And, it might be an inauspicious way to send his ticker the kicker if SpaceShipOne burns or crashes in an accident. I can imagine the Doomed Doohan: Aye Kepten! But, sheh kenna take it enny-mohr.
A long as the craft serves well without incident, Jimmy Doohan would be proud and happy, Maybe rename THIS one to Doohan, but send up newer models, non-particularly named. If THEY burn up, it won't point to a famous name. Enterprise is still on the ground, and only did drops and glides, but SpaceShipOne, as currently named, is operational, and far more visible thanks to the Internet/Web than Enterprise was or will be.
I'm the letter "P". Perfectly, my first name is "I". "F" begins my family name. For gags, people abuse my family name by asking for me, saying, "I'm looking for Mr. Freely. I.P. Freely"
Past performance is not an indicator of future value.
The business model could collapse, or endure unforseen growth limitations, or market share inversion due to:
- acts of God (or acts categorized as Convenient Acts of God (COGs))
- nefarious obtuse omissions by Satan (NOOBS)
- mass exodus of converts (MEOCs)
- disillusionment in the able ranks (DisInTary)
- loss of wealth of the principles and principals (LoWePrinPrin)
- asteroids hitting and melting the Vatican steps (AHamVats)
- insufficient seances, ouiji boards, and sacrificial goats (ISO-BAS-G)
- further media distortion of improper contact with under-developed and marginally compliant beings
- claims or revelations of convents' broken foundations revealing fetal skeletons
- sinners' transgressions given away by exhortations and exclamations of "You did WHAT!!?? HOW old is this girl? Where were her PARENTS when you were doing this????!!!!"
- too many tamborinese and genuflections in one sermon
- the collection basket going around three times in one mass
- staying out for 15 hours and collecting only TWO fish, and THOSE turning out to be inedible
- acquiring too many black Cadillacs replacing the beach-tan or exorcist-pea-green Dodge Darts
- untimely arrival of Feklar and the Jem H'a'dar
- revival of the 70's rock band "Pontius Pilate and the Nail-Drivin' Five"
Well, I for one think "hopes and prayers" might be a bit more appropriate than "fair winds and following seas...", hehhe
We'd be in deep shit if a rocket launch created such a vacuum that it haul water up with it. Fortunately physics doesn't (yet) work that way.
But, the scary thing for NASA and the US government is that NASA will be compelled to show why it can't do more with less money, and the government will have to worry about copy-cat craft conducting unauthorized surveillance-- if these craft can be mass produced. Nothing like having a pocket rocket in every back yard, hehehe.
If this is so, then why did not the canopies of military jets get replaced? This would seem to me that someone lobbied that it would be too expensive and risky to the airframe, and figured on banking lots of money for fixed and customizable helmet-mounted eye shields. I imagined then and imagine now that continuous additions to the headgear will just kick up the G's on their necks. Couldn't a lamination of sorts be applied to the inside of the canopy more effectively than the costly individual head gear pieces? Oh, wait, some senator could get a kickback from a district that would be awarded the contract to churn out all this headgear used only in flight. Interesting how creative and slick people (not industries, but people) can be to make a buck...
I remember back around 1986 when then-Soviet aircraft reportedly were "lasing" or "laser dazzling" interceptor pilots to make them back off. I then and now regularly think of applying Star Trek-like events to thwart would-be enemies. I could care less who's side I was on. I thought of the episode where Spock lost his vision in the solar & decompression chamber used to kill off those flying scrambled eggs , and the episode where Diana Muldaur's character lit up and blinded Spock. Somehow, I lept to the idea that lasers or concentrated light or energy projectors could be used for military purposes. I had not even known within the next few hours on my chow break that a message on that topic was printing on the Broadcast. My RMC was crossing the Messdecks at the very moment and barged up to me and berated the hell out of me, threatening my clearance and more.
