Google already gives you such option. Try searching for "news site:*eu" and see what you get. Replace news with whatever you're looking for.
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Harrison Ford jokingly said on the daily show that he had a small staff that watched porn and reported back to him.
Makes you think, what if you were Bill Gates and afflicted with a weird fetish? Phewh. For once I'm glad I'm not Bill Gates.
I would want a minidisc over a cd because it's far mre durable. That said, I had a minidisc recorder and it more than anything made me hate sony; it was crippled with stupid artificial limitations, such as the inability to upload recordings to the computer, or that stupid DRM nonsense, or that crazy ATRAC conversion.
You're mistaken, but it's understandable; it is a widespread mistake the idea that patents are there to protect your effort or investment and encourage people to invent. It is even further enforced sometimes by big business itself when it suits their needs, such as when they need the public on their side in some political issue by suggesting someone from the public may be a would-be inventor someday. It was further enforced on the other side by the liberals who had to phrase the legislation in words that are persuasive to the holders of trade secrets, and knowledge was always concentrated where wealth was. Nonsense. Nothing could've been more wrong. I used to think that long ago before I knew better. Read about the patent history, and replace patents with monopolies, and replace big business with its historical equivalent before the rise of the corporation.
I can tell you never really got involved in patents. You're countering me with a common misconception.
I have experience relevant to what you said since a few years ago I was in your situation, the lone inventor. Please allow me to tell you what I think about it.
First of all, if you thought the situation now is difficult, then just imagine what it would be like had the "barriers to entry" been, let's assume for a second, eliminated. What you'd then have is every "bright" kid and his "my-kid-is-bright" mom filing a patent; then really talk about patents that are too many and too broad. Now don't anyone tell me that's a good thing and creativity will spring up from it, nonsense. Even when you're someone with considerable postgrad expertise and have a creative routine you'd be amazed at how way too often it seems that every "original" thing you come up with had already been discussed and dissected at length in some volume somewhere in far more detail than you'd imagined, sometimes even tens of years ago. We're not in the stone age, prior art is vast now and any considerable invention these days requires a considerable expertise. Barriers to entry should be prohibitive enough to weed out the nonsense.
Second, if you thought filing a patent was costly, then I'll assume you've never tried to bring anything to market. The costs of patenting something pale in comparison to bringing a new thing to market. Now don't anyone tell me that having a patent will enable you to bring it to market, I'll say you've never been there. The truth is that even with a patent it is very difficult. Established companies have their set ways and own interests, they're fighting to survive against their competitors and can't be distracted by yet-another-invention from yet-another-weirdo, and even if you eventually persuade them that it's a good thing they're more likely to fight against you than for you. Also, most capital is very conservative and shies from anything untested in the marketplace. Useful does not always mean profitable. Answer me this, why should you be given exclusive rights to something that you can't bring to the people?
Then again, let's go back to basics. What was the intention of the patent law? It wasn't so someone from his bedroom can stalk the people over his "inventions", nor that more people invent more. The original intention of the patent law was so that those with immense trade expertise accumulated and kept in secret (ie, big business) would share that expertise with the people. The patent law wasn't intended so that some guy in his pajamas would tell us how something is done, it was intended so that experts from a big business would have an incentive to write a few documents describing how something is done and share them with the people. Had there been no patents then big business would still continue to invent, only that they'd do it in secret.
If you're going to have patents, then patenting needs to be prohibitive enough, otherwise you shouldn't have any patents at all.
There's a saying in filmmaking; if you can't persuade someone to finance your film, you shouldn't be making it. I think it applies here too.
These surveys, or at least their such reporting, are horrendously bad and meaningless. 9-19? There's a big difference between someone who's 9 and someone who's 19. My reaction to someone who's 9 having access to porn is not the same as to someone who's 19. I mean, come on, have they not heard of stratified sampling?!
