Hundreds of years old? You do realize that the northern Ireland conflict happened in the 20th century, and real peace has only occurred in the past couple of years ?
That seems to be clear evidence that it is not religion, but situation and circumstance that make people behave like idiots to each other.
Exactly. To make a blanket statement and blame any religion is extremely naive. Religion is merely used as an excuse to justify an otherwise unjustifiable action.
I'm sorry, but facts speak for themselves, and the facts are that there are no statistically significant numbers of Christian suicide bombers, Christian embassy burnings, Christian honor killings, or Christian riots.
Where do you get this blather from?
Without even thinking about it, I can come up with the Crusades, the Christian repression (read execution) of scientists during the dark ages, Salem witch trials, the Nazis in WW2 (Hitler was very religious (and christian) and got the Catholic Pope to regularly bless his troops before war).
There is no way you can accurately claim that the Christians were innocent. They've been killing people in the name of God since the religion was created.
Spare me your pacifist blather. If the billion strong were against all of this terrorism on the part of these "few extremists" they would crush the extremist few and force them to tow the line of "Islamic righteousness". But, it isn't happening that way. What is happening is that the billion strong sheep are quietly biding their time, watching and hoping that the extremists are successful. In which case they will dance in the streets and shoot guns in the air
Get a grip.
In the conflict of Northern Ireland it was basically two christian groups fighting, Catholic and Protestant. To follow your logic, why didn't the American christians crush these extremists? Was it because they were secretly biding their time too?
Obviously since there was no outrage or protests against the violence, then the American christians were supporting and encouraging that violence too.
More money is spent and less is performed when the money just goes to research without a goal. Giving the research an overall goal or project, focuses development and makes the research more efficient.
This is human nature. People will work better and be more creative if they have something to work together on as a team, rather than just a bunch of independant unrelated tasks.
Also the goal causes unintended benefits. No one sat down and said - "lets invent carbon-fibre!". Some larger project needed a lightweight but strong structure and carbon-fiber was the discovered solution.
While I agree that the police should be held responsible in cases of negligence or endangering the public, I don't believe the average police chase constitutes this.
Preventing the police from chasing criminals just means criminals will deliberately engage in a police chase because they know they are guaranteed to get away. Next the police will be prevented from drawing their gun in a crime because they may inadvertently hit a bystander while shooting at the criminal.
Just like out of control children of parents that refuse to discipline, criminals do what they do because they think they can getaway with it.
"Money to burn" - that's our tax dollars you're talking about there.
You don't see many drug dealers driving a Ford Focus do you? They're usually driving stuff like BMW or Lexus - I think they have plenty of money. But for the average pickup truck driving moron that ends upon Cops, yea unfortunately you're probably right.
I an EMP pulse weapon, sort of a Taser on steriods would be the way to do this. That way the the cops could see if the coast was clear before trigging the device.
Well tasers and emp systems are completely different; tasers use high voltage while emp uses an electromagnetic pulse.
Tasers tend not to work too well on cars as the metal frame acts as a Faraday cage protecting the electronics. And a small emp gun is simply the work of hollywood -possible but not practical and doesn't exist in the form you are thinking about.
Yes I've heard of these. One company sells a product called Boomerang. Sounds great.
However would it not be easier to tie the theft signal directly into the engine management computer to kill the engine ( modern cars simply don't function without that computer) and look the doors?
Should give the police long enough to find the car with the GPS before they break out.
Except for the fact that anti-gay speech is hate speech, and pro-gay speech is protected speech. Congratulations, you're a bigot!
No, there's a difference.
While anti-gay speech is hate speech, I'd guess that anti-heterosexual speech would also be considered as such in a court of law. Pro-gay speech is fine just like pro-heterosexual.
If you can't see the difference between a celebration of something and a condemnation, then you've got problems.
Or if you are a single parent and can't find a suitable spouse within 6 months to form the required 2 parent family, then your child shall be removed and placed with a childless couple.
Canada doesn't need tanks. One look at our lack of laws restricting personal freedoms (female toplessness in public, marijuana, gay marriage, swinging and prostitution are all legal) and any war mongering Republican would go running in fear back to Jesusland.
37. (1) In the case of a machine, or in any other case in which an invention admits of illustration by means of drawings, the applicant shall, as part of the application, furnish drawings of the invention that clearly show all parts of the invention.
So exactly how would you furnish this if all you had was an idea? I don't doubt that patents have been awarded on less than bullshit, but they would not stand up to a court challenge.
I already corrected myself on the prototype comment but I standby my comment that NTP has nothing. They are just a bunch of litigious lawyers that create nothing and therefore should receive nothing.
I'm not arguing the validity of the system either, I'm saying RIM had no obligation to pay because NTPs patent claim was bogus as any rational judge should plainly be able to see.
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Geez I was just poking at a bigoted flame artist. However numbers alone don't guarantee anything. In the war of 1812 Americans outnumbered Canadians more than 10 to 1, with a boast from Henry Clay that "I trust I shall not be presumptuous when I state that I verily believe that the militia of Kentucky alone are competent to place Montreal and Upper Canada at your feet.". This was obviously and completely untrue.
