But, imagine if the lenses empower the Geriatrics to become new Spy Kids on the blocks... Would Jerry want them? Would Uncle Sam or Uncle Same want them? Would the discrimination against seniors driving lose focus or become unclear a case?
Well, GOOwahhLEEE, Sargeant Carter. I think mshaft is crying sour grapes.
Msoft should pray that OTHER countri... umm, states don't do this, and that there is no grassroots campaign to save the public a hunk of change. It would be interesting if the White House passes similar edicts and supports the Texas tone.
(for those too lazy or with not enough time to read ALL of this, just skip to the last para)
If am EVER asked whether or not i have received one, I WILL tell the truth. If the person asking queries as to whether s/he or any s/he was the subject, i WILL tell the truth. I might not go so far as to divulge the exact questions, but i'll be damned if cloak-and-daggger will go in in MY face. Besides, way too many technical means and illegal sneak-and-peak ops occur for most of us to be traditionally interrogated unless, unless the act of questioning is to cause someone who is lying to actually try to contact the subject. Even still, it could end up being a dead-end query.
I once was questioned by the FBI in mid 03 about a "the plane", which was actually a smashed-up RC craft. They might have been interested in the F-16, which never had an engine installed in the some-8 years of it's having been built. It was owned by a relative who didn't retrieve it before i moved to Portland, OR. I believe the spooked-ass rat was the apartment complex (Trammel Crow(e)) manager who it seems ran inspections every 3 months, looking for whatever was forbidden, since Oregon housing/public law permits such quasi-zone-inspections, in the name of combating illegal drugs and non-lease occupants violations. She had me remove EVERY SINGLE BOX from the closet, as if looking for trap doors or pipes or tunnels or whatever. She saw the RC F-16 and made a note, and IIRC, her face seemed concerned. (Note: I'm black (born on the Presidio, Leterman General Hospital, when my father was in the USMC), but don't always look it, and she was white, and this was, to remind readers, Q1 of 2002. They let me move in based on cash in my bank account (money from selling my home in California, but of that $30,000, only $10,000 was mine, since $20K was really loans keeping me from going into foreclosure during my attempt to sell it on the market), and specifically said it was OK to count it as income. Of course, when i burned thru that cash, i got eviction notices.
Anyway, about 1 month later, the FBI knocked on my door, fucking hailed hailed my name and said, "We're from the FBI. We've been trying to reach you for WEEKS!".
My first thought was BULLSHIT! I had had my cell phone ON for the entire time I was in Oregon. I had no home phone, and by that time i had sold my car for rent money. I was even going onto California unemployment because i didn't manage to find a job. I was trying to start a business, and even before that had registered with the Department of Revenue in Salem, and file articles of incorporation, and then filed those in Washington county. I had made cash, debit and money order transactions for books purchases and rent/other payments. I rode public transit. So, i call bullshit. They could NOT have failed to find me since i was in the mode of evading tails.
What shocked them was when i said, "Ah, so you're here after that little one-man plane buzzed the complex at less than 300 feet, circled a few times. Yeh, i saw his face. He was caucasian, had greenish earphones one, and looked to be about 180 lbs, maybe 50-ish years old. Yeh, i figured he was doing radiological checks. But, you know it's clean here."
The older of the two agents produce a fucking BEAUTIFUL pic of me, which they obtained from OR DMV. I was stunned at the crisp, clear colors. I don't know if i got a boner looking at myself, or if i was impressed that Oregon is much more efficient than California in DMV matters. I wanted to ask them for a copy but deferred. They said, "We're here for "the plane"....". I took them down to the garage (oh, they were nice, tho, having removed their shoes since i told them i don't wear shoes in my home (i picked that up from living with Vietnamese friends, and ever since left street shoes at the threshold, ESPECIALLY in San Fransideshow with the shit-infested streets...)...), and when they saw the smashed-up Snoop-The-Red Baron plane, they wee quite annoyed. The older one gro
Now, what will this mean for athletes, military, other types who get injured and get infused with "proxygen" (blood and java & coded Java) and get told to continue the fight?
