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The only screwup in this fiasco is RMI. They ahd an opportunity to settle but they thought they were smarter and bigger and could ignore NTP. They deserve to be obliterated as a result. This will teach those stupid Canadians to respect our authority.
I get the feeling you are only supporting NTP because they are American and RIM is Canadian. Why dont you take your bigoted attitude and stick it up your ass. Don't forget to pull your head out first to make some room.
If they were smart they'd simply buy or license the patent idea from you rather than just go full bore and pretend the system doesn't exist.
Why pay? NTPs patent is invalid as they didn't invent anything. RIM isn't pretending the system doesn't exist, they just aren't paying what amounts to extorsion money from a bullshit company that didn't invent anything.
Bullshit. Patents are granted for non-obvious ideas. Implementation has nothing to do with the patent system. That's only a crutch for those who think the system doesn't apply to them.
Don't be an idiot, you cannot have a valid patent on just an idea. Otherwise people would be patenting things like antigravity and faster than light travel. You have to have a working prototype not just a bunch of bullshit on paper.
NTP has nothing. They are just a bunch of lawyers who got an invalid patent on an idea and then waited to sue anybody who later inverted it. RIM actually invented the device and put a lot of hard work into getting something viable to market. They shouldn't have to pay a cent to these scum sucking lawyers.
Besides, when you refer to computers, K and M always refer to 1024 and 1024x1024. Simply because 1000 is not that practical to represent. Some slimy marketing people may use 1000 though to over inflate the published capacity.
What a load of crap. Take a Physics course sometime. You are trying to argue that the elevator will magically hover in place without any power applied. What you are describing is antigravity which doesn't exist, or as a stretch, the actions of a superconducting magnet.
The force you describe is real but is proportional to the velocity of a moving magnet relative to a coil of wire. If there is no relative movement, then there is no force generated. A falling elevator will generate a force (electricity in the coils actually) but it wont be enough to prevent a fatal fall and it certainly wont be strong enough to keep the elevator stationary.
You're right that it will be slower than freefall but won't be that slow. You still need a power source to control the rate of fall to something reasonable.
Since the elevator requires zero power to go down in a normal fashion, nothing would really stop the elevator designers from making the elevator operate normally even without power. With the simple limitation of not beeing able to go up, of course. A conventional elevator can not be made to operate without power since it requires power to move at all.
Why do you think that a maglev elevator would require no power to move down? Unless of course you mean freefall. But if you want to go down in a controlled fashion you still have to exert an upward force, just not quite so much as to completely overcome gravity.
With complete loss of power the only way to stop a fall would be to engage a mechanical emergency brake. You will still be stuck in the elevator.
I think Europe had democracy before the U.S. And didn't even Ancient Rome have a fairly modern style democracy? Not exactly the same as we have now, but many of the same ideas.
The US has a strategic national interest in not being attacked. The more free, both economically and politically, other countries are, the less likely it is they will attack us. Ergo, we have an interest in fostering freedom around the world.
Ha! Does that include CIA supporting military dictators to overthrow democratically elected governments such as in Guatemala, Panama, the Philippines, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, etc, etc...
Uhh no, I was just giving you a more common example.
Ok, for a criminal example, say the cops smash into your house and arrest you for murder. You go to trial spending hundreds of thousands to prove you are innocent. You are trying to tell me you are now bankrupt just because some cop screwed up the evidence? Come on. Here in Canada at least you are often entitled to be reimbursed, including lost wages - its only fair.
Anyways, if you're going to make me pay the gov't for the cost of prosecuting me if they win, why shouldn't the gov't have to pay for my costs of defense if I win?
Uhh it works that way now. If you sue me and lose, I have the right to ask the court to force you to play my legal expenses. That's only fair, otherwise you'll have people suing each other with the sole intent of bankrupting them.
Can you imagine Wilbur Wright saying "Well Orville, now that we know how to fly, I guess we can tell everyone to stop going to church"
Actually there were lots of religious based protests at the time stating that we shouldn't attempt to try and fly. "If God intended man to fly then he would have given us wings" was the argument used.
"EVERY accident has been traced to some moron screwing with the safetys, or doing something they shouldn't. Let the computers do their job and there wont be any accidents."
You know I consider myself a fairly bright, tech savvy, and intelligent guy and I don't believe that. You want to try and convince the average jow whose computer crashes five times a day of that?
