How would reducing the role of government improve the patent system? A shorter time limit on patents or a requirement to produce the patented item or some other simple clear way to disrupt patent trolls and encourage innovation would be good for our patent system. The would be less litigation and therefore less government involvement and a heathly environment for new and progressive products and ideas. Specialized judges will result in more patent litigation, because that's what judges do, they preside over litigation and they will want to use their specialization. What does patent reforms have to do with the New Deal? The New Deal dramatically increased the role of the government in everyday life. This was orginally done to provide jobs during the Great Depression. However since the advent of big government in America it has only increased it's role and size not dropping down to it's former, national debt-free, size. Every time any part of the government grows (ie. specialized judges and the programs to go with them) spending and bureaucracy go up. This overspending and layers of bureaucracy are the legacy/unintended result of Roosevelt's New Deal
"Yes, because of its application in a situation in which a species or part of a species is under great pressure, it IS a valid model." So when the ice caps melt Slashdotters will finally score?
I personally do not feel that another 8m class telescope is what the community needs.
Are you suggesting that there are ways to spend 300 millon in Chile that might somehow better serve the community? At first I thought maybe schools or infrastructure might be better places for the cash, but after reading up on Chile in the World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ci.html I think that some high end scientific spending is quite appropriate. Now should that money come from US taxpayers? That's a different question.
You mean more "Americans supported the right than the left." Have you noticed how the policies of the left always take hold and become the new middle over the course of a few years? The heartlands do what the coasts tell them to do. All your media are belong to us.
Killing manned exploration for a few decades would free billions Unfortunately it would also kill public support and those billions would evaporate. Joe Sixpack gets far more excited about a man on the moon than he does about some radio telescope images, the millions of joe sixpack's out there have significant influence over the NASA budget. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it is the current situation.
You want some good PR for your program? How trying something different and new, like a base on the moon. People got behind the moon landing because it was challenging and daring. While yet another satelite or deep space probe is of considerable economic or scientific value, it is lacking when it comes to capturing the public imagination. A space staion with hydroponics farms and a big rotating wheel for artificial gravity, is something that will get folks excited, figure out a way to have a visitor's center and it could even be a money maker. Oh get rid of your 1976 station wagon we call the shuttle, it's getting old and dangerous.
Why make the responsiblity of the Governemnt lighter by makeing an efficient patent system? That would result in less Government control, which is never going to be voted for by professional politicians. This is the messy end of Roosevelt's New Deal, the role of governemnt grows and grows, it now exists mainly to feed itself.
3)Its open, no company can block a user from email Why not? Why can't Verisign and friends blacklist problem users or domains or servers so their traffic doen't pollute the internet? Would it really cause more of a disruption than the DDoS in the article?
Start writing "admin@.com" and complaining about the spam coming from their domain. What about suing said.com ? I'm not a big fan of litigation, but this would seem appropriate here. The owners of the domain are in another country, ok sue to have that domain cut off from the DNS system. Anything coming from that domain will go nowhere, they lose the priviledge of being part of the internet. That could go for domains, or certain servers or whole countries, play nice or get out.
Doesn't being a terrorist imply terrorizing people? Traditionally yes, this might be "economic terrorism"(tm) according to the Dept. of Defense terroism is "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives." This would seem to apply here.
We might not have the technology to travel there physically in my lifetime (or lifespan, whatever) but that should be close enough to warrant some refocusing of more than a few SETI dishes. And for the longer term maybe a satelite designed to last 500 years to send there. This might be a project worth investing in even though we will be long gone before it would achieve fruition.
Can you teach school without teachers? Can you have a courtroom without judge? Can you have a family without a parent? I take it you're in management? Seriously, the tone of your examples is a major source of tension between labor and management. I am speaking from the perspective of labor. From my point of view management is there to facilitate and coordinate the efforts of the labor. Tell me what you want me to make, do the paperwork necessary for me to get the materials I need and then trust in my years of craftsmanship to get the job done. No you can't run a company of more than a few people without management, but there seems to be frequent management bloat these days. Good leadership is admired by the workforce, overpaid bureaucracy is despised and much more common.
I'm not even going to bother answering your straw man argument about how no one cared that the NSA was spying on people in Kenya so they shouldn't care if they're spying on Americans. Perhaps I was not clear in my first post, I was illustrating the lack of direct action based on wiretaps in the 90's. In the article it dicusses a program to wiretap large numbers of Americans in the 90's. No one cared at the time about this wiretapping and it's constitutionallity. Now we do care about wiretapping Americans, and I'm wondering if differrence is because now there is action taken because of wiretap leads and that action can be somewhat extreme, such as loss of rights for American citizens who are deemed suspect.