Oh, now i guess i'm supposed to think that other nations don't have their patriots of old who have been replaced in modern times by corrupt, selfish, wanton types, huh?
How many Chinese do you think LOVE their current leadership. It's why their current government is doing what it is doing, all in the name of NOT losing power in the form it knows and with which it currently is comfortable. China's government & Chinese nationals are not alone. But, whether the BITUSA lyrics are supposed to be a beacon of shining light or mirror of shame, if the Chinese government *listens*, i mean **really listens**, they can spin whatever they want, and make YOU, ME, or anyone else coming in with political change ambitions suddenly persona non grata. BITUSA might work well for SOME US citizens, but by NO means whatsoever does it neatly drape a flag of hope or optimism onto even Chinese citizens who DO despise or feel disheartened with their own government. The world is NOT that of the USA, and citizens/residents/adherents of/to the USA need to stop casting the US shadow onto other peoples.
Flipper Bambi Willy (Free Willy) An Aboriginal Creech Gollum Creature from the Black Lagoon
Tell the women these were your animal forms in past life times. Tell her you're a sexual expert in all fathoms, climes, caves, and skies. Now that you are human, you're entitled to make all sorts of squirmy noises in bed but that she should not be unduly alarmed. If she's not impressed, add more animal signs...
The US starts trying to use Google as a VOA (Voice of America) megaphone, then then Chinese ban ALL songs not provided with 100% faithful lyrics sheets, so as to screen out pseudo-anti-Chinese-Government songs, or songs that over-sell the greatness of the USA. Songs like "Born in the USA" will likely get binned (but, for all i know it is available for years...). I imagine Prince's (the artist formerly known as Prince, formerly known NOT as Prince, then formerly now formally known as Prince) "Erotic City" (We can FUCK until the dawn, making love til cherry's gone...) will be binned, unless not yet censored.
Yeh, i can just see Google getting paid (and bending over for the money) the USA VOA machine, cuz, business is business. I hope "do no wrong" applies to not pumping a megaphonic pathway into another country's borders. Locals should HUNT for, not be blasted BY content they don't want nor don't need.
You literaturelly put KDE on the "bleedey edge"... Sore Users might want to splash a little "Camp or Phennicky" on their Open Sores Wounds...Sore to speak.... hehheehhee
the use of thing-in-the-middle attacks that might be able to determine the images sent and whether a stream of returned text that named the image got yielded access to the content or the process the captcha was "protecting". Given enough monitoring of such traffic, i imagine it won't be long before computers (programmed by humans who WANT computers to think or interpret more like humans) can keep with humans and play chess using only relevant considerations of moves.
What might follow might be "Computers: The NEW Terrorists", where by laws meant to preserve the "domain" of humanity will promise certain death to humans who betray humanity to machines.
I suppose those are better than being "shitballed and blackcanned"... I'd feel like a zombie with the 1-800-number to the Darrow (or Dow?) Chemical Comany in "Return of the Living Dead".... Certainly don't want to be the "sticky black shit in the bottom of the barrel"...
underscore that the USPTO needs to be fixed, or empowered to shoot down all-reaching patents.
For example, suppose company A invents that flying suit, modeled after a given species of bird, and even gets a patent for a "novel" invention (though we've already seen many cloth, mechanical, and thruster types of flying attachments). Nature, as we all can readily observe, has created (or allowed the long-term existence of) many species, colors, sizes, and flying capabilities of birds.
Now, company/entrepreneur B comes along and models a suit after a wildly different species of bird that either flies better than Company A's bird, or flies worse, but nevertheless allows a human short, economical flying. If the USPTO granted Company A's patent and the patent was set up as a minefield with "We claim an apparatus, device, fixture, assemblage, attachment, and cloth known and to be developed over time...", then the patent should be revoked, challenged, diluted...