I would be content with this except for one worry; social evolution, as far as I can see, seems to be the survival of the "worst", not really the best. Look at society and tell me, who's making the babies, raising them and indoctrinating them? It's not the smarties, it's the dumb ones.
Hurricanes harm the poor far more than they harm the rich. An unrestrained economy on the other hand benefits the rich far more than it benefits the poor. Even if the US had a thousand hurricanes, the rich won't change their mind on this.
Please mod parent down. You smoke pot because you smoke pot, it has little to do with your illness. I empathise with you somewhat because I was an autistic child, in fact severely so, and I still am an autistic adult and will be till I die. Not saying autism and ADHD are the same, but I too suffer problems that would benefit from some calming, such as severe social anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, and so on. I have experimented with recreational drugs a little, such as pot; you don't help yourself in the long term, you're just screwing yourself up some more. There are plenty of things you can do to calm yourself down, other than pot. I have heard people use many, many excuses for their drug use; I'm sorry to say this, but ADHD or not, from reading your post, you just sound like a regular junkie. I know jukies too well. I live around them, I won't accept their bullshit of blaming someone else for their drug indulgence.
Two things, what you need to understand about the Dubai Ports issue is that Dubai Ports is not directly running the US ports. What happened is that Dubai Ports recently acquired P & O, a British company with a long, long history, which had been running 6 US ports. It's as simple as that. P & O will run ports in the US and elsewhere, as it had long done. The Dubai thing will only be in name and on paper. It will continue to be a British operation. Also, Dubai did not buy a third of DaimlerChrysler, it bought $1 Billion in shares which made it the third largest shareholder. $1 Billion is hardly something to cry about in the international investment world.
What's hysterial about it? I watched the whole episode and I found this clip very unfunny and quite annoying, particularly this Demetri Martin guy. It stood out as too stylised, and he stood out as too self-indulgent and self-advertising, whoring. For example, I don't care that he can play the acoustic guitar. I don't care about his self-portraits. I don't care about getting to know his mother or grandmother. I found him incredibly annoying, perhaps the worst clip I ever saw on the daily show, and I'm a big daily show fan.
I used to dislike CCTV till I watched one of those TV shows about the police and how they used footage from a CCTV camera in the street to capture a tall and huge guy who was kicking the head of a young kid that was already unconscious at that point. My blood boiled at the sight of that. I'm glad they caught him. I have since supported CCTV cameras.
Re:Would the Beatles have made it today?
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You need to thank Malcolm X for MLK Jr. The two were in a good-cop-bad-cop cahoot where they made it appear that unless the government dealt with MLK it had to deal with Malcolm X. I doubt the "turn the other cheek" approach of MLK would've succeeded in attracting the interest of the government had it not been for the threat of an Algerian-like uprising that Malcolm X was advocating.
I am sick of those market-minded Americans and their bullshit. Leave the friggin' market where it belongs, in the market, and stop trying to shove it down our throats every elsewhere.
I have been a last.fm user for many months and I just tried Pandora on reading this article. One of my big problems with last.fm was how inconsistent and meaningless its recommendations were. I had a punk chick over here the other day and considering she was a sex pistols fan and I had no sex pistols on my computer I tried last.fm and it kept playing songs that were embarrassingly unrelated to the sex pistols. I just tried Pandora with Nirvana and I like what I hear so far.
It's just not worth the hassle anymore. Either it makes you seem suspicious when photographing buildings or bridges, or it makes you seem suspicious when photographing people. I no longer want to walk around thinking that people are suspecting that I'm either a terrorist, paedophile or pervert. In fact, I worry less about the police thinking I'm a terrorist than about people thinking I'm a paedophile or pervert.
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Rastafarians had said it all along; Ethiopia is the homeland.
Google already gives you such option. Try searching for "news site:*eu" and see what you get. Replace news with whatever you're looking for.