In the 90's even when we had the intelligence on terrorists we did apparently little about it.
"It will later be revealed in US court that by April 1996, US intelligence agents are aware that an al-Qaeda cell exists in Kenya. By August 1996, US intelligence is continually monitoring five telephone lines in Nairobi used by the cell members. The tapping reveals that the cell is providing false passports and other documents to operatives....Yet, despite all of these monitored communications, neither Mohamed, nor Nawawi, nor the Nairobi operatives, are apprehended. Their plot to blow up two US embassies in Africa succeeds in August 1998http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?ti meline=complete_911_timeline
We used to sit and wait and no one cared about mass US wiretaps (like those in the article) Now we go too far the other way. Is it the spying that we care so much about or is it the "above the law" enforcement that follows it that bothers/frightens us so much?
so affluence may indeed be a remedy for overpopulation. Perhaps enough affulence that a society no longer feels the need for overpopulation is the key. Many people consider their children to be their retirement fund, children to take care of them when they get old. When mortality is high, folks have lots of kids to insure that at least a few of them make it to maturity. While I understand that motivation, I think a priority in helping developing nations is birth control. Heck, it's a priority for helping break cycles of poverty in the U.S. Don't have kids until you are economically stable.
The biggest block to this ever reaching third world countries is GreenPeace and the like. http://www.aworldconnected.org/article.php/934.htm l "Unfortunately, thanks to anti-biotechnology activists, the rice is still not available to those who need it. And even if it were, these unfortunate children would probably still go without. Activists would likely reprise their 2002 tactics, which convinced Zambia's government to reject 26,000 tons of US corn that had been sent as food-aid because some of it was genetically modified (GM)"
Is there any way to make a bandwidth counter that can only counts what the user is purposefully uploading? Any large descrepencies would be a sign of a bot, and the system admin could be notified and the system checked.
"Tucows chief executive Elliot Noss called the attack "by far the largest the company had ever seen," and said that only a handful of companies have the infrastructure in place to withstand such an assault, much less a more powerful one." the problem with fighting traffic with traffic is that the only thing thatreally gets damaged is the internet itself. Huge waves of counterspam would clog the bandwidth just like they are supposed to do, but when this is going on all the time on several fronts there would be a form of global internet gridlock, that would be worse.
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How would reducing the role of government improve the patent system?
A shorter time limit on patents or a requirement to produce the patented item or some other simple clear way to disrupt patent trolls and encourage innovation would be good for our patent system. The would be less litigation and therefore less government involvement and a heathly environment for new and progressive products and ideas. Specialized judges will result in more patent litigation, because that's what judges do, they preside over litigation and they will want to use their specialization.
What does patent reforms have to do with the New Deal?
The New Deal dramatically increased the role of the government in everyday life. This was orginally done to provide jobs during the Great Depression. However since the advent of big government in America it has only increased it's role and size not dropping down to it's former, national debt-free, size. Every time any part of the government grows (ie. specialized judges and the programs to go with them) spending and bureaucracy go up. This overspending and layers of bureaucracy are the legacy/unintended result of Roosevelt's New Deal
"Yes, because of its application in a situation in which a species or part of a species is under great pressure, it IS a valid model."
So when the ice caps melt Slashdotters will finally score?
or yell for help if someone moves it without disabling an anti-theft program.
Can you make it scream in terror/pain when you drop it?
I personally do not feel that another 8m class telescope is what the community needs./ ci.html I think that some high end scientific spending is quite appropriate. Now should that money come from US taxpayers? That's a different question.
Are you suggesting that there are ways to spend 300 millon in Chile that might somehow better serve the community? At first I thought maybe schools or infrastructure might be better places for the cash, but after reading up on Chile in the World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
You mean more "Americans supported the right than the left." Have you noticed how the policies of the left always take hold and become the new middle over the course of a few years? The heartlands do what the coasts tell them to do. All your media are belong to us.
Savely prescribes her patients a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics. Sigh... we humans are so dumb.
Killing manned exploration for a few decades would free billions
Unfortunately it would also kill public support and those billions would evaporate. Joe Sixpack gets far more excited about a man on the moon than he does about some radio telescope images, the millions of joe sixpack's out there have significant influence over the NASA budget. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it is the current situation.
You want some good PR for your program? How trying something different and new, like a base on the moon. People got behind the moon landing because it was challenging and daring. While yet another satelite or deep space probe is of considerable economic or scientific value, it is lacking when it comes to capturing the public imagination. A space staion with hydroponics farms and a big rotating wheel for artificial gravity, is something that will get folks excited, figure out a way to have a visitor's center and it could even be a money maker. Oh get rid of your 1976 station wagon we call the shuttle, it's getting old and dangerous.