Now, if Company B's suit/wing is obviously different, but functions the same in the end, then why should B be denied a patent, or, just as insulting, be forced to pay royalties to A? I like to ask whether there are cartels forcing the payment of royalties on "infringement" on design and manufacturing patents (or even copyright) for:
Anyway, in one of the UK magazines (can't remember if it's PC Pro) there is an article about making win XP & vista have multiple desktops, 3D effects, shortcuts, etc. Some even outright strip out the ms GUI and replace it, turning off services and things, too, and running in under 44 MB of RAM. Some of them look as if lifted right out of KDE. I suppose if ms DID include the features KDE and Apple and the ms-oriented 3rd party addons/replacements the Open Source crowd would cry bloody foul. Actually, tho, i am glad that ms didn't include them. This way, when i ride the train or sit in Borders i can play around as people peak to see what is going on.
To be intellectually honest/clean, though, now that i have seen the articles showing that XP & Vista & 3rd party tools CAN INDEED do (graphically) what KDE does, i cannot any longer smugly ask, "Can windows do THIS?!" However, I CAN ask "How do YOU explain that ms did the thinking for YOU and decided that YOU could not possibly possess the intelligence to efficiently use these features?"
It may become the case that ms gets 7 out the door, but later "congratulates" the other parties for bringing new, useful, lean features in an effort to undermine the "superior" KDE GUI distinctions.
I used to experience Mandriva 2008 (or was it PCLinuxOS 2007?) taking longer come out of suspend/hibernate (to RAM... back then it wasn't having any of suspend to disk) than to reboot, or just as long as a reboot. Now, in 2009.0, resume works just sweet, in less than 12 seconds i have my desktop. Part of the delay is just from having to type in my password to get past whichever screen saver i invoke. Is your version of Ubuntu the most recent? I tend to download various Mdva kernels when i upgrade, play with each a few minutes, and look for glaring broken situations. I fiddled with the klaptop and other ACPI/kpowersave settings. For the most part, I'm happy with it.
I love to bash ms when a worthwhile opportunity arises, but i think that if the XP machine is taking 3 minutes to become available, something's really wrong. I use on two XP-based machines at work, one being from 2002 or 2004, and the other from 2006. When i reboot either, they both are ready within about 1 to 1.5 minutes. The older one, however, is slower than dogdoo, especially if ie7 is open with more than 10 tabs. Even after purging the browser's temp files and setting ie to purge on close/restart. But, i don't suspend/hibernate my work machines.
"[edit] History The first capsule hotel was the Capsule Inn Osaka, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and located in the Umeda district of Osaka. It opened on February 1, 1979 and the initial room rate was ¥1,600.[citation needed]"
It seems to me that since (if i can assume this) Japan is a party to Berne/Copyright, patent and other treaties that the USPTO might have to modify the patent awarding and downgrade it or flag it as open to fair and immediate nullificaiton or challenge. I'm assuming that the original (Japanese) designers didn't sell or sublicense any patents rights to the US.
It's possible that for some reason even the Japanese were not the first conceptual artists of such bedding arrangements. After all, mausoleums are similar, with row after row, and column after column of "sleep/rest" slots, although for the dead.
Since the *dead* don't need ventilation, reading, and other "creature comforts", it's only obvious that the living *would*. I would like to safely assume that anyone making or designing for build any similar bunks is only offering/forcing fair, legitimate, and useful competition. And, in the USA, when was the last time any of us walked into a bedding or furnishing store and found front/rear-entry bunks? Of course, while most US bedroom layouts may not be conducive to such bunking arrangements, the lack of visibility of such bunks shouldn't be seen as some "niche" or "novelty" supporting claim, either.
