The problem with many patents, especially software patents, is that they do not tell you enough to 'tell the world how you did it'. They are just vague handwaving descriptions of usually pretty obvious methods. They are overly broad, unremarkable and of little inherent value.
Even more if homeowners realize that, with proper landscaping and insulation, it is possible maintain a very comfortable temperature with the windows open and air conditioner off even when it is 90 degrees outside.
Nope, impossible here in Florida. The high temperatures coupled with the high humidity make not running the air conditioner not an option. Anyone who says otherwise is a fucking moron. You can get away with murder here in Central Florida, but not without an air conditioner.
That's because you insane people live in the Florida interior fit only for Republicans and other alligators and snakes. The coast is fine. Except of course in Hurricane season, but cinder block construction solves that little problem. If God had intended man to live in the interior regions of the deep south, he wouldn't have made it a giant swamp.
When I was a kid, I grew up about 30 miles south of the Cape. We watched a number of aborted launches, watched as the cloud drifted overhead. Never were told to get inside. Of course, those were the days when we just bicycled around the trucks vaporizing some godawful chemical designed to kill mosquitos.
Probably explains why I spend so much time here on the short bus of the Internet.
That long ago, I'm surprised they didn't just pour it down the drain or right in the ocean.;)
Ever see the Cape Canaveral area? That's pretty much what they did. Poured it into the sand - the water table is a few feet below - after a little while it gets diluted in the Great Garbage Pit (an ocean).
>>After the split, he began directing several thousand public Twitter messages toward Zeoli, some of which were threatening, according to prosecutors.... Malice is out of bounds. Harassment is out of bounds.
"The intentional inflection of emotional distress" is not free speech.
This case is not a slam-dunk for the EFF.
All worthy statements. What is unclear is whether this is the appropriate statute to prosecute him with. Sounds like the woman in question should file a civil suit against her for slander or perhaps libel. Perhaps he is guilty of felony menacing - you cannot threaten people legally. But putting tweets in the same category just doesn't seem to fit.
Perhaps of interest is this web page which seems to claim that the defendant was previously convicted of scamming (the same?) Buddhist group. http://tenpathetic.wordpress.com/category/william-cassidy/page/2/ This suggests there may perhaps be a bit more to this case than the simple criticism of a "public" figure.
Most interesting. You should be modded up. Still doesn't really speak to the idea of having emotional distress of a public figure grounds for criminal prosecution. Even assholes get legal protection.
Religiosity has been on a steady decline in the US for decades.
I take it you haven't been in the American South recently (the "Bible Belt"). Furthermore in the morass that is US politics today, that small group of shrieking Christian Fundamentalists control a disproportionate amount of power relative to their afflicted population.
It's easy to make an omni directional antenna. You lose potential gain and you might not want it omnidirectional given specifics of terrain, etc. Your other points are vaild, the real world is not populated by spherical cows, spherical houses or spherical people (unless you live in the US where this is a fairly good approximation).
100 W Amateur radio transmitters go for several hundred to several thousand dollars. You could shave some price off by increasing the sales volume but a 100W VHF transmitter is not a trivial piece of electronics.
Cheap enough, however for many individuals to afford one and even more small groups of people like a neighborhood. Could, in fact, spawn a whole new industry of essentially microISPs.
What's free about this stuff? Printers aren't free and the more complex ones that actually do something are likely to be even more expensive. The feedstocks aren't going to be free.
Unless you can conceive of an economy run on simple plastic objects with no moving parts, I don't see anything today that resembles the hallucination that is Star Trek. Or even The Diamond Age.
I prefer the liberal response: ignore reality all together.
Now, any right thinking man would agree with you. Reality sucks. Best to ignore if you can. See, liberals are smarter.
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A couple of things:
I think you're giving the Tea Party much too much intellectual credit. There's is a much more visceral response to a bunch of vague feelings and they haven't thought it through past the 'I couldn't do that with my personal finances' analogy.
The other problem with debt discount is that there is always some end to the party. Yes, we're getting free money but we still have to pay it back even at discounted rates. If you keep raising the debt, then you get to the point where the people with the 'money' decide you're not much fun anymore. Witness some of the issues with Greece, Spain and Ireland. If your theory were to hold completely true, they should be flying high still.
The big question, of course, is what is too much. Most economists think we're not there yet (for whatever that particular thought is worth given that I consider economists just below astrology and only slightly above homeopathy in the 'batshit insane' category). We likely have a decade or so to mend our ways, but Congress hasn't shown much evidence of changing their habits in the three decades where this problem has been pretty well known. So it may be that the Tea Party is just trying to kick the Government's nuts hard enough to get it's attention.