Shit, I was only 21 at the time, an hard-core Trek fan, not into divulging secrets, but I was into conspiracy theories to a point, was imaginative, read many books, and particularly bought but never finished many of the inside the CIA/FBI/Spetznas/KGB/GRU type of books. I would just draw things or ships or blurt out ideas that were rooted in Sci-Fi, and sometimes either be berated by my chief, or praised by others who said, "Damn, Syes, we're glad you're on OUR side and not the RUSSians'", particularly since I was adept at reading US Naval Proceedings and noting the pictures of propellers, CIWS gun angles, comms equipment and more. Based on CIWS pictures, I told the Gunners Mates one way to defeat their gun would be to launch an ship-killer missile outside the CIWS range and arc it so that it strikes the ship at an angle the CIWS couldn't cope with.
Another time, thinking about Destroyer Escorts and their supposed role of intercepting torpedos to save the Carriers, I though it was stupid to sink a ship. All they had to do was trail noise makers in the water and vary frequencies to confuse or blow up the inbound torpedoes. I then (being a Libra, I guess) suggested the Russians could counter that by simply using torpedo sensors that could discriminate the size, duration, and other properties of the wake generated by an aircraft carrier to simply avoid or dodge the smaller decoys. It was common sense, to me. Hell, I watched LOTS of Star Trek (I guess thinking of the episode "Balance of Terror" (The Romulan's type 4 or something weapon they ejected from the disposal tubes, which gravitated or homed in on the Enterprise even though it was still and quiet until Styles hit the sensor sweep button, providing a fix for the Romulans...), maybe the "Tholian Web" (I forget how, but they enveloped the ship in a mesh meant to destroy or displace the ship), maybe "Arena" (the Gorn used Spock's tricorder signals to build up a feedback to destroy it) and others. To me, this shit is the result of imagination. I couldn't BUILD it, but I could IMAGINE it. I was not a weapons person, but I READ a lot. But, my chief ripped me in the ass for that, too.
Shit, I wasn't anything special, I just used my imagination. If militaries cannot handle imaginative people in the ranks, then maybe the business of weapons procurement should be forced out of existence. Since it can't be (except for apocalypse or self-annhilation), then, maybe fear of war or countermeasures should be the weapon to deter war-- even if imagined or proposed by low-level enlisteds.
David Syes
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Hmmm.... I am surprised I haven't seen any new BioChem-Pharma-Neutr-Nerv-Ceuticles file a patent on the active ingredient in dog hormones.
A strands of DNA fro Trigger could trigger an avalanche of shitting in humans. This could be better a shitload, umm a shitload better than PhenPhen, unless there is a Fi-Fi or a Poo-Poo or a Puddles to squeeze this matter from.
Imagine lost worker productivity reports including:
"Last year in the USA
-- 7.5 million hours were lost as clerical employees dashed from their desks or tight-buttedly waddled down hallways to do the number 2 after a fierce session of 88-wpm of typing
-- 9.8 million hours were lost due to fire fighters separating excess baggage on the scene, necessitating backup fire fighters taking up the rear
--117.2 million hours were lost as transit operators (coach/bus drivers) generated bathroom trip resulting from too many turns around corners (despite power-assisted steering)
-- Football as a sport is in futher decline every time players drink a power liquid, forcing them into power flush
-- 99.825 million hours were lost as pharmacists needlessly and frantically scurried or waddled about searching their shelves for Milk of AMNEsia for patients whose pressing needs were not being met by Milk of MAGnesia, and who were demanding "Please help me forget this shit"
Hmmm, do you come from the land of the rising pun? Do your women groan and make thunder. Do you hear the land down under? You better run, you better take cover...hehehe
semi-digression:
How many distros have dog in them? Any with "cat"? It better be good or it would be labelled "The Shitty Kitty" (like the CV named Kitty Hawk was nicked "The Shitty Kitty"; CV Ranger was "The Danger Ranger"; CV Forrestal was "USS Forest Fire";
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Do these dogs "excrete" "digital shit"? It would be good master training to have to clean it up. After all, some of Catz and Dogz knockoffs train kids to love and care for their digital Petz. Digi-shit and digi-puke are not a far stretch, and could be less distasteful than headshots and limb rips in FPSs
Get a grip. I was not "devaluing" the victims of pornography or exploited children. I was pointing out the MAGNITUDE of complacency among consumers, and the level of corruption among many CEOs, boards of directors, and the lawmakers who supposedly are on the side of good, or good policy.