It's high time that even decades-old patents be overhauled... We have innumerable types of pens, tables, chairs, automobiles, book shelves, sofas, scanner and printer devices, cabinets, trash cans, shoes, refrigerators... Is anyone out there sitting on proof that there is a cartel collecting royalties on THOSE items or numerous others?
It's not as if a bunk bed is as seminal as a special pain-free needle/injector for patients to self-administer multiple times a day, and not as if it is as significant as wiper blades or the Botts Dots, or special alloys...
But, for big companies to possibly preempt smaller firms and individuals from obtaining patents on "disruptive" technology or other things, the only defense left is to immediately and constantly diffuse/dissseminate information and details on every step along the way, with anciliary information to work around and back toward the patent. This will teach the big bastards they are NOT going to be allowed to hem in tech and non-tech patents for themselves, their leashpullers, and those that otherwise bow to them.
This is going to go down as a quirk discovery by a Quan who is not a Quark....
Either way, looks like she concentrated pain on them with her high-QUALity, QUANtitative analysis... Now, if QUANtum Mechanics is in her repertoir... and she makes a substantial amount of money, she can qua-qua-qua duck-waddle all the way to the bank...
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully THAT yeast is not infectious...
But, imagine if the lenses empower the Geriatrics to become new Spy Kids on the blocks... Would Jerry want them? Would Uncle Sam or Uncle Same want them? Would the discrimination against seniors driving lose focus or become unclear a case?
botched their hatched job... hahchi hahchi hahcha hahcha...
make the French connection... Does it have to be "the US Connection"? lol....
(Or, was that Goober?)
Well, GOOwahhLEEE, Sargeant Carter. I think mshaft is crying sour grapes.
Msoft should pray that OTHER countri... umm, states don't do this, and that there is no grassroots campaign to save the public a hunk of change. It would be interesting if the White House passes similar edicts and supports the Texas tone.
I was going to suggest that UrAnus leaked some Anusol onto Jupiter and gave it that "ooh, ahhh" soothing feeling.... of ring contraction...
Oh, wait, it must be for April's FOOLS, LOL! So, does it run Linux?
Well, I'd hate to be ON that plane.... that system would be a cloud *in* a cloud... until the plane crashed from all the weight it.
Funny... captcha is "kerosene" (which some planes use, IIRC...)
Disney to beat them to the swashbuckling...
ters, and periodically i update that fact.
(for those too lazy or with not enough time to read ALL of this, just skip to the last para)
If am EVER asked whether or not i have received one, I WILL tell the truth. If the person asking queries as to whether s/he or any s/he was the subject, i WILL tell the truth. I might not go so far as to divulge the exact questions, but i'll be damned if cloak-and-daggger will go in in MY face. Besides, way too many technical means and illegal sneak-and-peak ops occur for most of us to be traditionally interrogated unless, unless the act of questioning is to cause someone who is lying to actually try to contact the subject. Even still, it could end up being a dead-end query.
I once was questioned by the FBI in mid 03 about a "the plane", which was actually a smashed-up RC craft. They might have been interested in the F-16, which never had an engine installed in the some-8 years of it's having been built. It was owned by a relative who didn't retrieve it before i moved to Portland, OR. I believe the spooked-ass rat was the apartment complex (Trammel Crow(e)) manager who it seems ran inspections every 3 months, looking for whatever was forbidden, since Oregon housing/public law permits such quasi-zone-inspections, in the name of combating illegal drugs and non-lease occupants violations. She had me remove EVERY SINGLE BOX from the closet, as if looking for trap doors or pipes or tunnels or whatever. She saw the RC F-16 and made a note, and IIRC, her face seemed concerned. (Note: I'm black (born on the Presidio, Leterman General Hospital, when my father was in the USMC), but don't always look it, and she was white, and this was, to remind readers, Q1 of 2002. They let me move in based on cash in my bank account (money from selling my home in California, but of that $30,000, only $10,000 was mine, since $20K was really loans keeping me from going into foreclosure during my attempt to sell it on the market), and specifically said it was OK to count it as income. Of course, when i burned thru that cash, i got eviction notices.
