Coal has remained cheaper during most of this period, and half of all US energy use is for heating and cooling buildings, with little incentive to get new high mpg cars, since people can't afford new cars.
It is time to go back to a 13 year patent and 17 year copyright cycle, with a renewal of patent available only to a Natural Person (e.g. not a fictional Corporation) holding a patent for one period, and with copyright renewable only by the Natural Person who authored the work, in 17 year periods, assignable to one spouse, children or heirs (other than Fictional Persons such as Corporations), until said person is deceased for three years.
If it worked for our founding fathers, who didn't have the Internet, and thus had longer lag times, it should work for America.
Exisiting patent and copyright grants should be allowed to conclude their grant cycle, provided it is less than or equal to said period, with the holder reverting to the Natural Person at the expiry of such lease. But not created and renewed.
How many people are going to want to go back for a master's degree just to get I2 access? It's like Facebook before the fourth quarter of 2006: the cost of getting an e-mail address matching *@*.edu just wasn't worth it.
Most alumni can buy special data plans that get the same level of service.
Or the rest of us on Internet 2, which will be on all major US and EU campuses, can just laugh while we surf the Net 2 at thousands times faster speeds with no caps.
You can't have a monopoly or a monopolistic cartel without government intervention. "Free market monopolies" are a misnomer, as the company that has provided such a high quality, low cost product that no-one can compete with them must continue to provide such quality, or risk new competition arising.
I see you failed to read all seven books of Adam Smith on what capitalism is, and are a servant of the Mercantilists that opposed Capitalism.
I went and got a Data Resource Management post-grad in my late 30s and retrained to Bioinformatics in my 40s. Next up is a PhD in EE.
Look, let's be honest here, you have to expect you'll be working into your 70s. If I had saved 22 percent of my income in retirement plans starting in my 20s like I do now, then I could just retire on my military fallback, but the only people who retire at 40 are firefighters and cops.
And you would be wrong. Just pop into a Ducati shop and buy a 100 mpg one over on Westlake, or the UW shop by the Ship Canal and get one with similar mpg.
Look, I don't mind you saying you want horsepower, but let's not try pretending such things exist. When you can BUY them right now.
Just look on this week's UW daily news and you'll see some of the cars rolled out here as remodels with more than 100 mpg. Just because you think it's hard, or used to be hard, doesn't mean it is hard, today.
Dude, we're talking coffee. Salt intake needs to be balanced with the amount of exercise you get. I walk 30-45 minutes to or from work almost every day. Someone more sessile should avoid added salt, which means processed foods.
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Both arguments work. But the insanity of continuing with our out of control system is just that - insanity.
Coal has remained cheaper during most of this period, and half of all US energy use is for heating and cooling buildings, with little incentive to get new high mpg cars, since people can't afford new cars.
Here endeth the lesson.
How? I don't know, how many US Senators do you own?
It is time to go back to a 13 year patent and 17 year copyright cycle, with a renewal of patent available only to a Natural Person (e.g. not a fictional Corporation) holding a patent for one period, and with copyright renewable only by the Natural Person who authored the work, in 17 year periods, assignable to one spouse, children or heirs (other than Fictional Persons such as Corporations), until said person is deceased for three years.
If it worked for our founding fathers, who didn't have the Internet, and thus had longer lag times, it should work for America.
Exisiting patent and copyright grants should be allowed to conclude their grant cycle, provided it is less than or equal to said period, with the holder reverting to the Natural Person at the expiry of such lease. But not created and renewed.
How many people are going to want to go back for a master's degree just to get I2 access? It's like Facebook before the fourth quarter of 2006: the cost of getting an e-mail address matching *@*.edu just wasn't worth it.
Most alumni can buy special data plans that get the same level of service.
Exactly, the Tragedy of the Mercantilists who think they are Capitalists but aren't.
for now.
I see you fail to realize who actually created the Internet.
I was on it when it was 110 baud. Baud.
Now get off my lawn you young whippersnapper!
Or the rest of us on Internet 2, which will be on all major US and EU campuses, can just laugh while we surf the Net 2 at thousands times faster speeds with no caps.
You can't have a monopoly or a monopolistic cartel without government intervention. "Free market monopolies" are a misnomer, as the company that has provided such a high quality, low cost product that no-one can compete with them must continue to provide such quality, or risk new competition arising.
I see you failed to read all seven books of Adam Smith on what capitalism is, and are a servant of the Mercantilists that opposed Capitalism.
Actually, Objective C is mostly replacing that.
I went and got a Data Resource Management post-grad in my late 30s and retrained to Bioinformatics in my 40s. Next up is a PhD in EE.
Look, let's be honest here, you have to expect you'll be working into your 70s. If I had saved 22 percent of my income in retirement plans starting in my 20s like I do now, then I could just retire on my military fallback, but the only people who retire at 40 are firefighters and cops.
Do what you love
Timmee's!
Their chief weapons are Beer, Maple Syrup, and the repeated use of the word Eh, eh?
All your syrup is belong to Canada.
I remember when we used to string between two tin cans and we used morse code.
Now get off my lawn
All major EU and US (and Canada I think) campuses are getting Internet 2 secure wifi 802.1x ... but not you.
Tell me when you get more than 1000 mbps baseline. You're playing catchup.
And you would be wrong. Just pop into a Ducati shop and buy a 100 mpg one over on Westlake, or the UW shop by the Ship Canal and get one with similar mpg.
Look, I don't mind you saying you want horsepower, but let's not try pretending such things exist. When you can BUY them right now.
Just look on this week's UW daily news and you'll see some of the cars rolled out here as remodels with more than 100 mpg. Just because you think it's hard, or used to be hard, doesn't mean it is hard, today.
What most of you don't realize is it started to collapse a few millenia ago, but the light and gravity waves from that haven't arrived yet.
Put on your tinfoil hats!
Hey, she has a life. Besides, random heroic dungeons are so lame. They always drop you before the loot at the end.
See, this is why you should join Tech Savvy At Risk Youth (TSARY) guild.
We work for nobody.
Well, except for the dragons.
"I am not a witch!"
"But you play a warlock"
"Well, yes, it was either that or get bogged down playing healers all the time"
They sell $15,000 cars that get 60 mpg in Canada right now. today. Ads on TV for them.
Selling like hotcakes.
Wake up and smell the future.
Dude, we're talking coffee. Salt intake needs to be balanced with the amount of exercise you get. I walk 30-45 minutes to or from work almost every day. Someone more sessile should avoid added salt, which means processed foods.
Wow, a 1000 mpg engine? Cool!
Oh, wait, you mean more horsepower.
Here's a news flash, guys, if it can't get 100 mpg nobody's going to buy it.
Costs me money.
More poll taxes on us.
The publisher can't grant permission for my works in the Library of Congress, because I had them printed myself.
Therefore, this "deal" still violates my COPYRIGHT.
Period.
I'm not dead yet.