It is true. Look up the accident reports. And the computers that run a nuclear power plant aren't programmed by the script kiddies that write your average desktop piece of crap, They are engineered and programmed by professionals. I guarantee you that no one that works for Microsoft has ever programmed the software for the safety critical sections of a nuclear reactor.
Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. The corporations that killed those people didn't spend as dime, in fact they saved money by killing people. Until you find a way to charge the corporations for those deaths it won't matter. They will continue to kill rather then find less lethal ways to make money.
I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were writing from North Korea. Say hello to your evil overlord for me.
Use less, take public transportation, turn off your lights, sit in colder rooms, turn down the AC, build cities where walking is possible, have less children etc.
Conservation is great but only goes so far. You still need a base of reliable power to support industry and manufacturing. Or we can all turn tribal and live as one with mother nature like the native Americans.
Why shouldn't criminals have to pay for the consequences of their actions? If they had to pay for these things, including the costs of convicting them then maybe the justice system wouldn't be so massively underfunded.
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Wow its worse than I thought. I think you are a republican. Obviously also suffering from short man syndrome and penis envy.
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I get the feeling you are only supporting NTP because they are American and RIM is Canadian. Why dont you take your bigoted attitude and stick it up your ass. Don't forget to pull your head out first to make some room.
Why pay? NTPs patent is invalid as they didn't invent anything. RIM isn't pretending the system doesn't exist, they just aren't paying what amounts to extorsion money from a bullshit company that didn't invent anything.
Don't be an idiot, you cannot have a valid patent on just an idea. Otherwise people would be patenting things like antigravity and faster than light travel. You have to have a working prototype not just a bunch of bullshit on paper.
NTP has nothing. They are just a bunch of lawyers who got an invalid patent on an idea and then waited to sue anybody who later inverted it. RIM actually invented the device and put a lot of hard work into getting something viable to market. They shouldn't have to pay a cent to these scum sucking lawyers.
Moron. Show me a rocket that can sustain a burn for 7 hours. Obviously you didn't take a course in reality.
Nope. Wouldn't notice and wouldn't care if I did.
Besides, when you refer to computers, K and M always refer to 1024 and 1024x1024. Simply because 1000 is not that practical to represent. Some slimy marketing people may use 1000 though to over inflate the published capacity.
Who cares? I have a 240 GB harddrive . Does it really matter if I meant 1000x1000 or 1024x1024 ? How anal can you get?
Come on, these alternate prefixes are just stupid. Using MB is not confusing at all.
Found a link claming that Sparta had the first known democracy. Check here for those interested : http://www.elysiumgates.com/~helena/Revolution.htm l
Regardless, the claim that the U.S. had the first democracy is clearly ludicrous.
What a load of crap. Take a Physics course sometime. You are trying to argue that the elevator will magically hover in place without any power applied. What you are describing is antigravity which doesn't exist, or as a stretch, the actions of a superconducting magnet.
The force you describe is real but is proportional to the velocity of a moving magnet relative to a coil of wire. If there is no relative movement, then there is no force generated. A falling elevator will generate a force (electricity in the coils actually) but it wont be enough to prevent a fatal fall and it certainly wont be strong enough to keep the elevator stationary.
That's ok. I once mentioned to a guy from D.C. that I'd just got back from South America and he thought I meant Georgia.
You're right that it will be slower than freefall but won't be that slow. You still need a power source to control the rate of fall to something reasonable.
Why do you think that a maglev elevator would require no power to move down? Unless of course you mean freefall. But if you want to go down in a controlled fashion you still have to exert an upward force, just not quite so much as to completely overcome gravity.
With complete loss of power the only way to stop a fall would be to engage a mechanical emergency brake. You will still be stuck in the elevator.
Well I guess than if I'm ever charged with a crime in the US I'd be hitailing it back across the border pretty damn fast.
Uhh no, I was just giving you a more common example.
Ok, for a criminal example, say the cops smash into your house and arrest you for murder. You go to trial spending hundreds of thousands to prove you are innocent. You are trying to tell me you are now bankrupt just because some cop screwed up the evidence? Come on. Here in Canada at least you are often entitled to be reimbursed, including lost wages - its only fair.
For crying out loud people, hasn't anyone from NASA seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Why shouldn't criminals have to pay for the consequences of their actions? If they had to pay for these things, including the costs of convicting them then maybe the justice system wouldn't be so massively underfunded.