Harrison Ford jokingly said on the daily show that he had a small staff that watched porn and reported back to him. Makes you think, what if you were Bill Gates and afflicted with a weird fetish? Phewh. For once I'm glad I'm not Bill Gates.
"Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year" - why next year? is he saving up for it?
Can you not download your gmail email with pine, and use the webmail away from home?
I would want a minidisc over a cd because it's far mre durable. That said, I had a minidisc recorder and it more than anything made me hate sony; it was crippled with stupid artificial limitations, such as the inability to upload recordings to the computer, or that stupid DRM nonsense, or that crazy ATRAC conversion.
You're mistaken, but it's understandable; it is a widespread mistake the idea that patents are there to protect your effort or investment and encourage people to invent. It is even further enforced sometimes by big business itself when it suits their needs, such as when they need the public on their side in some political issue by suggesting someone from the public may be a would-be inventor someday. It was further enforced on the other side by the liberals who had to phrase the legislation in words that are persuasive to the holders of trade secrets, and knowledge was always concentrated where wealth was. Nonsense. Nothing could've been more wrong. I used to think that long ago before I knew better. Read about the patent history, and replace patents with monopolies, and replace big business with its historical equivalent before the rise of the corporation. I can tell you never really got involved in patents. You're countering me with a common misconception.
I have experience relevant to what you said since a few years ago I was in your situation, the lone inventor. Please allow me to tell you what I think about it.
First of all, if you thought the situation now is difficult, then just imagine what it would be like had the "barriers to entry" been, let's assume for a second, eliminated. What you'd then have is every "bright" kid and his "my-kid-is-bright" mom filing a patent; then really talk about patents that are too many and too broad. Now don't anyone tell me that's a good thing and creativity will spring up from it, nonsense. Even when you're someone with considerable postgrad expertise and have a creative routine you'd be amazed at how way too often it seems that every "original" thing you come up with had already been discussed and dissected at length in some volume somewhere in far more detail than you'd imagined, sometimes even tens of years ago. We're not in the stone age, prior art is vast now and any considerable invention these days requires a considerable expertise. Barriers to entry should be prohibitive enough to weed out the nonsense.
Second, if you thought filing a patent was costly, then I'll assume you've never tried to bring anything to market. The costs of patenting something pale in comparison to bringing a new thing to market. Now don't anyone tell me that having a patent will enable you to bring it to market, I'll say you've never been there. The truth is that even with a patent it is very difficult. Established companies have their set ways and own interests, they're fighting to survive against their competitors and can't be distracted by yet-another-invention from yet-another-weirdo, and even if you eventually persuade them that it's a good thing they're more likely to fight against you than for you. Also, most capital is very conservative and shies from anything untested in the marketplace. Useful does not always mean profitable. Answer me this, why should you be given exclusive rights to something that you can't bring to the people?
Then again, let's go back to basics. What was the intention of the patent law? It wasn't so someone from his bedroom can stalk the people over his "inventions", nor that more people invent more. The original intention of the patent law was so that those with immense trade expertise accumulated and kept in secret (ie, big business) would share that expertise with the people. The patent law wasn't intended so that some guy in his pajamas would tell us how something is done, it was intended so that experts from a big business would have an incentive to write a few documents describing how something is done and share them with the people. Had there been no patents then big business would still continue to invent, only that they'd do it in secret.
If you're going to have patents, then patenting needs to be prohibitive enough, otherwise you shouldn't have any patents at all.
There's a saying in filmmaking; if you can't persuade someone to finance your film, you shouldn't be making it. I think it applies here too.
These surveys, or at least their such reporting, are horrendously bad and meaningless. 9-19? There's a big difference between someone who's 9 and someone who's 19. My reaction to someone who's 9 having access to porn is not the same as to someone who's 19. I mean, come on, have they not heard of stratified sampling?!
Who's still using VCR/VHS here? and why?
I would be content with this except for one worry; social evolution, as far as I can see, seems to be the survival of the "worst", not really the best. Look at society and tell me, who's making the babies, raising them and indoctrinating them? It's not the smarties, it's the dumb ones.
