Or worrying about "loggers" when their jobs have been replaced by a group of mechanized feller-bunchers or their parent companies sell raw logs to Japan instead of setting up shop to make dimensional lumber to Japan's standards.
Loggers weren't screwed over by environmentalists, but by their own employers and shareholders not willing to figure out how to deal with smaller non-first-cut logs because their old equipment and mills have been amortized off the books for 50 years and getting new equipment is "too expensive" (but profits are up!), as paper and lumber demand gets bigger and bigger every year...
No, the WTO doesn't like this kind of protectionism when it comes to the United States. Hasn't stopped Japan. Doesn't stop Canada from suing the US to reinstate MTBE back into its gasoline. Doesn't stop Mexico from raising a stink about mexican trucks having to meet US safety standards. Lets the US promote growing asparagus in Peru to import back into the US, essentially killing off US asparagus production, but hey! it keeps them from growing coca leaves, right?
The US doesn't even know how to protect its own agricultural production (not product manufacturers), selling them out to get better deals for ADM, Con-Agra, Monsanto, etc.
Sorry, I wasn't born with a $100,000 nest egg sitting in a trust fund as a balance on my lifetime health cost, car self-insurance needs, etc.
Neither were most people born.
So my lifetime earnings could be over $1,000,000. Great... how useful is that to me when I'm 2 or 21 years old?
Besides, if I didn't have to pay for those things, I'd still have to pay for the taxes to cover the equivalent government programs I would get those "benefits" from.
Not to sound degradating, but do you really believe that the people who all run a corporation are trying to do nothing but poison the environment and put us all into economic slavery?
Those are all externalized costs. Best way is to not deal with them, or to figure out how to amortize them to invisibility (i.e., government picks up burden, passes on the cost as taxes, the problem disappears).
One example of a personal externalized cost is car insurance. You leverage the surety of a monthly insurance payment to help cover you in the event of a negative Big Deal. People who make lots of nickle-and-dime claims on their insurance then complain when their rates go up on their $100-deductible policy, not figuring out the full cost over time for paying much less for $1000-deductible insurance and living with a few minor dings and dents here and there until you pay to get them all fixed at once before you turn in your car at the end of its lease or whatever.
The people running the company worry about their investors or shareholders caring more about whether they filter out all the nasty stuff from their industrial effluent, reducing profits, vs waiting until they have extracted their investments * N and the company has long since been dissolved for other reasons or bought by another company, so that it's now Someone Else's Problem.
It's the same mindset for a corporation as for people who throw away their household garbage in the dumpsters at the highway rest station a few miles away from their house or at McDonald's in town, or, heck, just cause it to fall off the back of their truck into the ditch accidentally, just to avoid paying at the dump or for their garbage pickup...
It used to be that way. In fact, in the "wild wild west", there was a big battle between homesteaders and open-range ranchers for quite some time, until the homesteaders eventually won out, much like the native americans lost out to the ranchers and miners.
You can use law enforcement to stop them, or use law enforcement to enforce a cease-and-desist against them...but you've pretty much been able to put up a fence or other barrier.
If your next-door neighbor with 5 acres decides to turn his property into a motocross track for his friends and neighbors, you're gonna be out of luck, though. I think this is the "rival" part of real property...
Hmm... but if all your neighbors had Linksys WRT56G routers, do you think that with sufficient antennaes, you could make your own mesh network with your friends and neighbors? Robert X. Cringely certainly thought so, especially when you can get new software for it to reappropriate it...
Hmm... how much tracking and packet analysis to determine if someone is scamming with one of these boxes, especially if they turn on "MAC Address cloning"?
The only "central" control is linking up to the ISP. It doesn't stop computers from communicating with each other.
You're arguing that for a LAN to be useful, it has to be connected to the Internet. Which, for anyone who has used computers before 1995 would say, well, is poppycock. AppleTalk and PhoneNet were *very* interesting technologies back then, as were Bitnet, UUCP, DecNet, etc.
When things were analog, it was simply a matter of pumping out enough noise or frequency-matched garble to confuse radar sets and other RF-based equipment.
HARM missiles home in on frequencies *and* location (obviously), and will fly to last-received location, in case a clever radar/radio operator figures he's about ready to be bombed and scoots out of the area, well, the antenna set is likely to get hit.
