company as it currently is to create a new company in any other industry?
Will the secure P2P system be secure if the government happens to be running a significant portion of the P2P nodes? It seems like with Tor, the only hope is that the nodes are trusted. Sure, if only 5% of the nodes are compromised, the chance of hitting enough compromised nodes so the watcher knows where you are is low, but if 50% of the nodes are compromised, your promise of security is broken.
Ok, say you are a rich person. Would you rather a) live in a fancy house with slums all around where you need an armed guard whenever you have to travel outside of your closed complex, or b) live in a fancy house with decent houses all around you without there being any slums and without having to pay taxes to support people who don't work because the country is wealthy enough that everybody can make a decent living with a reasonable amount of effort?
There are benefits to living in a wealthy society. That being said:
1) True, not all rich people think the way outlined above. Some just want to greedily make tons of money. I say that's fine so long as they can do it in a non-exploitative way. Theoretically a trade is only undertaken if mutually beneficial to both parties, so somebody making millions of trades (millions of dollars exchanged) should benefit the economy a lot. 2) Have I been tricked into defending rich people when not rich myself? My reasoning seems to make sense, though...
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Not necessarily true. Maybe it would have been developed by universities or something. It's like saying the radio wouldn't have existed if none of the people involved in creating the first radio were born. Other people would probably have invented it.
A simple solution would be to start school a few hours later...
They were definitely balls of steel.
Then you'll be easily identifiable as one of the only ones that makes all those random calls.
News at 11.
After reading those song titles of Lady Gaga's, I started humming them, and now I can't get them out! Reading an article about removing earworms leads to earworm. Epic fail! Guess I should go do some anagrams.
Enough people use the term "beg the question" this way that I've just gotten used to it by now. It doesn't bother me anymore. It's over, man. The war is lost. It's in common use now. Rewire the part of your brain that gets annoyed by it. You will be happier in the long run.
No vigilantes. You basically set up a few thousand people to be the executioners. Those people are also bad, because killing is bad, so then you get them to kill each other. When there's only one left he kills himself. Then only the clean and pure and good people survive. Yay! Plus the corpses of the damned will provide food for a good while if processed properly.
It always seemed like a simple solution to me. Kill everyone who does bad things and then hey! No more people doing bad stuff! What's wrong with that?
Speak for yourself! I hardly know what's going on in the world. I get most of my news from people telling me about stuff and wondering how I haven't already heard about it.
He is humble about how much he hates "the gays".
This has been quite entertaining to read - thank you both!
These lawsuits are really affecting my decision to but a new iPhone. I just don't want to support such business practices. On the other hand the iPhone 5 is super shiny... decisions, decisions.
To keep themselves relevant.
Hilarious and well-executed!
Glad nobody got hurt.
How the @#$% do I get strike-through to work? I tried s, del, strike, strikeout, strikethrough, and none of them worked. Yes I enabled HTML Formatting for comments.
Built-in GPS so the government^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hyou always know where you are. Use the GPS location to figure out when the sun rises and sets, and allow setting alarms in relation to that (e.g. 10 mins after sunrise). That way you always wake up with the sun. Winning!
Uhm, if the number of requests went up by 70%, and Google now complies with 66% of requests instead of 76%, that means they are now giving away 47.63% more data than in 2009.
It would be risky. It would require a good amount of capital. There would be a good chance of failure. Yet there might also be a chance of success with enough upside to make it worth it! And every unit the company sells successfully is a benefit to the consumer that bought it.
But nobody is even going to try if patents make it illegal to do so.
"If patent litigation caused by the U.S. patent system stifled innovation, U.S. software companies would not be the most successful in the world."
This is not an argument at all. It's possible they stifle innovation as it is now, so they would be even better off without the patent system.
Or, another possibility: Perhaps the patent system is not stifling software companies as much as other businesses as of yet. Do you want it to become as difficult to create a new software company as it currently is to create a new company in any other industry?
The stock market has been closed for a few days now.
Will the secure P2P system be secure if the government happens to be running a significant portion of the P2P nodes? It seems like with Tor, the only hope is that the nodes are trusted. Sure, if only 5% of the nodes are compromised, the chance of hitting enough compromised nodes so the watcher knows where you are is low, but if 50% of the nodes are compromised, your promise of security is broken.
Ok, say you are a rich person. Would you rather a) live in a fancy house with slums all around where you need an armed guard whenever you have to travel outside of your closed complex, or b) live in a fancy house with decent houses all around you without there being any slums and without having to pay taxes to support people who don't work because the country is wealthy enough that everybody can make a decent living with a reasonable amount of effort?
There are benefits to living in a wealthy society. That being said:
1) True, not all rich people think the way outlined above. Some just want to greedily make tons of money. I say that's fine so long as they can do it in a non-exploitative way. Theoretically a trade is only undertaken if mutually beneficial to both parties, so somebody making millions of trades (millions of dollars exchanged) should benefit the economy a lot.
2) Have I been tricked into defending rich people when not rich myself? My reasoning seems to make sense, though...
Reason 3: Samsung didn't appreciate being sued by apple?