The point is that if IIII had gates' money, and were myself not outspoken, I could buy off just about ANYone, even if the sheepish public bought my shit but mildly hated my guts. At that level, I could be the corporate Mugabi or Manson and probably still get off the hook. (Sigh, I can see it now... gates, Mugabi and Manson in the same short paragraph...)
Would this shit make the wearer look like some strumpet or trollop?
Or, going back to the pre-90s, imagine all the collars worn by mods and punkers. Now, just add GPS, tracking, alarm clocks, cell phone, and the thing is reversed engineered.
The patent, in words, sounds STUPID to me. It sounds as if it's trying to corner the market for something that can be done in a COTS or Common Off The Shelf way. All the bugging and observation gear that is miniaturized can be put on a pair of eye glasses, a ring, or a piece of breast-mounted jewelry. What the hell makes a damned COLLAR so special?
Multi-hooped doggie-girl/gimp-boy collars can be fashined, digitized, or affixed with digital devices. Collars with hoops and more hoops would look ridiculous, could prove the point that issuing a patent for collar-based digital components is fundamentally STUPID and also a waste of investor time and money. If they have that much money to piss off, then donate it to hungry or needy people, not some gee-whizz think-tank inside a moribund company or garage somewhere.
So, what's to stop people from attaching these components or computers to utility belts?
If one looks at telephone pole climbers, military field soldiers, and cable workers and others, including construction workers, it is just an obvious extension that utility belts for THEM will morph for school kids, bus riders, hospital workers and others who need to carry MP3s, medical charts, and other information or tools. As these things shrink, it becomes "inevitable", not "trademarkable".
For the USPTO fail to look at it this way is to breed contempt for themselves.
I suggest someone go and add miniature-computers to utility belts, scarves, broaches and wrist watches and then make the band lightweight, stylish, and adjustable. This way, it can be on the wrist, around the waiste, the ankle, or other anatomical parts. The point is, it could be worn where the WEARER chooses, regardless of manufacturer intent.
Given that MOST tech SOFTWARE patents are junk patents, bought and paid for, they should ALL be reexamined, but done so openly, not just in the confines of the USPTO.
Moreover, ALL large companies that prolifically shit out patent applications need to be made to pay a premium so that publicly-accessible databases can show the FULL patent, not some pictureless, mind-numbing rendition of the application. Pictures need to be downloadable so that prior art can be properly presented to contest the issuance of a bogus patent. Competitors who would be bombed by a patent infringement would have an opportunity to modify their product accordingly so as to reduce or remove the threat of infringement suits.
If this sets back an inventor (or, oft the case, "acquirer") then so be it. Tell them, "Nice try, go back and re work your shit and come back another day", and THEN maybe bullshit patents will be slowed to a trickle.
What we need is a "collar of obedience" from the Triskelions. Attach the things to the congress, senate, house, legislature, and the lobbyists, and the USPTO and anytime they say the word "extort", "money", "tax", "generate funding", "grant", "application", "invention for microsoft approved", or the like...
Bmmmm----ZZZZZ--- SSZZZAPPPPP!
Zap their asses into compliance to reduce taxes, reduce laws, generate meaningful, pleasurable work... add things to the list...
For a second, I thought I saw "Yanni". But, maybe that is more preferable for background or elevator or mood music than say "Kenny G".
Have there been any studies to ascertain the best music, if any at all, that should or could be played regularly (not just for breaks or mission photo ops...)?
I am sure Klingon opera music would have them ripping their consoles out, though.
Now, if kamasalila and saspanda were in the mission names, somebody might say, "Houston, ahem, India, we've got a problem"...
Hmmmm, if mshaft would quit screwing around with would-be and actual competitors, MORE would be brought to the tech table despite of or IN spite of mshaft, with or without their help (funding or inspiration).