With digital radio sets, the goal is to try and pump out enough broadband noise to try and override the actual information content.
Which is what makes frequency-hopping slightly better: it's hard to pump out CW noise efficiently (what does a Tesla Coil or arc welder in operation do to SINCGARS?)
Actually, the energy of a photon matters only with its wavelength. Read up on Einstein's photoelectric theory again. You confuse particle energy with intensity. In electricity, 4000 volts, but 1 milliamp, seems like a lot when you're getting EMG (yes, it hurts), but so would getting hit by crossing a 12-V car battery (that pumps 700 amps through you...) with your tongue.
Out of curiosity, I once licked my fingers and shorted out a 68-volt lantern battery with them...
A stream of water, under sufficiently high pressure and sufficiently small enough in diameter, can cut steel plate, even though the same volume of water per second might be less than from your garden hose.
But then throw in frequency-domain analysis. What is the frequency map (i.e., Fourier integral) of a true square wave? Hint: A radio engineer would call them "side bands". What is the frequency spectrum of a frequency-modulated signal? etc etc etc. With the square wave, a signal with side bands that overlapped yours would definitely cause interference to your signal.
AOL and MS Messenger don't play well with each other's protocols now (or anyone else's client implementations), do they?
They would implement some feature that would increase the probability of their equipment working in a mixed signal environment at the expense of their competitors', make no bones about it, until they decided they were losing enough people to a third service that interconnected well with BOTH antagonists.
It's right up there with a company using center-negative plugs when everyone else uses center-positive (or vice-versa), or 3.7mm instead of 4.0mm, or Twin-ax instead of Co-ax or CAT-5.
Funny, though, is that Pepsi might "own" their shade of blue, but that doesn't stop RC Cola, now, does it?
Coke owns its "Active Ribbon" device, as well as their cursive typeface and combination with the red background, but that domain really extends only over the soft drink business.
CaseIH still makes red tractors.
Besides, doesn't Pantone really own all of the colors, anyways?
owning land is ALSO using the State to back up your claim to "ownership" of that land and enforce it for you as well. So it's not really a right at this point now, is it? You own land at the pleasure of the government. The Government can also take back that land. Narrowly interpreted, the article regarding this in the US Constitution was intended to prevent the Government from hosting military units in your house, taking your crops and female children...er, wait, taking your horses, etc., without recompensing you for your loss, as the British Army liked to do...
Just ask any Native American or other historically pissed-on indiginous person about how this system has worked so well for them.
So thusly is spectrum.
If I have a service that uses a 500-MHz chunk in the 7 GHz range, should I not be able to get a claim for the government to use that transient property to the exclusion of all others without my expressed consent?
So we have a form of electronic eminent domain, where the government can exert its authority for itself: the Government can claim sections of bandwidth for exclusive governmental uses, actual or potential: military, emergency response, without regard to any other use, just like it does for real property.
there isn't any more bandwidth being created, just like there is not any meaningful real estate being created. While the frequency spread is infinite, the usability of it is not. Sure, I could invent a 1-THz radio, but I could just as easily invoke a volcano to build me a new island or take over an unused oil platform in international waters...
Liver transplants don't have to come from a cadaver (or soon-to-be a cadaver). It is possible to take a section of a healthy person's liver and transplant it. The transplant will regenerate into a full liver, and the donor's liver will also regenerate (barring infection/drug abuse/drinking/rejection).
Hmm...no, that's not always the case. Some diseases do enough damage to the bile duct that only a full liver transplant will help them.
...but, the fee structure for paying for access to mineral rights is set up to NOT include any back payments for any extracted value. It's almost a flat-fee, kept at 1870 dollar amounts, at least for federal lands. No, that is not current-value 1870 dollar amounts, but some silly flat amount depending on the resource to extract.
The mining companies fight HARD whenever a semi-serious effort to change the law in question is mounted in Congress or at the state levels.
So if you buy a house or whatever, in theory you can buy the underground rights just the same, for your property (not buildings, but land).
The nice thing is that BLM leases by ranchers do not really include anything back to the rancher for mineral rights.
That, and the water laws, make living in the Western US interesting...
