Posting on her Facebook page today, the Los Angeles co-founder of BLM Patrisse Marie Cullors-Brignac openly embraced the Seattle activists and defended them against attacks from bloggers and the media.
The article that you linked doesn't suggest anything along the lines of a plant. Perhaps you should actually read it.
However, mutation and natural selection have only been seen to result in bacteria with defective proteins that have lost their normal functions.
Citation needed. Antibiotic resistance plasmids do not cause the normal proteins of the bacterium to become non-functional. They add capabilities to organisms that did not have those capabilities before.
Also, producing more of a protein does not equal "defective proteins." Genetic upregulation of protein expression is still a mutation.
You honestly have no idea what you're talking about, and it's very evident to the rest of us.
We've never observed evolution yet -- some scientists only assume it from observed differences in the fossil record.
Who is "we," kimosabe? Because the repeated emergence of antibiotic resistance, for example, is observed evolution. Then, if you're going to hang your hat on supposed horizontal gene transfer for antibiotic resistance, there's that niggling problem of emerging resistance to antimalarial drugs...
You-we may never have observed evolution, but medical-we certainly has.
Yes, Walmart has a huge and efficient distribution system, but can they really leverage that for online sales? When stocking stores, they ship large quantities to each store. For online sales, it's small quantities of a much larger variety. You have to support the customer who is the only one in the area buying that item just as well as you do the customer who buys the most popular item.
Or you "ship to store" for the customer who is the only one in the area, do not charge them shipping, do no risk theft of the package from the customer's door, and likely reduce the risk of damage from the 'special' handling that only a FedEx contract delivery person can provide.
Why would I buy something online and then drive to pick it up?
Then add the ability to verify immediate inventory of an item and that it will be reserved for you behind a counter when you get there in about an hour. Which Amazon cannot do. At all.
It's as if you've completely missed the fact that stores like Best Buy, Microcenter, Target, Wal-Mart and the like have been doing this for years.
Dark matter is still handwavium. The best proof we have for it so far is that if it isn't there the model we use doesn't work.
No, the best proof that we have is gravitational lensing by dark matter halos that have become separated from their associated galaxies after merger events.
Big 'ol concentration of mass with no visible matter = dark matter. The fact that you either weren't aware of the 'best proof' or cynically chose to omit it is irrelevant. It's still observational evidence that is not based upon whether a model does or does not work.
You supplied us with the updated information. Why is it necessary to be a fucking dick on top of that?
There was no updated information. It was clearly stated in the summary and linked decision. It was necessary to be a dick because my 6 year old has better reading comprehension, and it was a blatant topic-jack to bitch about his personal peeve instead of the subject at hand.
Forgive me, but that doesn't seem to follow. Isn't a requirement to be the earliest use by definition the same as a requirement to be original? I mean, effectively what this court found was the trademark was not novel enough.
Incorrect. If you abandon use of a trademark for a sufficient period of time, anyone else can come along and adopt the same trademark for the same goods or services. The statutory presumption (Federal law) is abandonment after non-use for 3 years.
There are instances where a famous mark with residual goodwill, repair service activity, etc. has been deemed to still belong to the original owner even after more than 10 years of non-use, but those are exceptions based on odd circumstances (e.g. Ferrari trademarks for particular models of cars).
For an example of an entirely unoriginal trademark, see the Love beverage trademark dispute.
Note that I did not say first use. I said earliest continuous use. I meant that.
Yes, we definately do know that. You have to develop the material in order to test its outcome. If you do nothing, which is the alternative suggested by the GP, you do not know the practical outcome and thus, by definition, are worse off than knowing the outcome and rejecting the known material.
You may be Kreskin, but the rest of us rely upon experimental evidence.
Any sort of patent or term that basically boils down to "X with a computer/ X on the Internet" should not be valid. This is a concept that relates directly to a physical action (pinning something to a board). It's not in any way original or novel.
This has nothing to do with patents. This has to do with trademarks. There is no requirement that a trademark be original or novel. Simply that the owner is the earliest to make continuous use of a distinctive symbol (logo, word, color, sound, etc.) as a source identifier for a good or service (and for a federal trademark, use them in interstate commerce).