Popularity should be based on integrity, honesty, unselfishness, and more, not on who's got the biggest treasure chest or family jewells. (Actually, I suppose if gate's parents had vastly less money, gate's and his parents' company would not have started up with as much of an arsenal to go after firms and people on a cherry-picking expedition... (Where is Capt Braxton or the Timeship Aeon when we need them?))
As for another passage I read in Linux User and Developer, in which an mshaft ranking officer (or someone quoted in the article) claimed ms "looked the video and music industry in the eye" and challenged them to prevent users from getting access to music, hell I would find it more believable to have read: "We paid them off. We showed them the benefits of vendor lock-in, the use of patents to hold competitors in check..."
Just how much did microshaft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual with me...) INNOVATE or CREATE? As I see it, they:
--encroach more insidiously than many or most others
--they hijack and shut down products they don't want on the market
--buy up what they want and through disgusting aspects of legalities and ownership slap their name on products they never created, and the pedigree is wiped out except by those who follow and meticulously track mergers and acquisitions or trawl through SEC filings
--still-birth and FUD would-be competitors out of existence by using false release dates and the sheer weight of their name with the goal of destroying their fledgeling competitors' funding foundation
--Pen Tablet: not new: sci-fi shows have demonstrated (even if fake) that such things are useful (for dramatic devices or props, or just to predict)
--GUI: it's an evolutionary thing; after all, for just how long would people stick with CLI and DOS boxes? That would be as bad as asking seeing people to learn Braille and touch a TV screen rather than SEE (But, more importantly they (as I recall) STOLE, ahem BOUGHT the GUI idea from Apple, who stole (or maybe bought) it from Xerox
http://www.semack.net/Articles/MicrosoftDoesntIn no vateTh.html
--browsers: they cobbled some NCSA or near-time code and created one riddled with security holes, perpetuated them, and god branded as the crap it is: A MAJOR SECURITY HOLE
--security through obscurity? Hell, they get points for taking it to extremes, but even governments and intelligence agencies knew they couldn't keep secrets forever, so they assigned code names and covers for projects, often double-naming some super-sensitive projects
So, micostorf doesn't innovate much, but they sure as hell take things to the extreme, get credit for it when all they have is a loud-assed, mega marketing department, and a legion of acolytes, many of whom just need a job and either have real passion for ms, or successfully FAKE their passion just to lay claim to a check emblazoned with "microsoft" on it.
How far would that make Richard Stallman from:... Sonata No. 31 in Ab Major, Op. 110, 517. Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111, 533.... Sonata 31 in Bb transposition - Domenico Scarlatti; Sonata 33 (original key) - Domenico Scarlatti; Sonata 33 in Eb transposition - Domenico... ?
While you're at it, add to the list of impalees a bunch of dirty, corrupt legislators, and civil administrators. Not all of them, just the top 2% known to be on the take. Impale them and turn them like roasted pigs, but over a low, slow flame. Crisp their ass and let the critters go.
(Note: Impaling does not necessarily mean putting a pole or a splintered fiddle vertically up someone's ass and out the back of their skull, for some people would say "I'll run you through" (as in with a sword to the liver or kidneys) and consider that impaling. But, the vision of impaling has its effects...)
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And, it might be an inauspicious way to send his ticker the kicker if SpaceShipOne burns or crashes in an accident. I can imagine the Doomed Doohan: Aye Kepten! But, sheh kenna take it enny-mohr.
A long as the craft serves well without incident, Jimmy Doohan would be proud and happy, Maybe rename THIS one to Doohan, but send up newer models, non-particularly named. If THEY burn up, it won't point to a famous name. Enterprise is still on the ground, and only did drops and glides, but SpaceShipOne, as currently named, is operational, and far more visible thanks to the Internet/Web than Enterprise was or will be.
Just some thoughts...
Maybe this is a bit pedantic, but I think you meant "bald-faced lie",
But, maybe you meant " BOLD- -faced lie"...
Hi,
I'm the letter "P". Perfectly, my first name is "I". "F" begins my family name. For gags, people abuse my family name by asking for me, saying, "I'm looking for Mr. Freely. I.P. Freely"
Umm, do you have a quantum slipstream with your slipstick?