A patent is the right to exclude others from using your idea for a limited period of time in exchange for society getting full and free access to your idea after that period of time....but somehow I don't think the process was meant to be perverted for someone to ask for extensions by amending the patent as time goes along to include different uses of the idea, or to allow a member of a group who participates in developing something, and then, after the product has reached fruition and proven to be viable, going, "oh, by the way, we have a patent on this that we 'forgot' to tell ya'll about, and y'all need to pay us to continue with this product".
This is just as annoying as a hit movie or song coming out, and then some poor, starving author or artist comes out and alleges that the successful work is a "copy" of their very unsuccessful, unseen or unheard work.
What's wrong with them selling that idea to someone who agrees that it's a cool idea, and actually has the facilities, intent, and means to mass-produce their invention?
Nothing. The key difference is "selling the idea to a company to make". Things like GIF, JPEG, etc., have just been released to the world until something like PhotoShop comes along. THEN the patent is retroactively applied and license fees are extracted.
Xerox has started trying to be buttheads about some of their stuff that they invented but did not pursue, only for someone else to figure out later.
The companies that do things like this are the same people who tend to run for the condominium association or community that has big CCR lists. They do not have anything better to do than look at any agreements, etc., and start selectively "enforcing" them, with no regard to how people and the association have actually been managing things over time.
OK, so I don't/won't live in a condo association or anywhere with CCRs. I'm sorry, it's my house, not yours. If I fart standing next to you, does that mean I should expect a summons from your people because I wrinkled your nose?
...we need IDEs that have pretty pink, mauve and chartreuse colors, compiler error messages along the lines of, "Girl, don't let him have that unmatched brace on line 32!", and use the Apache "ESP" module. A successful compile might have a little flash animation pop up of a pink and white pony galloping across the screen, or a dancing field of flowers, etc.
I, personally, would love a Daria-based KDE/GTK desktop theme, especially if it had hooks for detecting when it is interfacing with Windows-based machines, and popped up lots of good, snide, back-handed insults.
There are women smart enough to go into it (obviously, because there are a few who do venture forth into engineering fields), but somehow I think the stereotyped culture of Comp Sci probably turns them away.
I agree. I worked in the corporate office of a major pharma, and the computer people there did have the need to slurp all of the data off of a couple of hundred computers as part of discovery for a lawsuit against one of the company's products who might have been involved in issues about the product. It cut across all lines - the product division, various corporate departments, etc.
Some of the retention periods mandated by the FDA are pretty...extreme. They can go into all media related to a product as well. The company I worked for had quite the huge warehouse for retaining this stuff.
And, as this has come up, short of laws in certain businesses requiring a mandatory retention period, as long as the company policy said, "all remaining e-mail messages on corporate servers will be deleted daily", and it was not easy to save messages, then deleting e-mails was OK.
It is all in the policy. Which is why everyone was strongly urged, in computing print media, to set up corporate e-mail retention policies NOW, because it's too late after you've been subpoenaed.
Funny, though, if the NY Times (or any other print media), in its print edition, had quoted from an article you published and attributed it appropriately, in the usual style, y'all probably would NOT have done anything at all similar to this.
If it were just percentage changes, then SCOX stock movement would be listed in blocks of +/- N*100%.
Each method has its pluses and minuses, but in general, listing the trading prices merely leaves it as an excercise to the reader to figure out the/_\% for the momentary stock price. If the delta is big enough, they will probably make it on to the "Big Mover" reports in the press, anyways.
So the only real way for Google to be troubled by a lowering in their stock price is if they use its value and "market cap" as some sort of collateral or valuation for getting loans, etc., right? Once Google sells the shares, Google does not benefit much, right? The exchange of $$$ is between the stock buyer and seller and the middlemen.
Oh, I see. I they're running out of cash, theough, and their share price is $6.66, they don't have a lot of room to float a new issue to raise some quick capital, or to sell to Baystar.
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Or worrying about "loggers" when their jobs have been replaced by a group of mechanized feller-bunchers or their parent companies sell raw logs to Japan instead of setting up shop to make dimensional lumber to Japan's standards.
Loggers weren't screwed over by environmentalists, but by their own employers and shareholders not willing to figure out how to deal with smaller non-first-cut logs because their old equipment and mills have been amortized off the books for 50 years and getting new equipment is "too expensive" (but profits are up!), as paper and lumber demand gets bigger and bigger every year...