If you have priority in the mark, then others cannot use a mark in a way that causes a likelihood of confusion in the relevant public. The coding and implementation of your product has nothing to do with it. The brand identify and consumers' interest in ensuring that there are not a dozen different counterfeit Nike businesses selling athletic shoes has everything to do with it.
The surest way to have your opinions dismissed out of hand as irrelevant babblry is to demonstrate that you have literally no idea what sort of property is involved, what the legal standards are, and how it the rights are used in the real world. You've hit the trifecta.
This technique will clearly work forever, because we all know that bacteria populations do not evolve to take advantage of useful niches when other populations wane.
Since you clearly will not live forever, why do you even bother?
*beat pause*
Exactly...
That's why they're developing this material. It's still better than the alternative.
But they were cagey about methodology and didn't use FDA approved analyzers.
Further proof that, far more often than not, "disruptive" means ignoring the law for as long as humanly possible while hoping that your competitors can't (or won't) follow suit.
I can't wait for "disruptive" medicine as practiced by anyone with internet access and a hyperlink to WebMD.
Also licenses are perpetual and require renewal, so yes, "once".
You realize that what you've written is insolubly contradictory, as well as wrong. What 'license' did Microsoft take that is perpetual and applies to all future versions of Windows? What license did I take that requires renewal?
Windows Seven is still in extended support. Windows 8.1 will have extended support until 2023. Windows XP MCE and Vista Home still work even without extended support.
You don't even run this software. You're hardly qualified to say what the situation is.
You won't meet those specs in software because no one will spend the money on licences. Even Microsoft with their billions did it once and didn't think it worthwhile.
WIndows XP MCE Windows Vista Home Windows Seven Home Windows 8/8.1 Home w/ MCE pack
That's more than once. And they still work. I'm still running Seven Home and 8.1 Home. So those specs have, in fact, been met and still are met.
If you let somebody in (say a babysitter to watch your kids) that doesn't give them permission to peruse through a diary hidden in a drawer in a night stand.
If the babysitter peruses through a diary hidden in a drawer in a night stand, it's not a Federal felony. That in and of itself makes it a bad comparison. In some of these examples, you've authorized the babysitter to open a drawer, but not that drawer right next to it. Up to five years, federal prison, with no such thing as parole.
If I could find a suitable alternative to Windows Media Center
Kodi?
Can't record HBO or anything off of cable with the CCI flag set to "Copy Once." And this has been pointed out over, and over, and over again.
WMC has a non-subscription EPG, supports CableCard, and records protected content. Either meet those specs or stop pretending that the systems are direct alternatives.
Only a true moron has the gall to claim that something is a "self-contradictory, meaningless term" and then complain that the argument against them is "semantics."
se-man-tics noun the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning
Several of my friends from high school, and the first amendment, and a government where religion does not have monopoly rights to defining a purely legal arrangement (says this atheist).
I have a friend who is a vegetarian chef, and she says if you're trying to be vegetarian but only eat products that ape the food you don't eat anymore, what's the point?
The point is that I'm not trying to be vegetarian, yet some vegetarians and most climate change activists are screaming that raising livestock for meat is a horrendous generator of methane and CO2, a tremendously poor use of land and water resources, and ethically suspect.
Despite all this, ham and beef are very tasty.
So forgive those who believe that devising vegetable-based substitutes that are similar tasting and similarly tasty has a point. I will instead pillage the planet, because your friend deems it unnecessary to develop any alternatives to satisfy that problem.
I'm a vegetarian because I don't like meat. It's so frustrating to have a veggie burger like a Boca burger that tastes way too much like meat. I want to have something else, or I would eat a real burger. There's a lot of non-meat protein that tastes good. Why the fixation on making it taste like beef?
Because it's a veggie burger, not a veggie patty. They are expressly trying to simulate meat, because there are also people like me who quite like meat and quite dislike vegetables. I might move to a veggie burger but sure as hell am not going to move to a vegemite patty, a bean patty, or 90% of whatever ground-vegetable-matter-in-puck-form you're after.
Don't complain that a thing called a "burger" is trying to simulate a "real burger." Complain that they aren't making something some other thing that tastes way too much like a vegetable.