Sorry, I just have too much Trek on my mind, in an environment of science and religion... and old memories
I can see Daarth with a pom-pom or a palm-bomb in his ass. I think that explains the mask and breathing (hiding the squinting and sweating...)
Gives a new meaning to Dark Invader
Those are INVESTMENT activities.
They report "Everything but the bad stuff".
Past performance is not an indicator of future value.
The business model could collapse, or endure unforseen growth limitations, or market share inversion due to:
- acts of God (or acts categorized as Convenient Acts of God (COGs))
- nefarious obtuse omissions by Satan (NOOBS)
- mass exodus of converts (MEOCs)
- disillusionment in the able ranks (DisInTary)
- loss of wealth of the principles and principals (LoWePrinPrin)
- asteroids hitting and melting the Vatican steps (AHamVats)
- insufficient seances, ouiji boards, and sacrificial goats (ISO-BAS-G)
- further media distortion of improper contact with under-developed and marginally compliant beings
- claims or revelations of convents' broken foundations revealing fetal skeletons
- sinners' transgressions given away by exhortations and exclamations of "You did WHAT!!?? HOW old is this girl? Where were her PARENTS when you were doing this????!!!!"
- too many tamborinese and genuflections in one sermon
- the collection basket going around three times in one mass
- staying out for 15 hours and collecting only TWO fish, and THOSE turning out to be inedible
- acquiring too many black Cadillacs replacing the beach-tan or exorcist-pea-green Dodge Darts
- untimely arrival of Feklar and the Jem H'a'dar
- revival of the 70's rock band "Pontius Pilate and the Nail-Drivin' Five"
Or, you can accept that God is an absentee landlord...
Well, I for one think "hopes and prayers" might be a bit more appropriate than "fair winds and following seas...", hehhe
We'd be in deep shit if a rocket launch created such a vacuum that it haul water up with it. Fortunately physics doesn't (yet) work that way.
But, the scary thing for NASA and the US government is that NASA will be compelled to show why it can't do more with less money, and the government will have to worry about copy-cat craft conducting unauthorized surveillance-- if these craft can be mass produced. Nothing like having a pocket rocket in every back yard, hehehe.
"A" is for Abble,
"J" is for jacks,
Cinnamony, toastee Appppple Jax
You need a good brekfust --
That's a fakt,
Stahhrrt it out wit Abble Jacs
Abbo jaks...
Abboh Jax...
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So are they combining Apple Jacks and Floot Roops to get Fruit Jacks?
Mayb Toni the Tiger of Flosted Frakes got crossed with the Sugar Bear after s/he heard "Come to the hunnah-khomb "Hahhd Out".
That Toucan showed up with those sweet-asse cheerios and we the rest was the birds and the bees... After the Trix-chasin' rabbit arrived...
Pretty soon we'll grid locks... like in slapstick shows... But, the backdoor intrusion will be to knock out the hinges...
Switch to cells, and add nucleosis... Hmmm. would not be good... mononucleosis...
If this is so, then why did not the canopies of military jets get replaced? This would seem to me that someone lobbied that it would be too expensive and risky to the airframe, and figured on banking lots of money for fixed and customizable helmet-mounted eye shields. I imagined then and imagine now that continuous additions to the headgear will just kick up the G's on their necks. Couldn't a lamination of sorts be applied to the inside of the canopy more effectively than the costly individual head gear pieces? Oh, wait, some senator could get a kickback from a district that would be awarded the contract to churn out all this headgear used only in flight. Interesting how creative and slick people (not industries, but people) can be to make a buck...
I remember back around 1986 when then-Soviet aircraft reportedly were "lasing" or "laser dazzling" interceptor pilots to make them back off. I then and now regularly think of applying Star Trek-like events to thwart would-be enemies. I could care less who's side I was on. I thought of the episode where Spock lost his vision in the solar & decompression chamber used to kill off those flying scrambled eggs , and the episode where Diana Muldaur's character lit up and blinded Spock. Somehow, I lept to the idea that lasers or concentrated light or energy projectors could be used for military purposes. I had not even known within the next few hours on my chow break that a message on that topic was printing on the Broadcast. My RMC was crossing the Messdecks at the very moment and barged up to me and berated the hell out of me, threatening my clearance and more.