No, the WTO doesn't like this kind of protectionism when it comes to the United States. Hasn't stopped Japan. Doesn't stop Canada from suing the US to reinstate MTBE back into its gasoline. Doesn't stop Mexico from raising a stink about mexican trucks having to meet US safety standards. Lets the US promote growing asparagus in Peru to import back into the US, essentially killing off US asparagus production, but hey! it keeps them from growing coca leaves, right?
The US doesn't even know how to protect its own agricultural production (not product manufacturers), selling them out to get better deals for ADM, Con-Agra, Monsanto, etc.
Sorry, I wasn't born with a $100,000 nest egg sitting in a trust fund as a balance on my lifetime health cost, car self-insurance needs, etc.
Neither were most people born.
So my lifetime earnings could be over $1,000,000. Great... how useful is that to me when I'm 2 or 21 years old?
Besides, if I didn't have to pay for those things, I'd still have to pay for the taxes to cover the equivalent government programs I would get those "benefits" from.
Not to sound degradating, but do you really believe that the people who all run a corporation are trying to do nothing but poison the environment and put us all into economic slavery?
Those are all externalized costs. Best way is to not deal with them, or to figure out how to amortize them to invisibility (i.e., government picks up burden, passes on the cost as taxes, the problem disappears).
One example of a personal externalized cost is car insurance. You leverage the surety of a monthly insurance payment to help cover you in the event of a negative Big Deal. People who make lots of nickle-and-dime claims on their insurance then complain when their rates go up on their $100-deductible policy, not figuring out the full cost over time for paying much less for $1000-deductible insurance and living with a few minor dings and dents here and there until you pay to get them all fixed at once before you turn in your car at the end of its lease or whatever.
The people running the company worry about their investors or shareholders caring more about whether they filter out all the nasty stuff from their industrial effluent, reducing profits, vs waiting until they have extracted their investments * N and the company has long since been dissolved for other reasons or bought by another company, so that it's now Someone Else's Problem.
It's the same mindset for a corporation as for people who throw away their household garbage in the dumpsters at the highway rest station a few miles away from their house or at McDonald's in town, or, heck, just cause it to fall off the back of their truck into the ditch accidentally, just to avoid paying at the dump or for their garbage pickup...
Sales of 777's to China's state-owned airlines may also have been a part of this deal...
Japan builds licensed copies of F-15's...
We were watching something on Vh-1 "remembering" the 80's. Sounds like the bit they ran on "Cabbage Patch Dolls".
It used to be that way. In fact, in the "wild wild west", there was a big battle between homesteaders and open-range ranchers for quite some time, until the homesteaders eventually won out, much like the native americans lost out to the ranchers and miners.
You can use law enforcement to stop them, or use law enforcement to enforce a cease-and-desist against them...but you've pretty much been able to put up a fence or other barrier.
If your next-door neighbor with 5 acres decides to turn his property into a motocross track for his friends and neighbors, you're gonna be out of luck, though. I think this is the "rival" part of real property...
Hmm... but if all your neighbors had Linksys WRT56G routers, do you think that with sufficient antennaes, you could make your own mesh network with your friends and neighbors? Robert X. Cringely certainly thought so, especially when you can get new software for it to reappropriate it...
Hmm... how much tracking and packet analysis to determine if someone is scamming with one of these boxes, especially if they turn on "MAC Address cloning"?
The only "central" control is linking up to the ISP. It doesn't stop computers from communicating with each other.
You're arguing that for a LAN to be useful, it has to be connected to the Internet. Which, for anyone who has used computers before 1995 would say, well, is poppycock. AppleTalk and PhoneNet were *very* interesting technologies back then, as were Bitnet, UUCP, DecNet, etc.
Uh.... they already do this.
When things were analog, it was simply a matter of pumping out enough noise or frequency-matched garble to confuse radar sets and other RF-based equipment.
HARM missiles home in on frequencies *and* location (obviously), and will fly to last-received location, in case a clever radar/radio operator figures he's about ready to be bombed and scoots out of the area, well, the antenna set is likely to get hit.
With digital radio sets, the goal is to try and pump out enough broadband noise to try and override the actual information content.