We generally look for cyclical, minute (1%) variations in star light to detect planets. But we found one that has a variation in starlight of over 20%.
[From TFA] There are dips in the light, but they aren't periodic. They can be very deep; one dropped the amount of starlight by 15 percent, and another by a whopping 22 percent!
All it would need to be is an irregular object with a spin. Think about it. If I put you in one spot, and an irregular, spinning object more-or-less between you and what you want to look at, what happens to your view of the object?
Your irregularly shaped object would still produce periodic variation, merely periodicity that is a combination of the period of orbit and the period of rotation.
More pointedly, explain how one obtains an irregularly shaped, larger-than-planet sized object. Because anything larger than about 300km in radius is going to become principally spherical due to self-gravity. And any object smaller than a planet should not dim the star by 20x more than a planet would.
These university patents are paid for by the tax-paying public, why does this no longer make them public domain?
"This" did not make them public domain in the first place, and ever since 1980 the Federal Government has said that the patents can be owned by the universities themselves. The Federal Government gets to say so because state governments historically do not fund research, only educational activities and infrastructure. The Federal Government funds research (NIH, NSF, DARPA, etc.).
As to why the inventions aren't simply dumped into the public domain: university research does not take a product to commercialization. It is proof of concept, at best. Companies developing truly new concepts to commercialization want IP protection, since the next company entering could otherwise simply reverse engineer and duplicate the functional aspects of the commercial product while claiming license to 'public domain' patent behind the new concept.
Of course you can point to individual products that might have been commercialized anyway, but in aggregate the decision has been that this scheme will deliver more commercial products to market than the 'public domain' route.
If you think differently, then write your Congresscritter.
The report emphasises that the IP address is not the one associated with the act of the breach itself; instead it was obtained by a process of elimination as Uberâ(TM)s investigations team worked through all the IPs which accessed a critical security key that had accidentally been deposited on the public code-sharing and versioning platform GitHub in March of 2014 â" approximately nine months before the breach occurred.
The only one it could not account for is, according to the report, a Comcast IP address associated with Lambert.
Translation: We believed everyone else but this guy is a right bastard (because he works for Lyft) and thus assuredly guilty.
OK, so if they have a live studio audience, how is it they managed to make it sound exactly like the laugh track from the Brady Bunch? The outcome is terrible regardless of whether the source is recorded or live.
They traveled back in time to the day of your birth and trained you to be a misanthrope who detests the sound of live human laughter?
Just a guess. You already seem intent upon disregarding any aspect of reality that conflicts with your preconceived notions, so I may as well go big.
It's not a zero sum game. I want everyone to have a reasonable standard of life, even if it costs me a little bit more, because much as I'd like to think my kid is a genius they may grow up to be a mechanic.
Income growth and economic progress since the early 1970s suggest otherwise. It's foolhardy to train your kid as a mechanic from age 6 when more fundamental and broadly applicable skills are being sacrificed to the gods of standardized testing and union-bashing.
Also, I prefer a less dog-eat-dog society, it's more pleasant and rewarding to live in when people are not constantly trying to step over each other.
Whether you prefer a society where the political and business elites are less sociopathic, and whether that actually happens, are two entirely different things. Perhaps the connection between this article and prior articles on H1B issues, contact IT, outsourcing, and the rest have escaped you.
Meanwhile, I prefer a society where in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic we teach history (those who do not learn from it...), home economics (particularly the economics aspect - savings, debt, budgeting, and investment), art and music, etc. Ask yourself, what sorts of subjects do you see in higher end private education? Why are those classes not all RWA and STEM? Think about it. Then realize that learning BASIC, JavaScript, and other languages du jour can be interesting and even informative, but not is so fundamental that 100% of children need to take classes focused on programming in them.
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The article that you linked doesn't suggest anything along the lines of a plant. Perhaps you should actually read it.
Citation needed. Antibiotic resistance plasmids do not cause the normal proteins of the bacterium to become non-functional. They add capabilities to organisms that did not have those capabilities before.
Also, producing more of a protein does not equal "defective proteins." Genetic upregulation of protein expression is still a mutation.
You honestly have no idea what you're talking about, and it's very evident to the rest of us.
