Most automatics are not only more efficient now than a manual, they can shift faster than you ever could (CVTs excluded, as they don't really shift as they do slide).
Some of us choose to continue with paper versions of bills because we do not trust putting our credit card and/or bank account information into commonly used, high profile websites on a monthly basis.
Yet you choose to send paper checks through the mail that have your name, address, and bank routing/account number on them and are handled by god knows who many people along the way (postal employees, customer service reps accepting the payment at the destination, etc). Interesting. I think I'll stick to trusting the online method.
Like with open source software or the "free" internet, the money will come from somewhere. Advances will continue. Will advances be as fast without contriving bizarre ownership rules? I don't know. I'd rather come out of this with common sense intact rather than more rapid advances, though.
Until someone close to you or you care about is dying from something that could have been cured/treated if advances were faster. I believe the current patent system is broken, but I also think that there is a fair amount of time for innovation to fall under a patent (i.e. 5 years). If someone wants to argue that the public good is more important for a specific cure/treatment, have the government pay the innovators a fair price to acquire the research/information for the public domain.
There is a lot of money to be made by the person that can figure out how to block a gene that triggers an illness. Don't just expect to isolate a gene and sit back and roll in the money.
It's a lot more fun to watch other companies leech off your work and your $HUGE_DOLLAR_SUM worth of R&D go down the drain. The point of reasonable patents was so there was a financial incentive for innovation and research. I believe a 5 year patent is more than enough time to recoup R&D costs and make a fair profit, after which time the research/knowledge can fall into the public domain.
And if the knowledge that research provided is locked up in a patent that you can't afford to pay for and you will die because that information ABOUT YOUR BODY is patented. Then you die.
You die anyway if the knowledge is never known because no one shelled out for the research.
If there isn't a financial return, who is going to drop billions of dollars into biotech research? The government? Academia? Perhaps. But not as much research will have been done compared to all of the private companies out there in addition to gov and edu researchers. I'm not saying genes should be patented, but the money has to come from somewhere.
The authorities have made it plain by their actions that there's no way to get justice and stay alive. This is just going to make suicide look like a more attractive option to targets of bullying.
Not to go too far off topic, but most of the US is at-will employment. You can be terminated at any point, for any reason (except those specifically exempted via law, such as race, sex, etc), without any sort of severance pay.
A ZIP + 4 code uses the basic five-digit code plus four additional digits to identify a geographic segment within the five-digit delivery area, such as a city block, a group of apartments, an individual high-volume receiver of mail or any other unit that could use an extra identifier to aid in efficient mail sorting and delivery.
You should be much less worried about massive buildings full of employees and much more worried about massive government datacenters filled with computing power and storage. Government employees go home at night and have families; computers/algorithms/expert rules need no sleep and can do far more damage.
Did China think Google was simply pack it's shit and leave? Is there some jar somewhere I can throw $100-$1000 in to have Google continue to fark with China?
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Most automatics are not only more efficient now than a manual, they can shift faster than you ever could (CVTs excluded, as they don't really shift as they do slide).
Power plant emissions control > > > ICE vehicle emissions control. Even burning coal.
Check out how many have broken 500K/1 million miles. They seem to be moving fine.
Some of us choose to continue with paper versions of bills because we do not trust putting our credit card and/or bank account information into commonly used, high profile websites on a monthly basis.
Yet you choose to send paper checks through the mail that have your name, address, and bank routing/account number on them and are handled by god knows who many people along the way (postal employees, customer service reps accepting the payment at the destination, etc). Interesting. I think I'll stick to trusting the online method.
Same in the US. The USPS is relying more on junk mail revenue as first class revenue plummets.
Like with open source software or the "free" internet, the money will come from somewhere. Advances will continue. Will advances be as fast without contriving bizarre ownership rules? I don't know. I'd rather come out of this with common sense intact rather than more rapid advances, though.
Until someone close to you or you care about is dying from something that could have been cured/treated if advances were faster. I believe the current patent system is broken, but I also think that there is a fair amount of time for innovation to fall under a patent (i.e. 5 years). If someone wants to argue that the public good is more important for a specific cure/treatment, have the government pay the innovators a fair price to acquire the research/information for the public domain.
There is a lot of money to be made by the person that can figure out how to block a gene that triggers an illness. Don't just expect to isolate a gene and sit back and roll in the money.
It's a lot more fun to watch other companies leech off your work and your $HUGE_DOLLAR_SUM worth of R&D go down the drain. The point of reasonable patents was so there was a financial incentive for innovation and research. I believe a 5 year patent is more than enough time to recoup R&D costs and make a fair profit, after which time the research/knowledge can fall into the public domain.
And if the knowledge that research provided is locked up in a patent that you can't afford to pay for and you will die because that information ABOUT YOUR BODY is patented. Then you die.
You die anyway if the knowledge is never known because no one shelled out for the research.
If there isn't a financial return, who is going to drop billions of dollars into biotech research? The government? Academia? Perhaps. But not as much research will have been done compared to all of the private companies out there in addition to gov and edu researchers. I'm not saying genes should be patented, but the money has to come from somewhere.
The authorities have made it plain by their actions that there's no way to get justice and stay alive. This is just going to make suicide look like a more attractive option to targets of bullying.
Suicide *or* Columbine-style retaliation.
And while it might not be legal, 12 of your peers may still railroad you for it. Jury nullification works both ways.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=760310963
Not to go too far off topic, but most of the US is at-will employment. You can be terminated at any point, for any reason (except those specifically exempted via law, such as race, sex, etc), without any sort of severance pay.
Both VMware and KVM can do this. Not sure about Xen. Google "memory deduplication $VM_TECH"
No problem. I'm excited to see how the human body handles subsonic->transonic->supersonic transitions. Hope the dude survives though.
http://www.redbullstratos.com/
A ZIP + 4 code uses the basic five-digit code plus four additional digits to identify a geographic segment within the five-digit delivery area, such as a city block, a group of apartments, an individual high-volume receiver of mail or any other unit that could use an extra identifier to aid in efficient mail sorting and delivery.
That noise you heard was all the parent posts above yours exploding.
You should be much less worried about massive buildings full of employees and much more worried about massive government datacenters filled with computing power and storage. Government employees go home at night and have families; computers/algorithms/expert rules need no sleep and can do far more damage.
And Twitter is excellent for high-speed dissemination of information, no matter what the source.
I'm an exhibitionist you insensitive clod!
Perhaps Google can buy Iridium than.
I argue that holes will appear faster in the walls faster than China can find fingers to fill them.
Did China think Google was simply pack it's shit and leave? Is there some jar somewhere I can throw $100-$1000 in to have Google continue to fark with China?