Hurricanes harm the poor far more than they harm the rich. An unrestrained economy on the other hand benefits the rich far more than it benefits the poor. Even if the US had a thousand hurricanes, the rich won't change their mind on this.
Remember that if it is free, it is probably crap.
Not true, some of the best things in life are free.
Please mod parent down. You smoke pot because you smoke pot, it has little to do with your illness. I empathise with you somewhat because I was an autistic child, in fact severely so, and I still am an autistic adult and will be till I die. Not saying autism and ADHD are the same, but I too suffer problems that would benefit from some calming, such as severe social anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, and so on. I have experimented with recreational drugs a little, such as pot; you don't help yourself in the long term, you're just screwing yourself up some more. There are plenty of things you can do to calm yourself down, other than pot. I have heard people use many, many excuses for their drug use; I'm sorry to say this, but ADHD or not, from reading your post, you just sound like a regular junkie. I know jukies too well. I live around them, I won't accept their bullshit of blaming someone else for their drug indulgence.
Isn't this how it is already? I thought you were liable if someone took drugs in your place.
Two things, what you need to understand about the Dubai Ports issue is that Dubai Ports is not directly running the US ports. What happened is that Dubai Ports recently acquired P & O, a British company with a long, long history, which had been running 6 US ports. It's as simple as that. P & O will run ports in the US and elsewhere, as it had long done. The Dubai thing will only be in name and on paper. It will continue to be a British operation. Also, Dubai did not buy a third of DaimlerChrysler, it bought $1 Billion in shares which made it the third largest shareholder. $1 Billion is hardly something to cry about in the international investment world.
What's hysterial about it? I watched the whole episode and I found this clip very unfunny and quite annoying, particularly this Demetri Martin guy. It stood out as too stylised, and he stood out as too self-indulgent and self-advertising, whoring. For example, I don't care that he can play the acoustic guitar. I don't care about his self-portraits. I don't care about getting to know his mother or grandmother. I found him incredibly annoying, perhaps the worst clip I ever saw on the daily show, and I'm a big daily show fan.
It's never too late when you go with linux or java, and especially so when you add Palm apps to that.
I used to dislike CCTV till I watched one of those TV shows about the police and how they used footage from a CCTV camera in the street to capture a tall and huge guy who was kicking the head of a young kid that was already unconscious at that point. My blood boiled at the sight of that. I'm glad they caught him. I have since supported CCTV cameras.
The beatles are very overrated.
You need to thank Malcolm X for MLK Jr. The two were in a good-cop-bad-cop cahoot where they made it appear that unless the government dealt with MLK it had to deal with Malcolm X. I doubt the "turn the other cheek" approach of MLK would've succeeded in attracting the interest of the government had it not been for the threat of an Algerian-like uprising that Malcolm X was advocating.
I am sick of those market-minded Americans and their bullshit. Leave the friggin' market where it belongs, in the market, and stop trying to shove it down our throats every elsewhere.
I have been a last.fm user for many months and I just tried Pandora on reading this article. One of my big problems with last.fm was how inconsistent and meaningless its recommendations were. I had a punk chick over here the other day and considering she was a sex pistols fan and I had no sex pistols on my computer I tried last.fm and it kept playing songs that were embarrassingly unrelated to the sex pistols. I just tried Pandora with Nirvana and I like what I hear so far.
Can someone please explain to me this Chuck Norris meme? I know who he is, I just don't know why so many people are mentioning him a lot lately.
It's just not worth the hassle anymore. Either it makes you seem suspicious when photographing buildings or bridges, or it makes you seem suspicious when photographing people. I no longer want to walk around thinking that people are suspecting that I'm either a terrorist, paedophile or pervert. In fact, I worry less about the police thinking I'm a terrorist than about people thinking I'm a paedophile or pervert.