Shit, I was only 21 at the time, an hard-core Trek fan, not into divulging secrets, but I was into conspiracy theories to a point, was imaginative, read many books, and particularly bought but never finished many of the inside the CIA/FBI/Spetznas/KGB/GRU type of books. I would just draw things or ships or blurt out ideas that were rooted in Sci-Fi, and sometimes either be berated by my chief, or praised by others who said, "Damn, Syes, we're glad you're on OUR side and not the RUSSians'", particularly since I was adept at reading US Naval Proceedings and noting the pictures of propellers, CIWS gun angles, comms equipment and more. Based on CIWS pictures, I told the Gunners Mates one way to defeat their gun would be to launch an ship-killer missile outside the CIWS range and arc it so that it strikes the ship at an angle the CIWS couldn't cope with.
Another time, thinking about Destroyer Escorts and their supposed role of intercepting torpedos to save the Carriers, I though it was stupid to sink a ship. All they had to do was trail noise makers in the water and vary frequencies to confuse or blow up the inbound torpedoes. I then (being a Libra, I guess) suggested the Russians could counter that by simply using torpedo sensors that could discriminate the size, duration, and other properties of the wake generated by an aircraft carrier to simply avoid or dodge the smaller decoys. It was common sense, to me. Hell, I watched LOTS of Star Trek (I guess thinking of the episode "Balance of Terror" (The Romulan's type 4 or something weapon they ejected from the disposal tubes, which gravitated or homed in on the Enterprise even though it was still and quiet until Styles hit the sensor sweep button, providing a fix for the Romulans...), maybe the "Tholian Web" (I forget how, but they enveloped the ship in a mesh meant to destroy or displace the ship), maybe "Arena" (the Gorn used Spock's tricorder signals to build up a feedback to destroy it) and others. To me, this shit is the result of imagination. I couldn't BUILD it, but I could IMAGINE it. I was not a weapons person, but I READ a lot. But, my chief ripped me in the ass for that, too.
Shit, I wasn't anything special, I just used my imagination. If militaries cannot handle imaginative people in the ranks, then maybe the business of weapons procurement should be forced out of existence. Since it can't be (except for apocalypse or self-annhilation), then, maybe fear of war or countermeasures should be the weapon to deter war-- even if imagined or proposed by low-level enlisteds.
David Syes
Hmmm.... I am surprised I haven't seen any new BioChem-Pharma-Neutr-Nerv-Ceuticles file a patent on the active ingredient in dog hormones.
A strands of DNA fro Trigger could trigger an avalanche of shitting in humans. This could be better a shitload, umm a shitload better than PhenPhen, unless there is a Fi-Fi or a Poo-Poo or a Puddles to squeeze this matter from.
Imagine lost worker productivity reports including:
"Last year in the USA
-- 7.5 million hours were lost as clerical employees dashed from their desks or tight-buttedly waddled down hallways to do the number 2 after a fierce session of 88-wpm of typing
-- 9.8 million hours were lost due to fire fighters separating excess baggage on the scene, necessitating backup fire fighters taking up the rear
--117.2 million hours were lost as transit operators (coach/bus drivers) generated bathroom trip resulting from too many turns around corners (despite power-assisted steering)
-- Football as a sport is in futher decline every time players drink a power liquid, forcing them into power flush
-- 99.825 million hours were lost as pharmacists needlessly and frantically scurried or waddled about searching their shelves for Milk of AMNEsia for patients whose pressing needs were not being met by Milk of MAGnesia, and who were demanding "Please help me forget this shit"
Hmmm, do you come from the land of the rising pun? Do your women groan and make thunder. Do you hear the land down under? You better run, you better take cover...hehehe
semi-digression:
How many distros have dog in them? Any with "cat"? It better be good or it would be labelled "The Shitty Kitty" (like the CV named Kitty Hawk was nicked "The Shitty Kitty"; CV Ranger was "The Danger Ranger"; CV Forrestal was "USS Forest Fire";
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Do these dogs "excrete" "digital shit"? It would be good master training to have to clean it up. After all, some of Catz and Dogz knockoffs train kids to love and care for their digital Petz. Digi-shit and digi-puke are not a far stretch, and could be less distasteful than headshots and limb rips in FPSs
Well, based on YOUR quoted line, I now am recalling the Exorcist.