Who is "we," kimosabe? Because the repeated emergence of antibiotic resistance, for example, is observed evolution. Then, if you're going to hang your hat on supposed horizontal gene transfer for antibiotic resistance, there's that niggling problem of emerging resistance to antimalarial drugs...
You-we may never have observed evolution, but medical-we certainly has.
Or you "ship to store" for the customer who is the only one in the area, do not charge them shipping, do no risk theft of the package from the customer's door, and likely reduce the risk of damage from the 'special' handling that only a FedEx contract delivery person can provide.
Why don't you ask Amazon?
Then add the ability to verify immediate inventory of an item and that it will be reserved for you behind a counter when you get there in about an hour. Which Amazon cannot do. At all.
It's as if you've completely missed the fact that stores like Best Buy, Microcenter, Target, Wal-Mart and the like have been doing this for years.
No, the best proof that we have is gravitational lensing by dark matter halos that have become separated from their associated galaxies after merger events.
Big 'ol concentration of mass with no visible matter = dark matter. The fact that you either weren't aware of the 'best proof' or cynically chose to omit it is irrelevant. It's still observational evidence that is not based upon whether a model does or does not work.
There was no updated information. It was clearly stated in the summary and linked decision. It was necessary to be a dick because my 6 year old has better reading comprehension, and it was a blatant topic-jack to bitch about his personal peeve instead of the subject at hand.
Incorrect. If you abandon use of a trademark for a sufficient period of time, anyone else can come along and adopt the same trademark for the same goods or services. The statutory presumption (Federal law) is abandonment after non-use for 3 years.
There are instances where a famous mark with residual goodwill, repair service activity, etc. has been deemed to still belong to the original owner even after more than 10 years of non-use, but those are exceptions based on odd circumstances (e.g. Ferrari trademarks for particular models of cars).
For an example of an entirely unoriginal trademark, see the Love beverage trademark dispute.
Note that I did not say first use. I said earliest continuous use. I meant that.
Yes, we definately do know that. You have to develop the material in order to test its outcome. If you do nothing, which is the alternative suggested by the GP, you do not know the practical outcome and thus, by definition, are worse off than knowing the outcome and rejecting the known material.
You may be Kreskin, but the rest of us rely upon experimental evidence.
This has nothing to do with patents. This has to do with trademarks. There is no requirement that a trademark be original or novel. Simply that the owner is the earliest to make continuous use of a distinctive symbol (logo, word, color, sound, etc.) as a source identifier for a good or service (and for a federal trademark, use them in interstate commerce).
If you have priority in the mark, then others cannot use a mark in a way that causes a likelihood of confusion in the relevant public. The coding and implementation of your product has nothing to do with it. The brand identify and consumers' interest in ensuring that there are not a dozen different counterfeit Nike businesses selling athletic shoes has everything to do with it.
The surest way to have your opinions dismissed out of hand as irrelevant babblry is to demonstrate that you have literally no idea what sort of property is involved, what the legal standards are, and how it the rights are used in the real world. You've hit the trifecta.
Since you clearly will not live forever, why do you even bother?
*beat pause*
Exactly...
That's why they're developing this material. It's still better than the alternative.
Further proof that, far more often than not, "disruptive" means ignoring the law for as long as humanly possible while hoping that your competitors can't (or won't) follow suit.
I can't wait for "disruptive" medicine as practiced by anyone with internet access and a hyperlink to WebMD.
You realize that what you've written is insolubly contradictory, as well as wrong. What 'license' did Microsoft take that is perpetual and applies to all future versions of Windows? What license did I take that requires renewal?
Windows Seven is still in extended support. Windows 8.1 will have extended support until 2023. Windows XP MCE and Vista Home still work even without extended support.
You don't even run this software. You're hardly qualified to say what the situation is.
WIndows XP MCE
Windows Vista Home
Windows Seven Home
Windows 8/8.1 Home w/ MCE pack
That's more than once. And they still work. I'm still running Seven Home and 8.1 Home. So those specs have, in fact, been met and still are met.
If the babysitter peruses through a diary hidden in a drawer in a night stand, it's not a Federal felony. That in and of itself makes it a bad comparison. In some of these examples, you've authorized the babysitter to open a drawer, but not that drawer right next to it. Up to five years, federal prison, with no such thing as parole.