Why make the responsiblity of the Governemnt lighter by makeing an efficient patent system? That would result in less Government control, which is never going to be voted for by professional politicians. This is the messy end of Roosevelt's New Deal, the role of governemnt grows and grows, it now exists mainly to feed itself.
So what was the power of the EMP from Nagasaki? Is that the strongest signal we have sent into the cosmos?
We have gun. We have shovel. What problem?
... great, Jerry Springer just became our galactic first impression.
3)Its open, no company can block a user from email
Why not? Why can't Verisign and friends blacklist problem users or domains or servers so their traffic doen't pollute the internet? Would it really cause more of a disruption than the DDoS in the article?
Start writing "admin@.com" and complaining about the spam coming from their domain. .com ? I'm not a big fan of litigation, but this would seem appropriate here. The owners of the domain are in another country, ok sue to have that domain cut off from the DNS system. Anything coming from that domain will go nowhere, they lose the priviledge of being part of the internet. That could go for domains, or certain servers or whole countries, play nice or get out.
What about suing said
Doesn't being a terrorist imply terrorizing people?
Traditionally yes, this might be "economic terrorism"(tm) according to the Dept. of Defense terroism is "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives." This would seem to apply here.
We might not have the technology to travel there physically in my lifetime (or lifespan, whatever) but that should be close enough to warrant some refocusing of more than a few SETI dishes. And for the longer term maybe a satelite designed to last 500 years to send there. This might be a project worth investing in even though we will be long gone before it would achieve fruition.
Can you teach school without teachers? Can you have a courtroom without judge? Can you have a family without a parent?
I take it you're in management? Seriously, the tone of your examples is a major source of tension between labor and management. I am speaking from the perspective of labor. From my point of view management is there to facilitate and coordinate the efforts of the labor. Tell me what you want me to make, do the paperwork necessary for me to get the materials I need and then trust in my years of craftsmanship to get the job done. No you can't run a company of more than a few people without management, but there seems to be frequent management bloat these days. Good leadership is admired by the workforce, overpaid bureaucracy is despised and much more common.
I'm not even going to bother answering your straw man argument about how no one cared that the NSA was spying on people in Kenya so they shouldn't care if they're spying on Americans.
Perhaps I was not clear in my first post, I was illustrating the lack of direct action based on wiretaps in the 90's. In the article it dicusses a program to wiretap large numbers of Americans in the 90's. No one cared at the time about this wiretapping and it's constitutionallity. Now we do care about wiretapping Americans, and I'm wondering if differrence is because now there is action taken because of wiretap leads and that action can be somewhat extreme, such as loss of rights for American citizens who are deemed suspect.
Where's Osama?
His name is Osama bin Laden, as in the oil family Bin Ladens. Bush would never harm a hair on his head.
We used to sit and wait and no one cared about mass US wiretaps (like those in the article) Now we go too far the other way. Is it the spying that we care so much about or is it the "above the law" enforcement that follows it that bothers/frightens us so much?
so affluence may indeed be a remedy for overpopulation.
Perhaps enough affulence that a society no longer feels the need for overpopulation is the key. Many people consider their children to be their retirement fund, children to take care of them when they get old. When mortality is high, folks have lots of kids to insure that at least a few of them make it to maturity. While I understand that motivation, I think a priority in helping developing nations is birth control. Heck, it's a priority for helping break cycles of poverty in the U.S. Don't have kids until you are economically stable.
The biggest block to this ever reaching third world countries is GreenPeace and the like. http://www.aworldconnected.org/article.php/934.htm l "Unfortunately, thanks to anti-biotechnology activists, the rice is still not available to those who need it. And even if it were, these unfortunate children would probably still go without. Activists would likely reprise their 2002 tactics, which convinced Zambia's government to reject 26,000 tons of US corn that had been sent as food-aid because some of it was genetically modified (GM)"
Is there any way to make a bandwidth counter that can only counts what the user is purposefully uploading? Any large descrepencies would be a sign of a bot, and the system admin could be notified and the system checked.
"Tucows chief executive Elliot Noss called the attack "by far the largest the company had ever seen," and said that only a handful of companies have the infrastructure in place to withstand such an assault, much less a more powerful one."
the problem with fighting traffic with traffic is that the only thing thatreally gets damaged is the internet itself. Huge waves of counterspam would clog the bandwidth just like they are supposed to do, but when this is going on all the time on several fronts there would be a form of global internet gridlock, that would be worse.