Of course, the other way to think about it is that the Tea Party is comprised of Bible quoting Armageddon enthusiasts who don't care about how much havoc their ill advised rantings will create. Data currently supports both views.
I've actually wondered if there was any practical downside, other than problems before getting it up, to the Futurama solution: just stick it in a rocket and blast it off in a random direction. Preferably without a return address.
I suppose you could use Viagra for your first issue, the problem with lofting highly radioactive material into space is two fold:
1. It's expensive. Very expensive. 2. Although modern rockets are fairly reliable, they occasionally go screwy and get blown to little tiny bits in order for it not to land on people as large, uncomfortable bits. Doing this with a ton or so of highly radioactive material is frowned upon (see "dirty bomb" for more information).
That's what I thought. Here's Amazon's best seller list in post-paid cell phones. Notice the list is dominated by high-end Android handsets. Here's an article from a while back showing the same thing.
You realize that that list doesn't have any iPhones on it at all?
from the CDN article YOU quoted:
But Amazon (AMZN) also carries mobile phones from all of the big four US carriers. Just about every make and model, with the notable exception of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone (a strange omission because Amazon carries both AT&T (T) smartphones and Apple iPods) can be purchased from Amazon.
So if you don't have iPhones to sell (or at least compare in the list) it's kinda hard to make any comparative claims.
Everyone else, stay away until they either become significantly cheaper than the iPad or Android has caught up in marketshare and polish (which, conveniently, is always 6 months from now.)
Or you could wait 5 years and get holographic storage.
Our corporate office uses IE exclusively. I have valid reasons to dispute this but many are related to apps that work exclusively under IE and no fucking way around it.
Therefore, it's clear that dumb people work for big companies. Check your browser at work, folks.
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but 80 means functionally illiterate and basically unable to function in society.
You just described most of my coworkers. We use IE at work....
Turn dumb, unstructured, ad hoc photos into video intelligence.
Cool, if it works, it could compress YouTube into about 60 seconds.
The problem with many patents, especially software patents, is that they do not tell you enough to 'tell the world how you did it'. They are just vague handwaving descriptions of usually pretty obvious methods. They are overly broad, unremarkable and of little inherent value.
Even more if homeowners realize that, with proper landscaping and insulation, it is possible maintain a very comfortable temperature with the windows open and air conditioner off even when it is 90 degrees outside.
Nope, impossible here in Florida. The high temperatures coupled with the high humidity make not running the air conditioner not an option. Anyone who says otherwise is a fucking moron. You can get away with murder here in Central Florida, but not without an air conditioner.
That's because you insane people live in the Florida interior fit only for Republicans and other alligators and snakes. The coast is fine. Except of course in Hurricane season, but cinder block construction solves that little problem. If God had intended man to live in the interior regions of the deep south, he wouldn't have made it a giant swamp.
When I was a kid, I grew up about 30 miles south of the Cape. We watched a number of aborted launches, watched as the cloud drifted overhead. Never were told to get inside. Of course, those were the days when we just bicycled around the trucks vaporizing some godawful chemical designed to kill mosquitos.
Probably explains why I spend so much time here on the short bus of the Internet.
That long ago, I'm surprised they didn't just pour it down the drain or right in the ocean. ;)
Ever see the Cape Canaveral area? That's pretty much what they did. Poured it into the sand - the water table is a few feet below - after a little while it gets diluted in the Great Garbage Pit (an ocean).
>>After the split, he began directing several thousand public Twitter messages toward Zeoli, some of which were threatening, according to prosecutors. ... Malice is out of bounds. Harassment is out of bounds.
"The intentional inflection of emotional distress" is not free speech.
This case is not a slam-dunk for the EFF.
All worthy statements. What is unclear is whether this is the appropriate statute to prosecute him with. Sounds like the woman in question should file a civil suit against her for slander or perhaps libel. Perhaps he is guilty of felony menacing - you cannot threaten people legally. But putting tweets in the same category just doesn't seem to fit.
That was in your previous life as a dog. You're a human now. Better luck next time.
Perhaps of interest is this web page which seems to claim that the defendant was previously convicted of scamming (the same?) Buddhist group.
http://tenpathetic.wordpress.com/category/william-cassidy/page/2/
This suggests there may perhaps be a bit more to this case than the simple criticism of a "public" figure.
Most interesting. You should be modded up. Still doesn't really speak to the idea of having emotional distress of a public figure grounds for criminal prosecution. Even assholes get legal protection.