Which is what makes frequency-hopping slightly better: it's hard to pump out CW noise efficiently (what does a Tesla Coil or arc welder in operation do to SINCGARS?)
Actually, the energy of a photon matters only with its wavelength. Read up on Einstein's photoelectric theory again. You confuse particle energy with intensity. In electricity, 4000 volts, but 1 milliamp, seems like a lot when you're getting EMG (yes, it hurts), but so would getting hit by crossing a 12-V car battery (that pumps 700 amps through you...) with your tongue.
Out of curiosity, I once licked my fingers and shorted out a 68-volt lantern battery with them...
A stream of water, under sufficiently high pressure and sufficiently small enough in diameter, can cut steel plate, even though the same volume of water per second might be less than from your garden hose.
But then throw in frequency-domain analysis. What is the frequency map (i.e., Fourier integral) of a true square wave? Hint: A radio engineer would call them "side bands". What is the frequency spectrum of a frequency-modulated signal? etc etc etc. With the square wave, a signal with side bands that overlapped yours would definitely cause interference to your signal.
You're new here, right?
AOL and MS Messenger don't play well with each other's protocols now (or anyone else's client implementations), do they?
They would implement some feature that would increase the probability of their equipment working in a mixed signal environment at the expense of their competitors', make no bones about it, until they decided they were losing enough people to a third service that interconnected well with BOTH antagonists.
It's right up there with a company using center-negative plugs when everyone else uses center-positive (or vice-versa), or 3.7mm instead of 4.0mm, or Twin-ax instead of Co-ax or CAT-5.
Funny, though, is that Pepsi might "own" their shade of blue, but that doesn't stop RC Cola, now, does it?
Coke owns its "Active Ribbon" device, as well as their cursive typeface and combination with the red background, but that domain really extends only over the soft drink business.
CaseIH still makes red tractors.
Besides, doesn't Pantone really own all of the colors, anyways?
Apple Computers vs. Apple Music.
Selling a tractor or farm implement that is "John Deere Green", but not made by John Deere.
OK, what happens if companies that make green cattle panels, corrals, cattle squeezes, etc., suddenly face new competition from John Deere?
owning land is ALSO using the State to back up your claim to "ownership" of that land and enforce it for you as well. So it's not really a right at this point now, is it? You own land at the pleasure of the government. The Government can also take back that land. Narrowly interpreted, the article regarding this in the US Constitution was intended to prevent the Government from hosting military units in your house, taking your crops and female children...er, wait, taking your horses, etc., without recompensing you for your loss, as the British Army liked to do...
Just ask any Native American or other historically pissed-on indiginous person about how this system has worked so well for them.
So thusly is spectrum.
If I have a service that uses a 500-MHz chunk in the 7 GHz range, should I not be able to get a claim for the government to use that transient property to the exclusion of all others without my expressed consent?
So we have a form of electronic eminent domain, where the government can exert its authority for itself: the Government can claim sections of bandwidth for exclusive governmental uses, actual or potential: military, emergency response, without regard to any other use, just like it does for real property.
there isn't any more bandwidth being created, just like there is not any meaningful real estate being created. While the frequency spread is infinite, the usability of it is not. Sure, I could invent a 1-THz radio, but I could just as easily invoke a volcano to build me a new island or take over an unused oil platform in international waters...
Liver transplants don't have to come from a cadaver (or soon-to-be a cadaver). It is possible to take a section of a healthy person's liver and transplant it. The transplant will regenerate into a full liver, and the donor's liver will also regenerate (barring infection/drug abuse/drinking/rejection).
Hmm...no, that's not always the case. Some diseases do enough damage to the bile duct that only a full liver transplant will help them.
Just ask Walter Payton's wife.
Isn't this the basis of Huffman encoding? And how old is THAT?
...but, the fee structure for paying for access to mineral rights is set up to NOT include any back payments for any extracted value. It's almost a flat-fee, kept at 1870 dollar amounts, at least for federal lands. No, that is not current-value 1870 dollar amounts, but some silly flat amount depending on the resource to extract.
The mining companies fight HARD whenever a semi-serious effort to change the law in question is mounted in Congress or at the state levels.
So if you buy a house or whatever, in theory you can buy the underground rights just the same, for your property (not buildings, but land).