Anyway, about 1 month later, the FBI knocked on my door, fucking hailed hailed my name and said, "We're from the FBI. We've been trying to reach you for WEEKS!".
My first thought was BULLSHIT! I had had my cell phone ON for the entire time I was in Oregon. I had no home phone, and by that time i had sold my car for rent money. I was even going onto California unemployment because i didn't manage to find a job. I was trying to start a business, and even before that had registered with the Department of Revenue in Salem, and file articles of incorporation, and then filed those in Washington county. I had made cash, debit and money order transactions for books purchases and rent/other payments. I rode public transit. So, i call bullshit. They could NOT have failed to find me since i was in the mode of evading tails.
What shocked them was when i said, "Ah, so you're here after that little one-man plane buzzed the complex at less than 300 feet, circled a few times. Yeh, i saw his face. He was caucasian, had greenish earphones one, and looked to be about 180 lbs, maybe 50-ish years old. Yeh, i figured he was doing radiological checks. But, you know it's clean here."
The older of the two agents produce a fucking BEAUTIFUL pic of me, which they obtained from OR DMV. I was stunned at the crisp, clear colors. I don't know if i got a boner looking at myself, or if i was impressed that Oregon is much more efficient than California in DMV matters. I wanted to ask them for a copy but deferred. They said, "We're here for "the plane"....". I took them down to the garage (oh, they were nice, tho, having removed their shoes since i told them i don't wear shoes in my home (i picked that up from living with Vietnamese friends, and ever since left street shoes at the threshold, ESPECIALLY in San Fransideshow with the shit-infested streets...)...), and when they saw the smashed-up Snoop-The-Red Baron plane, they wee quite annoyed. The older one gro
Enriching!
Now, what will this mean for athletes, military, other types who get injured and get infused with "proxygen" (blood and java & coded Java) and get told to continue the fight?
Oh, now i guess i'm supposed to think that other nations don't have their patriots of old who have been replaced in modern times by corrupt, selfish, wanton types, huh?
How many Chinese do you think LOVE their current leadership. It's why their current government is doing what it is doing, all in the name of NOT losing power in the form it knows and with which it currently is comfortable. China's government & Chinese nationals are not alone. But, whether the BITUSA lyrics are supposed to be a beacon of shining light or mirror of shame, if the Chinese government *listens*, i mean **really listens**, they can spin whatever they want, and make YOU, ME, or anyone else coming in with political change ambitions suddenly persona non grata. BITUSA might work well for SOME US citizens, but by NO means whatsoever does it neatly drape a flag of hope or optimism onto even Chinese citizens who DO despise or feel disheartened with their own government. The world is NOT that of the USA, and citizens/residents/adherents of/to the USA need to stop casting the US shadow onto other peoples.
Here are some stickers to apply:
Flipper
Bambi
Willy (Free Willy)
An Aboriginal
Creech
Gollum
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Tell the women these were your animal forms in past life times. Tell her you're a sexual expert in all fathoms, climes, caves, and skies. Now that you are human, you're entitled to make all sorts of squirmy noises in bed but that she should not be unduly alarmed. If she's not impressed, add more animal signs...
The US starts trying to use Google as a VOA (Voice of America) megaphone, then then Chinese ban ALL songs not provided with 100% faithful lyrics sheets, so as to screen out pseudo-anti-Chinese-Government songs, or songs that over-sell the greatness of the USA. Songs like "Born in the USA" will likely get binned (but, for all i know it is available for years...). I imagine Prince's (the artist formerly known as Prince, formerly known NOT as Prince, then formerly now formally known as Prince) "Erotic City" (We can FUCK until the dawn, making love til cherry's gone...) will be binned, unless not yet censored.