Religiosity has been on a steady decline in the US for decades.
I take it you haven't been in the American South recently (the "Bible Belt"). Furthermore in the morass that is US politics today, that small group of shrieking Christian Fundamentalists control a disproportionate amount of power relative to their afflicted population.
You better ban the Star Spangled Banner while you're at it.
Man, I would really like to. That screeching pile of dissonance is friggin awful.
It's easy to make an omni directional antenna. You lose potential gain and you might not want it omnidirectional given specifics of terrain, etc. Your other points are vaild, the real world is not populated by spherical cows, spherical houses or spherical people (unless you live in the US where this is a fairly good approximation).
100 W Amateur radio transmitters go for several hundred to several thousand dollars. You could shave some price off by increasing the sales volume but a 100W VHF transmitter is not a trivial piece of electronics.
Cheap enough, however for many individuals to afford one and even more small groups of people like a neighborhood. Could, in fact, spawn a whole new industry of essentially microISPs.
Oh, and before anyone else feels the need to express the obvious, dildos will not support an entire economy. Sorry.
What's free about this stuff? Printers aren't free and the more complex ones that actually do something are likely to be even more expensive. The feedstocks aren't going to be free.
Unless you can conceive of an economy run on simple plastic objects with no moving parts, I don't see anything today that resembles the hallucination that is Star Trek. Or even The Diamond Age.
Dude, Craig is half Welsh, half English.
God, keep him out of the kitchen, whatever you do.
This. This..... THIS!
This is all a farce, nothing more.
It is a tale told by an Idiot. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.
I prefer the liberal response: ignore reality all together.
Now, any right thinking man would agree with you. Reality sucks. Best to ignore if you can. See, liberals are smarter.
A couple of things:
I think you're giving the Tea Party much too much intellectual credit. There's is a much more visceral response to a bunch of vague feelings and they haven't thought it through past the 'I couldn't do that with my personal finances' analogy.
The other problem with debt discount is that there is always some end to the party. Yes, we're getting free money but we still have to pay it back even at discounted rates. If you keep raising the debt, then you get to the point where the people with the 'money' decide you're not much fun anymore. Witness some of the issues with Greece, Spain and Ireland. If your theory were to hold completely true, they should be flying high still.
The big question, of course, is what is too much. Most economists think we're not there yet (for whatever that particular thought is worth given that I consider economists just below astrology and only slightly above homeopathy in the 'batshit insane' category). We likely have a decade or so to mend our ways, but Congress hasn't shown much evidence of changing their habits in the three decades where this problem has been pretty well known. So it may be that the Tea Party is just trying to kick the Government's nuts hard enough to get it's attention.
Of course, the other way to think about it is that the Tea Party is comprised of Bible quoting Armageddon enthusiasts who don't care about how much havoc their ill advised rantings will create. Data currently supports both views.
Just how much do you believe in Murphy's Law?
Oh no please! imagine a successful mutation of these people!
We will just make sure to keep the area free of spiders.
I've actually wondered if there was any practical downside, other than problems before getting it up, to the Futurama solution: just stick it in a rocket and blast it off in a random direction. Preferably without a return address.
I suppose you could use Viagra for your first issue, the problem with lofting highly radioactive material into space is two fold:
1. It's expensive. Very expensive.
2. Although modern rockets are fairly reliable, they occasionally go screwy and get blown to little tiny bits in order for it not to land on people as large, uncomfortable bits. Doing this with a ton or so of highly radioactive material is frowned upon (see "dirty bomb" for more information).
That's what I thought. Here's Amazon's best seller list in post-paid cell phones. Notice the list is dominated by high-end Android handsets. Here's an article from a while back showing the same thing.
You realize that that list doesn't have any iPhones on it at all?
from the CDN article YOU quoted:
But Amazon (AMZN) also carries mobile phones from all of the big four US carriers. Just about every make and model, with the notable exception of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone (a strange omission because Amazon carries both AT&T (T) smartphones and Apple iPods) can be purchased from Amazon.
So if you don't have iPhones to sell (or at least compare in the list) it's kinda hard to make any comparative claims.
I might suggest Marshall, Texas. No containment necessary.
Everyone else, stay away until they either become significantly cheaper than the iPad or Android has caught up in marketshare and polish (which, conveniently, is always 6 months from now.)
Or you could wait 5 years and get holographic storage.
Our corporate office uses IE exclusively. I have valid reasons to dispute this but many are related to apps that work exclusively under IE and no fucking way around it.
Therefore, it's clear that dumb people work for big companies. Check your browser at work, folks.