The nice thing is that BLM leases by ranchers do not really include anything back to the rancher for mineral rights.
That, and the water laws, make living in the Western US interesting...
Actually, in this case, it's called a "non-disclosure agreement". Because it's a form of contract, it's generally taken with a bit more respect.
A patent is the right to exclude others from using your idea for a limited period of time in exchange for society getting full and free access to your idea after that period of time. ...but somehow I don't think the process was meant to be perverted for someone to ask for extensions by amending the patent as time goes along to include different uses of the idea, or to allow a member of a group who participates in developing something, and then, after the product has reached fruition and proven to be viable, going, "oh, by the way, we have a patent on this that we 'forgot' to tell ya'll about, and y'all need to pay us to continue with this product".
This is just as annoying as a hit movie or song coming out, and then some poor, starving author or artist comes out and alleges that the successful work is a "copy" of their very unsuccessful, unseen or unheard work.
What's wrong with them selling that idea to someone who agrees that it's a cool idea, and actually has the facilities, intent, and means to mass-produce their invention?
Nothing. The key difference is "selling the idea to a company to make". Things like GIF, JPEG, etc., have just been released to the world until something like PhotoShop comes along. THEN the patent is retroactively applied and license fees are extracted.
Xerox has started trying to be buttheads about some of their stuff that they invented but did not pursue, only for someone else to figure out later.
The companies that do things like this are the same people who tend to run for the condominium association or community that has big CCR lists. They do not have anything better to do than look at any agreements, etc., and start selectively "enforcing" them, with no regard to how people and the association have actually been managing things over time.
OK, so I don't/won't live in a condo association or anywhere with CCRs. I'm sorry, it's my house, not yours. If I fart standing next to you, does that mean I should expect a summons from your people because I wrinkled your nose?
...we need IDEs that have pretty pink, mauve and chartreuse colors, compiler error messages along the lines of, "Girl, don't let him have that unmatched brace on line 32!", and use the Apache "ESP" module. A successful compile might have a little flash animation pop up of a pink and white pony galloping across the screen, or a dancing field of flowers, etc.
I, personally, would love a Daria-based KDE/GTK desktop theme, especially if it had hooks for detecting when it is interfacing with Windows-based machines, and popped up lots of good, snide, back-handed insults.
There are women smart enough to go into it (obviously, because there are a few who do venture forth into engineering fields), but somehow I think the stereotyped culture of Comp Sci probably turns them away.
Oh well.
I agree. I worked in the corporate office of a major pharma, and the computer people there did have the need to slurp all of the data off of a couple of hundred computers as part of discovery for a lawsuit against one of the company's products who might have been involved in issues about the product. It cut across all lines - the product division, various corporate departments, etc.
Some of the retention periods mandated by the FDA are pretty...extreme. They can go into all media related to a product as well. The company I worked for had quite the huge warehouse for retaining this stuff.
And, as this has come up, short of laws in certain businesses requiring a mandatory retention period, as long as the company policy said, "all remaining e-mail messages on corporate servers will be deleted daily", and it was not easy to save messages, then deleting e-mails was OK.
It is all in the policy. Which is why everyone was strongly urged, in computing print media, to set up corporate e-mail retention policies NOW, because it's too late after you've been subpoenaed.
oddly enough, we have calculus because of the ego competition between Leibniz and Newton.
Competition is good.
Funny, though, if the NY Times (or any other print media), in its print edition, had quoted from an article you published and attributed it appropriately, in the usual style, y'all probably would NOT have done anything at all similar to this.
If it were just percentage changes, then SCOX stock movement would be listed in blocks of +/- N*100%.
/_\% for the momentary stock price. If the delta is big enough, they will probably make it on to the "Big Mover" reports in the press, anyways.
Each method has its pluses and minuses, but in general, listing the trading prices merely leaves it as an excercise to the reader to figure out the
So the only real way for Google to be troubled by a lowering in their stock price is if they use its value and "market cap" as some sort of collateral or valuation for getting loans, etc., right? Once Google sells the shares, Google does not benefit much, right? The exchange of $$$ is between the stock buyer and seller and the middlemen.
Oh, I see. I they're running out of cash, theough, and their share price is $6.66, they don't have a lot of room to float a new issue to raise some quick capital, or to sell to Baystar.