You're right. a prototype no longer has to be submitted with an application. However having a working prototype does go a long way to proving the 'is it useful' criteria. It has to function to be useful.
A lot of companies (mine included) are just ignoring the whole patent issue. Document the invention and keep it as IP. No one can steal it (because it has been previously documented) and you don't have to give away exactly how the invention works either.
The patent office is a mess and should be completely dismantled.
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Hundreds of years old? You do realize that the northern Ireland conflict happened in the 20th century, and real peace has only occurred in the past couple of years ?
Where do you get this blather from?
Without even thinking about it, I can come up with the Crusades, the Christian repression (read execution) of scientists during the dark ages, Salem witch trials, the Nazis in WW2 (Hitler was very religious (and christian) and got the Catholic Pope to regularly bless his troops before war).
There is no way you can accurately claim that the Christians were innocent. They've been killing people in the name of God since the religion was created.
Get a grip.
In the conflict of Northern Ireland it was basically two christian groups fighting, Catholic and Protestant. To follow your logic, why didn't the American christians crush these extremists? Was it because they were secretly biding their time too?
Obviously since there was no outrage or protests against the violence, then the American christians were supporting and encouraging that violence too.
What a bloodthirsty religion!
More money is spent and less is performed when the money just goes to research without a goal. Giving the research an overall goal or project, focuses development and makes the research more efficient.
This is human nature. People will work better and be more creative if they have something to work together on as a team, rather than just a bunch of independant unrelated tasks.
Also the goal causes unintended benefits. No one sat down and said - "lets invent carbon-fibre!". Some larger project needed a lightweight but strong structure and carbon-fiber was the discovered solution.
Sure, less light polution until it rotates to be directly pointed at the sun once a month.
Hmm lets see... the police department with the budget cuts or the fleeing drug dealer in his $200K Lexus?
While I agree that the police should be held responsible in cases of negligence or endangering the public, I don't believe the average police chase constitutes this.
Preventing the police from chasing criminals just means criminals will deliberately engage in a police chase because they know they are guaranteed to get away. Next the police will be prevented from drawing their gun in a crime because they may inadvertently hit a bystander while shooting at the criminal.
Just like out of control children of parents that refuse to discipline, criminals do what they do because they think they can getaway with it.
"Money to burn" - that's our tax dollars you're talking about there.
You don't see many drug dealers driving a Ford Focus do you? They're usually driving stuff like BMW or Lexus - I think they have plenty of money. But for the average pickup truck driving moron that ends upon Cops, yea unfortunately you're probably right.
Tasers tend not to work too well on cars as the metal frame acts as a Faraday cage protecting the electronics. And a small emp gun is simply the work of hollywood -possible but not practical and doesn't exist in the form you are thinking about.
Yes I've heard of these. One company sells a product called Boomerang. Sounds great.
However would it not be easier to tie the theft signal directly into the engine management computer to kill the engine ( modern cars simply don't function without that computer) and look the doors? Should give the police long enough to find the car with the GPS before they break out.
A logical argument until you actually look at Biology and discover that homosexuality is extremely widespread throughout the animal kingdom.
No, there's a difference.
While anti-gay speech is hate speech, I'd guess that anti-heterosexual speech would also be considered as such in a court of law. Pro-gay speech is fine just like pro-heterosexual.
If you can't see the difference between a celebration of something and a condemnation, then you've got problems.
Isn't it a non level section of ground that has a low coefficient of friction?
Or if you are a single parent and can't find a suitable spouse within 6 months to form the required 2 parent family, then your child shall be removed and placed with a childless couple.
I'd say the government has no business legislating what goes on in the bedroom of consenting adults.
Solution is simple. Stop electing dumbass Republicans !!
Canada doesn't need tanks. One look at our lack of laws restricting personal freedoms (female toplessness in public, marijuana, gay marriage, swinging and prostitution are all legal) and any war mongering Republican would go running in fear back to Jesusland.
I already corrected myself on the prototype comment but I standby my comment that NTP has nothing. They are just a bunch of litigious lawyers that create nothing and therefore should receive nothing.
I'm not arguing the validity of the system either, I'm saying RIM had no obligation to pay because NTPs patent claim was bogus as any rational judge should plainly be able to see.
Geez I was just poking at a bigoted flame artist. However numbers alone don't guarantee anything. In the war of 1812 Americans outnumbered Canadians more than 10 to 1, with a boast from Henry Clay that "I trust I shall not be presumptuous when I state that I verily believe that the militia of Kentucky alone are competent to place Montreal and Upper Canada at your feet.". This was obviously and completely untrue.
You're right. a prototype no longer has to be submitted with an application. However having a working prototype does go a long way to proving the 'is it useful' criteria. It has to function to be useful.
A lot of companies (mine included) are just ignoring the whole patent issue. Document the invention and keep it as IP. No one can steal it (because it has been previously documented) and you don't have to give away exactly how the invention works either.
The patent office is a mess and should be completely dismantled.