"The POWer of CHRIst comPELLS YOU!" Impale, impell, compell, dispell, repell, derail... hehhe (without referring to "rhyme" at the CLI...)
OK, you add a few now...
Yeh, right, Spock. (There was a signature on /. I saw which seemed pretty funny and obvious.)
Points for you, though, for you appear to be in complete control of your emotions, Spock.
Get a grip. I was not "devaluing" the victims of pornography or exploited children. I was pointing out the MAGNITUDE of complacency among consumers, and the level of corruption among many CEOs, boards of directors, and the lawmakers who supposedly are on the side of good, or good policy.
The point is that if IIII had gates' money, and were myself not outspoken, I could buy off just about ANYone, even if the sheepish public bought my shit but mildly hated my guts. At that level, I could be the corporate Mugabi or Manson and probably still get off the hook. (Sigh, I can see it now... gates, Mugabi and Manson in the same short paragraph...)
Would this shit make the wearer look like some strumpet or trollop?
Or, going back to the pre-90s, imagine all the collars worn by mods and punkers. Now, just add GPS, tracking, alarm clocks, cell phone, and the thing is reversed engineered.
The patent, in words, sounds STUPID to me. It sounds as if it's trying to corner the market for something that can be done in a COTS or Common Off The Shelf way. All the bugging and observation gear that is miniaturized can be put on a pair of eye glasses, a ring, or a piece of breast-mounted jewelry. What the hell makes a damned COLLAR so special?
Multi-hooped doggie-girl/gimp-boy collars can be fashined, digitized, or affixed with digital devices. Collars with hoops and more hoops would look ridiculous, could prove the point that issuing a patent for collar-based digital components is fundamentally STUPID and also a waste of investor time and money. If they have that much money to piss off, then donate it to hungry or needy people, not some gee-whizz think-tank inside a moribund company or garage somewhere.
David Syes
So, what's to stop people from attaching these components or computers to utility belts?
If one looks at telephone pole climbers, military field soldiers, and cable workers and others, including construction workers, it is just an obvious extension that utility belts for THEM will morph for school kids, bus riders, hospital workers and others who need to carry MP3s, medical charts, and other information or tools. As these things shrink, it becomes "inevitable", not "trademarkable".
For the USPTO fail to look at it this way is to breed contempt for themselves.
I suggest someone go and add miniature-computers to utility belts, scarves, broaches and wrist watches and then make the band lightweight, stylish, and adjustable. This way, it can be on the wrist, around the waiste, the ankle, or other anatomical parts. The point is, it could be worn where the WEARER chooses, regardless of manufacturer intent.
Given that MOST tech SOFTWARE patents are junk patents, bought and paid for, they should ALL be reexamined, but done so openly, not just in the confines of the USPTO.
Moreover, ALL large companies that prolifically shit out patent applications need to be made to pay a premium so that publicly-accessible databases can show the FULL patent, not some pictureless, mind-numbing rendition of the application. Pictures need to be downloadable so that prior art can be properly presented to contest the issuance of a bogus patent. Competitors who would be bombed by a patent infringement would have an opportunity to modify their product accordingly so as to reduce or remove the threat of infringement suits.
If this sets back an inventor (or, oft the case, "acquirer") then so be it. Tell them, "Nice try, go back and re work your shit and come back another day", and THEN maybe bullshit patents will be slowed to a trickle.
David Syes
What we need is a "collar of obedience" from the Triskelions. Attach the things to the congress, senate, house, legislature, and the lobbyists, and the USPTO and anytime they say the word "extort", "money", "tax", "generate funding", "grant", "application", "invention for microsoft approved", or the like...
Bmmmm----ZZZZZ--- SSZZZAPPPPP!
Zap their asses into compliance to reduce taxes, reduce laws, generate meaningful, pleasurable work... add things to the list...