So while you would, I would not.
Can't record HBO or anything off of cable with the CCI flag set to "Copy Once." And this has been pointed out over, and over, and over again.
WMC has a non-subscription EPG, supports CableCard, and records protected content. Either meet those specs or stop pretending that the systems are direct alternatives.
Only a true moron has the gall to claim that something is a "self-contradictory, meaningless term" and then complain that the argument against them is "semantics."
se-man-tics
noun
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning
Potassium chloride.
Calcium chloride.
Magnesium chloride.
Several of my friends from high school, and the first amendment, and a government where religion does not have monopoly rights to defining a purely legal arrangement (says this atheist).
Sod off you relic.
The point is that I'm not trying to be vegetarian, yet some vegetarians and most climate change activists are screaming that raising livestock for meat is a horrendous generator of methane and CO2, a tremendously poor use of land and water resources, and ethically suspect.
Despite all this, ham and beef are very tasty.
So forgive those who believe that devising vegetable-based substitutes that are similar tasting and similarly tasty has a point. I will instead pillage the planet, because your friend deems it unnecessary to develop any alternatives to satisfy that problem.
Because it's a veggie burger, not a veggie patty. They are expressly trying to simulate meat, because there are also people like me who quite like meat and quite dislike vegetables. I might move to a veggie burger but sure as hell am not going to move to a vegemite patty, a bean patty, or 90% of whatever ground-vegetable-matter-in-puck-form you're after.
Don't complain that a thing called a "burger" is trying to simulate a "real burger." Complain that they aren't making something some other thing that tastes way too much like a vegetable.
Your irregularly shaped object would still produce periodic variation, merely periodicity that is a combination of the period of orbit and the period of rotation.
More pointedly, explain how one obtains an irregularly shaped, larger-than-planet sized object. Because anything larger than about 300km in radius is going to become principally spherical due to self-gravity. And any object smaller than a planet should not dim the star by 20x more than a planet would.
"This" did not make them public domain in the first place, and ever since 1980 the Federal Government has said that the patents can be owned by the universities themselves. The Federal Government gets to say so because state governments historically do not fund research, only educational activities and infrastructure. The Federal Government funds research (NIH, NSF, DARPA, etc.).
As to why the inventions aren't simply dumped into the public domain: university research does not take a product to commercialization. It is proof of concept, at best. Companies developing truly new concepts to commercialization want IP protection, since the next company entering could otherwise simply reverse engineer and duplicate the functional aspects of the commercial product while claiming license to 'public domain' patent behind the new concept.
Of course you can point to individual products that might have been commercialized anyway, but in aggregate the decision has been that this scheme will deliver more commercial products to market than the 'public domain' route.
If you think differently, then write your Congresscritter.
Translation: We believed everyone else but this guy is a right bastard (because he works for Lyft) and thus assuredly guilty.
They traveled back in time to the day of your birth and trained you to be a misanthrope who detests the sound of live human laughter?
Just a guess. You already seem intent upon disregarding any aspect of reality that conflicts with your preconceived notions, so I may as well go big.
Income growth and economic progress since the early 1970s suggest otherwise. It's foolhardy to train your kid as a mechanic from age 6 when more fundamental and broadly applicable skills are being sacrificed to the gods of standardized testing and union-bashing.
Whether you prefer a society where the political and business elites are less sociopathic, and whether that actually happens, are two entirely different things. Perhaps the connection between this article and prior articles on H1B issues, contact IT, outsourcing, and the rest have escaped you.
Meanwhile, I prefer a society where in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic we teach history (those who do not learn from it...), home economics (particularly the economics aspect - savings, debt, budgeting, and investment), art and music, etc. Ask yourself, what sorts of subjects do you see in higher end private education? Why are those classes not all RWA and STEM? Think about it. Then realize that learning BASIC, JavaScript, and other languages du jour can be interesting and even informative, but not is so fundamental that 100% of children need to take classes focused on programming in them.
[Not that I'm actually that guy, but...]
I want your children to grow up to be automobile mechanics so that repairs are dirt cheap and mechanics become entirely interchangable cogs.
I want my children to grow up to be upper level executives at Firestone, Midas, Monroe, NAPA, etc.