Yeh, i can just see Google getting paid (and bending over for the money) the USA VOA machine, cuz, business is business. I hope "do no wrong" applies to not pumping a megaphonic pathway into another country's borders. Locals should HUNT for, not be blasted BY content they don't want nor don't need.
You literaturelly put KDE on the "bleedey edge"... Sore Users might want to splash a little "Camp or Phennicky" on their Open Sores Wounds...Sore to speak.... hehheehhee
the use of thing-in-the-middle attacks that might be able to determine the images sent and whether a stream of returned text that named the image got yielded access to the content or the process the captcha was "protecting". Given enough monitoring of such traffic, i imagine it won't be long before computers (programmed by humans who WANT computers to think or interpret more like humans) can keep with humans and play chess using only relevant considerations of moves.
What might follow might be "Computers: The NEW Terrorists", where by laws meant to preserve the "domain" of humanity will promise certain death to humans who betray humanity to machines.
Or not...
"Cloud computing meant different things at different times. Right now it seems to mean a virtual data center."
Computing clouds? How many clouds does it take to saturate a farm of 2,500 hectares?
...
I am wondering if this is more about exploting the fact that such long and exacting URLs might serve as a form of security through obscurity...
I suppose those are better than being "shitballed and blackcanned"... I'd feel like a zombie with the 1-800-number to the Darrow (or Dow?) Chemical Comany in "Return of the Living Dead".... Certainly don't want to be the "sticky black shit in the bottom of the barrel"...
(Captcha: exerted)
underscore that the USPTO needs to be fixed, or empowered to shoot down all-reaching patents.
For example, suppose company A invents that flying suit, modeled after a given species of bird, and even gets a patent for a "novel" invention (though we've already seen many cloth, mechanical, and thruster types of flying attachments). Nature, as we all can readily observe, has created (or allowed the long-term existence of) many species, colors, sizes, and flying capabilities of birds.
Now, company/entrepreneur B comes along and models a suit after a wildly different species of bird that either flies better than Company A's bird, or flies worse, but nevertheless allows a human short, economical flying. If the USPTO granted Company A's patent and the patent was set up as a minefield with "We claim an apparatus, device, fixture, assemblage, attachment, and cloth known and to be developed over time...", then the patent should be revoked, challenged, diluted...
Now, if Company B's suit/wing is obviously different, but functions the same in the end, then why should B be denied a patent, or, just as insulting, be forced to pay royalties to A? I like to ask whether there are cartels forcing the payment of royalties on "infringement" on design and manufacturing patents (or even copyright) for:
pencils
windows
shoes
pants
bookshelves
car chassis
steering wheels
CD/DVD jewel cases
filing cabinets
desk organizers
binders
office partitions
hair combs
mixing bowls
spatulas
and on and on and on.
Anyway, in one of the UK magazines (can't remember if it's PC Pro) there is an article about making win XP & vista have multiple desktops, 3D effects, shortcuts, etc. Some even outright strip out the ms GUI and replace it, turning off services and things, too, and running in under 44 MB of RAM. Some of them look as if lifted right out of KDE. I suppose if ms DID include the features KDE and Apple and the ms-oriented 3rd party addons/replacements the Open Source crowd would cry bloody foul. Actually, tho, i am glad that ms didn't include them. This way, when i ride the train or sit in Borders i can play around as people peak to see what is going on.
To be intellectually honest/clean, though, now that i have seen the articles showing that XP & Vista & 3rd party tools CAN INDEED do (graphically) what KDE does, i cannot any longer smugly ask, "Can windows do THIS?!" However, I CAN ask "How do YOU explain that ms did the thinking for YOU and decided that YOU could not possibly possess the intelligence to efficiently use these features?"
It may become the case that ms gets 7 out the door, but later "congratulates" the other parties for bringing new, useful, lean features in an effort to undermine the "superior" KDE GUI distinctions.