David Syes
Hmmm, Yoni... under the cover name of "Yanna"...? A plan to beat NASA at a new project?
For a second, I thought I saw "Yanni". But, maybe that is more preferable for background or elevator or mood music than say "Kenny G".
Have there been any studies to ascertain the best music, if any at all, that should or could be played regularly (not just for breaks or mission photo ops...)?
I am sure Klingon opera music would have them ripping their consoles out, though.
Now, if kamasalila and saspanda were in the mission names, somebody might say, "Houston, ahem, India, we've got a problem"...
Hmmmm, if mshaft would quit screwing around with would-be and actual competitors, MORE would be brought to the tech table despite of or IN spite of mshaft, with or without their help (funding or inspiration).
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Popularity should be based on integrity, honesty, unselfishness, and more, not on who's got the biggest treasure chest or family jewells. (Actually, I suppose if gate's parents had vastly less money, gate's and his parents' company would not have started up with as much of an arsenal to go after firms and people on a cherry-picking expedition... (Where is Capt Braxton or the Timeship Aeon when we need them?))
As for another passage I read in Linux User and Developer, in which an mshaft ranking officer (or someone quoted in the article) claimed ms "looked the video and music industry in the eye" and challenged them to prevent users from getting access to music, hell I would find it more believable to have read: "We paid them off. We showed them the benefits of vendor lock-in, the use of patents to hold competitors in check..."
Just how much did microshaft (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual with me...) INNOVATE or CREATE? As I see it, they:
--encroach more insidiously than many or most others
--they hijack and shut down products they don't want on the market
--buy up what they want and through disgusting aspects of legalities and ownership slap their name on products they never created, and the pedigree is wiped out except by those who follow and meticulously track mergers and acquisitions or trawl through SEC filings
--still-birth and FUD would-be competitors out of existence by using false release dates and the sheer weight of their name with the goal of destroying their fledgeling competitors' funding foundation
--Pen Tablet: not new: sci-fi shows have demonstrated (even if fake) that such things are useful (for dramatic devices or props, or just to predict)
--GUI: it's an evolutionary thing; after all, for just how long would people stick with CLI and DOS boxes? That would be as bad as asking seeing people to learn Braille and touch a TV screen rather than SEE (But, more importantly they (as I recall) STOLE, ahem BOUGHT the GUI idea from Apple, who stole (or maybe bought) it from Xerox
http://www.semack.net/Articles/MicrosoftDoesntI
or Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft%20stol
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--browsers: they cobbled some NCSA or near-time code and created one riddled with security holes, perpetuated them, and god branded as the crap it is: A MAJOR SECURITY HOLE
--security through obscurity? Hell, they get points for taking it to extremes, but even governments and intelligence agencies knew they couldn't keep secrets forever, so they assigned code names and covers for projects, often double-naming some super-sensitive projects
So, micostorf doesn't innovate much, but they sure as hell take things to the extreme, get credit for it when all they have is a loud-assed, mega marketing department, and a legion of acolytes, many of whom just need a job and either have real passion for ms, or successfully FAKE their passion just to lay claim to a check emblazoned with "microsoft" on it.
David Syes
How far would that make Richard Stallman from: ... Sonata No. 31 in Ab Major, Op. 110, 517. Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111, 533. ... Sonata 31 in Bb transposition - Domenico Scarlatti; Sonata 33 (original key) - Domenico Scarlatti; Sonata 33 in Eb transposition - Domenico ... ?
Or, would that be "Bruce the Almighty Impaler"
In Mother Brucedom, crime impales YOU!
While you're at it, add to the list of impalees a bunch of dirty, corrupt legislators, and civil administrators. Not all of them, just the top 2% known to be on the take. Impale them and turn them like roasted pigs, but over a low, slow flame. Crisp their ass and let the critters go.
(Note: Impaling does not necessarily mean putting a pole or a splintered fiddle vertically up someone's ass and out the back of their skull, for some people would say "I'll run you through" (as in with a sword to the liver or kidneys) and consider that impaling. But, the vision of impaling has its effects...)