I used to experience Mandriva 2008 (or was it PCLinuxOS 2007?) taking longer come out of suspend/hibernate (to RAM... back then it wasn't having any of suspend to disk) than to reboot, or just as long as a reboot. Now, in 2009.0, resume works just sweet, in less than 12 seconds i have my desktop. Part of the delay is just from having to type in my password to get past whichever screen saver i invoke. Is your version of Ubuntu the most recent? I tend to download various Mdva kernels when i upgrade, play with each a few minutes, and look for glaring broken situations. I fiddled with the klaptop and other ACPI/kpowersave settings. For the most part, I'm happy with it.
I love to bash ms when a worthwhile opportunity arises, but i think that if the XP machine is taking 3 minutes to become available, something's really wrong. I use on two XP-based machines at work, one being from 2002 or 2004, and the other from 2006. When i reboot either, they both are ready within about 1 to 1.5 minutes. The older one, however, is slower than dogdoo, especially if ie7 is open with more than 10 tabs. Even after purging the browser's temp files and setting ie to purge on close/restart. But, i don't suspend/hibernate my work machines.
They are biting the hand that feeds them... (the cameras...), hehehe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
"[edit] History
The first capsule hotel was the Capsule Inn Osaka, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and located in the Umeda district of Osaka. It opened on February 1, 1979 and the initial room rate was ¥1,600.[citation needed]"
It seems to me that since (if i can assume this) Japan is a party to Berne/Copyright, patent and other treaties that the USPTO might have to modify the patent awarding and downgrade it or flag it as open to fair and immediate nullificaiton or challenge. I'm assuming that the original (Japanese) designers didn't sell or sublicense any patents rights to the US.
It's possible that for some reason even the Japanese were not the first conceptual artists of such bedding arrangements. After all, mausoleums are similar, with row after row, and column after column of "sleep/rest" slots, although for the dead.
Since the *dead* don't need ventilation, reading, and other "creature comforts", it's only obvious that the living *would*. I would like to safely assume that anyone making or designing for build any similar bunks is only offering/forcing fair, legitimate, and useful competition. And, in the USA, when was the last time any of us walked into a bedding or furnishing store and found front/rear-entry bunks? Of course, while most US bedroom layouts may not be conducive to such bunking arrangements, the lack of visibility of such bunks shouldn't be seen as some "niche" or "novelty" supporting claim, either.
broad, nebulous, all-inclusive-for-them/all-deprivation-for-others patent?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4594817.html
http://www.wikipatents.com/4594817.html,
then, compare to:
http://www.yesicanusechopsticks.com/thesequel/capsule/
It's high time that even decades-old patents be overhauled... We have innumerable types of pens, tables, chairs, automobiles, book shelves, sofas, scanner and printer devices, cabinets, trash cans, shoes, refrigerators... Is anyone out there sitting on proof that there is a cartel collecting royalties on THOSE items or numerous others?
It's not as if a bunk bed is as seminal as a special pain-free needle/injector for patients to self-administer multiple times a day, and not as if it is as significant as wiper blades or the Botts Dots, or special alloys...
But, for big companies to possibly preempt smaller firms and individuals from obtaining patents on "disruptive" technology or other things, the only defense left is to immediately and constantly diffuse/dissseminate information and details on every step along the way, with anciliary information to work around and back toward the patent. This will teach the big bastards they are NOT going to be allowed to hem in tech and non-tech patents for themselves, their leashpullers, and those that otherwise bow to them.
If so, then all THREE of these are dog-gone shames:
The MD is gone
the pop-up-hell site is a doggone shame
the Dog vs God is a dog gone shame
(woof woof...)
This is going to go down as a quirk discovery by a Quan who is not a Quark....
Either way, looks like she concentrated pain on them with her high-QUALity, QUANtitative analysis... Now, if QUANtum Mechanics is in her repertoir... and she makes a substantial amount of money, she can qua-qua-qua duck-waddle all the way to the bank...
OK, I'll QUit, now...